100% Food Storage: Fettuccini Alfredo from the Auguson Farms Italian Bucket (long term storage)

Last real grocery shopping trip November, 2023.  Today is March 27, 2024.

 

Last night I didn't really have plans for dinner - it was a busy day and before I knew it, it was 6pm and I had no idea what I was going to make.  I was the only one home last night at dinner time and I had plans to make something else as well (for the next day) so Mr. Husband would have it to take to work for his lunch/dinner. 

As I stood in the kitchen making the sauce for Mr. Husband and I to have to with our dinner the next day, I saw this package I had left on the counter from the day before when I had taken out the 2 pouches from the Italian Bucket storage from Auguson Farms.  (Posted about that below the day before yesterday - the lasagna).

Perfect, because Mr. Husband isn't a fan of fettuccini alfredo like I am (he likes red sauces, I prefer white) and this package uses ONLY WATER.  No work. 


Not the healthiest if you had to eat them daily as in a real life emergency situation.... look at the list of ingredients!  SO LONG.  I would prefer it to simply be fresh milk, butter, Parmesan cheese, cream cheese, parsley, garlic, pepper.... 

 

This is from the Italian food long term storage bucket I bought in... the spring of 2017 I believe. 
The best by date is November, 2042.

 

It was completely as expected - you add 4 1/2 cups boiling water and simmer and stir for 15 minutes.

 

Reminded me of camping.  
The taste is... fine.  Very much a 'mix' which is never good compared to fresh but all in all was completely fine.

I liked that the spices and milk ingredients in this one were loose and did not all clump up like the tomato products in the lasagna pouch.  This was loose and exactly like the pouches in 2017, etc.  It other words, time hadn't changed it at all.   I fully suspect it will be exactly the same in 2030 or 2040.  Well packaged and assuming no holes or critters would get into the pouches, this is a storage item that seems to do well with a test of time compared to the 'tomato' powder items.

It was good enough to finish off - and I was full and satisfied but I also felt 'too' full in a 'not really healthy' dinner kind of way.  But I suppose a big dinner full of pasta does that to you anyway.  A bit gassy from it as well, but all in all, it's a good product from storage.

 

 

 

Literally a picture of my dinner, as I was eating it...  Ha ha.