NPM 03: Real Survival Nutrition with Essential Provisions

0:00morning everybody we are back day three day three national preparedness month man you got a list written yet what are you doing this month what is the big thing this month when you get 30 days to grind at a thing man you can really have an effect and maybe on top of all the cool people and products that we show you through the month of September like keep that in the back pocket right the fact that on the third you started something and by the 30th something big change in your life because that's what preparedness will do for you so today to continue on with this I mean it's a relentless group we have lined up for you and this this is one of the best we're gonna have a conversation today about food storage in a big way we're gonna talk about some

1:02things that might surprise you in terms of food storage and you're gonna be introduced to an unbelievable product that you probably I don't even know if you know this is an option for you and it is the incredible high quality nutrition of essential provisions we have with us today Dan Gentry the man who really takes the ball that is essential provisions and runs with it from coast to coast Dan thanks so much for being on with us today man yeah James appreciate you having me on good to see you again you too but I'd say probably about a year ago or something like that I'm bad at measuring time anymore but I'd say about a year ago I got my first taste of essential provisions and you know I'm a pretty good resource because I was a chef before all of this and what really blew blew me away was when I had the realization that putting essential provisions on the shelf was putting the highest quality ingredients on the shelf for a disaster emergency and all we have to

2:06do is heat them up maybe I mean you don't even really necessarily have to heat them up right now uh when you first tried essential provisions what was your take on it when I first tried it I didn't know what it was I mean so you know full disclosure the owner of the company Robin she's a professional chef she has been her entire life and she's also my right so I grew up with her very very close with her we live almost right across the street from each other but yeah she created a bison stew and invited us over for dinner one night and I'm sitting there I'm eating this bison stew and it's absolutely delicious so I'm just wondering thank how do you like it the gnosis fantastic is of course you know she's been a chef forever so everything she makes is fantastic right but she's like hey would you believe that this is an MRE wait hold on what you explain that to me because I know what an MRE is and that's not what this is definitely not you know she she had been going through the pre-production stage and all that and had a couple sample packs that went through R&D pulled out one from the from the pantry there was like yeah no this came out of

3:09this package right here like there's no way this is possible but yeah now I was I was blown away and then you know then came the bison chili which is my personal favorite absolutely fantastic and then every product after that was just amazing you know and then you the flavor itself is great right yeah the ingredient profile the ingredient profile is ridiculous you know I was tell people it's all ingredients you can read and understand the pronounce which is I have prefired real quick I mean feel free to carry on but I've never been fired the ingredient list because to me it's to me it's one of the biggest selling points of what you guys do yeah is the ingredient list I have the bison stew here because it's just my favorite but you know while we talk about them not going to leave it up the whole show or anything but why we talk about this like you definitely need to get a look at what's in these yeah and then compare it to whatever it is there's no comparison there's not even a close comparison now no it's a grocery list and I'm science experiment yeah

4:09you pick up you pick up anything that shelf stable and you're going to find you know million dollar words sitting on there like I have no I let me Google this real quick because I don't know what I'm putting it in my body but this you know you look at it it's all 100% organic regenerative ingredients grass fed grass finished bison it would just everything that you could want that you're going to make at home everything you can feel comfortable about feeding your I mean I feed my kid her favorite to the bison stew right and you know I feel really good about feeding that to her and it's not just the you know let me stick it in my prep a room and let it sit on a shelf for however long it's great for Thursdays you know you get old late my wife travels as much as I do which is a decent amount and you know I get the kid home from ballet on a Wednesday night she's five so her bedtime's pretty early we get her out from ballet I've got like maybe 45 minutes to get dinner on the table before she starts losing her mind right so grab one of these from the pantry heated up for real quick all right daddy made bison stew baby it's great I'm telling you man like you know things like

5:10organic extra virgin olive oil pink Himalayan sea salt really stood out to me when I looked over this list of ingredients because those things told me this is a no another big one was the organic smoked paprika that was in one two that that told me like the commitment is 100% oh yeah you know it like it's one thing to take 100% grass fed finished bison and put it at the top of the list still would look really good yeah but you'll make your way all the way down to the bottom of the list and you see all the way down to the kaya and pepper right um and yeah no she so Robin and Brian her husband um they spent literally no exaggeration two years sourcing ingredients um I mean she yeah she she's had a restaurant in the past and she kind of knows how the sourcing goes and all of that but she is so meticulous about everything that she puts into her body or anything that even touches her skin you can tell her compromise there so why is she going to compromise on a product because she has said a thousand times I think there's a Instagram flip out there somewhere towards like you know if she wanted to make money and just wanted to put out a product there are a thousand easier ways to do it but the goal is to

6:16provide something that's great something that's going to actually help people instead of you know let's enrich the coffers a little bit more yeah she she could have retired years ago and it's just chosen not to right but they spent about two and a half years two years two and a half years sourcing ingredients so the way that always works is okay let's find a supplier that we think is good they're going to send us a sample of it we're going to send that out for testing just to make sure it is what you say that it is I want your documentation I want everything that says that it's free chemicals it's free of heavy metals all of that I mean all of our products are we independently third party test everything to make sure that you know that there's no PFAS no PFAS I mean we're certified glyphosate residue free which according to the FDA finding chemical residue and organic products is not uncommon which is ridiculous to us I mean if I'm buying something that is supposedly organic and something that is supposedly good for me I don't want to eat chemicals I mean it's crazy right it's not I mean I wish I could say I was surprised I just switched the ingredient list up to the bison chili just so everybody knows it's not a one off with like the

7:19stew's not the favorite and we just put all the good stuff in the stew but another big standout man particularly with the rising cost of food and living in general is you know that price point per meal is McDonald's now yeah easy you know what I mean like that's for one meal 1195 that's McDonald's so just wrap your head around that and start thinking like wow and then think about the well what's three-year shelf life right three to five years depending on the storage temperature yeah you store it five years yeah you store it in your basement or your yeah you store it in your pantry your basement at 70 degrees you get five years out of it but you know again I always tell people it lasts maybe two weeks in my house because it's good I like to eat it's huge yeah so then you you know the way I'd manage it in food storage is it's a rotating stockpile right right you keep a par level of essential provisions chilies stews and they have vegetarian options that are great too

8:20and you guys also have the pouches now right yeah yeah yeah some of those I haven't tried yet that are sitting in my pantry but the uh so you keep you know you keep that part level in your food storage and just backfill and then you always have access to these kind of meals for oh crap it's dinner time and I didn't plan anything or well it's the uh it's the old adage eat what you store in store eat gotta do it yeah then you know going back to the products themselves in the price point you talked about a second ago yeah it's it's McDonald's easily but then you look at the clork value you look at the protein value I mean the bison chili you just had up 560 calories 60 grams of protein in 12 ounces which is wild the amount that amount of protein is wild and you know you get to those stressful situations whether that is a hurricane a flood you know late night on Thursday my kids about to lose their mind you're going to want all disasters by the way it qualified doesn't actually 100 percent right but yet you need those calories and you need the protein in

9:22order even for cognitive function yeah every ingredient in there has a purpose it's not just okay let's let's put some filler in there and move on with life it's purposeful ingredients and purpose full you know that one of our we have a medical director that says that it's uh Robin's alchemy that she puts in there yeah you look at the clork value and you look at the protein and then you look at how clean those ingredients are we'll compare the price to McDonald's but that's that's kind of where it will stop you know yeah yeah that's it but but I but the reason I bring it up is not to compare you know compare and apples to apples it's just to remind people like because we have this where we see meat in society today a lot of us is on a supermarket shelf and you see a stake to cost $25 and you're like well maybe meat isn't the thing right now for my budget you just don't know where you're to get it from at a price point like this and can be honest with you guys like I don't know I don't even know where to go and get a meal at that price with that kind of nutrition yeah I don't get exists at the moment outside of essential

10:24provisions to be honest with you yeah now we've we've looked around a lot I mean especially if you talk about something that shelf stable that too yeah it's it's why I find something like that to find something with that ingredient profile with that amount of calories that amount of protein that's gonna sit on the shelf for five years possibly you know that's that's pretty rare I I've I've not really found one competitor out there that I can call a true you know air quote competitor yeah something that you just open and eat yeah you don't you don't have to heat it up if you don't want to I'm not using my water to to dehydrate it because it's not dehydrated it's truly you know we say just bring a spoon grab the pouch open the top and just start eating it yeah I've done it I mean I've had I've had the room temp but bison chili on the fly it's not a bad deal you know I mean I've had no other deals out of food storage for sure yeah and that was one of the things that that was important because I don't heat anything up you know I I'm I'm impatient my wife says it's lazy I say it's a patient whatever but you're on the road man

11:26you know I'm on the road a lot I'm on the road a lot and you know it's for me when we first got the packages in after the stew you got the chili and everything else we first got this in one of the things I was like okay well I'm now need to try to room temperature because if it's not good at room temperature you know if I if I'm out backpacking and it's 80 degrees outside I'm not less not the jet oil I'm just going to eat something so it's nice it's quick it's easy so I opened it I started eating it and it's just as good at room temperatures it does warm just depends on how you like your food that's a good reality to understand too right there are a lot I've been in situations like that a lot camping and hiking and fishing even hunting where it's like you know the sort of breakout the cutting board and the cool knife Instagram moment ain't happening you're going to be eating out of a pouch because that's what you're going to do and I've done it before you guys I did a lot of that in the mountain house world and again no comparison right I mean it's yeah it's a whole another level it's a whole another world yeah I mean everything has its place

12:26if if I'm through hiking the AT then yeah maybe maybe it's nice and it's light and I don't have to deal with it I know that I've got secure water sources and I know that I've got water filtration I know that I've got all of these things yeah sure everything's going to have its place but you know when I look at again the ingredient profile the the calories all that other good stuff and just how good it is when you rehydrate something whoever whatever the product happens to be whatever the company happens to be you've got to boil the water and you got to put it in the back and you got to wait 15 minutes you got to take it up and stir it a little bit and again I'm impatient I'm not doing it you know but even with that you take that first bite and it's probably going to be pretty good but by the time you get to the bottom it's still pretty chalky they're still some powder nothing else oh yeah I never it's in store these things up enough never yeah and it's it's one of those things if I'm dead tired and I've hiked 13 miles that day or whatever of course yeah it's going to be okay it'll deal it'll be fine but you get something that's actually good it's not dehydrated you open it up and you start eating it maybe stick in the jet boil warm it up a

13:30little bit it's a morale booster by itself oh for sure yeah we had that long day whether that's a hike a disaster whatever and you get good food and that's that fuels the soul and that fuels your morale pretty easily yeah we had a in January my oldest and I went up to big sky beautiful not big sky in Virginia no I'm sorry sky meadows in Virginia for a camp out in the dead of winter specifically because it was going to get down like under 20 degrees so we were playing around with the camp stove and a hot tent and all that kind of stuff and after we watched the sunset off the mountain and the moon rise we came back and heated up the the chili and the chili yeah a double dose of the chili right before bed was a big deal yeah you know what I mean it was a big deal we still froze our asses off but it was good we were full at least you know getting those calories before you go to bed that's oh that's gonna keep you warm meal yeah definitely we had the canning

14:32devon yesterday and you know you guys I feel like are a part of this it's sort of an unwritten food revolution that's happening at the moment this idea that you know eating out traditional ways of eating traditional means of dinner largely there are all these resources and skills out there that are I mean there it really is changing there are people out there who are changing what dinner means and and how it gets done and removing that sort of dependence on companies that everybody seems to be well aware of you know what I mean well aware of the negative effects and and sort of the negative intentionality of companies like I don't name a big food corporation that owns everything you eat and I think you guys fit right into that like a puzzle piece like this sort of reinventing of of the daily meal set and what you know what kind of nutrition can be had and most importantly the

15:33cost and the ease of access you know those are the two things that have always been a hindrance and I think for what you offer you guys just hit it better than anything you know yeah in terms of a daily use food yeah well and especially with the big question marks that there are these days with food I mean yeah you look at you look at all the big controversy with beef right now do we know where this is coming from do we know what's in it has it been tested you know am I getting actual good quality beef when it comes off that ship from whatever country it's coming from I don't know but you know we're sourcing our bison yeah exactly you know we source our bison here in the United States from out west it comes from small farms that they're all humanely harvested one at a time it's it's not this big cattle farm to where they're putting 13 of them into a shoot and then however they they utilize and they do but these are all ethically harvested in the field one at a time they bring the truck out in the field and they do it all right there and we know where it all comes from and these days how do you really know because even though it says you know made an America or whatever

16:37that sticker is on your your package of beef technically that could just meet it with packaged in America packaged in America could have been made in America and shipped to another country of your process them back oh yeah there's a hole there's a hole in saying yeah journey that food goes on if it's not local before we get going though I do want to I do want everyone to give their emergency food storage a try this month at some point okay I want you guys to really taste what you have on the shelf and pick something that is not the most appealing because that's going to wind up on the menu eventually we did a big survival food challenge a couple years back Dan and we we were starving hungry and there were foods that we prepared you know these freeze-dried meals from various companies that we didn't finish eating because they were that bad you know like we would we would prepare them we would have not eaten for a couple days I don't want to get into all the

17:42you know the logistics of the challenge but and we would find ourselves like telling each other hey I didn't finish today I'm still kind of hungry but I wasn't finishing that you know and that's a reality that you have to understand when it comes to the food storage that you have on the shelf and you're thinking this is what we're going to turn to in a disaster think you know when you have the option of what we're talking about with essential provisions on the market which you know like I said cost per meal highly negotiable on the family budget these days right yeah yeah and you know it's you you want to thank and you want to believe that oh man when I get that hungry all eat anything that's what people say not always say it you know they say it and then you you've got the the whole stigma of course that we roll into with it's an MRE because it's a meal ready to eat it's an MRE do you think of the DOD MREs you think those humanitarian rations and anybody that's been in those positions where they are forced to eat that stuff you know how it goes you open the MRE pouch you've dumped everything out you take one or two things and the rest goes in the trash because I'm not

18:42the hungry I'm never going to be that hungry you know I'm not eating the spam slice of the four fingers of death I'm just I'm not that hungry you get the pound cake you get the peanut butter and then you move on the fly you're right you get the necessary calories to carry on and then go on right yeah yeah yeah and then here we are offering something that I choose to eat which is a big difference I'll choose to eat this on a Thursday I travel a lot like we were talking about man the amount of times I've had bison chili in a hotel room is crazy because I you know I was in southwest Georgia last week and there were just no good food options out there I wasn't yeah I'm gonna go hit you know McDonald's Taco Bell whatever it happens to be if I don't have to yeah I got a sack full of bison stew right next to probably in that hotel room so what's the point right exactly exactly grab a spoon and off you go yeah man that's phenomenal well I appreciate you coming on today Dan essential provisions guys is linked in the Instagram it's linked in the show description it's also really easy to remember essential provisions calm yep and uh give

19:43a look and I'll tell you one last thing before we cut off if you want to use promo code pbn as an prep or broadcast network pbn that'll give you 10% off through the end of the month dude no better time no better reason to go to essential provisions calm and use the promo code pbn and get some percent off you know you're gonna drop the price now you're really competing with all fast food out there with that price man that's phenomenal thank you so much for that now thank you appreciate you uh appreciate you having us on and appreciate all the the hard work and the information you put out not just you know this month but you have been doing you can tend you to do we're gonna appreciate thanks man that means a lot I was telling you before I'm gonna burn some manager by trade you know so that stuff kind of hits home with me and I I love it awesome well thanks so much for taking the time to join us folks promo code pbn at essential provisions dot com don't miss out on that you may wind up getting deals every single day so come back to us tomorrow 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time we've got Phoenix Survival on tomorrow the master

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