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One Day of Eating Japanese Emergency Food for My Meals

Shelf-stable food is always handy to have around, and even better when it tastes good.  I keep a store of this kind of food in the house that will last for a couple of weeks so it isn't stockpiling, but I consume the stuff as I go to keep it "fresh."  This post will give an example of a day's set of meals out of my Japanese food stores.  Below is a picture of some of the typical Japanese foods I would keep around for both regular use and emergencies.  Always keep a supply of water that is at least two litres per person per day.  You will need it to make hot/cold drinks, instant noodles, soup, or just simple hydration.

From the top left and going clockwise. Freeze dried miso soup, canned biscuits and candy, yakisoba instant noodles, CalorieMate biscuits, Soyjoy protein bar, canned soy mackeral, Yoshinoya canned beef bowl (orange tin), freeze-dried mountain vegetable rice meal.

I've reviewed a number of these products on this blog before so I'll make an example for a set of daily meals and put links in for the full reviews too!

Breakfast

Breakfast is simple, but I want to start with something hot.  The assumption is that you can boil water or use a microwave to reheat rice, or make hot coffee or tea. I'll start with a package of ready rice that needs to be heated to make it soft.  Usually you just boil in water for three minutes or a minute and a half in a microwave.  I'll then have a can of fish and some Chinese/Japanese pickles.  I enjoy the soy or miso canned fish to go with this, but everyone can pick their own favourites.  So breakfast would be miso soup, coffee/tea, white rice with fish and pickles.  In a way, this is like part of a traditional Japanese breakfast.

Some different varieties of Japanese canned fish.

Snacks

You can pretty much do anything for this.  Cookies, candy, juice box, chips, jerky, etc.  Below, I'm showing you two types of energy/meal replacement bars that are common in Japan.

Lunch

I'm going to have rice or a cup of noodles for lunch and supplement it with some canned bread.  Lunch and dinner are really interchangeable depending on how hungry you are.  Again, I'll warm some ready rice and then use boiling water to prepare either a noodle cup or rehydrate some curry or other rice topping.  For both lunch and dinner there are all sorts of canned protein you can add that are prepared dishes like simmered pork belly in sauce, yakitori chicken, soy marinated quail eggs, etc.

Freeze-dried curry and chicken and egg in mirin/soy sauce.
Some microwave-ready rice.  The Korean brands seem to have the best price point when purchased in cases of 12.  You just nuke these for 1 to 1 min 30 seconds with the lid partially peeled back.

Amano Freeze-dried Chicken Vegetable Curry Block Review

Canned bread that lasts a year.  It can come in plain or many flavours like strawberry or chocolate.  Keep some jam handy.

Canned Bread and Other Interesting Japanese Souvenirs

This freeze-dried pouch is like a traditional Japanese rice mixed with vegetables. Very much like a western style freeze-dried camping meal.

You could get a box of instant noodle bowls for lunch or dinner and have some variety for your meals. The noodles shown below are good.
Here are the six bowls from a box from Yamadai for western Japan.  Super tasty.

Yamadai New Touch Amazing Noodles Summer Fukubako Western Japan Ramen Box  

Dinner

 Any number of meals are interchangeable for lunch and dinner.  I'll show a few instant noodles, but I'm going with rice again - notice a trend?  This time, Japan has these instant rice cups in different flavours, but curry is always a good choice.  There are many different kinds of curry to choose from.  The rice cup shown below is supposed be nutritionally balanced!  You might want to even double up with a couple of different mains to be filled up.
The front of the Kanzen Curry Rice Cup.  It has a unique topper that advertises all of the benefits of this meal and stores the additional powdered nutrient and curry sauce packets.

Nissin Kanzen (Complete) Meal - European Style Curry Instant Rice Cup Review

Yoshinoya canned beef bowl.  A complete rice dish in a can.  Need to boil the can to reheat.

Yoshinoya Canned Gyudon (Beef Bowl) Emergency Ration Review

The Nissin Cup Noodle Canned Emergency Ramen comes in a big can with a plastic lid.  Once you remove the lid, the pull top of the can is revealed.  Having the plastic lid also means you can also reuse the can for other things later (nice touch).

Nissin Canned Cup Noodle Emergency / Survival Ration Review

The very recognizable orange and yellow Bon Curry box.  Boil the pouch and put on top of some more instant white rice.

https://tokyoexcess.blogspot.com/2020/06/otsuka-foods-bon-curry-review-medium-hot.html

Dessert

There are many kinds of sweet things to have for dessert.  You can have canned fruit, cakes, chocolate, candy, etc.  I'm only going to show one thing.  These Japanese fruit cups in jelly are pretty good.  The fruit is full of flavour and better than just a can of peaches, which I also like.

Japanese white peach fruit cup.  Shelf-stable.


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