Costco is selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits that can feed a family of 4 for a year

Hayley Peterson

Mar 9, 2018, 03:27 IST

Costco

Costco's food kits cost between $1,000 and $6,000 and include a mix of grains, fruits, vegetables, proteins, and dairy.

Costco is selling emergency food kits that can feed a family of four for one year.
The kits contain freeze-dried broccoli, green beans, corn, dehydrated apples, and other grains and proteins that have a shelf life of up to 30 years.
One anonymous reviewer called the Thrive-branded $3,999.99 kit "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it insurance."

Costco is selling food kits that can feed a family of four for up to a year.

The kits cost between $1,000 and $6,000 and include a mix of grains, fruits, vegetables, proteins, and dairy.

Much of the food has a 25-year shelf life, such as the freeze-dried broccoli, green beans, corn, and dehydrated apples. Other items, like the instant lentils and instant black beans, can last up to 30 years.

The most expensive kit, at $5,999.99, contains 600 cans of food and can feed four people for a year, based on a per-person diet of 2,000 calories a day. The cheapest kit, at $999.99, contains 96 cans and can feed one person for a year on a diet of 1,200 calories per day.

"Enjoy the comfort in knowing you have the essential foods your family will need to survive an emergency or natural disaster!" Costco says on its website.

Costco

The most expensive kit, at $5,999.99, contains 600 cans of food and can feed four people for a year, based on a per-person diet of 2,000 calories a day.

Don't want the neighborhood to know you're stocking up for the apocalypse?

Costco notes that the food is "packaged discreetly for privacy in shipping."

But the packages are huge, weighing about 1,800 pounds, according to one customer who reviewed the product on Costco's website.

Costco

The packages of food are giant, but packaged discreetly.

One anonymous reviewer called the Thrive-branded $3,999.99 kit "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it insurance."

Another person said it was "worth every penny."

Other items in the kits include egg noodles, quick oats, cornmeal, elbow macaroni, freeze-dried banana slices and blueberries, potato chunks, and freeze-dried carrots.