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Originally Posted by stormlion1
And Dog Kibble takes up a lot more room than MRE's.
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My brain forced me to do the math on this.
Dogfood is actually much more compact.
An active 60lb (27 kg) dog would need 3 cups of premium food a day (~1400 cal). This works out to 1.5 Cubic feet for a 60 day supply.
120 MREs on the other hand would be almost 8 cubic feet (Over 9 if you keep them in cases). This is 2500 calories a day for sixty days. The MREs could be significantly compacted, as that is based on the 120 cubic inch brown bag with lots of air in it. Best case you could get it to 3 or 4 cubic feet, so it still loses on a per calorie (barely) and per day basis.
The fact that the dog food is dehydrated also helps with weight, though it does increase the need for clean water.