Expedition Foods 7 Day Pack review
Expedition Foods 7 Day Ration Pack (Double Serving, 28 pouches)
By Tom Calder
Seven days of British-made freeze-dried pouches: three 1,000 kcal meals and a dessert a day, 24,150 kcal, about 12 adult-days. You eat from the pouch and cold water works at a pinch, but it keeps up to 5 years, so rotate it through camping trips.
- Best for
- A week of UK-made pouch meals you rotate
- Skip it if
- You want to buy once and forget it for decades
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Researched, not used. We haven't used this product. This review is built from the maker's specifications, owner reports and our own sizing.
What we like
- Made in the UK
- Eat straight from the pouch
- Cold water works, more slowly
Worth knowing
- Up to 5-year shelf life
- Mixed allergens across 28 meals
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Our review
Expedition Foods' 7 Day Ration Pack is a week of freeze-dried meals in pouches: seven breakfasts, fourteen main meals and seven desserts, 24,150 kcal in the double-serving size. Each pouch is eaten straight from the bag once water is added. With a shelf life of up to five years, it suits a household that wants a compact food reserve it can also take camping.
What's in the box
Expedition Foods lists 7 breakfasts (granola and porridge), 14 lunch and dinner meals and 7 desserts, with examples such as spaghetti bolognese, chicken korma, chilli con carne with rice, macaroni cheese, rice pudding with cinnamon and custard with mixed berries; it notes that substitutions of similar value may be made. In the double-serving size the breakfasts, lunches and dinners each add up to 7,000 kcal and the desserts to 3,150, a total of 24,150 kcal, and the pack weighs about 5.53 kg.
That works out at 1,000 kcal for each main pouch and 450 for each dessert, or about 3,450 kcal a day if one person ate the whole day's ration. The company, founded in Yorkshire in 1995, gives its meals a shelf life of up to five years.
How it fits a household plan
The NHS gives around 2,000 kcal a day for an average woman and 2,500 for an average man, so a pack carries roughly ten to twelve adult-days of calories. In practice that is a week for one person eating well, or about three days for a family of three or four eating less. The government's Be Ready checklist asks for non-perishable food for three days, and this covers it in one box.
Preparation is simple: remove the oxygen absorber, add hot or cold water to taste or to the amount printed on the label, seal, wait and eat from the pouch, so there is nothing to wash up. Cold water works at a pinch, but hot food helps morale in a winter power cut. Any stove must be used outside; see our guide to cooking without power.
The limits
Every pouch needs clean water, which competes with drinking water in an outage. Be Ready recommends 3 litres of drinking water per person per day, and the meals come on top of that, so store extra. Five years is long, but not the decades some long-term buckets claim, so plan to eat the pack on camping trips and replace it.
Allergens vary by meal and the pack page doesn't list them, so check the label on each pouch if anyone in the house has an allergy or needs gluten-free food. The menu can change through substitutions.
How it compares
On our emergency food comparison, the ReadyWise 1-month supply has a similar calorie total spread over 120 servings in buckets with a 25-year shelf life; it is the buy-and-forget option, while the Expedition pack has larger, higher-calorie meals. The Huel Ready-to-drink needs no water at all but gives far fewer calories per kilo. Single pouches are on the freeze-dried meal page.
Our verdict
A well-sized week of food that stores in a cupboard and doubles as camping supplies, from a British specialist. Buy it if you will rotate it. If you want a stock to forget for twenty years, a long-life bucket suits better.
A researched review, built from the maker's specs, manual and UK listings; facts checked 2 Nov 2026. Sources: Expedition Foods: 7 Day Ration Pack; Expedition Foods: About us; NHS: Understanding calories; GOV.UK Be Ready: emergency checklist.
Who shouldn't buy this
Don't buy it if you want to buy once and forget it for decades: an up-to-25-year bucket or tin suits that better.
Key specs
| Shelf life | 5 yrs |
| Servings | 28 |
| Calories | 24,150 kcal |
This is a Researched review: we haven't used this product. We check every specification against at least two independent sources, re-check the UK price on a schedule where we can track it automatically, and say plainly who it isn't for. Commissions never change a rating.
If this isn’t the one
Best for An up-to-25-year store: about six days for one adult
Best for About a week of mixed meals in a bag you can carry
Best for A set-and-forget long-life food store you don't plan to rotate
Questions
How many calories are in the Expedition Foods 7 Day Ration Pack?
The double-serving pack totals 24,150 kcal: 7,000 each from breakfasts, lunches and dinners and 3,150 from desserts. That is 1,000 kcal per main pouch and 450 per dessert.
What is the shelf life?
Expedition Foods gives its meals a shelf life of up to five years. Check the date on each pouch and store the pack somewhere cool and dry.
Do the meals need hot water?
Hot water is best, but Expedition Foods says hot or cold water can be used. Remove the oxygen absorber first and add the amount printed on the label.
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