Guides
What freeze-drying does to food, how to read a dry-food label and what to keep in the cupboard, worked through with the figures from Stock Up pouches.
Work week
Meals
A high-protein work week without a fridge
Five lunches from a desk drawer with 172 g of protein between them, water from the kettle or cold from a bottle, and the sum behind every recipe.
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Meals · Rations
What freeze-drying keeps, and what it takes out
One pouch of chicken and rice followed from 110 g dry to a 410 g plate: what the process removes, what stays, and how to read the per 100 g column.
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Meals · Rations
How Stock Up makes its freeze-dried meals
Five steps from a cooked dish to a sealed pouch, the release rule every batch has to pass and the record behind each lot number.
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Outdoors and sea
Rations
Hiking food for the Sierra de las Nieves
Kcal, grams and cooking water for one, two and three days on foot in the Sierra de las Nieves, with a day plan and a kit list.
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Rations
Provisioning a sailing weekend
Two days of food for one person in a cockpit locker, the 1,820 ml of tank water it takes, and how to stow it and cook it in a seaway.
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Rations · Meals
Freeze-dried vs dehydrated food
Warm air against cold and a vacuum: how the two methods differ on the spoon, in the rucksack and in minutes to eat, with one table.
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Power cuts and 72 h
Rations
What goes in a 72-hour kit
The EU's March 2025 advice turned into a shopping list for one person, with a three-day menu at about 1,490 kcal a day and the water it takes.
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Rations
Cooking in a power cut: what to keep at home
When the socket goes, an induction hob, the kettle and the fridge go with it. What still cooks, which food to eat first and which food can wait.
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Meals · Rations
How long freeze-dried food keeps
What the 36 months on a pouch means, how water activity is measured against the 0.60 limit, and what changes once the pouch is open.
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