--- title: Costco Sells 27 LB Bucket of Mac and Cheese for Indoor Fun description: This 27-pound bucket of mac and cheese with a crazy long shelf-life can fill your doomsday needs. canonical: https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-11T16:16:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:49.763Z og:title: Costco Sells 27 LB Bucket of Mac & Cheese You Know You Want og:description: Your doomsday prepping is done! og:url: https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab3fe50dc4b90b65/6989431b7cdbac6202d5eda5/macaroniandcheese.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Recipe For Crispy Macaroni And Blue Cheese og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Costco Sells 27 LB Bucket of Mac & Cheese You Know You Want twitter:description: Your doomsday prepping is done! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab3fe50dc4b90b65/6989431b7cdbac6202d5eda5/macaroniandcheese.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Your Doomsday Prep Work Is Done Thanks to This 27-Pound Bucket of Mac and Cheese With a Crazy Long Shelf Life by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 11, 2019 4:16 PM UTC  Press into oiled mold pan and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight. Chef Gordon Hamersley demonstrated a step-by-step recipe for how to make mac and blue cheese squares. (Photo by Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Press into oiled mold pan and refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight. Chef Gordon Hamersley demonstrated a step-by-step recipe for how to make mac and blue cheese squares. (Photo by Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 11, 2019 4:16 PM UTC If you spent the holidays holed up watching [_Bird Box_](http://time.com/5492031/bird-box-challenge/)and _You_ and _10 Cloverfield Lane_ and _The Road_ and [_127 Hours_](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2017703,00.html)and have decided it’s best to spend the rest of your life holed up in the safe indoors, you’re going to need supplies. Luckily, Costco is selling just the thing—a 27-lb. bucket of one of America’s favorite comfort foods. The big box retailer is offering a massive bucket of mac and cheese with a shelf life so long that you won’t need to venture outdoors until the year 2039. The Chef’s Banquet Macaroni and Cheese Storage Bucket comes with 180 servings of elbow pasta and 180 servings of cheddar cheese sauce, stored separately in easy to open zip-seal pouches designed to ensure the mac and cheese will survive its estimated shelf life of 20 years. And while the website claims this can serve 180 people it can also feed just one really hungry one. To make it easier to never leave the house, [Costco](http://time.com/money/5452701/the-costco-connoisseur/) will deliver the bucket of joy directly to your bunker via its [website](https://www.costco.com/Chef's-Banquet-Macaroni-%2526-Cheese-Storage-Bucket-180-Servings.product.100108871.html). The only downside to this product is that less than 24 hours after [People reported](https://people.com/food/costco-27-pound-mac-and-cheese-bucket/) about the existence of this life-saving product, people have flocked to Costco’s website and now the mac and cheese bucket is listed as out of stock on Costco’s website. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/"},"headline":"Your Doomsday Prep Work Is Done Thanks to This 27-Pound Bucket of Mac and Cheese With a Crazy Long Shelf Life","datePublished":"2019-01-11T16:16:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:49.763Z","description":"Get the supplies then the doomsday bunker","url":"https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Costco","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab3fe50dc4b90b65/6989431b7cdbac6202d5eda5/macaroniandcheese.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab3fe50dc4b90b65/6989431b7cdbac6202d5eda5/macaroniandcheese.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Recipe For Crispy Macaroni And Blue Cheese","caption":"Macaroni and cheese","creditText":"Boston Globe—Boston Globe via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5497983/mac-and-cheese-bucket/","name":"Your Doomsday Prep Work Is Done Thanks to This 27-Pound Bucket of Mac and Cheese With a Crazy Long Shelf Life"}}]}] ```