Survive a Food Emergency With Properly Stored Supplies

Let’s think about what you may want to store in your “pantry” as you prepare to survive a food emergency. Think about what it is that you and your family like to eat under normal circumstances. Try to match that as best you can with some sort of freeze dried counter-part, or consider making your own. But, there are several types of foods that can be quite important in crisis times. Grains and legumes for fiber and proteins, dry milk products, canned items, oils and seasonings for cooking to name a few.

You’ll want sweeteners around also so try cane syrup or maybe maple syrup. Plain old sugar can be stored if in proper containers. Don’t forget honey.

Cooking spices and condiments like baking soda and baking powder, salt, pepper and vinegar, all common ingredients that add taste to your food. You’ve probably got a list of things you like to use when you cook.

During your time of using your survival food, you can expect that your “favorite meal” will not taste the same as when done during ideal conditions, but you will still enjoy having some similarity from your stored survival food.

Food spoilage can be a real issue, and should also be planned for, or maybe more accurately, against. Three main causes are from insect infestation, growing molds and bacterial action on some food items. Proper control needs to be established to ward off these three causes, and to keep them away from your food storage items.

Some Techniques of Food Storage

The correct kind of effective food storage container is vital to protecting your investment in survival food and food kits. Pickle buckets, metal cans, and glass jars to store food may be OK from a nostalgic point of view—my Grandma used them so it’s good enough for me—but from a practical angle, maybe not so good.

Today, of course, most storage containers will be plastic. These are ideal for your long term food storage because these are very tough materials that can easily withstand some harsh conditions and can have a lifespan of many years with no apparent deterioration.

You can also find vacuum-packed or freeze-dried food, wholesale, or in the supermarket, grocery stores and by shopping online.

Which ever way you go or what materials you use, always be aware of and check the actual shelf life of the food that you are storing to survive a food emergency. Some items with a short shelf life cannot be made to last even when using airtight plastic.

Food storage survival, can be enhanced by your choices of what is stored and how it is stored. Be aware and be prepared.

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Understanding and Managing a Food Emergency

It is important to understand proper emergency food storage, from types of food and ways to store the different food types, to keep the stored food from going to waste.

Some Reasons for Food Storage

Probably the most common reason for food storage, long term or short, is to prepare for those “rainy” days. Natural disasters, from either weather or geological events, economic disaster, or political/terrorist activity. Any of these can and do set off panic buying at the outset of the event. Panic-buying happens when people suddenly rush out and buy food commodities in quantity because of limited supply or because of shrinking supply or due to an expected price increase over the next few days. Of course all this does is make fewer supplies available but with still larger demands.

Here in the mid-West, this is most evident, if even on a small scale, anytime a winter storm is approaching with significant accumulation of snow or ice expected. Going into a “My”Mart or any grocery store the day or evening before to buy essentials, only makes me a part of the large crowd stocking up on a few days worth of supplies. . .small scale panic buying.

And of course, the large events like major destructive storms that are not so predictable, do not allow this fore-warned buying, so the larger scale panic buying happens after the event.

The very issue of preparing to survive a food emergency, creates amother issue and that is the management and storage of long term food storage. People are concerned that the stored food will become stale or start to show signs of deterioration. This is because not all types of food last long enough, even when stored frozen.

To survive a food emergency, it is a matter of importance for your survival to understand the “how to” in times of natural disasters like an earthquake or storm, a full national pandemic like a terrorist attack, or an economic-emergency--say a stock market crash. It is equally important to know that options for storage like canning and freeze dried food can solve the issues of management and storage. Understanding and preparing for the need as well as the means, the storage means, are both important survival skills that anyone can and should aquire to survive a food emergency for a few days or weeks.

Next I want to discuss some types of foods for storage and also some proper ways to store the food for safety.

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