How Critical is Food Storage in an Emergency?

Posted by naharazizi on Monday, October 24, 2011



Most of the hard and true survivalists tend to worry about whether it is significant enough supply of food stored for possible emergency. To them, the food supply is of paramount importance, because its primary purpose is to take care of their families in case of crisis.

Many people on the other hand tend to feel that since we live in advanced countries, rather than third world nations that have the mentality that the natural food available in the store regardless of the situation. That may be true in some parts of the country, but in most cases when disasters simply can not do it to the store to obtain needed supplies that are needed. Let's face it in an emergency, your ATM may not be functioning at all and it means you have to do with the money you have on you physically. Most of the time it would not be very much because we tend to store their money in the bank.

Some types of disasters to travel extremely difficult because they could not venture into the store. Floods or hurricanes possible quickly to our Automatic useless. This crisis is complex, if we happen to live a good distance from the grocery store and can not get to well populated areas.

If you're anything like me you have spent a considerable amount of time planning and organizing their long term storage of food to make sure you have enough food to eat. Few people consider the fact that you have to be a little concerned about the expiry of the stored food. When you begin to approach the date you want to use them in your daily meals.

Even though we try as hard as we can to make sure that our food is never out of date I found that the date stamped on canned food are not really točne.Puno food that they buy for our ends storing food are good for a much longer period of time what then stamped a date on it says. Often times these canned foods are effective for 5 to 10 additional years, and in some cases even 25 years.

UM and the individual bags of food used by our military personnel when in the field. Most of the time these were freeze dried variety and last for many years. To prepare these foods, you should use UM heater. This type of heating system requires only a tablespoon of water to heat MRE meal properly.

Freeze dried foods maintain the texture, taste and shape of the food you store. Some excellent choices are beef-stew, chicken with rice, spaghetti, chicken a la king, stroganoff, and a host of other great tasting foods. As you can easily say that it is not necessary to eat only canned beans or soup can. You have a lot of selection available to choose from.

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