Gathering an Emergency Food Supply

September 3, 2008 | By admin In Food Storage |

Food is vital in any emergency. After all, disaster frequently cuts people off from groceries and other sources of food. It is important that you keep an emergency food supply. However, you can’t just dump any sort of food. Here are some tips on how to gather food for an emergency:

1) Non-perishable – make sure that the food you get is non-perishable. This means the food should not rot quickly. Emergencies and disasters often cut off electricity, so you won’t have any means to keep perishable foods fresh. Try getting some canned or dried foods, as these keep the longest.

2) Non-cook – while in an emergency, you can hardly think about cooking, especially considering that you might not have access to gas or electricity. Buy food that’s ready to eat.

Again, canned goods are great for this sort of thing. You should also think about getting some beef jerky, dried fruit and other bits of food you can readily munch on.

3) Energy content – the main reason you need an emergency food supply is because you’re body will need energy in order to cope with the stress of any disaster. Your body will specially need it if you are injured or ill.

Did you know that candy bars were first produced for soldiers to get a quick energy boost if needed? Having energy will allow you to react better to the situation around you.

4) Save space – you need to consider that you’ll have limited space to store your emergency food supply. This means you need to make sure that you maximize the use of that space to contain as much food as possible.

5) Variety – make sure that your emergency food supply gives you variety. Considering that you might have to survive on those foods, you might as well make sure that you enjoy it. After all, you can only eat corned beef for so many days.

6) Nutrition – energy’s not the only reason why people should maintain an emergency food supply. You should also make sure that the food you store actually contains nutrition vital to your health. After all, you don’t want to get sick during an emergency, right?