![]() ![]() During survival time, it can be eaten plain, or cut up to be put in soups and casseroles.Ĭheese – Another great source of protein. Typically it is vacuum packed as well, making it ideal for long-term storage. Summer sausage – Summer sausage, like many “cured meat products” (what we call lunchmeat) is created to keep for a long time. It will absorb the water, flavoring it at the same time. When it’s time to use it, you can reconstitute the jerky in soups. If you make your own jerky, be sure to trim off all fat and salt it heavily for preservation. Meat will be the hardest type of food to find during a crisis, so stock up well.īeef (or turkey) jerky – Dried meat, whether jerky or dehydrated meat, is great for long-term storage. Spam, while being something that many people make fun of, is a nutritious meat product. Properly packaged, this will keep well for a long time.īeans – Dried beans of all types store incredibly well for long periods of time, are easy to cook, nutritious and one of the few non-meat sources of protein around.Ĭanned meat – You can buy chicken, tuna, salmon and other meat products which are canned. Don’t buy the sugary children’s cereals, but the more basic ones, like Cheerios. ![]() Like pasta, there are a lot of things you can do with rice.īreakfast cereal – This falls into the category of comfort food, especially for kids. Quick rice has a very limited shelf life. Buy the whole grain rice, not the quick rice. Rice – Rice is a great source of carbohydrates, which will store well. If you have a grain mill and whole grains, you can make your own bread, pancakes, cakes, cookies and other baked goods. Whole grains – Flour doesn’t store well, but whole grains do. You can make a lot of different dishes with pasta, from Italian food to casseroles. Pasta – High carbohydrates and stores extremely well. Here is my list of foods that you should stockpile to get your family through a crisis: Properly packaged for storage, these foods will keep for years, and still be as tasty and nutritious when you take them out as they were the day you bought them. You can make a fairly nutritious diet out of grains, beans and canned goods. What you really need to store are staple foods. Generally speaking, the more a food is processed, the worse it is for long-term storage. However, even with repackaging, not all foods will keep well for long periods of time. Therefore, you’ll have to repackage most of what you buy, in order to prevent spoilage. Most food you buy in the grocery is packaged with the idea of you buying it and using it within a relatively short period of time, let’s say a couple of months. You want foods that will give you the maximum nutrition for the minimum bulk.Īvoid all types of “snack foods” as there is no way to store them for long periods of time. Most foods aren’t packed for long-term storage, with the exception of canned foods. You may not have electrical power, so your refrigerator and freezer may not work. Nevertheless, eating strange food is better than not eating anything at all.Īs you are selecting foods for your emergency stockpile, you need to consider the following: That may require eating things that your family isn’t used to eating. This isn’t buying your regular week’s groceries multiplied by 10, but rather buying food that you will use instead of your regular groceries. When selecting food for a survival situation, there are several things that need to be taken into consideration. If you have a secure, private bug-out location, you’ll want to duplicate your home stockpile at that location as well. Most people will end up bugging in during a crisis, so it makes sense to have the appropriate food stockpile in your home. This stockpile is based on you bugging-in, rather than bugging-out. If you think about it for a minute, that’s the only way to do it, which really makes sense. Because of that, most preppers base their purchases on the assumption that nothing will be available, so they’d better have it on hand. The biggest problem in deciding what to stockpile is that there is no way of knowing for sure what type of disaster is likely to strike so there is no clear way of determining what to buy. Several books have been written about the subject, none of which offer exactly the same advice. While that may seem like an easy question to answer, it’s really not. Of course, that raises the question of what to stockpile. That makes sense, as without the right supplies it’s hard to make it through any crisis situation. Most preppers start out by building a stockpile of food and other supplies to use in case of emergency. ![]()
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