How To Build Up Your Survival Food Fo An Emergency Event
As a survivalist you should always be ready by having at least thirty days of survival food available so that no matter what the cause is you know that you'll have the means to at a minimum have food and water for thirty days. Just think about what could happen if all of the sudden there were no trucks and trains delivering food so that you can get it at your local store? What would you do for food? Would you be able to hunt and/or fish? Could you be able to live off the land using what you could find? If you are like most people, the answer is no.
If you don't think this could happen just take a look at a couple of recent incidents where this has happened. Katrina, how long was it until food and power were restored? Japan when the tsunami came ashore there were people out of food and aid for over 7 days. This stuff can and does really happen. What is likely to happen if a pandemic bird flu hit. People wouldn't want to go to stores where they would come in contact with other people, truck drivers wouldn't want to deliver food to places and become exposed to the flu? The government would like shut down roads to help isolate the spread of the flu. What would you have then?
Being prepared for situations only makes sense. Worst case scenario is that you are wrong but you'll now have a 30 day cache of food and water to use. So long as you use it before it's expired you aren't really losing anything.
So what kind of survival food should you have stored for an emergency situation?
Dehydrated Food - Dehydrated food can either be something that you purchase or that you dehydrate yourself using a dehydrator like the Excalibur 2500 Dehydrator. If you are buying this the downside is that it's pretty expensive for what you get but on the upside it has a long shelf life. If you dehydrate your own food it's relatively inexpensive but requires having some method to dehydrate and store the food. If storing your own dehydrated food you should make sure to use a dessecant package in there as it will absobe the oxygen and help keep the dehydrated food longer.
Canned Food - This can either be canned foods that you pick up at a grocercy store or you could have your own that you can using a high quality pressure canner. Either one of these is a cost effective method for food storage. If you plan to buy canned goods when there are sales you can stock up on a 30 day supply for very good prices. Things like pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, soups etc are often on sale for 10 for 10. If you use coupons you can even bring that price down even more.
There are obviously many other kinds of food you can stock up on. It's important that you at least be prepared for any incident so that when the shit hits the fan you aren't in the shit so to speak.
If you don't think this could happen just take a look at a couple of recent incidents where this has happened. Katrina, how long was it until food and power were restored? Japan when the tsunami came ashore there were people out of food and aid for over 7 days. This stuff can and does really happen. What is likely to happen if a pandemic bird flu hit. People wouldn't want to go to stores where they would come in contact with other people, truck drivers wouldn't want to deliver food to places and become exposed to the flu? The government would like shut down roads to help isolate the spread of the flu. What would you have then?
Being prepared for situations only makes sense. Worst case scenario is that you are wrong but you'll now have a 30 day cache of food and water to use. So long as you use it before it's expired you aren't really losing anything.
So what kind of survival food should you have stored for an emergency situation?
Dehydrated Food - Dehydrated food can either be something that you purchase or that you dehydrate yourself using a dehydrator like the Excalibur 2500 Dehydrator. If you are buying this the downside is that it's pretty expensive for what you get but on the upside it has a long shelf life. If you dehydrate your own food it's relatively inexpensive but requires having some method to dehydrate and store the food. If storing your own dehydrated food you should make sure to use a dessecant package in there as it will absobe the oxygen and help keep the dehydrated food longer.
Canned Food - This can either be canned foods that you pick up at a grocercy store or you could have your own that you can using a high quality pressure canner. Either one of these is a cost effective method for food storage. If you plan to buy canned goods when there are sales you can stock up on a 30 day supply for very good prices. Things like pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, soups etc are often on sale for 10 for 10. If you use coupons you can even bring that price down even more.
There are obviously many other kinds of food you can stock up on. It's important that you at least be prepared for any incident so that when the shit hits the fan you aren't in the shit so to speak.