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Emergency Food To Survive A Disaster
By John Cranby
Emergency food is food to last you for a few weeks. You may have
heard stories of people stuck on a mountain, surviving on a chocolate
bar. Chocolate bars, canned food, and other non-perishable food
items can be placed in an area where you can survive until help
arrives.
For example, your electricity cuts out for weeks on end. This
means no refrigerated food, no tv and a small level of communication.
You may use a cell phone for communication, but if there is no
coverage in your area and in thick walled areas, like underground
bunkers your cell phone is useless.
What will you do in this situation? Panic? No. You prepare for
this eventuality by making a review of your options and stocking
up on emergency food.
Preparing For Emergencies
When life happens, it is good to be prepared. It is impossible
to stay organized in all parts of life, and at times, we have
to wing it as we go, but there are some things we should make
time for, before anything happens.
One of the things we should do, is have an emergency kit ready
and waiting in our houses, just in case we need them. You never
know when something as simple as an electricity outage, is going
to make your life difficult.
Keeping Food To Last At Least Two Weeks
Many other more severe things can happen and you want to be prepared
for the worst even as you hope the worst never happens. You have
to have the right emergency food items in stock for at least two
weeks of time.
Emergency food items can be anything you want as long as they
are foods that are not going to spoil. That means things like
steaks and eggs are not going to work, but you can find some things
you like in preserved form.
Canned Food Is A Serious Option
You may not think of these emergency food items as gourmet meals,
but you can find things that are good enough that you can eat
without too much trouble and that is not going to make you sick.
As you can imagine, anything in a can is a good candidate, but
you have to think about preparations as well as the food you choose.
That means soups can be great emergency food items, but only
if you have a way to cook those soups without electricity. One
thing that is almost always missing in an emergency is electricity
so you may want to skip the soup unless you have a hot plate that
runs on batteries.
Cold And Unheated Food
If you do, make sure you have plenty of batteries and check them
once in a while to make sure they have not expired. The same rules
can apply to things in cans that also should be heated. If you
can eat them cold, they can still go in your food stash for emergencies
if you don’t mind eating them unheated.
Other emergency food items could include things that come sealed
and preserved. Think of snack items like beef jerky. This is a
food that may survive longer than the human race and still be
edible.
Rotate Expired Food And Replace With New Food
You may find many of these foods in a snack area but don’t buy
only snack foods that are full of preservatives or empty calories.
Remember that emergency food items like nuts can be filling, last
a long time, and are always full of some nutritional value for
you and your family.
Keep track of expiration dates on these items and rotate them
out once in a while so your emergency kit is up to date and safe.
Medications, Hygiene Items, Water and Batteries
Along with emergency food, you want to rotate items like medications
and other personal hygiene items so that you have them stocked
up and fresh in the event of an emergency. Don’t forget to have
clothing, plenty of water and batteries for flashlights and radios
too. Don’t forget the can opener.
Your medical records are great to have along with any cash and
credit cards you can set aside for emergencies. If you have pets,
you want to have emergency food for them as well, along with their
vet records, and leashes and crates. Pets can freak out in bad
situations so you want to know you have them contained if need
be.
Fireproof Bunker To Protect Your Family
You may live in an area where there are plenty of emergency situations.
For example, you may live out in a forested area, and there are
many fires in the summer. You may have arranged for a fireproof
bunker to take your family, in the case of wildfires heading towards
your home.
You may not have the time to evacuate and going on the road at
this time may be too dangerous, as you may drive into the mouth
of the wildfire. Depending on conditions, wildfires can travel
really fast and catch up with your car, even though you may be
driving in the opposite direction.
There are many stories of people incinerated in their cars, while
attempting to escape wildfires. Your decision is to take your
family down to the fireproof bunker and stay there until the wildfire
has passed your home.
Until help arrives, your family can survive on emergency food.
About the Author:
John Cranby has written a number of articles on food, cooking, coffee, chocolate, candy making and cakes including
Make Chocolate Truffles,
Cake Decorating Supplies,
Anniversary Gift Baskets,
Coffee Houses,
Herbal Teas,
Candy Making,
Candy Molds,
Peanuts,
Salt Water Taffy.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this site.
Did You Know?
There is something quite wonderful about candy making right in
the comfort of your own kitchen. The wonderful smells of freshly
made chocolates or hard candies just cannot be replicated by a
candle or a spray. It does not have to be hard though. You can
make your own candy and you will be amazed at how simple it is
to make.
Plus you can make candy and give it away during the holidays.
Chocolate Easter bunnies, fudge, divinity, butterscotch candies
and caramel are just a few of the great treats you can make
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