This is Gerard Le Flamand and I dedicated this blog to prepare for the disastrous events to happen in 2012.Survival Guide: Preparing Your Basic Survival Food Storage
Basic items for Your Survival Food Storage:
• Grains (at least 65% whole grains): 20 – 35 lb/person/month
based on age and size includes wheat, whole corn, rice, oats, pasta,
flour, corn meal
• Legumes (beans, peas, lentils, & the like): 3 lb/person/month
including a mix of legumes (1/2 lb each of split peas & lentils; ¼ lb
each of limas & soy; remainder any bean)
• Sugar (honey, refined sugars, etc): 5lb/person/month
• Milk: 1.5 lb/person/month
• Fats & Oils: 2.2 lb/person/month (about 3/10 gal)
• Adjuncts (including salt, leavening (cream of tartar & baking soda), vinegar).
• Garden seeds
Storing two to four weeks of “commercial” food isn’t too difficult. But when you get beyond that, you really need to look at specialized foods prepared specifically for long-term storage. Categories of food that stay good for a long time:
• Vacuum-packed dried and freeze-dried foods
• Nitrogen packed grains and legumes
• Specially prepared and sealed foods such as MRE’s (Meals, Ready-to-Eat) with a five-to-ten year shelf life
MRE’s is handy, but they tend to be expensive on a per-meal basis. Others, such as #10 cans (about a gallon) of dried items, are usually ingredients which can be used to prepare a full meal. Your best bet is a combination of both full-meal entrees and bulk items.
Don’t forget to add vitamins and mineral supplements. Fruits, green vegetables and other items rich in vitamin C and other nutrients may be scarce, so a good multi-vitamin is well worth the space it takes up in your stash.
You may also want to add a few special items, such as hard candy or deserts, to reward yourself or for quick energy. That’s one area where MREs and MRE deserts can be a great supplemental item.
How Much Food do you Need in your Survival Food Storage?
Two weeks or more is the minimum for one person in any potential survival situation.
After you built up a food storage, you need to rotate and maintain it. You can use this food when you prepare your regular meals, just make sure you replace what you use. Whenever you open a can or package of food, add that item to your weekly shopping list so that you can replace it as soon as possible. Place fresh food in the back so that older food gets used first.
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Vitamins must be stored along with your food in order to get proper nutrition.
soley releying on a depletable source of food is the fastest way to die of hunger. While a stash of food is good until the world calms down you should have a means of finding or getting more food
Good to know. If i ever get around to stockpiling. I’ll know how much i’ll need. Might as well go ahead an plan for a 6 months of downtime. I would say all i’d need is the internet. However if i really need to use my shelter doubt there would be much of an internet left.