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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A question that I can not seem to get the answer too. Once we buy our survival food and it arrives in the sealed containers.Where should I store it so that it stays fresh as long as possible? Temperatures where I live run from 110 degrees during the summer and 20 degrees in the winter and god only knows how hot those containers will get. So where would be a good suggestion to store these containers? Underground? S storage unit that get very hot and possibly vandalized…
Survival foods are designed to get you over the hump. Maybe two years until you can get a garden going. Until then (assuming you survive) you have to eat something. I prefer to eat good tasting and easy to prepare food (think about trying to grind wheat and cook beans when the zombies are after you).
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Great article but a little to complex for the average Joe like me.
I have been researching food storage for about 18 months and really do not want to make it a full time job of always seeking out new ways and never being sure of what I have.
The ideal for me is a company that provides really good, nutritious and affordable foods that are convenient for everyday use and that can be stored, as a reserve, for future use. Also number 10 cans are great but two meals per pack are better particularly if kids are involved and you want to be able to use the food on a daily bases.
Also a company that makes it easy to order automatically on monthly bases so I can quickly build my supply. Also I can budget and know that I can afford the food. My family is 10 people and I would also like to have some to share with my friends and community.
I have found a new company called eFoods Global. They offer 6 free meals so you can try the food before you buy.
They sent me 6 meals, I paid the S/H.
The meals tasted great and the labels told me they are nutritious.
I think that everyone who has said to themselves, I really had to store food for emergency because I do not want to e at the mercy of the state or federal government, should look into eFoods. If you are the type of person who never gets around to preparing this is a company that can help you fill your needs.
Don Ruane
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.