Have You Used an Emergency Food Storage Calculator Yet?
These calculators are the neatest little gadget for planning how much food to stockpile, especially if you have a family to plan for, and ESPECIALLY if you storing your foods at home.
The Food Storage and Survival Handbook plus a food calculator is a huge help in getting started with this part of a preparedness plan.
Although there are several methods of storing foods for survival, it really helps to know about how much you need per person for a certain length of time.
Another thing that helps is if you KNOW what TYPE of emergency plan you have in mind for your family. Are you planning to stay at home… run for the woods.. have a hideaway cabin…this can all play a huge part in WHAT KIND of food you want to stash away.
Home Emergency Plan
If your plan is to simply stay in your home for as long as you possibly can then it is actually quite simple to come up with a good stockpiling plan.
The best place for storing groceries for any extended periods of time is a nice cool basement or cellar area, but you can use any room in your home as long as it doesn’t have extreme temperatures or humidity.
Just make sure to rotate your food as you purchase more to avoid outdated stuff.
You may also want to visit our pages on some of these topics that are based around a ‘surviving at home’:
If you are planning to hop in the car and head for the country or the bush, then your emergency food storage plan will be entirely different.In this case, I would HIGHLY recommend freeze dried foods, or something like Mountain House food packages as your plan for survival food.
This is for several reasons:
- Freeze dried foods last almost indefinitely.
- They are much lighter and easier to pack into bug out bags or food buckets.
More Resources:
And here are a variety of pages on how to prepare your family for a quick (and hopefully – hassle-free) exit.
- 72 Hour Kits
- BOB Checklist … especially when you are making your own packs.
- Mountain House Foods … the best in my opinion, for emergency food storage!
- Survival Knives… Don’t forget to add a good survival tool to your stuff!
And there is much more but you can find a host of other topics at the sidebar on the left. 🙂