Tag Archives: long term food storage

When disaster strikes, the ability to feed yourself and your family without relying on stores or supply chains is not just a comfort , it is a survival necessity. Many people assume that creating a budget emergency food supply requires thousands of dollars and a basement full of specialized gear, …

This food storage calculator will help you to determine how much food you need to store for a given number of people. Generally people store a smaller amount of food for children under the age of 7. I personally do not see the point as the long term goal so …

What types of Long Term Food Should You Store? One goal is creating a “food under disaster” plan is deciding what it is we want to store. This can be tough to figure out even with input from family members. So we created a generic food cache inventory list for our …

Food Cache Inventory List We have decided to create a food inventory list for or users to print out to aid them in cataloging a years worth of food. The sheets all use a goal of a 1 year supply. The inventory pack of printable forms can be downloaded and …

Storing Food: How much is enough? So how big of a food cache do you need? That falls back to one of the original questions asked to all interested in long term food storage. What exactly are you preparing for? This answer directly relates to the quantity of food and …

Are our readers practicing long term food storage preparation? I am sure most of our readers do in some way or another. Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to …

If you ask around about food storage you will find the same answer more often than not about eating what you store and rotating your food.  Rule number one: store what you eat and eat what you store. Rule number two: rotate your stock from oldest to newest as to …

Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm.  Can you blame them? Statistically the next …