How to Store One Weeks Emergency Survival Food

One weeks worth of food can be a real lifesaver in certain emergency situations. If you want the peace of mind that comes from having enough easy to prepare food in your house to get you through the first few days after a natural disaster emergency, such as an earthquake or a hurricane, then read on.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• food
• money to buy the food
• a container for storing one weeks food

1. No one likes to think that they will be involved in a natural disaster emergency situation, but hurricanes, windstorms, tornadoes, and floods happen. Having a one week survival food supply can help to ease your worries. This food storage plan is for one week, but you could always add to it, and have a plan to store enough food for two weeks, or one month, or even longer.
2. For emergency disaster situations, canned and dehydrated foods are probably best. Canned foods can be eaten without heating them if need be, just in case you have no way to cook.
3. Below you'll find some ideas for the kinds of foods that are good to store. Purchase enough for your family for one weeks worth of meals. Since each family is different, in size and in eating habits, I won't suggest how many items, but you should have a pretty good idea of how much your family would eat in one week.
   
   Good survival food suggestions:
   
   canned brown bread or pilot bread.
   Canned butter and/or cooking oil.
   Canned vegetables, for a week, and canned fruit, for a week. Assorted, and get what your family likes and eats.
   Canned pinto beans or baked beans are good too.
   Canned tuna, canned salmon, sardines, etc.
   evaporated or dried milk
   oatmeal
   hard candies
   peanut butter
   jam, jelly, and/or honey
   salt and pepper
   tea and/or coffee
   sugar and/or honey
   and don't forget to store enough water for drinking for a week too.
4. Don't forget to put in a can opener, and eating utensils and dishes.
5. Store your one week supply of emergency food in whatever container it will fit in. Container ideas include using a brand new metal garbage can with a tight-fitting lid, or a large plastic container with lid.
   Label this food storage container, and place it in the area of your house most likely to survive a disaster, or where you can most easily get to it when you need it.
6. Eat plenty of fresh veggies and fruits too. Every six months to a year, rotate your food supplies in the emergency food supply container, removing the older foods, and replacing them with newer food supplies. Then use the older foods in your regular meals.

Tips & Warnings

• A can opener is very important, don't forget to include it in your one week emergency supply food storage container. It's really hard to open cans without one.