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Beginner’s Guide to Building an Emergency Food Supply
Why Do You Need an Emergency Food Supply?
Buy or Make a 25-year Emergency Food Supply
- Buy prepared food guaranteed to have a shelf life of 25-years
- Make the food supply yourself
Option 1 – Buying the Food Supply
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Option 2 – Making the Food Supply
- Start a garden: Aaron and I lived in a small townhouse with a cement patio and we still managed to grow some food. Container gardening is a great option for this. If you are fortunate enough to have a yard, you would be surprised by the amount of food you can grow even on less than a quarter of an acre.
- Baby Steps: One of my biggest tips is to start small. Every time you go to the grocery store buy a little extra of something. Whether it be a can of beans, a box of pasta, a bag of rice, or a package of noodles. These foods are still relatively inexpensive and you will be surprised how quickly you can build up a stockpile.
- Shop Sales: Always check your stores for sales, and if you can, buy those items. Also don’t shop at the big box stores, you aren’t always getting a deal. One of the biggest tips my dad taught me about grocery shopping was to check the price per pound or oz. Buying the family-sized can of soup isn’t always as good a deal as buying multiples of the small cans.
- Gleaners: I know these aren’t available everywhere, but it is an amazing resource that everyone should know about. You should definitely search to see if you have a gleaners in your area. They work by distributing food left in farm fields after harvest or almost expired foods and produce from local stores. Usually, you have to volunteer some time in order to participate in the shops. But the service is available to all and not determined by your income.
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How Much Emergency Food Should a Family Have?
One of the biggest issues most people face when trying to build up an emergency food supply is how much should you be storing? It really depends on how long you anticipate being in a situation where you need a backup food supply. And of course, that can be difficult to figure out.
It is recommended that at the very least you should always have 72 hours of emergency food and water for every member of your family. I honestly believe that is nowhere near enough. I suggest a bare minimum of 2 weeks of food supply for each family member. I found this handy calculator that can help you determine how much food you need for a variety of time frames. Remember not to be overwhelmed by the amounts, if done properly you can get enough food stored surprisingly fast even on a tight budget.
How to Properly Preserve and Store an Emergency Food Supply
So you’ve gone through the trouble of getting your emergency food supply stocked. You’ve spent time and money. But are you storing/preserving it properly? There is nothing worse than feeling confident that you have a backup supply of food and when you go to use some of it; you discover mold, pest damage, or spoilage.
The Five Enemies of Food Storage
In order to understand how to best store your food storage, you need to understand what you’re protecting it from.
- Heat: The ideal temperature to store food is between 40-72 deg. Fahrenheit. Outside of that range and your food will start to lose its flavor, color, texture, and most importantly its nutritional value.
- Light: Light can damage the quality of your food and similar to heat can cause your food to lose its nutritional value.
- Pests: I think it’s obvious what pests can do to food, as apparent from my story from above. Not only will they eat your food, they can also spread disease via their excrement.
- Humidity: Water/humidity is another very dangerous enemy to your food supply. Water=mold
- Oxygen: We all know what happens to a half-eaten apple when it gets left out on the counter, browning/mushy (thank you, toddlers). Creating an oxygen-free environment for your food can not only protect it against quality issues, staleness, and nutritional loss, but it can also inhibit bacterial growth.
Preservation Methods for Your Emergency Food Supply
- Canning: One of the more popular methods of preservation is canning. Whether it be water-bath or pressure canning this is a great method to use to preserve foods from your garden or meats for the semi-long term. If foods are properly canned they can last anywhere from a year to 10 years.
- Vacuum Sealing: I use this method to store meat in my freezer because it helps prevent freezer burn. You can also use vacuum sealing to preserve dry goods. We have a friend who vacuum seals his flour in bags flat and stores them in the freezer to kill bug eggs that are normally in flour.
- Smoking: Smoking is one of my favorite methods of food preservation. You just can’t beat the flavor as far as I’m concerned. I like to smoke fish and meat and freeze it to get more mileage out of my meats. Whether you have one of those fancy new pellet smokers (drool) or you have a smokehouse it’s a pretty easy method for preserving food.
- Freeze-Drying: A relatively new method to preserve food compared to some of the others, freeze-drying is one of the best long-term methods. If done properly and packaged right freeze-dried food can last up to 25 years. And out of all the methods foods retain more of their nutritional value when freeze-dried. That’s why if it is within your means I highly recommend getting a freeze-dryer.
- Fermenting: One of the oldest methods of preserving food is fermenting. I just started fermenting foods a couple of years ago and I absolutely love it. Fermented foods have a fantastic taste and are really good for you. You should check out my video about learning to make your own sauerkraut here.
- Curing: Curing or salt-curing is the other old-school method of food preservation method on this list. It’s literally been around for thousands of years. Salt curing is usually used for preserving meat and if done properly it can last months and possibly as long as a year.
- Dehydrating/drying: This is another method of food preservation that many people are more familiar with. Dehydrators can be purchased in many stores and are pretty easy to use. This is more of a mid-term preservation method. Because the dehydrator cannot remove all moisture from food items they will only stay good for a couple of months. Again it’s all about how you store the food.
Methods for Storing Emergency Food Supply
- Buckets: 5-gallon food-grade buckets are our go-to method of storing bulk foods like rice, beans, sugar, salt, etc… They keep out moisture, pests, and light. When paired with a mylar bag they are a great option to store food for the long term.
- Mylar bags: We use 7mil mylar bags with oxygen absorbers to store our bulk foods in 5-gallon buckets. This is a great way to protect foods from all the common enemies of your emergency food supply. It will prevent you from getting a nasty surprise when you go to use one of the foods that you stored away a couple of years prior.
- Totes: We use heavy-duty black totes to store our freeze-dried food that we’ve sealed in mylar bags. It’s another method where we double up on protection. These are easy to find in most hardware or big box stores. They work great to keep pests, light, and water out.
- Basement/cold storage: Depending on where you live this is the ideal place to store your emergency food supply. But only store your foods in your basement if you can keep a consistent temperature, humidity, and light level. We have shelves that keep our food up off the ground and away from any outside walls. We also have a dehumidifier in the basement because we live in a relatively humid climate.
- Closets/under beds: If you live in an apartment or don’t have a basement you can get really creative with your food storage. Totes help keep everything organized and easy to access. If you have a spare bedroom even better!
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🔹 A small strategy that guarantees your true freedom, or at least it is the first step to pave the way to supreme freedom.