The top foods you should keep in case of an emergency

Real Simple Magazine via Yahoo ^ | 7/16/10 | Vanessa DiMaggio

[Kartographer]

Natural disasters--such as a flood, hurricane, or blizzard--often come without warning. Stocking non-perishable food items ahead of time (and choosing wisely what you include) will help you weather the storm with less stress.

By: Vanessa DiMaggio

Fueling your body during an emergency is very different from your everyday diet. Because you’ll probably expend more energy than you normally would, you should eat high-energy, high-protein foods. And because you have a limited supply, the higher-quality foods you eat--and the less of them--the better. “In a disaster or an emergency you want those calories,” says Barry Swanson, a food scientist at Washington State University . “You want some nutrients and some fiber—something to keep your diet normal.”

[trisham]

True. I do try to keep canned goods on hand, and pasta is so easy.

[Kartographer]

Link to my Preparedness Manual:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tyoktknynnl

[trisham]

Agreed. Even crackers last for about a year. There’s also canned tuna, soup, hash, beets..it’s just almost endless.

[meadsjn]

Fritos are great for fire-starting materials. No joke. My son’s Boy Scout troop uses them.

[I see my hands]

"That's right all you need is a GUN with lots of bullets and the list of all your friends that stock up a years worth of food"

Do you think people who are smarter than you (demonstrated by your plan versus their theirs) won't kill you if you try to steal their property?

[mylife]

I’m loaded up here.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

YOM!
;0)

[mylife]

Thats not a bad price. 3~4 lbs before cooking

[Diggity]

Cinnamon Frosted Pop Tarts, Diet Coke.

[Diggity]

Cinnamon Frosted Pop Tarts, Diet Coke.

[trisham]

That’s good. We have such severe weather here at times. I keep soda bottles that I have filled with tap water in the garage, as well as lots of paper products and canned goods. I also have a good supply of batteries.

[ASOC]

I vote for coffee, hardtack, parched corn and pemmican.

Worked in this Nation till around WWI....

Can be eaten cold, or not....

[mylife]

I’m good on the battery’s. Fair on the water

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Not a bad price at all!

[I see my hands]

"Our plan would be to simply drive out of the affected area. If we did not have a relative we could go stay with we would simply find a motel away from the emergency"

If you can drive away and go to a motel you are not in an emergency situation of the degree being discussed, IMO.

[trisham]

You know, I have to say, well done!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“There may not be electricity”

Too bad so sad for me. I will just have to choke it down all at once. YUMMY!!! :)

Oh lord!!! Living in Panama, I did not know those wonderful freeze dried foods existed!!!

I wonder if I can order them through the mail? I wonder if customs will allow them to arrive to my mailbox. Time for some homework.

Please take care.

Thank you.

YUMMY!!!!

[PA Engineer]

Check out your local Walmart. They have 3 and 5 gallon water jugs for Hot and Cold dispensers. I recommend the 3 gallon containers because not everyone in my family can lug them around. A very affordable way of meeting your water needs.

[mylife]

The celebrity stuff was like $1.19 a can but only held about a lb of uncooked bacon.
The Yoders is precooked

[trisham]

We lose power here so often. Batteries are essential, and because we have a well, once power is off everything dies. It’s difficult, and must be planned for.