I agree with you.
ALL of my emergency provisions are of the canned or dried variety.
Indeed, I won’t even purchase any frozen foods unless they are on sale, and unless I can seriously say to myself that if it thawed out and had to be tossed away, that it would not upset me.
So of course I don’t own a freezer.
And in the small freezer that is part of the refrigerator, I have at least half of it filled with large frozen blocks of ice — I slowly freeze small quantities of water in used wax cartons, of the kind which Florida Orange Juice is sold in.
I never worry on the occasions when the power goes out, because I’ve never even had the tiny ice cubes melt, so whatever food I have in there, admittedly little, can’t possibly go bad, as it stayed VERY cold the entire time with all those “giant” blocks of ice.
I’ve read so many disaster stories online where people find all their freezer goods thawed out. Unfortunately many of these online accounts include how they simply re-froze everything, and that it was all still “good.”
Those kind of stories scare me enough that I don’t like to eat food from people who own large storage freezers, there are simply too many stories about RE-freezing all that food which experts claim should be destroyed.
After the 2nd of 4 hurricanes went through a few years ago we were without power. We decided to go drive around and see if we could find something open.
The only place we found was a chinese restuarant. Tables were a couple feet high with dirty dishes and they were busy as ever. They could cook but they were without electricity. A lot of people were eating shrimp.
After a couple seconds of nearly losing my cookies we walked out. Went home and turned on our grill.