When talking about a long-term food stockpile, you might even lower that down to 1,500 calories per day. Remember, we’re talking survival here, not “let’s put on weight.” So it’s okay to think in terms of 2,000 calories per day, even if you eat more. This would include everything you’re going to eat, both for meals and for snacks. In order to know what to buy, it’s a good idea to develop a two or three week survival menu for your family. If you don’t have that two week’s worth, chances are you’ll end up using the food in your stockpile, rather than allowing it to build up. Start out by making sure you have two week’s worth of food in your pantry, before even starting. The best way to build a food stockpile is in stages. While your family might enjoy them, they don’t store well and really don’t do much to help you survive. At the same time, avoid foods which don’t provide much nutrition, like junk foods. These foods will provide you with a lot of nutrition and variety. Dried vegetables (if you have a dehydrator) – great for use in soups.Sugar – another natural preservative, as well as for flavor.Salt – necessary for survival, but also for preserving food.Soup can be made out of anything, making it a survival staple Bouillon – soup starter for making the broth.Spices – to make foods your family isn’t used to eating more appetizing.Cream of mushrooms soup – good for making casseroles.Spaghetti sauce – you can cook anything, put spaghetti sauce on it, and it tastes like spaghetti.Dried meat – jerky and freeze dried meat for soups, etc.Canned meat – tuna, corned beef, salmon, chicken Spam, etc.Jam or jelly – to be used with the peanut butter.Peanut butter – good source of protein, as well as being a comfort food.Powdered dried eggs – also for baking with, although they aren’t too bad to eat.Powdered milk – for baking with, rather than drinking.Baking supplies – baking powder, baking soda, and other necessities for baking.Will store better than ground flour, but requires that you have a hand-crank mill to grind them Whole grains – necessary for baking, especially bread.Rice (not instant) – another good source of carbs.Pasta – a good source of carbohydrates, which can be used to extend many other foods.Dry beans – a great source of protein and carbs.We’re basically limited to foods that are dry or canned but that still leaves us with a lot of possibilities. Within a few days that meat will go bad, leaving you without anything to eat.
SURVIVAL FOODS TO STOCKPILE FULL
It won’t do any good to have a freezer full of meat, if the power goes out. It’s important that the foods we stockpile are shelf-stable. If we don’t eat proteins, it will cannibalize living cells to get that protein. It is necessary to eat proteins because the body is constantly creating new cells. Proteins – The basic building blocks of cells.Together with the carbohydrates, this gives us a one-two energy punch, to keep us going.
Fats are first broken down to carbohydrates and then to sugars.
It’s even more different than talking to a nutritionist about diet. When we talk about a survival diet, it’s much different than talking about a normal diet. Rather, we can build ourselves up to it, a little bit at a time.
But that’s okay there’s nothing that says we need to buy all that food at once. There’s just one problem with that most of us can’t afford to buy enough food for a three month stockpile we’d probably have trouble buying enough for a three week one. One easy way is to buy freeze-dried meals. In other words, we’re better off stockpiling for three months than we are stockpiling for three weeks. With that in mind, it obviously makes sense to err on the side of caution when deciding how much food to put in our stockpiles. It could be mere days, but it could also be months. Even with something more common, like a natural disaster, we really can’t say how long it will be before supply chains are restored and things are back to normal. Without that knowledge, we don’t know how long the disaster is going to last. One of the big problems we all face in prepping is that we don’t know what disaster we are preparing for. But I say that it ends with that as well, because it seems like we’re still building a stockpile, after we’ve done everything else we wanted to do. It starts with that, because that’s the first thing that most of us think of doing. For most of us, prepping seems to start and end with building a food stockpile.
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