Friday, May 24, 2013

Storing Emergency Foods

By Patricia Clark


Planning and preparation for emergency situations play a significant role for survival during tough times. Knowing the importance of planning and early preparation for possible calamity and disaster situations is also vital for us to be aware of what needs to be done. The first step that you can do to plan for an emergency situation is to plan and prepare emergency storage foods for you and your family. To start with this, you need to decide first where to store your emergency foods. You may want to check around your house for an area that may be a good spot for your emergency food storage.

Things to check when looking for the perfect spot for your emergency food storage:

-A cool and dry place should be considered as a goo spot to store your emergency foods because this kind of place is typically from moisture and extreme heat that may cause damage to the normal state of emergency food stored. Cold and heat-producing furniture and equipment such as water heaters, furnace, refrigerators and freezers should be in an area away from the spot that you want to utilize for food storage. This way your foods will not be damaged and changed from its normal state.

-First area to be considered when looking for a place to store your emergency foods is near the kitchen. Since food preparation is done in the kitchen, storing your emergency foods near the kitchen will help you have easy access on kitchen utensils needed for food preparation.

-Find a spot that is free from rodents and insects manifestations since these animals will damage your emergency foods stored.

-An area that is not easily reached by children can be considered as a good spot for emergency food storage.

-Not all people has a basement that can be used to store emergency foods, for those who have no enough space to store emergency foods, you need to be creative and think of an area that is clean and safe and can be used for this purpose. You can use an area that is not in use and convert it to become your storage area for emergency foods.

After you have found an area to store your emergency or survival foods, the next thing to do to is to start stocking up your emergency foods. You don't have to do that by shopping large quantities of emergency foods, you can start small or each time you go to the grocery to buy normal food supply for you and your family, you can start to buy some emergency foods little by little. But be sure to check the dates of expiration when you buy emergency foods that you are planning to buy. This way, you will be sure that you can store them for longer periods of time before they expire. Also choose to buy those foods that are dry, nutritious, easy to cook and prepare, is sealed properly and can be stored easily. These kinds of food are most advisable to be stored and can be eaten easily in emergency situations like disaster and calamity. Important thing to remember when storing emergency foods is to include a sufficient supply of water in your emergency foods storage. Water is very important in any situation. You may store emergency foods little by little but it is important to keep in mind that you need to add more stocks until the amount of emergency food in your storage is sufficient for you and your family members to consume for at least a number of days.




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