How is your food storage plan coming along? Do you have 2,000 calories per day of food for each person in your family for a week, month, 6 months or even a year or more? Hopefully you do because when it comes to prepping many simply underestimate the importance of having an adequate supply of food on hand for when disaster strikes. Over and over again we are confronted with examples of just how important food is, some would argue even more so than the guns and bugout bags we so love to discuss as preppers.
When Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast last month our just in time supply chain was completely wrecked, and so once store shelves were emptied resupplies were hard to come by. People who did not stock up prior to the storm were faced with the task of trying to source meals from unconventional locations (read: trash dumpsters). If someone had asked those people what they thought about dumpster diving for food a week prior to the storm they would have scoffed at the notion.
Natural disasters aren’t the only reason to stockpile food. When Iran’s currency collapsed this past year the search for food became the number one priority.
Food security rises above all else
In the midst of all this madness, discretionary spending was totally erased. Food purchases came to top everything else. In an environment where the price of milk goes up 9 percent a day, who wants to buy shoes? The New York Times reported that one man buying 900 pounds of rice to feed his family for the year had his order interrupted by a phone call – a phone call letting the shopkeeper know that the price of the order had to be raised another 10 percent to cover the exchange collapse. Yet the man went ahead with the purchase, saying he had no choice as the price could go up even more tomorrow.
The threat of natural disasters, economic collapse, and power grid attacks combined with a complicated just in time delivery system means that food will be one of the first commodities to dry up when the SHTF. Once families start going hungry they will start getting desperate. Nobody wants to see their children starve, and no parent would allow that to happen.
I realize that everyone is not in a position to plant a garden or raise chickens. Many preppers live in apartments in the city or in suburbia. Still yet it doesn’t take much to stockpile a few month’s worth of storage food in a spare room or closet. Take heed and prepare while there is still time, It literally could mean the difference between life and death.
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Enemies of stored food / Using a Rotation System
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