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Have on Hand an Emergency Food Supply

Having an emergency food supply stocked away in your home, car and workplace may someday mean the difference between life and death for you and your family.

I was a Boy Scout, so our slogan was Be Prepared. Maybe it sounds corny, but if you don't believe bad things can happen, you're not watching the news. Emergency food preparedness shold be part of everybody's household.

Exactly what you should prepare for depends of course on where you live. Here is St Louis we're at risk for earthquakes (the New Madrid fault is overdue to have another big shift), floods (though, to be honest, there's not much danger if your house is not on a flood plain, though the 1993 flood did reach areas nobody ever thought possible -- but some people such as those in West Alton live in areas that they know will flood periodically) and tornados.

Californians should be prepared for earthquakes and fires. People in the gulf region should be prepared for hurricaines. Have on hand food for emergency.

All of us are at least somewhat vulnerable to terrorist attacks -- yes, even people in rural Montana. They wouldn't be direct targets, but could still catch biochemical agents and nuclear fallout in the wind.

You can protect yourself from electrical blackouts by buying a generator, but they're extremely noisy. A neighborhood of generators going full-blast would drown out the rap music. Plus, you'd need access to the fuel to run it. That could easily run out in a disaster.

Food Insurance is one company that wants you to have plenty of food for emergencies. They offer a variety of kits for one adult and families.

Their packs include the following: freeze-dried, gourmet food; a lightweight, weather-resistant backpack; clean water; reusable heat source; a first aid kit; emergency all-in-one tool; quick heat fuel pellets; waterproof matches; cooking tin, 1,500+ use water filter and flashlight/radio combo chargeable by solar power or a hand crank, with a built in charger for your cell phone.

Their mainstay emergency food includes: granola, oatmeal, chocolate protein shake, lasagna, creamy chicken rotini (veg), rice and chicken, orange power electrolyte drink and long-grain white minute rice.

Many of their meals are freeze-dried. They'll last up to 10 years and retain their nutritional value. Some survival foods include things such as dry wheat berries you have to grind. That may be necessary in the long run if society as we know goes back to a pre-Industrial Age. Let's hope not. I ground wheat into flour in the 1970s during a back to the land phase, and it was a lot of work.

Food Insurance meals come prepackaged as regular dinner entrees. Having your emergency food kits in handy backpack form means you can grab and carry it in case you have to flee from your home in case of flood, fire, storm, rioting, terrorist attack or tsunami.

Mountain House is also well known, but markets to the outdoor backpacker and camper enthusiast.

For more basic information on what you should have in your emergency food supply, just click. You can also check out a food emergency response network. But in a widespread disaster, relief from the outside may be slow in coming. In a truly widespread catastrophe, it may never arrive.