Survival Food Supply

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A Survival Food Supply is Vital in a Dangerous World

With the state of the world, the country and even the weather today, you never know when you'll need a survival food supply.

The Alpine Group operate a website that takes me back to the good old Internet days of 1996. It's got a long, scrolling web page with big ads for many survivalist subjects, on a starry sky background. Lots of graphics but little organization. If you have gotten online in more recent years, you may be put off by it.

However, one of the group's interests in survival planning, is emergency preparedness food, so one of the first sections is for Ready Reserve Foods.

Ready Reserve supplies emergency food supplies to people now, before some crisis in the world's food or fuel supplies, or financial crisis, or local bad weather, or terrorism, or civil disturbances leading to a governmental breakdown leads to shortages at your neighborhood supermarket.

Emergency food supplies should be a priority for you and your family -- keep them in your home and your car.

Ready Reserve processes only foods grown in the United States. They have over 100 different food items with nutritionally balanced meals -- no added sugar. They use only double-enamel lined steel cans with inert nitrogen for a shelf life of 15-20 years. (Cool basement and closets are best).

The catastrophe you are planning for may be strictly personal. The site contains a testimonial from a man who bought one of their plans for emergencies. Shortly thereafter, he was injured in a car accident and so couldn't work for some months. After his fresh food ran out, he began opening the cans of survival food.

Financial planners advise us to keep a fund of emergency cash to cover three to six months' worth of expenses. They should also start telling people to buy and store that much in emergency food kits.

If you keep their survival food kits for fifteen years and still haven't used them, just start eating them -- saving you a lot of money then, and buy a fresh supply.

Ready Reserve has been operating, by the same family, since 1972. In addition to supplying ordinary Americans, they provide dried and dehydrated food to the U.S. government and the U.S. military.

The best value is the one year supply for a family of four. This not only includes rice, red wheat berries and instant nonfat milk, but sprouts and a sprouting tray.

Just the two of you? There's a package of food for a year for two people. And a year's supply for one person. Six months. And three months.

The one month supply for one person is great for people in apartments with limited storage space. Include it in your cabin, RV or camper.

They also carry a 3-person, 72 hour complete survival kit. This includes their emergency food rations, and emergency survival supplies such as 1 portable water filter, 1 bottle water purification tablets, 1 5-gallon water container, 1 first aid kit, 1 sewing kit, 4 emergency blankets, 1 portable stove, 1 package. stable fuel squares, 2 boxes water resistant matches, 1-4 person cooking kit, 4 eating utensil sets, 2-50 hour safety candles, 1 whistle, 1 can opener, and 1 emergency flashlight.

They also carry survival food tablets which they say are easier and better than replacement food bars. 180 tablets are in one bottle which is designed to fit into a military canteen. They contain full 100% USRDA of 15 essential vitamins and minerals, protein, carbohydrates, dextrose and lactose. Plus essential fatty acids.

These tablets have a shelf life of ten years. Obviously, they're not as satisfying as a meal or even a meal replacement bar -- but they'll provide adequate nutrition in an emergency. If you're forced to go by foot, you can carry a lot more of these bottles than you can #10 steel cans of food.

We don't know what's going to happen in the future, and that's why we need a survival food supply stored away to survive through all disasters.