Food supply

How To Stock a Real Food Emergency Kit

Hardtack is a long-term storage food made of just a few simple ingredients. The name comes from the British slang word for food: tack. So hard tack actually means ‘hard food’ – and you’ll discover that hardtack is a very, very hard food! You can’t just bite into a piece of hardtack. You need to soak it first. If not, you could break a tooth.

This article includes a 2 week food supply list and discusses shelf stable foods and nutrition for older adults during an emergency.

Food Storage. This can be a yucky word in some households. Images of #10 cans almost 50 years old is what came to mind when I heard &qout;food storage&qout; for quite a few years! But now, I have a different opinion.Why Food Storage: We are accustomed to being able to run out the the grocery or corner store a…

If this isn’t “someday,” we don’t know what is. Make a meal out of those cans of beans you’ve been saving with any of these delicious recipes.

Two lists of foods that can be purchased at most grocery stores.

Getting started prepping and building a food stockpile is overwhelming. The best place to start is to build a two-week emergency food supply.

Starting a food stockpile may be easy if all you want is be covered for 1-2 weeks, but things get tricky if you want enough supplies to last longer. In what follows, you can download over a dozen resources related to stockpiling, canning, and root cellars. To download any of the files, right select on Link, ... Read more

As part of our April cover story on surviving anything, PopMech set up our own disaster pantry. Here's our guide to a sensible backup food supply that will sustain a family for a month.

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