How much food should have in your long-term food Cache?

The SHTF and you have so bugged or bugged out according to your plans successfully. Now what? Is this from a long-term crisis, because of war, Asteroid strike or solar flare EMP? What is long term for you ... a couple of weeks, months or years?

I suggest that there are three distinct time intervals for which you should Commons supplies:

72-hour events

Something happened while you're at work, school or stuck at home. Can be a riot, interruption of power supply or minor earthquake. You may need to use BOB's Kits, GHB or good to return home or stay at home until the crisis passes. Most people already have food and drinks at home to make it through a three-day event. Of course the food is just a supply that is necessary to survive. In winter, the heating is critical enough power, lighting, and communications are important at any time.

Most weeks events

Recently there have been several events that affect people in the United States which has influenced their lives for weeks and months at a time. Winter Blackout lasted for weeks on end and are often combined with the lack of running water, no heating and impassable roads on the outskirts. Floods and hurricanes often destroy homes, clothing, vehicles and much needed supplies like food. These events are often called for the transfer of a BOL (Bugout) where they put away supplies in advance or House several hundred kilometers of a relative willing from the area of impact.

Long-term events

The devastation of war, natural disasters and catastrophic economic collapse can make your existing home and lifestyle in nothing but a memory. Tsunami of 2004 and the flooding of New Orleans Katrina are two examples of events that leave survivors with nothing but the clothes on their backs and no choice but to relocate and start again. This migration and reconstruction can take years to complete, and many survivors will be refugees rely on others for assistance for most of their lives.

How to prepare for a long-running event? You can trust that supplies will be safe and available in your current home? You should divide your supplies through different positions to hedge against the impact of the disaster can? What you can do now to prepare for the recovery and reconstruction of your life?

Those with unlimited financial resources, you can buy bunkers and stock them with all imaginable types of supplies to last for decades. But for most people who work just get by with maybe just a paycheck or two among their current lifestyle and bankruptcy, every decision and buying to longterm preparation must be cost beneficial and the final value.

Ideally, you should have a bugout location already identified and provided with basic supplies. This could be a vacation property, farm family or the House of a relative. Bare minimum for deliveries a bugout are food and water to support the number of people and the length of time it takes.

For a family of four in a year's time, it will be a lot of food and water. You can buy and put away that amount of food, but it is expensive and really takes some space to store. Can live off stored food indefinitely? Of course, you can't. If the infrastructure that enables you to capture food is broken or unavailable to you, how you feed him yourself?

Well, we can look at the nineteenth century for the solution. Small scale breeding and animal conservation will post SHTF lifestyle.

If you are to your BOL for over a year and committed for the foreseeable future in that position, then gardening and agriculture should become new employment. A few hectares of land capable of producing a large amount of food. You must plant a variety of foods to take advantage of seasonality and nutrition.

Now if you start farming and breeding animals during the year of your new life, there will be no food product until the following year. If there is severe weather, floods or diseases you could lose most of that year's production.

You must prepare to live off of your food cache for at least two years to give your new agriculture and Ranching efforts can bear fruit. The first year is only cache to get over the initial devastation of long duration and the second year is to feed you while you're busy, transforming your BOL into a self-sufficient farm.

What should go in your cache of two years? It turns out that an adult needs of over 2,000 calories per day to maintain their current weight and health. If you are active during the day, you should really double the requirement.

How calories equate to volumes of food that you can buy by the pound or gallon? Well, it varies depending on the type of food, but generally a portion as documented on food packaging is about 250 calories. That would be the middle and two cups of rice, or a cup of beans, or a can of chili. Each of these portions is about one pound of weight after preparation.

Here is a calculator of good food storage provided by LDS:

http://LDS.about.com/library/BL/FAQ/blcalculator.htm

As you can see, a single adult requires about five hundred 500 kilos of food varies every year. If we focus equally on white rice, pinto beans, rolled oats and canned meat, you should have the right mix of staples food to survive.

In order to add some variety and integrate taking request for nutrients and minerals, should also include a case of real maple syrup, honey internal halls (not from China), iodised salt, black pepper, assorted spices and mixtures of powdered drinks.

This cache food must be purchased and stored at the BOL ahead of time. Most elements that suggest they close at indefinite storage, if kept cool, dry and hermetically sealed. Rice and pinto beans will last for decades, while honey and salt were discovered to last for thousands of years.

You can integrate your food staples and nitrogen packed with freeze-dried foods that come in various flavors and meals. These are often more expensive than pins in bulk, but it could be worth to you providing some benefits for mental and emotional health. Macaroni and cheese or tuna casserole is great comfort food that your family can enjoy while settling in their new life.

Since a lot of 1 one kilo of rice or a can of chili peppers seem to go for about $ 1.00 nowadays, it is reasonable to estimate that the cost per person per year will be about $ 500.00. If you watch for sales and purchase in bulk, should be able to come through that in as much as the 25% or more.

You don't have to buy all the food at once! To get into a routine of double purchase when you go to the grocery store every week. Look for sales and special offers and buy then. If you keep at it, you'll be surprised how soon will have 6 six months or even one year stored already!

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