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Ice cream? No?! Okay. Rice, dried bread, dried meat, dried fish, can food and potatoes that can be used to get more potatoes... Need food that does not need much preparations and food that needs some cooking. For dried food there is Danish company selling products so you can make your own beef jerky. Guess there are tons of these products in US as well... Btw, my wife has started to ask me why I look and read so much on certain food products in stores (food we normally do not eat) :D
 
Cant beat a home made meal boys
Mmmmm, haggis... it will fill your tummy right up! :eek: LOL
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Well, from its looks... the inventor of haggis must have been one hungry person.... or they lost one hell of a bet!

Hey are you familiar with the most expensive coffee in the world? Kopi Luwak otherwise known as Civet Coffee. It goes for 45 bucks for 4 oz. on Amazon. Now I want to know who was desperate enough for coffee to brew that first cup!!!!!
 
Whoah no way, they sell in in NYC for like... 40 bucks a cup, and you need to make an appointment. Did you taste it? I want to know if it taste good or taste like &*^%. Pun intended :)
 
I am so glad I don't drink coffee. But would it be that different from an egg? Just thinking.

Norwegian, Bravery is right. Try to store what your family already eats. An emergency situation is definitely not the time to change the menu around to unfamiliar foods, especially with kids. If you or your wife don't cook from scratch, you might want to learn, it will make storing food easier. I know that sounds odd because you can buy ready made whatever, but if you have the ingredients, you can make whatever it is you want and you don't have the added chemicals and crap that is put into a lot of convenience foods.

Let them start trying new foods now so they get used to them.
 
And Mike, I love a good homemade meal! Except it's usually me making it, lol. My girls did cook for me last night though.
 
For the most part, you should be storing only the foods you like to eat. "Store what you eat, and eat what you store."
Maybe I struggle to understand all of this. As earlier mentioned I'm quiet green...
But I think there are two sides. For me I like to store food (likely to be eatable) for 10-12 months after I bought it. Then throw it and another round start. So my family and I will have something to eat for some days, even weeks, in case a disaster happens without any warning.
Secondly we need something to eat after we can leave (or stay) in our home. Either by gardening and make the food ourselves or if things are not so bad, we can buy. The plan is not to leave. Understand that we might have to.
But I starting with the first part and of course try to learn and understand more (much more :)).
Both my wife and I can cook and we can make food from fire or by using gas. But we do not know how to survive if we have to leave, not yet anyway
 
I think I understand what you are saying and I'm going to address several things you posted.

1. You like to keep foods for 10-12 months that your family likes to eat and then you throw it out and start over. To be honest I'm not sure what foods you keep in your pantry, but most canned, jarred or tinned foods stay good well beyond their expiration dates, so you don't need to worry about it going bad and making your family sick.

The easiest way that I have found to build up your food supply is to make a menu of foods that you and your family like to eat, then when you go to the market just pick up a little extra that can be put on your shelves. For example, if your child likes canned ravioli, instead of buying 1 can, buy 3 each time you go to the store. Just buy extra to have on hand, that way it's not a huge expense all at once.


2. You are right in the fact that you need to have seed enough to plant a garden. If you already know what grows well in your climate or if you have a garden already, then try to find heirloom varieties of those vegetables and fruits. With the heirloom produce, you can keep seed from your harvest to grow during the next season.

3. Like you, I do not plan to leave my home unless I absolutely must. Dehydrated foods are lighter to carry and you can pack more food into small spaces with it. However with dehydrated foods, you must have enough water to rehydrate the food to eat. Which means storing extra water in addition to your drinking water, unless you have an adequate water source you can depend on.

4. It's good that you and your wife both cook. Now is the time to start familiarizing your family to longer term storage foods such as oats, rice, and beans to name a few. Learning many ways to cook the same ingredients will come in useful to battle something called appetite fatigue, which is when even though you have food, you choose not to eat because it's something you're tired of. You see this a lot in the elderly who just seem to nibble at their food.

5. Are you asking about building shelters, hunting, and defense tactics? There are plenty of people on this forum that can help you out as well as suggest other sources of information.

I don't know if you and your family go camping, but that is a good starting point.
 
@old_anorak. Thanks for a very good and helpful reply. The points above clarifies a lot. Understand those questions I have probably are discussed years back for you guys in here.
Apology for short comments. Are busy today.

Point 1: agree, know that most canned food can be stored longer than their expiration date. I just wanted a process easy to remember. Now I might expand with some months. Perfect!!
Need to check much more on what I can buy that we eat today and can be stored for a good while.
Point 2: This is something I feel we can manage pretty good since I come from a farm (way back so I might be a bit rusty...).
Point 3: Also a point I think we will manage pretty good. Just need to find space in our basement.
Point 4: Good point. Will do.
Point 5: So far no. We live kind of outside the most dangerous place if the sorst should happen. Kind of relate to our basement. Maybe I need to re-think this, but right now I feel there are so much more I need to do and understand.
Yep, we go camping and have lots of equiment already.

Really happy I found this forum. I will be around a lot. But now I need to prepare for my kids birthday (twins). Lots of prepping needed :D
 

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