Survival Food List Choices

Choices For Your Emergency Survival Food List

No matter which types of survival foods you choose to purchase or grow for your emergency food supply... GET STARED so that you HAVE a food supply ready when you need it.

Choose from one, several, or all of the different types of survival foods listed below.

Each option outlines the advantages, and disadvantages, some will fit into your personal lifestyle better than others.

On This Page:

1. Grocery Store Foods

2. MRE’s (Meals ready to Eat)

3. Freeze Dried/Dehydrated Meals

4. Grow Your Own Food Garden

5. Emergency Food and Supply Stores

Our Survival Items Page gives a detailed list of survival food along with other important emergency supplies that you may need.

1. Grocery Store Foods: survival food list

Commercial grocery store goods - canned foods, boxed foods, grains, and bottled water, (recommended by many government agencies) for your shorter-term emergency survival food list.

This choice actively requires storing and maintaining a "inventory cycle" of these commercial goods: As you buy new food you use up the old food, so that the product is not stored beyond the expiration date.

• If done ahead, easy and convenient for short term emergencies.
• Can be done in a few hours or less for a 72-hour up-to 1 month emergency food reserve.

• Must be stored properly or the nutrition value will be next-to-useless when it is needed.
• Have to rotate and check the expiration dates on canned goods and check grains for mold infestations, rodent invasions, etc.
• Canned foods are bulky and heavy, space is often limited. Many people will not be able to store much.
• Grains need a lot of water to cook and water may be unavailable or scarce in a disaster.
• Mostly bland in taste, not a lot of flavor or nutritional value.

2. MRE’s (Meals ready to Eat): survival food list

Advantages:

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• Easy to store and lasts up to 5-7 years in a cool dry place.
• Easiest and fastest preparation time possible and can be heated fast with “MRE heaters”
• Can be ordered online in minutes, and delivered to your house. Doesn't take much time to store it.

Disadvantages:

• Relatively expensive per meal.
• For extended reserve of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year, a lot of space required to store.
• Tastes similar to canned food in flavor.

3. Freeze Dried/Dehydrated Meals: survival food list

• Easy to store and can last up to 30 years.
• Fast simple preparation just add water. Requires only water that is needed to hydrate the food, (much less than cooking).
• Freeze dried foods, because of the process, retain very close to the original amount of nutritional value as fresh foods.
• Once hydrated, freeze dried food taste is very close to original food taste.
• Light weight, easy to store large quantities of food for reserves of 6 weeks, 3 months, or a year.
• A 6 week food reserve can fit under a bed.
• Can be ordered online in minutes, and delivered to your house. Takes less than 30 minutes to store it.
• Good economical choice - cost per meal can be the same or less than your average home cooked meal.

Disadvantages: (one ?)

• Must learn to budget your money to purchase a supply.

As you can see there are a lot of benefits to adding Freeze Dried Foods to your survival food list over the other options. Thus making it the superior emergency food choice from the "prepared" survival foods list above.

4. Grow Your Own Food Garden: survival food list

Growing your own food is a completely different method of adding to your survival food list, than the commercial survival foods above.

It is the most nutritious and self sustaining option. If you have the means to grow a survival garden, it can improve your self sustainability greatly, and can be very rewarding mentally and physically.

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Recommended List of GROCERY STORE
Survival Foods:

Note: sodium (salt) makes you thirsty - try to choose low-sodium products

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• Bottled Water
  
• Canned juice
  
• Canned or Boxed Milk
  
• Canned Fruits and Vegetables
  
• Canned Beans: Pinto, Black...
  
• Canned Chili
  
• Fruit Cocktail
  
• Peanut Butter and Jelly
  
• Canned Pasta or Spaghetti
  
• Crackers (low-sodium)
  
• Canned Meats and Fish:
  Chicken
  Turkey
  Tuna
  Salmon
  
• Peanut Butter
  
• Rice & Grains
  
• Soups (low-sodium)
  
• Dried Fruits
  
• Protein Drinks
  
• Granola/Energy Bars
  
• Cereal (Cream of Wheat, etc)
  
• Oatmeal
  
• Sugar
  
• Honey (there will be a shortage)
  
• Molasses (Excellent source of B vitamins)
  
• Nuts (unsalted, preferably)
  
• Cookies, Hard Candy
  
• Instant Coffee - Best (coffee beans can go rancid, ground requires electricity)
  
• Tea Bags/Boxes of Tea
  
• Ketchup (Lasts forever)
  
• Mayonnaise (Lasts well in a cool place)
  
• Cooking Oil (olive is best won't go rancid)
  
• Vinegar: White Distilled - cooking, preserving, first-aid, cleaning

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