Survival Food - Freeze Dried & MRE

This blog provides news and information on food preparedness for survival in the event of a natural disaster where food is not easily available for more than 72 hours.

Some emergency situations such as epidemics may require 6 weeks to 3 months of reserve food supply for an individual or family.

The lesson of Hurricane Katrina is that you can not put your hope in the government to provide adequate support in a timely fashion. In extreme cases it is even unrealistic to expect any relief organization to be able to provide needed support to everyone within 24 hours.

Preparedness is an investment and the advice of storing a supply of dry grains and can goods and replenishing them every 2-3 years is a recipe for disaster as most do not have the time or diligence to manage this kind of an inventory process carefully.

Basically most people will forget. They will have rancid food when they need it or even nothing because they did not remember to buy the replacement survival food when they threw the old food out.

Stored under right conditions MRE (meals ready to eat) like what the military uses can last 6-7 years or more.

Freeze dried food, which needs water to re-hydrate, can last up to 30 years. A 3 month supply can easily be stored in homes in a relatively small space.

Although the up-front cost of a 6 week or 3 month survival food supply for you or your family may seem more, it definitely will be a much better value.

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