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<blockquote data-quote="amcardon" data-source="post: 2099733" data-attributes="member: 26766"><p>I'm a fan of the freeze dried meals - lightweight and don't take up much room. They also taste pretty decent if you're hungry and retain a sufficient amount of nutrition. Our 96-hour kits have freeze dried meals for our family of 5, and we have another dozen or so not in the kits as well as 4 of the "buckets" of freeze dried meals. Other than that we also keep/rotate canned goods as well as #10 cans of wheat, beans, rice, and sugar. </p><p></p><p>For stored food, if you didn't have electricity, do you have a consistent way to cook it? To grind grains if needed? Would you rather store grain that if not stored properly could spoil, and that you'll potentially have to grind by hand, or would you rather store freeze-dried food and water with a guaranteed way to heat it? How much storage room do you have? Do you want to store in large containers such as 5 gallon buckets that you need to use once opened, or smaller containers that will take up more room but also allow less opportunity for spoilage? Lots of variables and options, and just as many companies dedicated to quality long term food storage. Besides the LDS (Mormon) Storehouse, <a href="http://honeyvillegrain.com/index.html" target="_blank">Honeyville Grain</a> is another excellent (online) place to check out for bulk orders. </p><p></p><p>A quick anecdote, I grew up in OR and in 96 we had a crazy rainstorm/flood and then a major cold front came in and froze everything solid. I lived in a town of about 7000 people and we were in the outskirts, surrounded by pear and apple orchards; we didn't have power for almost 2 weeks but my parents always tried to maintain a significant food storage, as well as enough wood for 2 winters, so we stayed warm and fed. Many of our neighbors, on the other hand, had no heat and the little food they had on hand didn't last long. We took in multiple families and had plenty to care for much more than just my family (I'm the 5th of 9 kids by the way). Needless to say, those families were extremely grateful for my parent's "prepping" and generosity. You'd think that after a situation like that they all would have prepped for future incidents, but I don't think any of them did...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amcardon, post: 2099733, member: 26766"] I'm a fan of the freeze dried meals - lightweight and don't take up much room. They also taste pretty decent if you're hungry and retain a sufficient amount of nutrition. Our 96-hour kits have freeze dried meals for our family of 5, and we have another dozen or so not in the kits as well as 4 of the "buckets" of freeze dried meals. Other than that we also keep/rotate canned goods as well as #10 cans of wheat, beans, rice, and sugar. For stored food, if you didn't have electricity, do you have a consistent way to cook it? To grind grains if needed? Would you rather store grain that if not stored properly could spoil, and that you'll potentially have to grind by hand, or would you rather store freeze-dried food and water with a guaranteed way to heat it? How much storage room do you have? Do you want to store in large containers such as 5 gallon buckets that you need to use once opened, or smaller containers that will take up more room but also allow less opportunity for spoilage? Lots of variables and options, and just as many companies dedicated to quality long term food storage. Besides the LDS (Mormon) Storehouse, [URL="http://honeyvillegrain.com/index.html"]Honeyville Grain[/URL] is another excellent (online) place to check out for bulk orders. A quick anecdote, I grew up in OR and in 96 we had a crazy rainstorm/flood and then a major cold front came in and froze everything solid. I lived in a town of about 7000 people and we were in the outskirts, surrounded by pear and apple orchards; we didn't have power for almost 2 weeks but my parents always tried to maintain a significant food storage, as well as enough wood for 2 winters, so we stayed warm and fed. Many of our neighbors, on the other hand, had no heat and the little food they had on hand didn't last long. We took in multiple families and had plenty to care for much more than just my family (I'm the 5th of 9 kids by the way). Needless to say, those families were extremely grateful for my parent's "prepping" and generosity. You'd think that after a situation like that they all would have prepped for future incidents, but I don't think any of them did... [/QUOTE]
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