Wise Food Storage Newsletter: National Geographic Channel's Doomsday Preppers on Emergency Food

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See below for thoughts on why emergency food is so important to anyone preparing for an emergency.

Americans like to eat. Average adult male consumes 2,500 calories a day, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and we're accustomed to an abundant supply of food no matter what season. But emergency survival consultant Scott Hunt, one of the advisers on the National Geographic Channel reality show Doomsday Preppers, warns that we could go easily from feast to famine in the event of a disaster that disrupts our food system unless we're prepared.

In the TV series, Hunt and his fellow consultant David Kobler evaluate the survival preparations of various families concerned about future cataclysms. A substantial portion of Hunt's and Kobler’s checklist is devoted to emergency food storage and preparation, since maintaining a nutritious diet in trying circumstances is crucial to survival.

Read below what Hunt suggests during bad situations/events happen.

Preppers often underestimate what their nutritional needs would be in a crisis situation, where a collapse of order and shortages of electricity and/or fuel might require them to expend a lot more muscle power. That is, cutting your own wood and using hand tools and going on patrols result on needing up to 5,000 or 6,000 calories a day. Or it could be worse as making a survivor weaker and vulnerable to illness due to lack of nutritional foresight which may mean a diet low in crucial nutrients like vitamin C or protein. Conversely, it would be a much better position to deal with anything if food and water are squared away.

Have a secure, temperature-controlled storage space for food - a room in a cool cellar is ideal - since even prepackaged food lasts longer when not subjected to heat. Space is a big consideration. A year’s worth of food for a person supplying 2, 200 calories a day weighs as much as 700 pounds depending upon the type of food chosen. Dehydrated foods provide an advantage since they may only require a seventh of the space of fully constituted food.

Select foods for your emergency supply that resemble your normal diet. People forced eating the same foods continually can experience appetite fatigue, in which they eventually will prefer hunger to eating another bite of a food that they've grown tired of.

Have a kitchen that is equipped to keep functioning in emergencies. A wood stove is probably the best option because it runs on a fuel that’s renewable if you live in an area with trees. However, cooking with a wood stove may require adjustments. That is, the stove-top may not become as hot as a gas or electric range, which makes cooking with a skillet more difficult. On the plus side, the oven inside the stove can be used in a fashion similar to charcoal grill to cook vegetables and meat.

Pre-prepared, packaged stockpiles of food, such as Wise freeze-dried entrees are excellent option for prepper. Having such a supply give preppers added time to get their gardens and other food sources organized in events of long-term disruption and serve as a fallback in case of a drought or other weather disaster.

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