How much food can you store for survival?3

[Xampeuu]

I was think about storing emergency supplies for 2 people.

How affordable is it to store enough food and water for myself and my wife.

A few years ago hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey hard and the shelfs were bare.

Pandemic came and lots of shortages.

So could I reasonable store 30 days of food and water for my wife and I.

How much space?
How much food ?
 how much water?

propane?

I am a diabetic so I use high protein and fat low carb diet.

30 days means
30 cans of chicken
10 cans of tomatoes
10 cans of chickpeas
10 cans of cannaelli beans

10 pounds of roasted peanuts
 5 pounds of walnuts
5 pounds of almonds

a bottle of multi vitamins

and 100 ½ liter bottles of water
a dozen cans of peaches
a dozen cans of pears
some parmalot as it keeps
some cereal

The above should do the trick for my wife and I. For maybe 45 days.

I can afford to have the above list I am thinking a lot of people can’t.

So how exposed are people to a solid disaster.




No fresh meat
No dairy since refrigerated goods may be gone.


I would think most of the world is a short time away from real food issues if food shopping is shut down.

your thoughts and ideas are welcome.

during a pandemic, stocks of food ingredients that we need are really needed to meet our daily needs, I think it's very good to make stock for at least the next 30 days, so that we can still think about being able to look for stock the following month due to food shortages. and of course we must start to learn to look for alternative food nutrients that can meet the body's needs, so that if one is difficult to find, then we can still meet our nutritional needs every day

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[Sebas.tian]

I would think most of the world is a short time away from real food issues if food shopping is shut down.

your thoughts and ideas are welcome.

I don't think, such thing will ever happen to the world for all the food shopping shut down because many people will find it difficult to cope at the moment because of the nature of their job which they will not have the time to go to the market to buy food stuff and other things from the market. People prefer to save money to buy any kind of food from ShopRite because no matter the huge amount of food you store in your house, time will come you will be hungry of something that is not inside the house, and if you don't have the money at the moment you can't get it to solve the issue. I don't have any amount of food I can store for survival because I don't spend much time at home because of the nature of my job.

[el kaka22]

I still can't believe some people are like this, there is really no reason for this and we do not need to end up with anything that is better. I hope that it gets to a point where it is better and we reach to a level where we can talk about how great this is but most of the time we probably won't.

I just hope that people could realize the magnificent of this situation and realize that what they are talking about is not that easy, it's a bit harder to handle. So just give up on the whole food thing, and just buy as much as you need for the moment and eat like that. I can honestly tell you that if I do not buy any food anymore, I can survive probably like 48 hours to 72 hours at most, that's the max I can survive, because that's the longest I plan.

[KiaKia]

People who doesn't have enough money will bought many high carbohydrate foods since it's cheap and would make your stomach full without thinking the nutrition, vitamins etc. They will bought dozen bags of white rice, dozen carton of spaghetti, ramen or noodle.

In my countries it's completely safe and doesn't have many threat of natural disasters, so I didn't think to store many foods for survival.

I think you're forgot to bought a honey jar and low fat milk or almond milk since you have cereal.

Pretty close to how things are running in my country too, I normal like buying foods at home and it serves two people for six months, the most costly one is rice and beans, the reason why I choose to do this is because of investment, after doing this, I have 6 months to restock food at home, that's enough time to start buying Bitcoin for long term hold, only emergencies will interfere with my plan and so far since last year there hasn't been any emergencies, carbohydrate foods are the most common here, fruits are other options I use on daily bases to make sure I am healthy.

I learnt this from my parent, they said it helped them when they are struggling, that's before I was born, sometimes their business will go up and sometimes down, so storing of food at home is helpful and less worrying to run the family..

[WatChe]

I don't think, such thing will ever happen to the world for all the food shopping shut down because many people will find it difficult to cope at the moment because of the nature of their job which they will not have the time to go to the market to buy food stuff and other things from the market. People prefer to save money to buy any kind of food from ShopRite because no matter the huge amount of food you store in your house, time will come you will be hungry of something that is not inside the house, and if you don't have the money at the moment you can't get it to solve the issue. I don't have any amount of food I can store for survival because I don't spend much time at home because of the nature of my job.

The world ha learned a lot from covid19 and there is no need to stock so much food in case there is any new pandemic. During Covid19 the biggest lesson learned and which is still in practise is that home delivery services are as good as you go and buy yourself. There are regions which have more poverty then rest of world like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh - majority of people living there don't have much resources or money to stock food for even 7 days. I wish and pray that we dont have any more pandemic in near future.

[Juse14]

The thing my parents always said to me was "If you don't have any money saved at least you should have food supplies"
If I break it down a little. Savings are indeed very necessary to answer problems that occur in the future as well as food supplies which are very important in case you run out of food later. For example; Farmers save food supplies in case of later crop failure.

For me personally, apart from saving, I also always prepare food supplies. Because the staple food at my place is rice, I always store it in unhulled form so that it can last a long time with supplies for three people, namely 200 kg of unhusked rice/rice which is expected to be used to survive for 4 months. As for side dishes such as sardines, canned meat and others, I personally don't really care about them because I raise a number of livestock such as chickens and ducks and they can be used as side dishes.

[wmaurik]

That is a good plan for the upcoming pandemic or even a natural calamity. Even me i would do the same because we never know when will be the next calamity or pandemic will occur. Based on your plan I think 30 days stocking would be good enough to sustain your needs  in times of calamities. We really must think and plan ahead of time before something serious calamity might occur.

The problem is that everyone doesn't know when the next natural disaster will come, because nature never gives an alarm when it wants to show disaster to everyone. However, I also think that it is wise to make food stocks once a month because that is the ideal duration of stocks for everyone and it's also not that long before we make more new food stocks in the next month. Because making food stocks is not solely for the purpose of natural disasters, but more for saving in the lives of each of us.

[Hamphser]

That is a good plan for the upcoming pandemic or even a natural calamity. Even me i would do the same because we never know when will be the next calamity or pandemic will occur. Based on your plan I think 30 days stocking would be good enough to sustain your needs  in times of calamities. We really must think and plan ahead of time before something serious calamity might occur.

The problem is that everyone doesn't know when the next natural disaster will come, because nature never gives an alarm when it wants to show disaster to everyone. However, I also think that it is wise to make food stocks once a month because that is the ideal duration of stocks for everyone and it's also not that long before we make more new food stocks in the next month. Because making food stocks is not solely for the purpose of natural disasters, but more for saving in the lives of each of us.

One of the things on why people would caught unprepared because there's no way that we could be able to predict on what would happen or when the next disaster would happen. Just like on the situation that we do

have on covid pandemic but somewhat we could still be able to buy goods and other things which is essential to our daily survival but on the time we do speak about natural disasters on which this is something that
do talks about having no electricity then it would be having no sense on storing up raw foods or something that could spoil out on which it is really that common sense that you would really be going
after with those canned goods and of course we would really be mainly needing water for us to survive. Basing up on the list given on OP then it would really be just that neough or even too much for 2 people for a whole month.

This is why number or quantities would really be entirely be basing up on the number of people or family members.I cant just fathom about having no electricity on 1-2 days. How much more if months?

[CryptoHFs]

I was think about storing emergency supplies for 2 people.

How affordable is it to store enough food and water for myself and my wife.

A few years ago hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey hard and the shelfs were bare.

Pandemic came and lots of shortages.

So could I reasonable store 30 days of food and water for my wife and I.

How much space?
How much food ?
 how much water?

propane?

I am a diabetic so I use high protein and fat low carb diet.

30 days means
30 cans of chicken
10 cans of tomatoes
10 cans of chickpeas
10 cans of cannaelli beans

10 pounds of roasted peanuts
 5 pounds of walnuts
5 pounds of almonds

a bottle of multi vitamins

and 100 ½ liter bottles of water
a dozen cans of peaches
a dozen cans of pears
some parmalot as it keeps
some cereal

The above should do the trick for my wife and I. For maybe 45 days.

I can afford to have the above list I am thinking a lot of people can’t.

So how exposed are people to a solid disaster.




No fresh meat
No dairy since refrigerated goods may be gone.


I would think most of the world is a short time away from real food issues if food shopping is shut down.

your thoughts and ideas are welcome.

Well I don't know what is that canned chicken but it may taste bad what is for me would be

30 cans of tuna [spicy and non] lunch
30 cans of black beans [different flavors] breakfast
30 cans which consists of a mix between chickpeas, sweet corn, red beans] dinner
60 bottle of water each 1.5 liter
Couple of snacks and juice powders to mix with the water

Also you can buy some Russian military food as it tastes better than the American one

Pro tip from time to time go to the store and exchange your items with better expiry date ones

[franky1]

surviving on chicken and tomato's for 30 days means you will be in food boredom after a week. and literally h-angry at the lack of choice. so h-angry that your survival time may be reduced purely by fighting in the relationship

be more diverse. there are other tinned vegetables. also you can get some gravy powders and other condiments to diversify a meals taste.

even some basic herbs can help make chicken taste different from one meal to the next. note there are other tinned meats too

[Unbunplease]

All you need to survive is a three-month supply of cereals, seeds, a supply of water or wherever you can get it. Some people advise chicken, but it is very problematic to have it in an urban setting. But you have to consider that there will be crowds of hungry people around who have not had time to make any supplies

[usekevin]

Food is essential one of the people, which includes the poor and rich people.So both earn money for their food, they also save money and food item.Mostly they save some reserve for the meat,tomato and some bread.Because we already face the big food crisis period of Covid 19.Even a rich people why it's essential to hold some food reserve to hold for pandemic situation.The economy itself depend on the food for the growth and fall in GDP.It's essential to hold some money for the future to get help during the pandemic situation like Covid.

[arimamib]

Wow this seems too interesting. So for me I will keep maybe 10 sacks of rice and canned protein fish and some vegetables and don't forget to stock up on lots of snacks and everything I might buy to deal with events whether it's a new pandemic or something else be it war.

But yes, I see that in the Covid19 era, in some countries they could survive well with sufficient food, for example, they had vegetables that they planted and were also equipped with food deliveries from their neighbors.

For that I do not expect strange things to happen to us in the future. However, we must always be alert to anything and the most important thing is that we save an emergency fund for us to use if anything happens in the future.

[chrisculanag]

Because I'm here in the province, I'm not affected by hunger too much, the vegetable crops and a little sardines, noodles are enough for my family to survive the daily food.We know that government support food is not enough due to lack of resources. So we should know how to plant vegetables in our yard that we can benefit from if the pandemic happens again.

[DeathAngel]

I saw the film 10 Cloverfield Land, if anybody has seen it you will have some ideas. To store food for an emergency, focus on non-perishable items with long shelf lives such as canned goods, dried fruits, nuts, and grains.

Go for foods that require minimal preparation and have high nutritional value. Store them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Rotate your stock regularly to ensure freshness. Consider vacuum sealed packaging or using food grade storage containers to extend shelf life. Store a shit tonne of clean water and include a manual can opener in your emergency supply kit.

[wmaurik]

Because I'm here in the province, I'm not affected by hunger too much, the vegetable crops and a little sardines, noodles are enough for my family to survive the daily food.We know that government support food is not enough due to lack of resources. So we should know how to plant vegetables in our yard that we can benefit from if the pandemic happens again.

It will be even better if you have land near your house for you to use in terms of growing nutritious fruits and also you can make money from it besides being able to consume it for your own family. Because that is also included in very good preparation for you and also for everyone who wants to do it in case of a pandemic. In addition, the results of nature are also very good resources for every human being so you also need to think about that besides thinking about planting vegetables in front of your house if the land is enough for that.

[flyingcarpet]

Because I'm here in the province, I'm not affected by hunger too much, the vegetable crops and a little sardines, noodles are enough for my family to survive the daily food.We know that government support food is not enough due to lack of resources. So we should know how to plant vegetables in our yard that we can benefit from if the pandemic happens again.

It will be even better if you have land near your house for you to use in terms of growing nutritious fruits and also you can make money from it besides being able to consume it for your own family. Because that is also included in very good preparation for you and also for everyone who wants to do it in case of a pandemic. In addition, the results of nature are also very good resources for every human being so you also need to think about that besides thinking about planting vegetables in front of your house if the land is enough for that.

If you have land, you have the chance to grow many vegetables. If you don't know how to grow vegetables, you can use YouTube.

If you don't have land, it is usually easier to store legumes. This is what I did during the pandemic. They have a long storage life and are filling.

It is also necessary to increase the variety. Eating the same food all the time is not healthy. I hope we do not experience such difficult situations, but we need to think about everything. Perhaps there will be undesirable events such as looting. For this, we have to think as if we will never reach the markets.

[mvdheuvel1983]

If you have land, you have the chance to grow many vegetables. If you don't know how to grow vegetables, you can use YouTube.

YouTube is a valuable resource for those who don't know how to grow vegetables. Even without a land, an individual can still grow vegetables in an old bathtub, a bucket or a crate. The person do not need any too fancy, just with the right soil type, you are good to go.

If you don't have land, it is usually easier to store legumes. This is what I did during the pandemic. They have a long storage life and are filling.

Agree with this point. Legumes and grains have long shelf life but depends on how it is package and where it is stored. A Ziploc bag is great for packaging legumes and grains. And they should of course be stored in a cool dry place without insects.

Before storing anything for survival what is important than all is ensuring that the storage place has zero rodents, insects and moisture. Proper fumigation should be done.

[leonair]

I do not imagine that any ordinary person is able to store enough food for more than two or three months at the latest, unless he has enough storage machines for longer periods. In the past, people have devised practical ways to store food for long periods, but this is not available to everyone, and if circumstances require a person to secure his food needs for a long period, I do not think he will survive for longer than a month or two.

Food is a kind of raw material so it is not possible to store it for a long time.  So it is foolish to think that one can store food for 5-6 months, but some products can be stored for a long time by freezing, like meat, fish, but vegetables are not possible. No one can store food for more than 1-2 months because of financial problems.  It is possible for some rich people but it is very difficult for some middle class or poor families like mine to store more then 1 week of food.

[nara1892]

In the country where I live, I recently received a warning from the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency that some areas would experience drought in certain areas. Now, based on the supplies that you are doing, this reminds me to do the same thing where every time we experience a long drought, clean water will be hard to find. Even though our area is tropical, the presence of factories has resulted in depleting water resources. Apart from preparing clean water from now on using large barrels and traditional wells, food supplies must also be carried out, bearing in mind that usually when the climate starts to change, staple food items are also affected, especially as drink prices have increased drastically. One of the most important supplies is to buy more liquid-containing foods such as watermelons, strawberries, melons, pineapples, oranges, etc. Because after all, when the weather is hot, food with 20% fluid intake is important to keep it from getting dehydrated easily.