When thinking of emergency survival food or starting to stockpile foods, here are a few things to help you get started.

*Crucial! Is the kind of emergency food I am storing for survival the kind I would want to eat now?

*Do I want to store JUST BARELY enough food to get by on…?

*….. or do I want to have an abundance of emergency survival food.

Don’t waste precious dollars on foods you wouldn’t eat now when buying emergency foods.

There is no doubt in my mind that some of the best ways to get ready for a food shortage is to purchase some ready made food reserves packs such as the Mountain House food packs, which you can buy in various places online.

One of the biggest advantages of these food reserves is that they have a LONG shelf life so no fear of outdated foods.

*And then there is the question of…How easy is your emergency survival food to prepare?

Will you be able to prepare your food without building a fire?

*And then you need to look at …. Does purchasing it fit into your budget?

If you are living on a shoestring budget so to speak, then I would simply encourage you to buy some extra canned foods EVERY time you shop and store it in a cool dry place.

Watch for sales and stock up on those items. It is amazing how quickly it adds up!

Just make sure you rotate your canned goods. It will not be good to enter a food shortage crisis with only outdated emergency survival food on the shelves either.

In Conclusion, determine whether you only need an emergency 72 hour plan, a 6 month supply of emergency food storage, a year’s worth of food or whether you want to have an ongoing and long term plan.

The possibility of a coming food shortage in America is VERY real so just make sure you have SOME sort of preparedness plan in motion.

We highly recommend AT LEAST a 30 day supply of food stocked up and preferably a year’s worth with time.

Here are other great articles on Viola’s website on emergency-survival-food here and also find out where to find some of the best deals on Mountain House Food.