With the exception of water, Emergency food storage might be the most important part of preparing for an emergency or disaster. Some might even say more important than water because of how easily our food supply line can be cut off and how far food has to travel in today’s world to reach our table.

Most of us in the United States have never gone more than 24 hours without food and have no idea how it will affect them. Although we can survive without food for a few weeks, it will be our main priority long before that. So lets go over some emergency food storage ideas and options.

If the average person were to walk into your home and see a Legacy food bucket they would probably make some wild assumptions right off the bat. But when you think about it, other than the shelf life and quantity, how different is long term food storage food than a box of hamburger helper?

Emergency long term food storage, water storage and preparedness in general is nothing more than insurance for the future. What concerns me the most is not a nuclear bomb landing in my back yard, it’s our electrical grids vulnerability’s, economic instability and basic supply and demand.

Having a large supply of long term food storage food during the great depression would have been more valuable than gold. If you were going through a “personal doomsday” it would be a godsend as well.

Imagine you or someone in your family had lost their job for an extended period of time, with money being tight it would be a daily juggling act to pay the bills and buy food for the family. If you had a six month supply of dehydrated food that wouldn’t be such a huge hurdle, and would alleviate some of the stress you might be facing.

Imaging there was a natural disaster like an earthquake, or a hurricane like Katrina. If you had a few weeks of food stored that’s one less thing you have to worry about, and could literally be the difference between life and death.

My point is that long term food storage is not all about doomsday and does not make you a “doomsdayer.” Everyone is different and storing food for emergencies is just the smart thing to do. Some people store as little as a months’ worth of food, and some people store year’s worth, it’s really up to you what you decide to do.

Emergency Food Storage Ideas…

How you choose to put together your food storage game plan is completely up to you. Below are the 5 most common techniques for emergency food storage.

Pantry Food

When it comes to food storage it doesn’t just mean having long term food storage buckets and freeze dried foods, food storage starts with what you stock your pantry with. You have no doubt heard the saying “eat what you store, and store what you eat” and this all starts with pantry foods.

This can be more cost effective than making a large purchase bec...