Food Storage for Emergencies: What to Keep on Hand
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A genuinely useful emergency food supply focuses on items that do not require refrigeration or cooking, such as canned goods, dried fruit, nuts, crackers and shelf-stable meals, enough to properly cover a household for several days without needing to shop for anything at all during that time.
Including a manual can opener in the very same storage area is genuinely easy to overlook, yet without one, even a well stocked supply of canned food becomes considerably harder to actually open and properly access during a prolonged, extended outage lasting several long days.
Rotating stored food periodically, using and properly replacing items well before they expire, keeps the whole supply genuinely fresh rather than slowly becoming a forgotten stash that turns out to be unusable exactly when it is genuinely needed the very most, days into an outage.
Considering any household members with specific dietary needs or allergies when building this supply ensures everyone in the home is genuinely covered, not merely catered for in broad, general terms that overlook everyone's real, individual dietary needs, allergies and long-standing personal food preferences at the table.