Best Place to buy emergency food rations

[JimH]

I want to invest in 6 months to a years worth of food stores for my family. What is the best types of foods to invest in with the longest shelf life and ease of storage? I'm struggling with all of the choices and opinions over dried verses canned. I think maybe a mix of both - dried has an appeal in case you have to pack a bunch up and flee the city.

Where can I find good honest reviews of online sources or do it yourself provisions?

Thanks.

[Roknrandy]

One of the largest and most well know is beprepared.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1288045906 you can save tons of money and do it yourself. "Eat what you store and store what you eat" is one of the more famous food storage quotes. If you don't eat spam don't buy it. Do some research on different forums about food storage and you will be surprised how easy it is.

some links to start (I'm a moderator on both)
www.emergencyhomepreparation.org
or
www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/forum/index.php

[Norma]

I have ordered from www.beprepared.com and have been very satisified. Also check out www.justpeace.org/printbudget.htm

I am a retired nurse, but did an inservice at work a couple of years ago about being prepared and printed off the Got Food portion of justpeace web site and handed it out. The best thing is to do is store what you eat and keep rotating. Hope this is helpfull.

Norma

[ThomasW]

... check out www.justpeace.org/printbudget.htm

Thanks, Norma, for posting these links.

My favorite part from the Just Peace web page you linked to is:

You can increase the health and quality of life of your family right now if you buy less prepared and packaged food and do more cooking from basic ingredients. Bonus points: you save money and people will ask, "How did you learn to cook like grandma?"