Emergency Family Food Storage

Don't get caught unprepared, make sure your family's future is secure!  Nothing is more precious or valuable than your family and your families futures.  Make sure that you are securing your families future in all areas including preparing for emergencies. Preparing for emergencies includes having emergency food storage on hand on hand in the event that you are unable to purchase food for any reason. Food shortages could be due to any number of emergencies, including disasters that make it impossible for trucks to bring the food to your community.  Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) are springing up around the country to help prepare communities to handle medical emergencies when medical personal and medical transportation are unavailable during the first days of a community disaster.  Having your owner personal emergency preparedness supplies will help insure that your family is taken care of and provide possible surplus to help out the community. Emergency preparedness supplies are an important part of your over all emergency preparedness plans.  When an emergency, strikes our time to plan is over. We want to help you find the most important emergency preparedness information to help you with your gather emergency prepared supplies and emergency food storage prior to that big emergency looming in the future.

Why Are Food Prices Rising?

Prices are rising and supplies are tightening, for a number of reasons. We are seeing food prices increasing at their highest rate in years. The price of food is subject to the cost of production and the recent concern of rising oil prices and fertilizer prices is having a big influence. The increasing price of food is moving at a faster rate than it's risen since 1990, at 4 percent in the United States. 

Costs for raw materials for fertilizer, not including oil, have themselves been increasing as demand for food increases. As we all feel the pinch at the pump with the price of oil rising, so do the costs of planting, harvesting, and delivering food. American families, who are already strapped by rising energy costs, are being hit again in their household budgets as food prices increase at the fastest rate since 1990. 

Americans are reeling from sticker shock at the pump while government scrambles to avert a fast-moving crisis before it spins out of control. Global food price hikes are becoming a crisis. These and other conditions have been referred to a "perfect storm," by United Nations World Food Program executive director Josette Sheeran recently stated.  

Energy plays its part too. Increased costs for transportation, labor and energy have driven cereal products alone up 6% in recent months. Energy costs hit us coming and going, it costs more to process food and then it costs more to move it out to the market. Energy is going to continue to get more expensive, not less. Energy costs are the largest single force driving inflation. 

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Emergency Food Storage
Emergency Preparedness Supplies - a CERT Goal

Emergency Food Storage and 72 Hour Kit

As a part of your over all preparation you need to consider the possibility of having to leave your home. As a part of that you may want to assemble a 72 hour kit containing emergency food storage and supplies that you can have ready at a moments notice. The emergency food storage should be planned and set aside especially specifically so that all you have to do is grab it and run if needed. The 72 hour kit with the emergency food storage and supplies should be able to sustain you until you are able to find appropriate food and lodging and help in an emergency. However for the first 72 hours you may be completely on your own if not longer.

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If the Food Trucks Stop Rolling? What Then?

We have assembled this quality premium one year supply for the person that doesn't want to worry about being prepared. A complete supply with freeze dried meats as well as all the vegetables, fruits and legumes one would need. Look over the contents and you will see how complete this supply is. No one has a better value for the dollar than Pro Food Storage.

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Homeland Security's National Warning

When Food Supplies Are Low

The Office of Homeland Security (OHS) warns us regarding protecting ourselves in the even food supplies are low. OHS advises,

"If activity is reduced, healthy people can survive on half their usual food intake for an extended period and without any food for many days. Food, unlike water, may be rationed safely, except for children and pregnant women."

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Emergency Food Storage Needs Ever Increasing