survival stock

By admin, April 19, 2007 11:01 am

survival stock

Many parents are saying, "I simply can not afford food stocks at this time."

Unfortunately, many People are barely surviving and struggling to make ends meet for the storage of food appears to be out of the question when the electricity bill must be paid and fuel put into the car. But in the back of our minds, there is this nagging fear that all the talk of a shortage of food from actually going to spend a day and we will not be able to feed our families.

Here are some simple tips to help you get a small food storage began to his family. I know it works because we have done, whereas with a monthly income of $ 1000 as a family of six!

We all go shopping, and is in a Wal-Mart (my all time favorite grocery store!) or a regular grocery store. And I dare say that most of us love sales. Me I like to shop sales, so here is what I enjoy doing.
Allow same nine fifty-five dollars to go to the list of food stocks every week. That does not seem like much, but what will happen is that as you start building your emergency food supply, you will find other ways to add to it.

Be careful inventory of the only things that have a long useful life, and things that are widely used. A lot of people are really worried about her getting outdated food, but you really do not have to worry about that. If you have a food storage is very good in about a year, can begin to rotate objects. (for most of us with families, it is rare that food remains stored for more than a few months anyway!) If your family is rarely used stewed tomatoes, then for goodness sake, not of value not only because there is a very good sale on them!

For example, if you use a ton of tomato sauce and salsa Tomato is on sale a week, supplies $ 5 – $ 10 tomato sauce. Next week, can be salt. Get $ 5 – Value of $ 10 of salt.

As you build your arsenal of foods, try to stick to plastic containers or metal bottles. It seems that almost everything is plastic these days anyway, but if you have a choice, choose plastic and so, if you ever have to move around quickly, you will not have to worry about breaking glass jars, etc.

I know, you can not get pickles in plastic … yet. (And I'm sure my pickles …)

But you get the idea. What will happen, and has happened to many others, is that when you start your emergency food storage in small ways that you can, you'd be surprised how quickly you start to think – Oh, we can do without ice cream this week and get the case of the fruit that is available instead, "… especially if you do a family thing.

The beauty of starting to stockpile food is that even though there may not be a food crisis within the next year or two, as we build up our storage, we have the comfort of knowing that should even harder economic times hit us, we will be prepared for it… Plus, you save a ton on your grocery bill by getting into the habit of buying when things are on sale!

Viola Bontrager is the author of Emergency-Survival-Skills.com where she talks about the basics of survival. Visit her blog to learn more about how to stockpile food, emergency food storage, how to make your own emergency kits, etc…

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