What is Long Term Food? What is Emergency Food?

What is long term food, and emergency food? For the most part they are the same thing. Long term food is food that has a long shelf life, typically needed in cases of emergencies like natural disasters, war, financial/employment loss. There are a lot of ways to preserve food long term, but the 3 most common types are canning, dehydration, and freeze drying.

Canning products has a typical shelf life of 1 to 5 years, but can under perfect conditions and preparation, some can last to about 25 years.

Dehydrated food typically lasts 5 years, but with a vacuum bag, or oxygen absorber (not all food need an oxygen absorber), and perfect storage conditions, the food can last 10 to 25 years.

Freeze dried typically lasts 25 to 30 years, and retains more of the original flavor, and nutrition profile such as vitamins and minerals than canning and dehydration.

If you have a storm/emergency kit, and you should for you and your family, atleast 72hours/3days worth of food and water per person is recommended by FEMA and Red Cross. If the emergency is expected to last longer than 3 days, I suppose you can ration your stocks as needed. Most long term emergency food is calorie dense, meaning it has alot of calories, to give your body the energy it needs for emergency situations.

Here are a few popular/common brands, and their websites/Amazon links, In no particular order, if your interested:

Ready Wise - https://readywise.com/collections/starter-kits
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4Patriots - https://4patriots.com/collections/short-term-survival-food-kits
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Augason Farms - https://augasonfarms.com?sca_ref=3963246.VEIboSmJXS
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Ready Hour - https://readyhour.com/collections/best-sellers
Amazon Ready Hour - https://amzn.to/3PrzzUp

Mountain House - https://mountainhouse.com/collections/emergency-food-and-survival
Amazon Mountain House - https://amzn.to/42XkqNM

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