Here's how we get started in developing a wealth of emergency food resources. We will benefit from a gradual, step-by-step plan, made by those, who have the most experience in stockpiling food. There is no space here, to tell you the whole plan, so you are going to get the main key points.

We know about 2 different types of survival food list, one for your long term stash, and another to eat immediately, for instance, if you might be overwhelmed in dealing with immediate damages. Single or small portion amounts of cooked or ready food will be most suitable for your short-term stockpile.

Be sure, that your stash has sundry varieties of edibles. Dried and preserved snack-foods, of the ilk of cheese curls, popcorn, and potato chips, won't soon go bad in storage, but they can't give us much nutrition, nor fill us with vim and pep.

Both vegetables and fruits are more rich in vitamins and minerals, than are meats, and dairy-produce. Get your protein from dairy, meat, nuts, and beans. The perfect balance of proteins comes from a bond of whole grains and beans, daily. Look to raw walnuts for our quota of omega fatty acids.

There are some vitamins that are heat-sensitive, and cooking destroys them. Because of the loss of vitamins from cooking, you will need fresh vegetable material, especially green food. Some, that are easy to be found, are chicory, leaves of alfalfa, field cress, clover leaves, and dandelion greens..

Because it is destroyed by heat and light, you might find yourself deficient in vitamin C, unless some of your foods are fresh.

Spruce and pine needles will impart vitamin C to water that is either cool, or air temperature, chopped up. It is enjoyable to drink. We should find out the differences between pine and spruce and other trees.

Only a few foods, besides red meat, offer vitamin B12, and in lesser amounts than red meat.. There is some vitamin B12 in Swiss cheese. Eat brewer's yeast, or else nutritional yeast, to get all B vitamins..

Food bars alone do not make a good survival food list. We ought to include jerky, crackers, canned vegetables, canned beans, and nuts.

Be sure to put a date on each holder, or container, of food, if a date is not imprinted thereon. Eat or give away your stored food, before it gets to be too old. Then replace it.

Now we know what goes into making a better survival food list. Your next step is to learn, and to follow, the step-by-step plan.