The most satisfactory way to establish a food storage reserve is to store those foods that permit normal menus with long storage life. Some people use a combination of wet-pack and low-moisture foods. It is probably easiest to use a list for one person and then multiply that by the number of people you have in your family.
Consider any special needs your individual family members may have, such as an infant who would needs formula or others who have unique medical needs.
The following is a suggested 12 month supply for one person using low-moisture and wet-pack items.
Group #1
- Milk (2 servings daily) Approximately 38 lbs. Of non-fat dry milk.
Group #2
- Protein (2 servings daily)
- 9 to 12 1 gallon cans of textured vegetable protein (meat like product). Part or all of this can be multipurpose food, 1 to 3 1 gallon cans of whole egg solids (8dozen eggs per can).
- Bouillon and gravy for flavoring.
Group #3
- Fruit and vegetable (4 daily servings)
- 6 to 8 1 gallon cans of fruit (your choice).
- 2 to 3 1 gallon cans granulated potatoes (12 to 18 lbs.) or an equivalent weight of potato flakes.
- 12 1 gallon can of vegetables (your choice).
Group #4
- Bread and cereal (4 daily servings)
- 140 to 200lbs. Of wheat .
- 4 to 6 one gallon cans of other grain foods such as rice, corn meal, oats macaroni or spaghetti.
Group #5 Miscellaneous
- Store approximately 12 lbs. of oils and 50 lbs. of sugar items such as pudding, gelatin desserts, sugar, jam, honey, syrups and other calorie items.
- Vitamins and minerals.
- Breakfast drinks.
- Yeast, baking powder for baking.
- Meat, fish and poultry canned or freeze dried.
- Salt and seasonings.
- Plastic lids to re-close opened, partially used cans.
- Margarine and shortening.
- Water and water purification tablets.
This reference contains enough food for one person for 12 months or of course it would feed two people for 6 months or three people for 4 months etc.
