Curious as to what long term food strategies folks here are taking and what choices they have made WRT specific Brands?

How long do you prep for?

Grocery store canned foods? What brands?
Grocery store self stable foods? what brands?
Bulk dry/dehydrated/freeze dried foods? What Brands?
MREs? What brands?
Water?

ETC??????????


For us, we live in a major metro area. We keep about 2 weeks worth of various canned and dry foods that we use regularly and replace as used from the store. Nothing specific to "survival"

We have 3 weeks worth of boxed military MREs stored in the home climate controlled, changed out every 7 years

We have about 3 weeks worth of SOS Water packs (expired taken from kits I repack, perfectly fine) + 10 gallons which is changed out yearly

We have about 3 weeks worth of SOS brand survival rations (expired taken from kits I repack, perfectly fine)

We don't have any freeze-dried long-life foods

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...-australia-bush

I keep an emergency medical card in my wallet in case I get incapacitated. Originally I just followed a template I found somewhere. Now that I'm updating for the new year, I am thinking of making a few changes, and I could use your feedback.


1. Sometimes I leave my dog in the car while I shop or run errands, but never for more than 20 minutes, and with the AC running during the summer. I want to add a line that says something like: "Please save my friendly dog [insert dog name & description]. My dog may be locked in my car. Please check [insert car make & model & license plate number]. My car key should be on me." My questions are:

Is this information sufficient to get the help I need?

How likely is the EMT or the responding personnel to help my dog?

What if my dog weren't in the car? Would that cause confusion if they come to my car intending to save a dog, only to find no dog?

2. I'm deleting some information from the original template. They include:
The address of my emergency contacts. (I don't see how they'd use this info. Surely these days they'd just call instead of making a visit in person?)
Certain kinds of vaccine info. I don't think emergency physicians will care about my flu vaccine.

FYI, I don't wear a medical bracelet. I don't have any medical condition that could incapacitate me. So I'm thinking of accident situations (e.g., something falls on my head while I'm mailing something at the post office, and now I'm knocked out while my dog is waiting for me in the car).

What items do you keep on your bedside table for convenience or emergencies?

Next to my digital clock, I keep a bottle of water or a sports drink, ChapStick, a D-Cell MAG-LITE, and a glow stick ready to open, break, and shake as a backup for the flashlight.

Missing hiker found after surviving more than a month in Canada’s wilderness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/28/lost-canadian-hiker-found