How to Easily Build a Healthy Food Storage Supply
Why Have Food Storage?
There are a lot of great reasons to have a food storage supply built up in your home. Wanting a food storage supply is not just for preppers and homesteaders. There are plenty of logical reasons that any sane and responsible person would want a sizable food storage supply (of 3 months to a year or more). Here are just a few:
Be Prepared for Emergencies
The reality is that we live in an unpredictable world, and numerous natural and manmade disasters could put you in a situation where you would need to feed your family from what you have on hand because normal resupply is not available.
Natural disasters like hurricanes, large summer thunderstorms that down trees and knock out power for several days, earthquakes, and winter storms (especially ice storms) can all knock out power and cause a rush on the grocery store that cleans out the supply there, and delays resupply.
Most people don’t realize that grocery stores only have a 3-day supply at normal consumption rates, so any shock to the supply or demand (when everyone rushes to the store to buy 2-3X what they normally do) can quickly deplete or eliminate the stock available. More importantly, the vast majority of Americans operate in like fashion, where the “just in time” supply chain extends all the way to their refrigerator or pantry, and it’s rare to find someone with more than a few days of food available at home.
Prepare for Pandemics & National Crisis Situations
When infectious diseases or panic spreads, shortages show up in many different areas, including supplies that are normally imported into the United States from other countries. Plus, if panic strikes a local region, food and water are some of the first things to go, and transportation systems may not be able to feed the supply due to lockdowns and quarantines, all done in the name of pandemic control (as we’ve seen over the past year or so).
Beat Rising Food Costs
There are two ways that stocking up on a home food storage supply saves money. When you buy in bulk and store food at home properly, you pay lower prices per unit on the food you buy and pay far less than if you buy it in smaller packaging right when you need it.
Since food costs are always rising, storing up food also allows you to beat inflation by purchasing food when it’s cheaper now, instead of later after the cost has risen more. Strategic buying also allows you to shop sales and buy food when it’s in season and has lower pricing. This is incredibly important right now, because food prices are reaching record highs!
Save Money through Better Budget Discipline
You’ve been there before. You didn’t eat lunch and you needed to stop at the store on the way home from work to get a couple things before dinner. You walked into the store and your eyes opened wide at nearly everything you saw. You were “Shopping While Hungry.” When you finally exited the store, you had obtained the 2-3 items that you need, but you also had $50-100 of other stuff you grabbed on impulse.
When you plan and build up your food storage supply and eat out of it, you can be more disciplined about your purchases, and save money by reducing or eliminating impulse purchases that often add significant costs to your food expenditures.
These are just a few common sense reasons to build up a home food storage supply, and that’s not even going into the details of growing your own food, processing and preserving food you’ve grown or bought in bulk fresh in season, or other aspects of food storage that are suited for those who desire more self-reliance in their lifestyle.
Most people aren’t ready for that due to time or skill/resource constraints, so let’s focus on the easiest way to start building a food storage supply.
How to Build Your Food Storage
Let’s talk about your 2 primary options to build food storage easily.
You can buy a big food storage package of pre-made meals, and this will quickly give you a supply of food you can use in an emergency.
Here’s the problem: most of the vendors selling “food storage” are selling unhealthy, pre-made meals that you probably wouldn’t enjoy any time, let alone when you’re already in a stressful situation and need good nutrition from food you enjoy.
With these food storage packages, your investment is more like insurance and not a real investment in food you’ll actually eat. Essentially, you don’t want to eat it unless things are really bad, and therefore it gets wasted.
Plus, these unfamiliar and undesirable foods can often cause significant food aversions, especially for children, which just adds further to the stress of an emergency situation that most likely necessitates their use.
Another option is to build your food storage with healthy long term storage food, like the freeze dried food provided by Thrive Life.
Freeze drying is the best method for preserving nutrient value and food quality for a long time (up to 25 years). However, even many of those that sell freeze-dried food are often using poor quality or unripe ingredients, so you’re not really getting the benefits of freeze drying, because you can’t lock in nutrients that aren’t there.
One reason why we became consultants with Thrive Life is because Thrive Life has – without question – the highest quality freeze dried food available. They have the highest standards for their producers, which they require to harvest the food at peak ripeness and flash freeze it within a few hours to lock in the high nutrient value and amazing flavor. Their Nutrilock process is the top industry standard for quality, based on the best practices of the best freeze drying facilities in the world.
Many people enjoy Thrive Life food being delivered to their home on a regular basis through their delivery service, because it’s high-quality, healthy food that makes meal preparation incredibly easy and fast!
You can also set a budget through Thrive Life’s delivery service to build up your food storage over time, and when you place orders through the Delivery Service, you qualify for Free Shipping on orders over $99!
Thrive Life gives you two big benefits: First, you can fit it into your budget (unlike some of those multi-thousand dollar food storage packages), and second, it’s food you’ll not only eat, but it’s food that you’ll love, because it’s high quality, healthy, and easy to prepare. You can even incorporate freeze dried ingredients into your everyday cooking to make healthy homemade meals easier than ever!
