It’s about time for me to go through my periodic check of supplies, so I thought I share with you what I’m going to do. (more…)

One of the most difficult categories of food to stock as emergency supplies is protein. In the past, there was a lot of powdered egg and milk. Today there is a much wider choice of good tasting, protein-rich entries from companies that supply emergency food, most notably the top-rated maker of freeze-dried food, Mountain House.

But I’ve found something else I also like very much: Cytosport™ Pure Protein,Tangerine flavor (none of the other flavors even come close). Pure Protein contains 40 grams of whey protein that somehow manages to taste sort of like the old-time Orange Julius drinks they used to make fresh with orange juice. (more…)

Before I even start, I have to say that you must talk with your doctor and find out whether your use of any of the substances or products mentioned in this post, or indeed anywhere on this site, is appropriate for you. All statements are only personal opinion, and have not been approved by any authority or agency or anyone else whatsoever. And read our disclaimer statement.

Some people wonder why we have a source for bodybuilding products on this DisasterEmergencySupplies.com website. They cannot imagine what possible items a bodybuilding site could contribute to a store of emergency supplies

But I can.

That is where I find the highest quality Glutamine in the world, in my opinion, at the lowest price to my door. Can’t beat them for service, price and quality. They stand behind their products 100%, even after you’ve used half of it. I detected a slight off color in some vitamin C after we’d had it for some time, and I asked them if it was ok to take, which I thought it would be, but just asking. They said not to even try it. They would send 2 new containers (I get large containers) to replace the two I had ordered, and would send me a label to return the unused portion. I said again plainly that I wasn’t even sure if the C was bad, I was just wondering. They said not for me to worry about it. They would send 2 new containers. They did. I had new vitamin C in a couple of days.

But I digress.

In my opinion and that of many bodybuilding nutritional counselors, the most helpful supplement for the support of the immune system and restoring the body after stress, is the natural amino acid Glutamine… also called L-Glutamine. (more…)

From a post on MarketWatch.com by pharmainsider1 (if you wish more credit, just let me know, p1):

Here in the most liberal city (Ann Arbor) in Michigan, the local ordinances were changed to allow live chickens on homeowners property in the city limits. They also are big on bike trails, allow people to plant “organic” gardens in their lawns, etc.

To be honest, he was not too happy about this state of affairs. But Ann Arbor has been big on community gardens for over 30 years. I think they’re brilliant. There is no better way to prepare for a sudden dislocation, economic or otherwise, than to have food growing at your house. (more…)

Before I even start, I have to say that you must talk with your doctor and find out whether your use of any of the substances or products mentioned in this post, or indeed anywhere on this site, is appropriate for you. All statements are only personal opinion, and have not been approved by any authority or agency or anyone else whatsoever. And read our disclaimer statement.

There is so much controversy about salt. One time I was talking to a fellow gym rat about taking in enough sodium through eating salt, and had a nurse who was working out in the same general area come over to me, literally shaking with rage, and berate me for making such obviously harmful statements. You would have thought I’d been caught in the middle of some particularly heinous act.

Didn’t change my mind. In fact, I gently referred her to a recent AMA release that admitted that their stance on sodium for most people, who do not have a certain relatively rare medical condition, has been in error for years. I asked her to get back to me after she read it. Never saw her again.

The body needs the electrolytes sodium and potassium to function. You die if you do not have enough of each. I’ve been studying this subject for a long time. The action of the sodium-potassium pump in the human body just happened to be the subject of my first college class that I sat in on when I was a senior in high school. If you do not have enough of both, you have huge short-term AND long-term problems. One of my high school classmates learned that lesson the hardest possible way. He died from a diet substance that leached potassium from his body.
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My wife brought up a very good point. We were taking inventory of our emergency food stores, and she said, “You know, people really shouldn’t put off getting some food in, just because they do not have their shopping list perfect yet. It’s important to get something in, even if it’s not complete, or not perfect. A person can add things later, or make changes.”

I think so too. There is a world of difference between having something that’s not perfect… and having nothing.
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There is a section on this website called Food - Can Help Others. You can find it here.

I bring up this thought because it is my answer to the people who say that if things go south, they would rather have bullets than food. I have been hearing more of this sort of talk lately, as we get closer to the next big event. Frankly, I tend to stay away from the subject, because I have very strong personal feelings about it, and my opinions tend to offend almost everyone. But the time to be cautious is passing. So here’s what I really think.
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I mean that two ways. (1) Don’t rely on frozen food for an emergency, because (2) there may be no freezers working.

In a serious emergency and practically every disaster situation, electrical power goes out. It can stay out for weeks. Or longer. We’ve seen it happen this winter in various locations around the country as power lines are taken out by trees that have been simply weighted down by snow and ice.

There are factors that can make food in a freezer last a while with the power off. It may be winter outside, and all you have to do to keep the food sub-zero is take the freezer outside. But that isn’t possible in most places. The other possibility is to have an alternate source of power to generate electricity. If you have something like a wind power generator, or a real solar setup that gives you lots of juice, you’ve got it made in the shade… if you want to divert that much of your precious auxiliary power to a freezer. As far as having a gas-powered generator, unless you live next to a gasoline cracking plant, you’re going to run out sooner or later. Probably sooner.
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All uncooked grains have an intrinsic problem that appears over time. There are insect eggs that are in the product which eventually hatch in the package. This is not from carelessness on the part of the companies that pack the food. It is just a fact of life.

It is true of all uncooked grain products: cereal, rice, all pasta including spaghetti, oatmeal, flour… you name it. Over time there will be tiny insects in the unopened, carefully stored package. It is not your fault. It is not anyone’s fault. We just have to deal with it.
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Whether you store food from the grocery store or buy pre-packed emergency food, you need to check expiration dates as time goes on.

The essence of emergency food is that you need to keep it in storage, because you never know when you will need it. Which means that most of the time you will not need it (although you’ll feel awfully good about it when the time comes). Some prepackaged emergency food is intended for very long storage, up to 25 years. You do not have to check that type very often, lol. But some emergency food has a shelf life of perhaps five years, and some only a year or two. If you mix types or buy quantities at different times, you need to schedule checks every month or two.
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