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While you can survive for three weeks without food, those three weeks wouldn’t look like successful survival; they would be three weeks of slow starvation with your body painfully shutting down in stages.
Food is essential for both physical and psychological survival needs. A warm meal of familiar foods can create a sense of wellbeing and stability in the midst of a disaster.
This chapter outlines the principles of long-term food storage in your home and includes a food storage checklist to help you start your food stockpile. It also includes an overview of pre-packaged survival foods. And because disasters often disrupt electric and gas service, this chapter includes alternative cooking methods and camp stoves to help you prepare hot meals in any condition.