• Convenience
• It Makes You Self Sufficient
• Natural Disasters
• Man-Made Disasters
• Economic Crisis
• The Government Can’t Protect You
• It’s Easy to Start!

Convenience

Having food available in your own house or apartment is much more convenient than having to go to the store or pick something up at a restaurant every day.

It Makes You Self Sufficient

There is a lot to be said for being self-sufficient. When you know that you’re not reliant on a paycheck or other people for food and water, it can give you level of internal peace that most people don’t understand.

It’s nice to know that no matter what happens, you and your family have the means to keep going. Disasters can come and go and you know that they’ll be okay.

Natural Disasters

Natural disasters are one of the primary reasons that a lot of people start prepping. It’s what initially made me start prepping.

Regardless of where you live, you’re going to be subject to some kind of natural disaster. Food storage isn’t just for the people that think the world is going to end because of some catastrophic event it also for people who understand that nature can be unforgiving and there may be a time when it gets in your way.

Natural disasters can be any of the following: Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Thunderstorms and Lightning, Winter Storms, Extreme Cold, Extreme Heat, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides and Debris Flows, Tsunamis, Fires, Wildfires.

Man-Made Disasters

Man-made disasters are always a possibility. No one can ever tell what someone else will do.

These cover everything from chemical and HAZMAT accidents to intentional terrorist attacks. I even include wars and attacks by rogue nation-states as part of this type of disaster.

The current climate in the world seems to be making intentional man-made disasters all that more likely. We’re even seeing a spike in terrorist type actions in the United States.

Personally, I expect these events to become even more common. I definitely don’t see them letting up any time soon.Man-made disasters include Hazardous Materials Incidents, Household Chemical Emergencies, Nuclear Power Plants, Terrorist and Rogue State Actions, Explosives, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear Threats, Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) and More!

Economic Crisis

I decided to keep an economic crisis as it’s own category because it functions a little differently than most other man-made disasters. Terrorist attacks and chemical plant accidents are immediate actions that we can see right away.

An economic crisis can be quick, but it’s most likely going to a slow decline that picks up right before it gets really bad.

Most of the major indexes have stops built into them to keep an immediate crash from happening on any given day. This insulates us a little from the flash crash style of economic crisis and is the main reason that I see it coming slowly until the defenses put up just can’t prevent it any longer.

Food storage keeps you protected from having to pay increasing food prices as money loses value. It also helps you long before an kind of economic crisis happens by saving you money every day!

The Government Can’t Protect You

FEMA and both local and federal governments recommend having at least a few days of food storage. This is because they know that there are plenty of situations where they won’t be able to save you if there’s no food available in your area.

Look at how the government handled disasters like Katrina. It wasn’t pretty and (trust me) the government is slow to learn from its mistakes and quick to forget those lessons once it finally does learn from them. Just a few days of food storage will make sure that the government has a little extra time to put its disaster recovery plans into effect.

Better yet, with enough food storage, you won’t have to rely on them for food and water at all!

Conclusion

People have always stored food, but technology has made getting food so easy that some people even think it’s strange to store food.

Food storage remains important even with our modern conveniences. Food storage gives you the ability to survive long term disasters and other events that would cause an interruption of just in time food delivery.