What to Stockpile, How to Cook It, and Why Food Is About More Than Calories

Food is the most fundamental preparedness category there is, and also the most misunderstood. Most people who think about food stockpiling imagine a basement full of canned goods and call it done.

Food is the most fundamental preparedness category there is, and also the most misunderstood. Most people who think about food stockpiling imagine a basement full of canned goods and call it done. That is a start, but it skips over most of what actually matters: what you can realistically cook when the grid is down, how much you actually need to eat whe…