Store It Foods

If you feel that no salad or sandwich would be complete without the addition of fresh, crisp, green lettuce, you’re probably also aware that there is no other way to use this delicious vegetabale except in that fresh state.  You cannot can lettuce, you cannot freeze lettuce, and you cannot dehydrate lettuce and expect to be able to later add it to salad or sandwich.  It just doesn’t work that way.

So what do you do in the event of labor problems, transporation difficulties, or poor crops that cause prices to skyrocket and availability to become almost nil?  Would that justify investing in something like the AeroGarden that would allow you to grow your own lettuce in your own home or apartment on a year round basis?

And what about things like creamery fresh butter, or fresh, whole milk?  Would their absence from the grocery store create major problems for you and your family?  Do you have on hand a supply of powdered milk that would do in a pinch, a brand that you have tested and tried and found to be acceptable in taste and texture?

What would happen if weather or other troubles leave you without electricity for a week or maybe two?  What would happen with your freezer full of meat and vegetables?  How would you cook?  What would you eat?  Do you have the space and resources available to keep a generator on hand to power some of those vital appliances in the face of such emergencies?  Do you can?  Do you dehydrate?  Could you use such foods?

If you have never considered such questions, the time to do so is before that emergency situation arises.  And once you have asked those questions the time to come up with answers should also be before that emergency situation arises. 

In other words, it is probably too late to do much about emergency preparedness in the midst of one.