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Learn About the Best Freeze Dried Foods

What are freeze dried foods good for?

When you go camping, hunting, backpacking, hiking, mountain climbing, canoeing, fishing, river rafting or floating you need more food than usual. You're expending more calories than usual. The fresh air of the woods makes you famished.

Yet you're a long way from the nearest supermarket.

You have to take your supplies with you, and you don't have even a small refrigerator. You can't carry meat, eggs, milk or anything else that will spoil or break.

Most of all, you want food that's lightweight and small. Even if you have a donkey, you have to load it. Even if you have some kind of boat you have to carry it onboard. Even if you're driving a camper or recreational vehicle you have very tight space.

So you need foods that you will keep, that are easy to carry even over a rugged trail. You need Mountain Foods freeze dried foods or other brand of freeze dried camping foods.

Ah, but what about your "real" life? You live close to a supermarket, even closer to a 7-Eleven or gas station that's a mini-mart. You have a stove, a refrigerator, plenty of storage space in a pantry, closet and many shelves.

Yes, but it's still good to have on hand freeze dried food storage.

Because you never know when your stove's natural gas will someday be gone. When your refrigerator's power will go off. Having dried foods stocked away may be the difference in your family surviving or not.

Terrorist attacks. Biochemical warfare. Nuclear dirty bomb explosions. Flu or other infectious disease pandemic. Flood. Earthquake. Volcanoe. Hurricaine. Tornado. Mudslide. Out of control forest fire. Rioting.

You have to have a survival food supply to make sure you get through such times.

Hurricaine Katrina is the best recent example in the United States. It won't be the last.

It's not well known, but there's a major earthquake fault in the middle of the United States, principally in southeast Missouri, called the New Madrid fault. The last time it went off big time was in 1811 and 1812. It flattened many houses and even made the Mississippi River run backward. That was when the area was barely populated. It'd now do tremendous damage to St Louis and environs. Possibly it'd shake up Chicago and Kansas City. Will it happen in our lifetimes? Nobody knows. Although we don't have the number of small quakes they do in California, we do have occasional tremors. Just enough to scare us and remind us that we don't control the planet.

California is also overdue for a major earthquake thanks to the San Andreas fault line. While I certainly hope it never breaks off and falls into the ocean as someone in the sixties described, but a truly bad one could severely damage the West Coast.

The Pacific Rim countries are also vulnerable. Tokyo contains a huge amount of the world's money, and yet it could be flattened by an earthquake. So could Taiwan, The Philippines and Indonesia. I've experienced them in The Philippines.

And of course that country has active volcanos. I've been through the areas covered with lava from Mount Pinatubo, and it's not pretty. In some places, everything is covered with the rock and dust called lahar. In other places, you can see the tops of telephone phones only three or four feet high. And the steeples of churches sticking up out of the ground. I've driven through an area cut through by a river, and you can see the metal of the houses that were buried.

I believe it's obvious that there's a political rift in the United States that's been growing wider ever since the late 1960s. What side you're on is not the point here. I'm just saying that within a few years things could get ugly for all of us.

Maybe a portion of the military or an extreme rightwing group could take over a la Chile in 1973 (watch the movie MISSING starring Jack Lemmon and Sissie Spacek). Or maybe an extreme leftwing group will takeover.

Maybe no group will be able to exert control, and we'll just slide down into some kind regionalism or anarchy, with panic and street fighting (though such situations usually result in an iron-fisted government of either the left or right.

I don't see why the world should end on December 12, 2012, but there's no telling what people may do in anticipation of that event. You should have freeze dried fruit stocked up just in case.

I'm not a Mormon. I don't know why food storage long term is part of their religion, but I agree that it's a good idea that should be practiced by all of us.

Having freezed dried camping food where you can quickly grab it and throw it into the car along with your kids, could make a big difference to you.

Or having freeze dried meals ready to prepare in case you're stuck in your house with no electricity, your local stores can't get supplies, and you don't know when help will arrive -- that's peace of mind.

If nothing else, buy some extra cans of food every time you go to the supermarket, then place the extras onto a special shelf. Of course, pay attention to the expiration dates. And keep a hand-operated can opener in your kitchen. Your electric can opener won't work if there's a blackout of electricity -- as just happened to millions of people in Brazil.

Don't be caught empty-handed. Stock up on some freeze dried foods today. Because when you need them, it'll be too late.