Food Waste

[Mortblanc]

I don't count on any of my prep foods to supply any vitamin content. You never know what you will wind up eating for the day and how much nutrition it will supply. I keep a supply of high potency multi-vitamins to cover that situation.

I don't do dried veg. I use canned/tinned. Tinned veg can be eaten after a quick warm up, or without a warm up. Since it is wet packed there is no additional water needed.

Neither do I consider any of my frozen foods in my prep supply. If the power shuts off for more than a few days they will be ruined. The way I am set up I can keep the freezer contents usable for about a week. My frozen foods are for my convenience now, not to preserve them for emergency use past a few days.

I have seen power outages of more than a week in my area. If I can loose power for a week in the midst of order and plenty then any real disruption of the socio-economic machine might mean the absence of power for months.

I also do not expect, or plan for, three meals a day. That would be a bit much to expect in reality. With no refrigeration there will be no "big batch" cooking and leftovers will spoil rapidly in my climate. They will not last until the next meal.

A can of veg and a box of mac & cheese, rice, or ramen each day, along with whatever meat I can forage, will come very close to the 2000 calorie need to sustain life, and it can be bought cheap and kept forever.