Stock Up On Food That Tastes Good

Power outages frequently plague the east coast of Canada, especially recently with many of the storms. When you are in an area that has a power outage, you need to consider having an emergency stash of supplies. This includes some freeze-dried food Canada that actually tastes good.

Too many people go to the supermarket and stock up on canned soups, rice and canned meats. These foods will certainly feed you, but they aren’t going to taste good after a few days of having them over and over again. It’s likely that you will be without power for several days – so it’s better to stock up on the kinds of foods that you really wish to eat.

Freeze-dried foods allow you to enjoy some of your favorites, even if you don’t have traditional power sources to heat them. You can let your neighbors survive on spaghetti-os and spam while you enjoy some more gourmet dishes.

From risotto to brownies, you can find quite an array of freeze-dried foods to stock up your kitchen. This way, no matter how bad the weather gets in Canada, you know that you’re going to eat well. The shelf life on these foods can be just as long as traditional canned foods – and sometimes even longer. This helps you to get your money’s worth when you go shopping, too.

If you plan ahead, you can do all of your emergency shopping online. This way you can order all of your favorite foods to be shipped to you. Check out the weather channel and see if there are any thunderstorms or blizzards heading your way. Then place an order online to make sure that you are going to have enough food for you and your family for at least seven days.

Seven days’ worth of food is likely all you will need before Canadian authorities will be able to get your power turned back on – and hopefully you will get it on sooner than that. The benefit of ordering online is that you don’t have to fight the canned food aisle along with everyone else in town to get the same boring foods that you always get.

When your emergency supplies consist of food that you actually like to eat, you and your family may actually start looking forward to the times that your power goes out. With brownies and so many other good foods to choose from, you can feed yourself well. As you’re enjoying yourself with the power out, all of your neighbors will wonder why you’re always so cheery.

Friday Roundup – Video, burgers and courses

This weeks roundup includes a cute video, a mouthwatering burger recipe and another City highlighting Emergency Preparedness Week.

The first item is a video titled “My Family’s Be Prepared Tale” produced for Emergency Preparedness Week by the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
Cute video voiced over by a little girl.  Being prepared gives your loved ones the peace and security that their immediate needs will be met for at least the first 72 hours after an emergency.

We now move on to a topic I love: Burgers.   Learning how to prepare food, especially food that you enjoy eating gives you peace of mind that if the ingredients are available, you can make sure you and your loved ones are fed.  Stock up on your emergency preparedness supplies to make sure you are self-reliant when a disaster strikes.
I could go for one (or two) of these this weekend!

Port Coquitlam, on the lower mainland of British Columbia is encouraging residents who want to be prepared to look to the city for help. The Now reports on Emergency Preparedness sessions the City is taking registrations on.  The sessions will run on May 26th, Sept 22 and Nov 24.   Tara Stroup, the city’s emergency preparedness program head is putting on these free one-day courses for residents to learn how to take care of themselves immediately following a disaster.