Food Storage Analyzer - Cool/Free Online Tool

[GrizzlyGuy]

Emergency Essentials has a free food storage analyzer online here. You specify how many people you are planning for, tell it what food you have on hand, and it tells you the nutritional content of your food stores, how many days it will last, etc. It isn't limited to just the products they sell: they have a number of common grocery store items in the system and you can create your own custom food items.

If you are planning on ordering food from them, you can enter how much you plan to order and see how that impacts your stores. It will even suggest items if your nutritional content is low in some area.

When I signed up and entered my info I discovered that I had much less food on hand than I thought. I had been using "servings" for planning rather than using calories. Oops.

Oh well, I have plenty of time to correct this problem prior to SHTF. Right? Right?!?

[FatCity67]

Nice calculator.

Looks like I only have about 1 month of stores on hand. Need to get cracking on building the supply.

[xgi1991]

thanks for posting that GrizzlyGuy, it is a good wake up call

[DirtyDan]

Thanks for the link. The calculator gives me a good idea at where I sit with my supplies and where I can improve.

[problemchild]

In reality all you need is a 3 day supply and a list of the non-gun owning Obama supporters in your area.

[dirtyJ]

Just counting the grains section my wife and I have 506+ days of food on hand... I honestly think that we have 2 years worth of food on hand, including food for the animals. It's the water that'll get us, only ~3 months worth of readily drinkable with another couple months worth as wash water.

[FatCity67]

In reality all you need is a 3 day supply and a list of the non-gun owning Obama supporters in your area.

Very true. In a SHTF they will be begging for protection.

[problemchild]

Very true. In a SHTF they will be begging for protection.

Not exactly what I was joking about.

[lead slinger]

Most people live week to week on the minimum food purchase...