Disaster Preparedness
- Emergency Food Planning
The following is a complete sample menu.
You may be isolated, or in a situation with no water or
electricity. The following is based on the use of foods
that require no cooking.
Breakfast
- Fruit or canned juice (orange, grapefruit, tomato-Vitamin C enriched)
- Ready-to-eat cereals or granola bars
- Whole wheat or enriched bread or crackers with jams, jellies, margarine, peanut butter, cheese or cheese spreads
- Milk: canned, evaporated or reconstituted powdered milk
- Instant coffee, tea or cocoa (if tap water is hot enough)
- Use evaporated mild or double-strength reconstituted dry milk as cream in tea or coffee
Lunch or Supper
- Cheese or peanut butter sandwiches
- Canned meat, fish or poultry
- Canned beans-baked beans, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, etc.
- Raw vegetables, such as carrots, celery, etc.
- Fruits (canned or fresh peaches, apricots, pineapples, pears, etc.)
- Bread or Graham crackers
- Cookies
Snacks
- Fruits, fresh canned, dried.
- Juices
- Cheeses
- Cereals - ready-to-eat
- Nuts, seeds, raisins
- Crackers
- Cookies
- Raw vegetables
- Granola bars
Staples
- Canned protein food: Salmon, tuna, sardines, lunch meat, ham, beef, chicken
- Canned vegetables: green beans, beets, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, spinach, turnip greens, peas
- Canned fruits: apple sauce, apricots, peaches, pears, pineapple, plums, fruit cocktail, etc.
- Dried Fruits, nuts and seeds: raisons, prunes, peanuts, assorted nuts, etc.
- Tea bags, instant coffee, coffee or cocoa, fruit juices
- Non-fat or low-fat milk; evaporated milk if used within on day after opening and kept at cool room temperature
- Oatmeal cookies or crackers
- Peanut butter
- Ready to eat cereals
- Jelly, jams, preserves, honey
- Bread wrapped in its original wrapping
- Salt pepper, sugar, catsup, prepared mustard
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