The Emergency Fund You Can Eat
This MSN Money article explains how to build and maintain a pantry of food that can tide you over through a disaster, natural or a financial tough spot. Your cupboard will never be bare, but there will always be something to eat that you will want to eat.
This article also includes charts of the shelf-life and freezer-life of many foods, so it's a good reference.
In these past 5 years, living on one income most of the time (that one income not being much in the beginning) I've been doing much what the author recommends: stocking up on the non-perishables I like when they are on sale, and building my stockpile that way, gradually, over time. (I also add coupons to the process, and don't really spend less at the store, but get much more for the money.) Right now, the two of us could probably get through a month on what we have, between the fridge, pantry, and freezer. However, that would be just barely, scraping by, and we would need to buy another gallon of milk to pull it off.
Incident Management Assistance Team
11 years ago
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