Tip #4: Adapt Your Prepper's Pantry So It Is Unique To Your Family

 

This guide does not advocate a one-size-fits-all solution for your prepper's pantry.  It gives practical advice on the best way of preparing your pantry, but it recognizes that the most important aspect of any pantry is that it is created with your own family's needs in mind.

 

The aim of any prepper's pantry is to make sure you are providing for your family's needs. No one knows your family's and tastes better than you.  You are more aware than anyone what is right for your family and the foods that will be best for them.  For this reason, you shouldn't hesitate to take the advice in this book as a starting point, which you can adapt to your family's specific needs.

 

It is also worth remembering that, although food can be thought of strictly in terms of its nutritional value – the vitamins, minerals and calories it contains – eating is much more than this alone.  Eating a meal is not only about fueling your body.  Food does keep our bodies alive, but food is far more significant than this.  Eating with people builds the bonds between them, and meals, in times of crisis help to maintain feelings of well-being.  Food makes people feel happy, safe and secure. 

 

The psychological importance of food should not be discounted when thinking about your pantry.  Including a child's favorite candy could be a valuable addition, even if its nutritional value is negligible.   Including a family's favorite condiment will not make much difference to their physical health, but psychological, it may make a huge difference to meal times.

 

So, don't be afraid to use the advice here as simply a starting point with which you can shape a pantry that is perfectly suited to your family, its own special needs and tastes.  If you can do this, your pantry will offer more than simple nutritional support.  It will act as a psychological safeguard against the uncertain times that we live in. Even in an emergency situation, your prepper's pantry will offer you comforting normality.