CHAPTER 1 - SENSIBLE PREPARATIONS VS. PARANOIA

When the topic of emergency food storage comes up in various conversations, it inevitably evokes a wide range of reactions on both ends of the spectrum. 

On one extreme, those who believe it is absolute foolishness and a waste of time will just roll their eyes exchanging amused glances with others deemed to be intellectually superior.

These groups of people, who hold the opinion that emergency food storage is rather ridiculous, usually keep a couple days worth of food in their homes and sometimes not even that, instead depending day-to-day on restaurants and shops nearby to supply their nutritional needs. 

The opposite extreme are those who believe the need for hidden bunkers and supplies will be within days or weeks and consider food storage and survival to be the only priority of life for both themselves as well as their children.  Every penny is spent on survival items and there are no other important areas of life to be enjoying with everything needing to focus on the disaster looming over their heads. 

Both extremes can make very good points and both can be obsessively wrong.

The challenge is to find a healthy balance between the two extremes with the ability to enjoy everything the present has to offer while at the same time realizing that life inevitably carries crises that are wise to prepare for with common sense.