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Having all of the crucial emergency storage items, especially the lower half of the Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Survival Readiness Pyramid, will help to put your mind at ease. Having these “tools” for an unpredicted emergency is a must. Knowing how to make use of them is a separate issue.

As far as food goes, the short-term supply will be eaten up in short order, and in a longer-term survival situation you’ll have left over the food items that take more thought and care to prepare and make taste good. If you grew up on fast food or quick throw-together meals, or your lifestyle is a catch-up game, you probably lack some of the homemaking skills your predecessors had. Baking homemade bread from scratch may be a foreign idea to you. But, remember, wheat is the staff of life, and grains should make up the bulk of your long-term food storage (about 400 lbs. per adult for one year). If you’re not Asian, rice might not be a staple food in your diet, and you probably don’t know all of the various ways to prepare it. Beans come in a close third, but you also may not know beans about cooking these either. You could keep yourself alive and kicking, but do you want one or two selections to be your only menu that you choose from day in and day out? Heck, no!! It’s bad enough to be in a survival situation (although think positive, it, too shall pass), you want to eat as well as you can.

This is where a food storage cookbook full of recipes designed to contain all of the so-called “boring” ingredients in your long-term food storage comes in practical and gives accurate meaning to making variety the spice of life. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with what you can do with wheat, rice, and beans, and all of the other goodies you’ve so loyally stored away, but not given much thought to making a tasty meal out of.

Having all of your emergency food storage supplies, but being narrow in what you know how to do with them would be a real travesty should the need arise to use them. It would be an outstanding idea to break out some of the emergency food storage now and start experimenting with some recipes. Rotate out some of the items that are nearest expiration, and make this your dress rehearsal. It is better to sharpen your skills now than to spend your time practicing when people are depending on you to reduce their load with good eats during trying times. You may not be able to turn water into wine, but with a food storage cookbook and practice, you’ll surely be able to turn the ordinary into something great!