How to Buy Survival Food Supplies at the Best Price

During seasons of flood, wildfires and hurricanes it's important to prepare your home and your family. Besides having flood and disaster insurance for the home, you may need to assemble a list of survival food and supplies.

This list may include: food, radios, pet food, water, emergency lights, toilet supplies and a generators among many other items. These are some tips on getting disaster food and supplies at the best price and sometimes for free.

Instructions

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  Plan and prepare early in the season before shopping. Sometimes disasters strike unexpectedly, but planning can be done early during known disaster seasons, such as flood and hurricanes. Make a list of all the food and supplies items that you normally use and items that are used during specific disasters. Preparing early helps you buy supplies cheaper; you may pay less by avoiding shopping at the same time with everyone else.

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  Consider an "Emergency Survival Kit" that has all the survival supply items. These kits contain everything the family and the pets will need in a disaster. Find an emergency preparedness store online to buy a kit. You may save money buying a kit because you are buying bulk of items. Also, during off seasons these stores offer discounted prices. Find Resources below for online survival store.

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  Make a survival list and buy the food and supplies from various stores. Be sure to include the following on your shopping list: dried food, bottled water, building supplies, pet food and supplies, hand tools, tents and sleeping items. Visit the internet site FEMA.gov for a full check list of survival items.

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  Get discounts by buying bulk of supplies from survival supplies wholesalers. Get together with friends and other family members to be able to buy in bulk from the wholesalers.

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  Attend the government seminars and preparedness trainings. Generally, the State or federal government provide annual emergency preparedness training to guide the public during an emergency. Visit Ready.gov to find training schedules. Sometimes the government provides free emergency food and First Aid supplies at these sessions.