It is important that you food storage contains a variety of food and is not limited to the absolute basics to keep you alive. It is also important to consider what things you may need to include in your food storage if you were to become pregnant during the emergency situation.
A healthy and balanced diet is critical to your personal health and well-being. Many people seem to forget this point when they plan their food storage.
They think that in an emergency situation they will be willing to eat anything no matter how repetitive, tasteless, and nutrition-less it is. However, a well rounded and balanced diet is very important even if you are in an emergency situation.
This is particularly true if you becoming pregnant during an extended emergency situation. As you are preparing ahead of time, you have complete control over what is in your food storage.
The healthy diet you choose to store can prevent miscarriage and other medical complications that you may not be able to afford during an emergency situation. By storing a healthy, vitamin full food storage, you will be able to prevent a devastating miscarriage, suffering through complications, and possibly even your own death.
As part of your healthy diet, you should store items that contain complex carbohydrates. Whole meal breads and pastas often contain these complex carbohydrates.
In your food storage you will want to store this pasta and the ingredients you need to make bread. Of course, fresh fruits and vegetables are also considered to be a necessary part of a healthy diet because they contain fiber, vitamin C, and folate.
While it will be impossible to store fresh fruit and vegetables, you can store canned fruits and vegetables as well as dried ones. It is also a very good idea to store vitamin supplements, especially prenatal vitamins.
However, many dried vegetables and fruits often contain the vitamins that you need anyway. Calcium is another thing that is important to have in your pregnancy diet.
Try storing dried milk. If you discover that you think dried milk is disgusting, store chocolate powder as well.
The chocolate powder can make the dried milk taste much better and it can add extra calcium depending on the type that you purchase. Look for other items that contain vitamin C as well, such as powdered juice mixes.
While meat, fish, nuts and seeds are included in a healthy diet, you should make sure that the meat is stored properly. In addition, you should realize that there are some meats and cheeses that should not be eaten when you are pregnant.
Meat can be freeze dried and reconstituted or in some cases canned for long term storage. Other sources of protein, such as a variety of beans, are also a good idea to store because meat is so expensive and difficult to store.
You will also want to store some sweet things for a special treat during hard times. These comfort foods can be tremendously relaxing and calming during stressful times.
The best supplements to store in your food storage will contain a variety of vitamins and minerals essential to creating a child. One of the things you should make sure that you supplements contain is folic acid.
Folic acid is critical for prevent spina bifida. It is necessary that you get enough folic acid every day to prevent this condition.
It is also a good idea to make sure that your supplements contains vitamin E. Some pregnant women have blood clotting antibodies that thicken the skin too much.
Vitamin E can help thin the blood and prevent blood clotting if this is the case. It is much safer than aspirin or heparin, which are also sometimes given to women to thin their blood.
Zinc is also something that you should make sure that you get. It is part of the genetic material you are passing on and part of your child's genetic makeup.
If you have a shortage of zinc, then you could suffer from chromosomal changes. This eventually leads to a miscarriage.
This substance is also part of normal cell division, which is a major part of your growing fetus. If you do not have enough zinc at conception, you will have a miscarriage, perhaps without even knowing it.
When you are pregnant, you should also make sure that you get enough essential fatty acids. Essential fatty acids will reduce your risk for blood clotting.
Selenium is also something that you want to look for in your vitamin supplement. This substance is an antioxidant that helps prevent chromosome breakage and DNA damage, either of which will cause miscarriage or birth defects.
The combination or iron and folic acid can also help prevent anemia. Of course, a little of everything else will not hurt and can definitely help as well.
Author Resource:-
Jack R. Landry is an accomplished expert in family preparedness and has been giving seminars for over 15 years. He recommends that everyone have on hand an Survival Food Storage in case of any emergency or disaster.
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