In the event of a natural disaster, such as an especially powerful earthquake, are you and your family prepared to survive 3 days with the food in your house? How about a week? Would you be able to survive a whole month without access to a grocery store? These are all very thought-provoking questions, and although we may never experience such harsh circumstances, being even a little prepared is certainly much better than getting caught completely off guard when a disaster strikes. After all, such events are hardly predictable.

When selecting foods to store in preparation, it cannot be stressed enough to make sure you are including a variety of items. When planning out the food to go into your food storage, it is very easy to just assume that all you will need to survive for a month would be beans and rice. Did you know that "food fatigue" is an actual medical condition, where after a person has consumed the exact same foods for an extended period of time, he will still starve despite that food still being available to him? Thus, selecting a variety of food items to store will help make a miserable situation like being stranded as a result of an earthquake a lot less miserable.