# Best foods for a long term emergency kit

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**Created:** [August 25, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-a-long-term-emergency-kit/551466 "2010-08-25T22:35:13Z")\
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One of your biggest issues is finding drinking water. You need to have at least a small supply of potable water stored for emergency use. Figure one gallon per person, per day for three days as a functional minimum. Triple this if using mostly dehydrated food. You’ll also want to have some kind of water filtration/sterilization kits. You should really have personal kits for each person as well as larger capacity, family or group sized systems. [Cabela’s](http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/common/search/search-results1.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&hasJS=true&_D%3AhasJS=+&sort=all&QueryText=water+filtration&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23) have several such options available.

One other thing, even with treatment, the water you may have may not look or smell that nice. A selection of powdered, pre-sweetened (sugared or sugar-free) will vastly improve the flavor and make it easier to stay hydrated.

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