Emergency Essentials is a food storage, preparedness, and camping store just a few blocks from my apartment in Orem. I've walked up there two or three times since moving in to pick up things like powdered eggs, buttermilk powder, and 200 calorie bars for my 72-hour kit. Like most stores of this type, they have some really good prices (millennium bars, customizable first aid kits), and some things that you can get cheaper elsewhere (gamma lids, buttermilk powder). I like it because the employees are helpful, it's close by, and there's a good selection.
I was watching a show on the History Channel recently during a long fight with strep throat, and was learning about how Utah got it's shape, when I saw a familiar sight; this store. The host of the show was interviewing people inside the store about why Mormons are so into food storage and preparedness. I was excited to see "my" store on TV. It's possible I get excited by dumb things.
Anyway, the store's website has a food storage analyzer. You type in how much food you have stored, and they tell you how long you can survive, and what nutrients you will be getting each day if you have to live on it. It's pretty cool, and showed me some glaring holes in my storage (yellow and orange veggies, mostly, though I need more iron, as well.) I try to do this in my head, but it doesn't work as well. You can create an account, which saves your information, so you can keep up a list of what you have in storage. It's pretty awesome.
The link: foodstorageanalyzer.com
I must note that I am getting a ten dollar gift card for posting this review. Since it relates directly to this blog, and is useful information, I don't feel bad about it. Also, you can post a review of the analyzer and get a gift card, too. Info here: http://preparednesspantry.blogspot.com/2009/10/food-storage-analyzer-gift-card.html
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