What to eat during a crisis? (No water or power)

[tonpias13]

I live in an area where we get hurricanes and we usually buy canned food to get through while we have no running water or power. With my recent diagnosis i can’t eat prepackaged, high sodium foods. What do you guys do or would recommend for a situation like this?

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I used to reside in Florida and as we got near the start of hurricane season we always prepared by storing extra water, ice, and coolers. We had six coolers, a generator, extra gas, and a propane stove and extra tanks. Power was never out longer than 4-5 days and we managed. Keep your fresh foods in the coolers and the food in the large freezers lasted until we had room to move it to the coolers.

It takes planning

[Bassetmommer NKF Ambassador]

HI,

I would stock up on water long before hurricane season begins. You can use canned foods. There are now products out there that are low salt or salt free. There are soups also that are now lower in salt. I am assuming that you probably have a gas grill that you can warm food on or cook? That is what we have used after an ice storm. We make sure we have full propane and move it in under the porch roof to protect it. We had a camp stove to warm foods but the grill is better. One ice storm, we were without power for 10 days. The "in house camping" got old fast. We had water though, not warm though. And it was cold enough that stuff did not get too bad. But we had to eat through our freezer foods. They did offer dry ice eventually.

[orangecity41 NKF Ambassador]

Live in hurricane prone area and when stock up on canned goods, make sure they are low salt or salt free. I tend to get packages of tuna, salmon and chicken that are low salt. Also fruit that keeps well unrefrigerated and fruit cups. Enough dry cereal, peanut butter and crackers. Of course water and fruit juice.

[RhenDutchess123]

If you drain and rinse canned vegetables with water you can remove up to 40% of salt and preservatives...I always do this whenever I use them

[KidneyCoach NKF Ambassador]

Please go to KCER.org which is Kidney Community Emergency Response Coalition. I've provided the link below. There you will find emergency preparedness specifically for those on dialysis and transplant. You can also find a 3 day emergency diet and grocery list as well as list of items other than food, like copies of I.D. Insurance cards, extra cash, dialysis prescription, list of medications and allergies etc. We have a tent sleeping bags folding chairs cookstove hand cranked radio water and more. All in a rolling bin which is easily pulled behind or loaded in car. It does take time and effort but preparedness often eliminates the worry and fear.

I served on the coalition for about 2 years so if you can't find what you need let me know. Blessings

kcercoalition.com/