The real priority of food

The general order of survival is: protect yourself from immediate danger, maintain body temperature (shelter), water, and, last, food (see chapter 1). In a typical urban emergency, the problem is almost never finding wild food; it is keeping the food you already have safe when the power goes out, and having enough in reserve (see chapter 2).

• Without food you lose energy, concentration, and resistance to cold, but you do not die within days.
• If you have less than 1 liter of water a day, avoid meat, fish, and very salty or dry food; prefer carbohydrates (cereals, fruit).
• Spending more energy looking for food than you get from it is a bad trade. Fish and trap only if you will be stranded for several days.
• Take care of pets: store their food in airtight containers and count their food in your supply.