Depending on your environment, including available storage space, you should have a cache of survival food that is easy to prepare, will last in storage a long time and provides you the nutrition you need throughout a survival situation.

That can be a challenge if you do not plan smartly and tailor your choices to your environmental surroundings; this video covers how to do that.

Most survival minded people store away at least a few months of basic food in case they encounter a survival situation.

All of us should store at least a few weeks – remember how after Hurricane Katrina, some places were without power for weeks.

What do you store in your survival food cache? Tell us about it below.