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Emergency Food & Cooking

How will you feed your family when the power goes out for days or weeks? Learn about food prep and safety for a disaster, from our speaker, Maureen Quinn Lores, an educator from the Oregon State University extension service. You'll learn about food and water requirements in a disaster, cooking how tos, hazards to avoid, recipes and best practices. Don't miss this fun and informative meeting from Cedar Hills Ready!, Quake Up! & OSU!
Scroll down for resources and links to food-related disaster prep resources.

More Resources

Check out these sources for more information and practice:

No Power, No Problem: Tips to Help You Thrive in the Face of Disaster
The Cascadia Earthquake, when it occurs, will cripple western Oregon's communications and infrastructure. These tips will help residents manage through what could be months of no electricity and other modern conveniences. Check out this article from Oregon State Extension Service called No Power? No Problem.

Survival Basics: Water
Explore a variety of methods for purifying and storing water for an extended emergency. Learn how to find or make safe water from additional sources from this OSU Extension Service Article.

Food Safety During Power Outage
As the USDA notes in Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency, your refrigerator will keep food safe for up to 4 hours during a power outage. Keep the door closed as much as possible. Discard refrigerated perishable food such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and leftovers after 4 hours without power. After a power outage never taste food to determine its safety. You will have to evaluate each item separately - use this chart as a guide. When in Doubt, Throw it Out!

Food Hero Cookbook
This Cookbook includes 37 tasty, flexible and healthy low-cost recipes that require a limited set of common ingredients and basic cooking tools. Includes English and Spanish cookbook downloads. Check it out here: . https://www.foodhero.org/cookbook