This is not to say that every disruptive event will require you to live outdoors, but rather that such an event will require you to cope without modern conveniences.  As preppers, our hope is that such an event will be short-term in nature, but, as the saying goes, "hope for the best and prepare for the worst". About a year ago I was discussing this topic with Phil Cox, the CEO of Buy Emergency Foods.  For those of you that don't know, BEF, as they are called, has been a sponsor of this website from the early days and is, what I like to call, a friend of Backdoor Survival.  At the time, we were chatting about their new line of cook-in-pouch meals, branded Bannock Foods.