What kind of food should I have around in case of an emergency?

It's FEMA, not FEMMA.
And no. It's not true.

Even if it were, do you REALLY think the government would admit to it?

Grains that don't require any cooking are best for emergencies. Such grains include:

• Pretzels

• Instant oatmeal

• Ready to eat cereals

• Granola and granola bars

I buy my emergency food from these two websites: http://www.buyemergencyfoods.com/shop/index.php/food-storage.html and http://beprepared.com/. They offer many different deals and different types of food from chicken, pasta, cereals, high energy bars, and more.

i recommend for you to buy many bottled waters and only open them in case of an emergency. You can also store water in plastic, glass, and fiberglass containers.

Absolutely not! Drink as much as you need for that day or for however long you have water for and then look for more water.

Canned food should always be stored in cool and dry places, but not too cold or else they will freeze. In case that they freeze, it can cause them to spoil.

Emergency food should be stored in cool and dry places in temperature of no less than 0 degrees Celsius and no more than 21 degrees Celsius.

No one wants to think about it but you never know. There could be a disaster of some kind that might leave you house bound for a while. Freeze dried food allows you to have emergency supplies to keep you going for a few days just in case!

Your discribing 2 opposite symptoms. But 1 thing may be causing both. first thing I think of is a defective defrost heater safety switch. It allowes the food -and freezer compartment to become too warm during defrost. This allowes the food to un freeze. then when defrost is terminated the temp goes back under freezing til the next defrost. 3 to 5 cycles like this and yes you could ahve freezer burn and icecream melting. DOes the ice cream refreeze too? If so you have to remove the freezer pannel covering the evaporastor coil inside the freezer. Locate the defrost safety.

1 of 3 kinds 2 opf these are b8-metal switches and are round and of these 2 kinds 1 is about nickel size and the other is about quarter size and both are round and can be attached to the coil tubing or the freezer wall. Usually these 2 kinds are on Refg/Freezers with no electronics on the door or thermostat.

If you have an Led or LCD display you ahve electronic controls and in most cases have an electronic thermisitor about 1" long and 1/4 to 3/8 inch dia and insulated and attached to the freezer coil line leaving the freezer or on one of the U bends of the coil. It may be attached with a plastic wire tie. (The tie could be broken but this is doubtful from discription).

1st freezer burn is usually caused by drying out of the food while still frozen. And this is why your case is so interesting by doing it so quickly. In all cases 1 the food is not in air tight containers. And the water in the food is being drawn out of it.