Survival Food Storage Secrets

One.  The first survival food storage secret is to learn to garden and use whatever space you have available.  From a back yard area, raised beds, container gardens on a deck or tiny herb pots in the kitchen window, people can grow more than they believe with a little creativity and effort.  Use edible landscaping for plants that are ornamental as well as that provide food.Need a few shade trees?  Why not use fruit or nut trees – they are going to supply shade as well as food.  

Two.  Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other techniques are increasingly easy with modern gadgets designed to preserve food.  It needs a minimal effort – but on a kitchen counter you can dry enough herbs for a year ; you can make real powdered and flaked pepper, garlic and onion.  

Three.  Next survival food storage  secret is if you freeze food, be sure you’ve a means to keep it going in an emergency.  If the electricity goes off you don’t want to lose a year’s supply of food!  Have a generator and fuel, get a propane refrigerator, have some method of keeping that food cold.  Putting food aside is only part of insuring your food supply – storing it safely is the other issue.  

Four.  Be discreet.  Don’t gloat about your food supply and don’t spread the news you have half a year of food in your basement.  If you do, and there’s a crisis, you may be overrun with people who know you have plenty stocked away.  Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?  

Five.  Storage a problem?  Use areas most do not think about.  The pantry is good for many things but if you are putting up many jars of spaghetti sauce, preserves, soups and other sauces you are going to need room.  Have a protected corner of the basement up off the ground ( enough that a wet floor won’t damage the food ).  

Six.  Here is another survival food storage  secret.  Together with your food supply have a means to prepare food including water, grill and gas/wood/charcoal, and so on.  If a tempest knocks an area down for 2-3 weeks be ready to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks.  Have available not only requirement items but a few luxury items also.  These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a little more like home.  

Seven.  Don’t forget storing private hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or chips, toilet paper and other survival gear can seriously increase the comfort in an emergency.  

Eight.  Do not depend on the govt helping – or on people being friendly.  A disastrous situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the govt can’t handle it – folks have got to be able to depend on themselves.  Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being confined to home ).Remember a train derailment or other issues could change things quickly!Practice that escape.  You have ten minutes- what do you grab?  Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can suggest survival.  

Nine.  Be ready to cook from scratch, make bread and do other talents to get thru if you had to.  If you have the food stocked up it does not do any good if you can not use it.  If you are dependent on mixes make your own mixes in Ziploc bags that seal tightly – label with a marker right on the bag with how much liquid, egg and oil to add.  In a pinch, that bag can be the bowl – simply put wet ingredients in and mix, then tip into a baking pan.  Experiment with your griddle to make things before you have got to.  

Ten.  Having the ability to hunt and fish can imply having a continuing food supply.  Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can suggest the difference between eating or not.  In the depression some spoke of having a little dog that would go through culverts and flush out rabbits while the big dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out.  Sporting?  Perhaps notbut if it comes to eating or not, how moral will you be after not eating for 4 days?  

Get prepared now.  Work on getting things growing, on learning the talents you have to to survive.  When the general public food supply is interrupted it’ll be too late.

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