Survival Food Storage
Survival Food Storage:
10 Tips In Protecting Your Food Supply
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 small herb pots in the kitchen window, folk can grow more than they suspect 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 will supply shade as well as food.
Two. Learn to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other methods are easier than ever with modern gadgetry designed to save food. It requires 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 a crisis. 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 way of keeping that food cold. Putting food aside is only one part of increasing your food supply – storing it safely is the other issue.
Four. Always be discreet. Don’t brag about your food supply and don’t spread the gospel you have half a year of food in your basement. If you do, and there is a crisis, you may be overrun with folks who know you have lots stocked away. Are you then prepared to protect your food supply?
Five. Storage a problem? Use areas most do not think about. The pantry is good for many things but if you’re putting up lots of jars of spaghetti sauce, preserves, soups and other sauces you’re 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 tip. Together with your food supply have a way to prepare food including water, grill and gas/wood/charcoal, for example. If a tempest knocks an area down for 2-3 weeks be in a position to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks. Have available not only prerequisite items but a few luxury items too. These could include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a touch more like home.
Seven. Do not forget storing personal cleanliness items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans online having this available with sawdust or shavings, toilet paper and other survival gear can greatly increase the comfort in an emergency.
Eight. Don’t rely on the government helping – or on folks being friendly. A disastrous situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the government can’t handle it – people have got to be in a position to rely on themselves. Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being limited to home ). Remember a train derailment or other issues can change things in a hurry! Practice that escape. You have 10 minutes- what do you grab? Hesitating can be deadly having a plan can suggest survival.
Nine. Be ready to cook from nothing, make bread and do other abilities to get through if you had to. If you’ve got the food stocked up it doesn’t do any good if you can not use it. If you depend on mixes make your own mixes in Ziploc bags that seal firmly – 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 to.
Ten. Having the ability to hunt and fish can mean having a continual food supply. Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can imply the difference between eating or not. In the depression some spoke of having a tiny dog that would go through culverts and flush out rabbits while the enormous dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out. Sporting? Maybe notbut if it comes to eating or not, how ethical will you be after not eating for four days?
Get prepared now. Work on getting things growing, on learning the abilities you have to in order to survive. When the public food supply is interrupted it’ll be too late.
LEARN MORE ON COMING FOOD CRISIS AND TIPS TO PREPARE
