Survival Food Storage Tips
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 little herb pots in the kitchen window, folks can grow more than they think with a little creativity and effort. Use eatable landscaping for plants that are ornamental as well as that provide food. Need a couple shade trees? Why not use fruit or nut trees – they will supply shade as well as food.
2. Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other strategies are easier than ever with modern gadgets designed to save food. It takes 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 have got a means to keep it going in a crisis. If the electricity goes off you do not need to lose a year’s supply of food! Have a generator and fuel, get a propane fridge, have some method of keeping that food cold.Putting food aside is only one part of increasing your food supply – storing it safely is the other issue.
4. 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 could be overrun with people who know you have plenty stocked away. Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?
5.Storage can be a problem?Use areas most people don’t think about. The pantry is good for many things but if you’re 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 ).
6. Here is another survival food storage secret. Along with your food supply have a means to prepare food including water, grill and gas/wood/charcoal, etc . If a typhoon 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 some luxury items too. These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a bit more like home.
Seven. Remember storing private hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or slices, toilet roll and other essential survival gear can greatly increase the comfort in an emergency.
8. Do not depend on the govt helping – or on folk being friendly. A disastrous situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the govt cannot handle it – folks have got to be in a position 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 evacuation. You have 10 minutes- what do you grab? Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can imply survival.
Nine. Be in a position to cook from the start, make bread and do other abilities to get thru if you had to. If you have the food stocked up it doesn’t do any good if you can’t use it. If you are dependent 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 pour into a baking pan. Experiment with your griddle to make things before you’ve got to.
10. Having the ability to hunt and fish can mean having a continual food supply. Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can mean the difference between eating or not. In the depression some spoke of having a small dog that would go thru 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 moral will you be after not eating for 4 days?
Get prepared today. Work on getting things growing, on learning the abilities you’ve got to in order to survive. When the general public food supply is interrupted it will be too late.
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This article reminded me of a situation some family of ours ran into. A few winters ago, a ice/snow storm forced them out of power for two weeks. Although they had emergency supplies and food, they suddenly realized they had no way to cook it. Having a camp stove of some kind would have come in very handy. They actually had to trek through the snow to their neighbors a couple miles away anytime they wanted to cook food over their camp stove. Needless to say, they now have a few.