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 little herb pots in the kitchen window, folk 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 are going to supply shade as well as food.
Two. Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other techniques are easier than ever with modern gizmos designed to preserve 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 have got 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 freezer, have some way of keeping that food cold.Putting your food aside is only part of insuring your food supply – safely storing it is the other issue.
Four. Be discreet. Don’t gloat about your food supply and don’t spread the word you have six months of food in your basement. If you do, and there’s a crisis, you could be overrun with people who know you have lots stocked away. Are you then prepared to protect your food supply?
Five.Storage can be a problem? Use areas most do not think of. 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 secret. Together with your food supply have a way 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 able to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks. Have available not only necessity items but a few luxury items as well . These could include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a little more like home.
Seven. Do not forget storing private hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or chips, toilet roll and other survival gear can significantly increase the comfort in an emergency.
Eight. Don’t rely on the govt helping – or on folk being friendly. A disastrous situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the governing body 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 evacuation. You have 10 minutes- what do you grab? Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can imply survival.
Nine. Be able to cook from the start, make bread and do other talents to get thru 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 pour into a baking pan. Experiment with your griddle to make things before you have to.
Ten. Having the ability to hunt and fish can suggest having an ongoing food supply. Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can suggest the difference between eating or not. In the depression some spoke of having a small 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 4 days?
Don’t wait to get prepared. Work on getting things growing, on learning the talents you have got to to survive. When the general public food supply is interrupted it’ll be too late.
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