Food Storage
Fight Food Fatigue: 20 Oft-Forgotten Items in Your Long Term Food Storage
One of the major mistakes people make with regards to food storage is buying a huge amount of one or two staples (ie rice and beans or wheat and powdered milk) and nothing else. While there’s no problem with storing thousands of pounds of wheat, if that’s all you have you are going to suffer [...]
Food Storage Calculators
Just wanted to quickly let you know that I created a new menu item called “Food Storage Calculators” that puts the two calculators I had created together in one convenient spot. I’ve already received a number of good recommendation on improving them and will be implementing these changes soon. Like I mentioned before, these calculators are [...]
Space and Storage Calculator for Long-Term Food Storage
function getStorageReqs (form) { var numWheat= form.wheat.value; var numBeans= form.beans.value; var numRice=form.rice.value; var numMilk=form.milk.value; var numFlour=form.flour.value; var numSugar=form.sugar.value; var stack=form.stack.value; var numOats=form.oats.value; var numMacaroni=form.macaroni.value; var numBWide = 0; var numBHigh = 0; var ceilingMax = 0; var numBuckets=0; var numFootage=0; if (stack==0){ alert("Please enter how high your stack will be."); } else if (numWheat==0 && [...]
How to Dehydrate Foods without a Dehydrator
Dehydrating foods is one of the oldest long-term food preservation methods known to man. If you think about it, it must have been exciting for early man to discover that small pieces of raw meat, fruit, and vegetables -- when left outside in the sun or wind -- did not go bad but were actually [...]
Food Storage Experiment: German Pancakes
This morning I decided to try out one of my favorite breakfast dishes, but instead of using the standard ingredients, I wanted to try using only items that I have in my bulk/long-term food storage. What I experimented with was German Pancakes and here's a picture of how they turned out: I thought they looked [...]
Bulk Food on the Cheap: LDS Storehouses
One of my readers had sent me an email last week wanting to know where to find the storehouses run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or the Mormon church as we're sometimes called) in order to buy bulk food for long-term food storage. I thought I'd answer this question in [...]
How to Make Cheese from Powdered Milk
Here's another recipe I wanted to test out that puts to use the buckets of powdered milk I have stored. Remember if you are constantly rotating your stored food (especially the 3-month food supply) not only will you greatly reduce the chance of anything going bad, but you'll actually be learning to use your bulk-stored food and eating what you store -- some of the most important rules in food storage.
How to Make Powdered Eggs
The incredible edible powdered egg.
Despite the at-times negative media attention (we all know how reliable the main-stream media is nowadays) eggs are a very nutritious source of food that is one of the cornerstones in baking. With it's low-cost but high-quality source of protein, if it weren't for its short shelf life and fragility, it would be a great addition to your survival store if only you could store it.
Food Storage Basics: The Gamma Seal Lid
If you've read any of my other articles on food storage, then you'll know that I always stress the importance of rotating and using your food storage now -- this includes your long-term bulk-food items such as sugar, dried milk, wheat, flour, grains and legumes.
The Importance of Having a Survival Seed Bank
Along with storing food, storing garden seeds should be of primary importance for any well-prepared individual or family. There are many indications that there is a major food shortage right now and that it will continue to grow worse in the coming years
