When disaster strikes you may not have time or the ability to go out and get food for you and your family. But there are ways to store food against this eventuality, or to make sure you have edible food at your doorstep.
If you live in an area that is prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, you may already have an “earthquake box” of basics for the first couple of days. But the Red Cross recommends that everyone have at least two weeks worth of food and first aid supplies stored for any eventuality.
Foods that are easy to store and high in nutrition make the list of almost any emergency food box, but do you know what you want to store beyond these basics?
If you are just considering what you need to set aside as emergency food, you might want to read through our primer of this on Planning for Emergency Food and Water which gives you the basic ideas. Once you are ready to actually stock up our handy set up guide will walk you through planning what to store where. We even have some booklets on gathering up your food from your local area with our Guide to Local Plants or how to Grow Your Own Blueberries for food at your doorstep.
Find out the answers to questions like:
- How do I improvise a kitchen when the power goes out?
- If water becomes contaminated, how do I clean my pots and pans?
- How do I setup an alcohol stove in an emergency?
- How do I identify edible plants?
- What are the best foods to buy for emergency storage?
Find out now how to plan for tomorrow with all these guides on choosing, making and storing emergency food in your home for any situation. You will be surprised how secure you will feel knowing that you have this basic need taken care of, no matter what life throws at you.
This easy to follow guide will give you handy tips on what kind of substitutes you can use, how to improvise a kitchen in the case of an emergency and over 30 pages of recipes to use in your improvised kitchen in any kind of emergency situation. It is an indispensable guide for any emergency kit.
If the power goes out, do you know which foods are safe for your family to eat? Which foods should be thrown away after lengthy non-refrigeration? This valuable guide will help prevent unnecessary food-borne illness caused by unsafe food storage conditions.
This is a casual guide to the basics anyone would need who is considering growing blueberries as a food or as an ornament. It gives a good overview of what to expect and the problems you may encounter, including how to protect your blueberries from animals and birds.
In a survival situation, plants can provide food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and knowing any dangerous properties they might have. This manual will give familiarity with botanical structures of plants and information on where they grow that will make them easier to locate and identify.
This is a great article on the nutritional value of beans of all kinds, along with a guide on what to know when cooking and storing beans. It also tells you what to be aware of when preserving beans by canning. Knowing how to master cooking and storing beans is important information to have for any kind of emergency situation where long time food preservation might be needed.
This is a simple easy to use recipe to make your own homemade baking powder. You can do this under the simplest of conditions and the end result is actually a better product then what you would buy in the store! You will be surprised how simple and easy it is to make your own homemade baking powder.
Your stored food supply is useless to you if you cannot come up with imaginative ways in which to prepare it. With this thought clearly in mind, this publication presents several useful and tasty methods of employing your stored food supplies to make an actual meal.
This issue of the Journal of Civil Defense addresses emergency food and water supplies. There are only a handful of critical things humans truly need to survive: some type of shelter, clean breathable air, clean drinkable water and non-contaminated food. This publication takes a look at a few guidelines for anyone preparing for emergency situations.
After a disaster, some people may be without food and water for extended periods of time. This primer contains info to help you prepare and keep a food and water emergency kit to prevent a difficult situation from becoming a life-threatening one.
This document lists sixty ways you can use vinegar for everything from first aid, the home repair and some pretty handy cooking tips. This is an indispensable guide to a common kitchen item that every home should never be without.
Bamboo is the most useful plant known to man, with more than 1,500 uses this versatile grass grows faster than any other known plant. This handy little guide will tell uses for bamboo, canebrake and switch cane, the only native U.S. varieties of bamboo, as an emergency food source.
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Would you like to know on how something like Pine can be helpful to you to survive in the wilderness? If you have no idea on this topic then A Survivalist Guide to Making Pine Soup will show you some interesting facts and recipe for Pine that can help you stay alive during adverse times.
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