1. 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 suspect with a little creativity and effort. Use e di ble 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.
2. Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other strategie s are easier than ever with modern g adgets designed to save food. It need s 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 n emergency. If the electricity goes off you do not 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 your food aside is only part of insuring your food supply – safely storing it is the other issue.
4. Be discreet. Don’t brag about your food supply and don’t spread the word you have half a year of food in your basement. If you do, and there ‘s a crisis, you could be overrun with folks who know you have plenty stocked away. Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?
5. Storage a problem? Use areas many don’t think of. The pantry is good for many things but if you are 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 w on’t damage the food ).
6. Here is another survival food storage tip. Along with your food supply have a way to prepare food including water, gri ddle and gas/wood/charcoal, and so on. If a typhoon 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 some luxury items too. These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a touch more like home.
Seven. Don’t forget storing p rivate hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or chip s, toilet roll and other survival gear can serious ly increase the comfort in an emergency.
8. Don’t depend on the gov erning body helping – or on folk being friendly. A catastrophic situation like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the gov t can not handle it – people have got to be ready to depend on themselves. Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being limit ed to home ). Remember a train derailment or other issues can change things in a hurry! Practice that escape. You have ten minutes- what do you grab? Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can mean survival.
9. Be in a position to cook from nothing, make bread and do other skill s to get thr ough if you had to. If you ‘ve got the food stocked up it does n’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 firm ly – 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 gri ll to make things before you have got to.
10. Being able 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 tiny dog that would go thr u culverts and flush out rabbits while the enormous dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out. Sporting? Perhaps notbut if it comes to eating or not, how mor al will you be after not eating for four days?
Get prepared now. Work on getting things growing, on learning the abilitie s you ‘ve got to in order to survive. When the general public food supply is interrupted it ‘ll be too late.
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