Store or Starve A beginner’s guide to food storage

nationalexpositor.com ^ | 1/21/10 | Ron Shirtz

[cripplecreek]

Ive gotten to know the owners of a small vegetable farm and roadside stand near here.

[umgud]

I have plumbed in a 300 gallon pressure vessel just ahead of my hot water heater. Kind of a big bulge in my water supply. The water is fresh daily and should we ever lose municipal water, I’d have this 300 gallons plus my hot water heater.

[JPG]

You need the right recipe. Take one liberal, soak for 5 hours in heavily salted water to remove gamey taste. Insert spit and rotate over hot coals. Discard all jewelry (pay special attention to the tongue) and cook until tender. Beware that after consuming same you may die of an upset stomach.

[diamond6]

ping for later read

[arkady_renko]

Bookmark for later.

[elk]

Yes, think about it for a minute:

10 oz. bag of chips: $3.29.

1 lb. (16 oz.) lentils $.79 (if you do a little searching; otherwise you pay $1.69/lb. like the rest of the yuppies do).

To the supposed 47% of the country that still approves of Obambi - nevermind.

[Lurker]

Most antibiotics will keep for 3 to 5 years if they're refrigerated.

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[mdmathis6]

In the Communist Ukrainian massacres, they tortured or shot folks who looked too healthy...claiming that they were hording and hiding grains and food stuffs.

We need to learn and know one another again, so that we can band together and defend one another. Storing and preparing is good. The Psalms(as quoted by the post) say “consider the ants...”. Ant colonies also defend themselves as well as store their food, they will swarm out in great numbers to attack threats...some species more viciously than others.

So indeed we should “Consider the ants.....”, in matters of preparation and defense!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

You’re preaching to the choir. But they are all good ideas.

It’s important to get buy-in from every member of the family. If a family member doesn’t see the importance, you will be fighting upstream to do what is wise.

[11Bush]

Ive gotten to know the owners of a small vegetable farm and roadside stand near here.

Might be a good idea. Then again...

I belong to an eclectic group of bikers. Cruisers, sports, dual, conservative, liberal, Christian, Jew, Hindu and agnostic. Our only similarity is that we love to ride together but I count them as some of my best friends. Several weeks ago we were having our usual Thursday night dinner together and the subject turned to survival.

Most of us, the conservative ones, have an ample supply of food and arms. One of the liberals of the group said 'guess I know where to go when the trouble starts'. My response shocked him to speechlessness.

I bluntly told him 'If you come to my house, and you don't bring enough to keep you and your family alive and safe, you had best get used to calling me massa. Because you and yours will be nothing more than a slave while you are there. Your skills as a programmer will mean nothing, your ability to tell interesting stories will mean nothing, your wife's stupid whining will mean nothing. You and your family will mean another mouth to feed and another soul to defend. I don't have the resources or the give a shit to let you take food from the mouths of my family. You will either work as a slave to earn you keep or your will move on.'

At that time all of the 'prepared' people echoed my thoughts while the 'unprepared' were thinking over the prospects. The unprepared begin asking very good questions on how they should proceed to be 'prepared'. If nothing else my statement saved me a possibly awkward moment in the future and may have just saved four other families due to lack of preparedness.

Moral to the story 'Better to be prepared than to be my slave'. Hope the local farmer has a more Christian attitude then I do. Second moral 'Local farmers are great to barter with, make sure you have something he doesn't'.

[Drango]

Here is one of the better sites for bying food already in airtight containers

http://www.waltonfeed.com/

[Eska]

Living in rural Alaska, we have had a 3 year supply of food as long as I can remember. Our road closes every Oct and don't open until April; being 600 miles from nearest Costco, food prices quadruple at local pop store.

Flour, cereal, meal will all go wormy come spring when it warms up. We go thru 500 lbs flour /year. I store 50 lb bags outside in shed in ice chests (stays below zero 4-6 months) then around march i put the bags in outside freezer as they are half empty by then anyway. Something about the warm up in spring that sets the eggs in all flour to hatch. I lost 150 lbs of flour several years back when I didn't do this.

WE put in 300 lb yukon golds every May (always get 2500 lbs which we spread around the community)and usually plant 2 lb of carrot seed (pellet seed). Wifey usually freezes 75 gallon bags of carrots; great with moose, caribou stew all winter. Bottomline, nothing like new taters.

[Tucker822]

Ping to myself.

[Kartographer]

“You don’t have to be Mormon to take advantage of the Cannery. You just have to can for everyone the day that you go, as well as for yourself.”

I did this once LOVED it. A lot of fun and Mormon's are good people! But I was given to understand it was a one time invite and I had to have a sponsor. I would love to go back again.

[airborne]

Bookmarked for future reference.

Great post!

[Kartographer]

Here’s some sites I recommend:

http://www.aaoobfoods.com/welcome.html

http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/StoreFront

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/

http://www.survivalistboards.com/

http://whenshtf.com/

For starters read this post on this site:

http://whenshtf.com/showthread.php?t=9059

Read:

http://baconreport.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-100-items-to-disappear-first-during.html

[mountn man]

When transport and the supply chain shuts down, there are only 72 hours of the necessities in each grocery store.

Thats under "Normal" conditions. The conditions where everyone goes to the store as usual, and buys what the want or need at the time.

In the event of an emergency, it would be maybe a few hours.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"Contrary to progressive-collectivist thinking, every individual who takes care of themselves and their families benefits society by not becoming a burden.

I would love to see this quoted by all candidates seeking to become "Tea Party Approved".

"Every individual who takes care of themselves and their families benefits society by not becoming a burden!"

[GOPJ]

bump

[Lurker]

I've had the same conversation with a couple of friends. Shocked them right good, it did.

Now they're busy as little beavers.