Sold Out After Crisis (37 item food guide)

FreeRepublic ^ | 06/23/2011 | Oshkalaboomboom

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I received an ad in my mailbox from townhall.com pushing this book, Sold Out After Crisis by Damian Campbell. I tried looking for reviews on it and all I find are phony review sites with links back to a store trying to sell the book. Has anyone ever heard of this guy? Sounds like junk to me and I wouldn't even bother with it if it hadn't been pushed at me by a conservative site. Is it any good?

[30Moves]

I took a look at it and it looks like the same information you can get through any prepper web-site for free. Nothing on that list of contents that I haven’t seen covered on those sites.

[ChocChipCookie]

I’ve written a lot about food storage on my blog, and the information there is free. OTOH, there’s a lot to be said for specific information accumulated and organized in one place, such as a book.

FWIW, what I would put on that list is:

wheat (both hard and soft)
rice (white and brown, although brown has a shorter shelf life)
salt
varieties of beans
sugar
honey
spices, herbs and seasonings (according to preferences)
dried milk
peanut butter
coffee
alcohol (the drinking kind. Is it a food? No, but it will become highly desirable and barterable.)
canned goods (soups, pastas, veggies, fruit, beans, etc.)
oats
freeze-dried entrees (very useful in evacuations and emergencies in which cooking is difficult)
yeast
baking powder, baking soda
oil, shortening (Shortening, if stored in a glass or metal container has a much longer shelf life than oil.)
dried pasta

Off the top of my head, those are the biggies. Freeze-dried and dehydrated produce are also worth adding to the list, according to favorite recipes and personal preferences.

Hope this helps. I used to teach a webinar called, “The Top Ten Foods to Store,” and I need to schedule some in the next couple of months. If you’re interested, my blog is thesurvivalmom.com, and that’s where I post my webinar schedule.

[SuziQ]

Thanks for that list!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Thanks, I bookmarked your site. I’ve tried stockpiling alcohol but I always end up drinking it :-)

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

“alcohol (the drinking kind. Is it a food? No, but it will become highly desirable and barterable.).....prep list ping

[I Buried My Guns]

"...Hope this helps. I used to teach a webinar called, “The Top Ten Foods to Store,”..."

Miz ChocChip, you are an asset to FR. Please do not stop with your wisdom; your efforts cure a lot of folks of their ignorance, mine included.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If you ever get the chance watch the movie Schindler's List. He gives the people bottles of Vodka to use as barter.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah...I was thinking that we need to sock a few more drams of the potent potables away.

[chardonnay]

awesome. this is very helpful information. time to go to Costco or Winco and stock up. dried banana chips are good, loaded with potasium. store food in tupperware.
I am also going to fill up my gas cans.
you know, with all the ads offering to buy gold these days, I think it is best to hold on to all your jewelry, broken or not. IF a disaster hits, and we can’ get gas, or banks can’t open...you could probably trade a gold ring for anything. I’d like to be the person in my neighborhood who will take your gold for some of my rice and beans :)

[MarvinM]

The ChocChip list is great. I can’t imagine Damian Campbell’s list could contain much more than this to make it worth forty bucks! $40 for a list of 37 items! I’ll bet the Cookie can give us a list twice as big for half the price!! Thank you Cookie!!

[ChocChipCookie]

Forty bucks? Wow.

[OT_ham]

OK - has anyone in this group really read the book OR are you just guessing at the content???? I would like to hear from someone that actually read the material!