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Natural Meals In Minutes – High-Fiber, Low-Fat Meatless Storage Meals-in 30 Minutes or Less! (Paperback)

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:28:16 +0000

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“Our instructors are VERY excited about teaching classes on how to cook with home storage using your cookbook.” — Marguerite Solomon, Zion’s Cannery, Independence, MO”With the information in your book, I will be able to encourage [the people in my organization] to store food and excite them to the possibilities of learning to use that food now, before an emergency strikes”. — Sue Bryson, Sterling Heights, MI”Our instructors are VERY excited about teaching classes on how to cook with home storage using your cookbook.” — Marguerite Solomon, Zion’s Cannery, Independence, MO

“With the information in your book, I will be able to encourage [the people in my organization] to store food and excite them to the possibilities of learning to use that food now, before an emergency strikes”. –Sue Bryson, Sterling Heights, MI

Natural Meals In Minutes. An excellent cookbook of over 300 fast, simple, food storage recipes using grains, leg (more…)

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency (Paperback)

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:31:44 +0000

Review

Review From John Egan, proprietor of the website SurvivalistBooks.comMatthew Stein has written a clear, concise book on the subject of survival that, while educating, also does what few others have managed to do – entertain and engage the reader.Throughout the book you’ll find personal stories accompanying the text to further illustrate or drive home a point. The use of these asides brings you into Matthew Stein’s life, as he recounts personal stories of survival and tells the stories of others who have managed to overcome the odds to survive. Not just a survival book, Matthew also covers topics like alternative therapies; how to create a survival mindset; survival strategies; renewable energy; companion gardening; prophecies etc. as well as all the regular topics found in such books – edible plants; first aid; making a survival kit; growing, hunting and foraging; making tools; creating shelters; spinning/weaving/tanning etc. The book has some great illustrations (more…)

Mylar Bag 20″ X 30″ 4.3 Mil Thick for Long Term Food Storage

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:14:15 +0000

In today’s world of financial instability, food shortages, possible inflation and rising commodity prices Long Term Food Storage must be considered by any prudent individual or family. Food grade metalized Mylar bags, when combined with oxygen absorbers and buckets are considered the best way to store large quantities of food for 20 – 30 years. These Mylar bags block sunlight and provide an oxygen and moisture barrier. To seal Mylar bags simply take a hot iron and iron the opening shut.

These Mylar Bags are 20″ X 30″ and fit 5 – 6 gallon buckets. Bags are food grade and 4.3 mil thick.

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Creamy Asparagus Soup – Serves 4

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:39:29 +0000

The perfect company soup – light, elegant, delicious, and lovely to serve. An impressive way to begin a meal. A single pouch makes 32 fl oz of delicous soup – just add water and milk and simmer for 5 minutes.

We take great pride in our delicious soups – we’ve been doing this for over 50 years, our soups are the best we know how to create!

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20 – 300cc Oxygen Absorbers for Dried Dehydrated Food and Emergency Long Term Food Storage

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:53:44 +0000

Each Bag contains 20 – 300cc oxygen absorbers. When used with proper packaging and sealing, the oxygen in the packaging is greatly reduced. Our absorbers bring the oxygen level down reliably to .01% or less. These Absorbers are perfect when combined with one gallon (10″x14″) Mylar Bags. The benefits of using oxygen absorbers are as follows:

* Significantly improves keeping qualities of polyunsaturated fats and oils
* Helps retain fresh-roasted flavor of coffee and nuts
* Prevents oxidation of spice oleoresins present in spices themselves and in seasoned foods
* Prevents oxidation of vitamins A, C and E
* Extends life of pharmaceuticals
* Inhibits mold in natural cheeses and other fermented dairy products
* Delays non-enzymatic browning of fruits and some vegetables
* Inhibits oxidation and condensation of red pigment of most berries and sauces

The oxygen absorbers come in a clear Mylar bag that can be re-closed with a hot iron to save any unused absorbers sti (more…)

The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Paperback)

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:51:42 +0000

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long—with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography—wherever gardens grow—this well-illustrated book includes: • Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials • Solar energy design concepts • Food drying tips and recipes • Resources, references, solar charts, and more Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.

About the Author

Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a commu (more…)

10 – 5 Gallon (20″x30″) Mylar Bags & 10 – 2,000cc Oxygen Absorbers for Dried Dehydrated and Long Term Food Storage

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:36 +0000

In today’s world of financial instability, food shortages, possible inflation and rising commodity prices Long Term Food Storage must be considered by any prudent individual or family. Mylar bags, when combined with 2000cc oxygen absorbers and 5 – 6 gallon buckets are considered the best way to store large quantities of food for 20 – 30 years. These Mylar bags help block sunlight and provide an additional oxygen and moister barrier. To seal Mylar bags simply take a hot iron and iron the opening shut.

This package includes 10 – 20″X30″ 4.3 mil. thick Mylar Bags and a pack of 10 – 2,000cc Oxygen Absorbers.

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The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants (Paperback)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:34:17 +0000

A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.

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Food Stockpiling Options

jsimon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:31:51 +0000

Many people do not want to store emergency food at their homes as they do not have enough free space for it. It is true, most people have limited space at their houses and flats. However, if you do understand the importance of storing survival food and want to protect your family from possible emergencies, you should be able to find some options to store survival food. This might require some creativity though. And this article will help you to solve this problem.
The first useful tip here is to remove that clutter from your house. Many people keep a lot of useless things at their homes that they never actually need. Try to think objective and go through your house. You will definite find things you never use and are never going to use. If you clear out these items, you will get some free space. Try to compare the value of each item with the value of having emergency food storage. Stay honest with yourself. We are sure you will find things you do not need to keep any more.
The second tip is to look for nooks that could be used to store food containers and buckets. Check each room at your house and try to think of all possible options. For example, you could put some food containers under the bed. Narrow plastic containers work great for storing cans of food. You could also opt for bed risers if you do not have enough height.
Deep sides closets could work great for keeping bottled water and food containers. You could also keep large plastic buckets of food under the table. To hide it from sight just hang a cloth over the table. Think also of keeping food buckets in the corner of a laundry room. If you stack them on top of each other, they will not occupy much space.
You will not have any problems with storing canned food if you by them by the case. These boxes are especially designed to stack perfectly well. Putting these boxes on the top of each other will allow you to free a lot of floor space without worrying about these boxes falling onto your head. You could keep such “columns” in closets, laundry room, storage room or any other place at your home.
The point of this article is to show you that there are some possibilities to store emergency food even if you do not see them right away. Try to think for a while and you will definitely come up with some other great options. For example, some creative shelf systems may work well for storing food containers. Just try to get the most out of your space and make sure none of it is wasted.

This planet gets “hot” – it’s time to be prepared. Learn more about food storage – this knowledge can save your life and the lives of other people you care about. Visit this food storage site for useful facts in the food storage industry.

Some Useful Food Storing Tips

jsimon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:31:03 +0000

Many Americans try to store food for emergency purposes these days. It could be a very smart idea as the world is highly unstable and our life is unpredictable. Natural disasters or terrorist attacks may easily interrupt our everyday life. Even if you lose your job you might find it useful having a supply of food at your home. So there are numerous situations when home food storage could be really important to have. And many people realize this and start home food storage programs. However, there are several common mistakes many of them make. This article will cover these mistakes. So if you are storing emergency food at your house, make sure you are not making any of them.
First of all, many people tend to store food that they do not like. This is a wrong approach. Of course, it is impossible to store a huge supply of your favorite dishes. However, it is not smart at all to store food you do not like to eat. Your food storage should include foods you eat with pleasure. You should also store salt, sugar and spices to make sure your food will taste good. It is highly important to have some tasty food if an emergency occurs. Such food may reduce stress and make you and your family feel better. This is especially important for those who have kids. Children do not usually like unknown and unfamiliar food. So you need to make sure they will have something stable during an emergency.
Another big mistake is made by people who are not rotating their food supplies. If you need to buy a new jar of peanut butter, you should get it and put it into your food storage container. And for your everyday use you should take the oldest one from your food storage. This way your foods will remain fresh and will never spoil. Rotating your supplies is a money saving option as you will not waste food products. Plus you will be getting used to eating foods from your emergency supplies and will not feel displeased when you actually have to eat these foods.
One more mistake is to store all your survival foods in one place. Unfortunately the majority of people make this mistake. Just try to think about it: all of us know that it is unsafe to keep all the eggs in one bucket. This saying is perfectly applied to food storage program. If a part of your home is damaged by a tornado or a fire, you might lose all your food supplies. This means you will have no food during an emergency. That is why you should store emergency foods at different places around your house.

Have you heard that food storage can save you from lots of problems during different emergency cases. Find out more about food storage on this food storage web site.