As you are looking and working towards getting your food storage up to snuff, there are two considerations: buy the food outright and/or grow the food on my patch of land. Now, having food and having a place to grow more can be considered two of the most valuable commodities to have if the world [...]
You can't go too far in talking about Food Storage before you hit or 'kick' a bucket. All puns aside, buckets are mighty handy when it comes to storing food. They are reliable, strong, light and can be moisture-free, and, when sealed, will keep most, if not all pests at bay. They are dime a [...]
When I recently did some organizing of my supplies, I was a bit surprised at the sheer number of canning jars I had placed into boxes. By the time I got to the 20th box, I admitted to myself that I am clearly a canning jar hoarder. That said, I don’t think I am in [...]
For Any Long Term Sealed Package Storage of Edible Goods All of the following will work for Oxygen Absorption: Mylar Bags - These are heavy-duty foil-like bags that hold up to long-term storage. Vacuum Sealed Bags - Much easier to handle for more hands-on handling of the food items. Plastic Buckets with Gamma Seals - [...]
Why Mylar? If you have ever seen the difference between plastic balloons and the Mylar balloons on how long the helium lasts within each and keep floating, you can see how much better the Mylar material keeps their seal. Mylar is a lot tougher than a lot of food packaging style bags. It is obvious [...]
They did it for the astronauts Beyond having the powdered drink Tang and bubble gum in a tube, the space program in America also came up with a great way to preserve the freshness of the food that they took up with them. And as they got into the Space Shuttle Era, they seemed to [...]
Now that we have realized that utopia for most of us isn't going to happen, you need to make plans and take action for those downtimes that all of us will face at one time or another. Although the crisis isn't staring at us directly, we tend to make excuses about our procrastinations or apprehensions [...]
For many, water is an afterthought. Those of us in 1st world countries think nothing about turning on a faucet and drinking what comes out of the tap (unless you are from Flint Michigan). It is only when you lose that due to contamination (like at Flint) or you are in a 3rd world country [...]
Long-Lasting Recipes from Grandma Now my Grandma Collins was a prolific cook. And a few of those recipes are found here. But I have also gathered other recipes from the past that other grandmas have passed along. They are not fancy. But, most of them also don’t require hard to obtain and expensive ingredients either. [...]
I can still remember my grandma and her cooking from decades ago, the recipes that were handed down to her from her mom and grandmas the links of us all through the ages of time can be the way we actually feed ourselves. It is important for us to bring this knowledge to those that [...]
