Room for several dehydrators

July 16, 2009 - "Room for several dehydrators?" By Joseph Parish. You finally have your dehydrator and are ready to have fun. No longer will you have to rely upon the grocery store for your needs as you can dry just about everything from regular tomatoes to the popular sun dried versions, potatoes, onions, mushrooms, bananas, pineapples, strawberries, peppers, jerky, herbs, meats and more. One of the great things about dehydrating foods is the decrease in waste. The skins and ends that you would normally toss into the trash can be dried and ground into a powder for use in your normal everyday cooking. These powders will add some extra flavor to your foods when it is needed. Click here

A Favorite Beet Relish Recipe

July 12, 2009 - "A Favorite Beet Relish Recipe" By Joseph Parish. If you search enough you are likely to find a relish made that is suitable for just about every type of need. This need could range from hamburgers or hot dogs to the use of a relish as a side dish for greens or meats. Your relish could vary from mild or spicy or to the extremely hot kind which you would hardly be able to locate in your local department store. Click here

Making Tomato Powder for your food storage

June 22, 2009 - "Making Tomato Powder for your food storage" By Joseph Parish. Whenever a survivalist considers starting their food storage plans one of the more important considerations that they must take into account is the amount of space that is available. Without adequate space one can not properly store a sufficient quantity of needed food supplies. Click here

$20 a week food pantry plan

May 27, 2009 - "$20 a week food pantry plan" I picked up these notes on one of the survival web sites and would like to pass them on at this time. For only 20 dollars extra per week you could successfully store up on all your food needs. This is week 1. Click here

Food Storage Dos and Don'ts

May 24, 2009 - "Food Storage Dos and Don'ts" By Jodi Moore. When you are thinking about starting a long-term food storage program there are a lot of things to consider. First off, what are your food storage goals? A common guideline is to start with a 3 month supply of foods you normally eat, and then build up a one year supply of longer-term foods. Click here

Improve survival food storage

May 22, 2009 - "Improve Survival Food Storage - Oxygen Absorbers and Nitrogen Packing" By Kevin Taylor. The freeze drying process removes 98% of the water from food, stopping bacterial growth as well as killing insects and their eggs. Beyond freeze drying further to preserve food and increase shelf life, oxygen is the main enemy. If the food is stored in a way that it is not exposed to oxygen, the shelf life can reach 25 to 30 years. Shelf life here refers to the food maintaining it's properties of nutritional value, taste, and appearance. Click here

Could we experience meat rationing again?

May 21, 2009 - "Could we experience meat rationing again?" by Joseph Parish. On May the 3rd of 1944 the federal government and in particular the Office of Price Administration made available all meats which were previously rationed except for beef roast and beef steaks. Unfortunately at the same time they announced that they would cut in half the “red points” which were required to purchase staples such as butter, evaporated milk, cheese, beef steaks and roasts. In effect what this provided was that the average citizen would actually receive less of these desired products then they previously had. Click here

How Critical is food storage in an emergency

May 20, 2009 - "How critical is food storage in an emergency" by Joseph Parish. Most hard and true survivalists tend to worry significantly about whether they have a sufficient supply of food stored up for a possibly emergency. To them their food supply is of paramount importance since its primary purpose is to take care of their family in the event of a crisis. Click here

$5.00 Dollar a week food storage plan

April 26, 2009 - "$5.00 dollar a week food storage plan" - In view of Americas recent food situations and the sky rocketing prices I have again included a link to the article entitled "$5.00 dollar a week food storage plan". Since the food prices are on the rise I would extend this to $10 per week. This article was put out by the Mormon's in support of their food storage program. It provides some excellent guidelines in this respect. I encourage everyone to get started ASAP. Click here

Making Emergency Non Maple Flavored Syrup

April 24, 2009 - "Making Emergency Non Maple Flavored Syrup" By Joseph Parish. Maple syrup is derived from sap of the maple tree. It is sweet tasting substance which is often eaten on pancakes, French toast, waffles, or cornbread. It may sometimes be used as ingredients in cooking or baking, candy making or for preparation of deserts. Surprisingly it is also occasionally used for flavoring in the manufacture of beer. Maple syrup was initially used by Native American who instructed the early settlers in its use. Click here

Building Self Rotating Shelves

April 22, 2009 - "Building Self Rotating Shelves" Here is an article in PDF format on how to Build Self-rotating Shelves for your food storage. These shelves are really nice to use. Click here

Canning that tasty Lobster

April 19, 2009 - "Canning that tasty Lobster" By Joseph Parish. During the Y2K scare I was determined to not only be really prepared but to do it in style. Now when I say really I mean really. I didn’t want to just survive. I wanted to do it in a style that I was accustomed to. I went out and purchased a 30 plus foot motor home specifically for Y2K and proceeded to equip it with the finer things in life. I stocked up on bottles of red and white wine (This was really a good excuse I think), cans of crab meat and of course lots of canned shrimp and lobster. It was not until later after Y2K that I discovered exactly how easy and economical it was to can my own lobsters in place of purchasing those cans which were already done. Click here

Freezing excess Cabbage the right way

April 18, 2009 - "Freezing excess Cabbage the right way" By Joseph Parish. Occasionally good deals come along and it becomes desirable to grab up a lot of a certain vegetable. This was the case with cabbage. However, lets face it no matter how much you like cabbage enough is enough. Jus the same when you are afforded the opportunity to find cabbage for ten cents per pound you want to store up as much as you can. Unfortunately if left alone the cabbage would go bad in a short period of time. Click here

Quick food storage camouflaging

April 15, 2009 - " Quick food storage camouflaging" By Joseph Parish. I am one of the privileged people that has a separate food storage area however many people lack the suitable space to stockpile even small quantities of food let alone to provide storage for a complete years supply. Their shelves and closets are required for necessary items such as clothing and dishes. This just does not leave extra places to put those cans of food. It is thus apparent that one must exercise their imagination to create a means for storing that extra food in the event that an emergency situation presents itself. Click here

Warm up your winter with canning

April 8, 2009 - "Warm your winter with Canning" By Joseph Parish. I dare say there is no better way to spend weekends than canning local vegetables, peaches, berries or apples. For being a northern state Delaware winters are not really that bad weather wise. Here is the middle of December and our temperatures today were close to seventy degrees. Not bad at all for winter. Click here

Storage of Oil used for cooking

April 3, 2009 - "Storage of oil used for cooking" By Joseph Parish. It wasn’t too many years ago that I was employed at a local oil refinery. Not the kind of refinery which processed crude oil into oil which is used in our vehicles but rather the kind of refinery which makes cooking oil. This particular refinery specialized in soybean oil. My job there was to ensure that the product that was being made was top quality and completely fit for human consumption. Click here

Using the Reynold's Handi-Vac System

April 1, 2009 - "Using the Reynolds’s Handi-Vac System" By Joseph Parish. A while back I was fortunate enough to locate one of the Reynolds’s Handi-vac systems in our local Wal-Mart department store. It was not a costly item and so I decided to pay my ten dollars or so and give it a try. At the same time I put in another ten dollars for 9 gallon bags that are used in conjunction with the machine. Click here

Is there a difference between short term and long term food storage?

March 31, 2009 - "Is there a difference between short term and long term food storage? By Joseph Parish. When sitting among the various survival groups you often hear it said that someone is storing this or that for their short term storage and this and that for their long term storage. This is actually utter nonsense as the only difference in the short and the long term storage should be the quantity of products that are being stored. Click here

Butter when you need it

March 30, 2009 - "Butter when you need it" By Joseph Parish. During extreme times of crisis and under emergency conditions you can certainly bet that you will not find any sort of butter in your local food stores. Butter will tend to become a valuable commodity in those particular times. Click here