Simple Food Storage Meals for Tight Times: Stock up on three months worth, fast!

"Simple Food Storage Meals for Tight Times: Stock up on three months worth, fast!" When a summertime monsoon storm is on the way, I quickly track down my kids, bring them indoors, and prepare to hunker down. It’s a mom-instinct. We unplug the computers, make sure all the windows are securely closed and locked, and if my husband isn’t home, I call to make sure he’s okay. A storm of a different kind is on its way to America and has already been wreaking havoc with family incomes and our sense of security. No one knows what the extent of the damage will ultimately be, but moms everywhere are responding to their maternal instinct to gather everyone together. Since food and meal preparation is part of our responsibility, food storage is a basic step to take in order to keep our families healthy. Click here

How to store foods in buckets

"How to Storing food in buckets" One of the top category of questions I get via email has to do with storing food. For the beginner, storing food in buckets sounds bizarre and mysterious. Here are a few tips to de-mystify this process along with a video that provides a nice explanation as well. Click here

Room for several dehydrators

July 17, 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 16, 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

Homemade baby Food

May 26, 2009 - "Homemade Baby Food - Safe Preparation and Storage Tips" By Margaret Meade. Homemade baby food is a wonderfully healthy and nutritious alternative to using commercial baby foods. You can safely and easily make your baby's food with just a little time and effort. Homemade baby food will open a world of tastes and textures to stimulate and entice your baby's developing palate. The end result is a nutritious and tasty array of foods that you just cannot get when using commercial jars. Click here

Are Your Food Storage Containers Poisoning Your Family?

May 26, 2009 - "Are Your Food Storage Containers Poisoning Your Family?" By Sloan Barnett. What could be easier than going to the refrigerator, pulling out the plastic container you put last night's leftovers in, and popping it into the microwave for a quick zap? Instant hot meal in three minutes. Also, depending on the kind of container, instant shot of potentially toxic chemicals. Click here

The Difinition of survival food

May 17, 2009 - "The Definition of Survival Food" By Joseph Parish. Continually I stress that everyone should have a survival kit made up and ready for any sort of emergency that Mother Nature or fellow man can toss our way. I continually relate how this kit should contain certain essential emergency supplies as well as a selection of survival foods. Click here

Food Storage Cooking School Use it or lose it FN_503

April 21, 2009 - "Food Storage Cooking School Use it or Lose it FN_503" Here is a PDF pamphlet entitles "Food Storage Cooking School Use it or lose it FN_503" It has a food storage rack in it which you can construct. Click here

Wilderness Survival Foods

April 17, 2009 - "Wilderness Survival Foods" By Joseph Parish. When you become stranded or lost in the middle of the woods it is an encouraging thought that simply by looking around you can easily discover a vast multitude of foods. As a survivalist it is our responsibility to ourselves and to our families to be able to recognize and find these value food sources should we need them. Click here

Storing your Flour and making Olive Oil Bread

April 15, 2009 - "Storing your flour and making Olive Oil Bread" By Joseph Parish. I store up on a lot of food in the event that we have an emergency or a situation develops where food may not be readily available. As such, I on occasion, purchase food in bulk. A sample of this would be flour. However, flour as everyone knows can readily become buggy. Click here

Smoke Flavoring of Meats

April 9, 2009 - "Smoke Flavoring of Meats" by Joseph Parish. There is only one true method of natural barbecuing and that is gradually cooking the food over an open flame fire. Even though this style of food preparation is slow and tiresome, it allocates for the complete saturation of the smoke into the meat. When prepared with this approach the smoke aroma is a pleasure to behold. Shockingly it is simpler to carry out then you may well expect. Click here

Rhubarb Lamb Rub Jelly

April 3, 2009 - "Rhubarb Lamb Rub Jelly" By Joseph Parish. Every Easter my grandfather would make his lamb and without failure he would coat it with mint jelly. Needless to say I grew to dislike mint jelly greatly. As an adult I figured it was high time to come up with something a bit different then that which my grandfather used so I now use a Rhubarb jelly to do what the mint jelly did previously. Click here

Homemade Cat Food

April 2, 2009 - "Homemade cat food" By Joseph Parish. Many people have to make provisions to tend to their pets when TSHTF so here is one idea for the feline sector. It was not unusual for my wife to awaken early in the morning and make our shar pei dogs Bubba and Bubbles a warm breakfast of oatmeal. This was just about a daily experience for these dogs. Bubba and Bubbles are now gone and we no longer have dogs to cater to. Click here

Fresh home Cured Olives

April 1, 2009 - "Fresh Home Curing Olives" By Joseph Parish. Being from a Greek family and my wife’s step father being Italian we both enjoy some good olives when we can find them. Usually we like those that are still in the brine and not so much the ones that you purchase in the jars. However in a pinch either will do just nicely. Click here

Salmonella Contamination and the survivalist

March 26, 2009 - "Salmonella Contamination and the survivalist" By Joseph Parish. Usually we open the newspaper or surf the internet and several times per year we end up seeing where one product or another has been contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. With this danger continually lurking how can a survivalist beat the odds and keep his family safe and secure? Click here

Storing Condiments

March 24, 2009 - "Storing Condiments" I would like to share a little hint with my site visitors. If you happen to think that I am a little on the weird side then think about what I am going to say for just a little bit longer. Regardless of what I happen to be doing I am always on the lookout for anything that relates to survival. In this case I am referring to the free condiment packages which are usually provided with fast food. I currently have managed to save a small pail of these valuable items as well as purchasing many of my own. Click here

Dangerous Drinks

March 18, 2009 - "Dangerous Drinks" By Joseph Parish. It has been suggested that specific soft drinks can provoke havoc with your health. As survivalists this can be extremely important for our preparedness plans. We of course are concerned about our families health and at the same time we are wondering about including soft drinks in our preparedness supplies. Click here

But I don't have a dehydrator

March 12, 2009 - "But I don’t have a dehydrator" By Joseph Parish. You perhaps may already be familiar with various ways to preserve food such as by canning, freezing or making jelly. If so you are in for an overwhelming surprise as you try to dehydrate your next year’s garden foods. Drying food is not difficult and the final product can certainly be a valuable asset to your kitchen foods. I have often heard people make excuses that “I can’t dry those foods because I do not have a dehydrator”. Click here

Rhubarb Lamb Rub Jelly

March 8, 2009 - "Rhubarb Lamb Rub Jelly" By Joseph Parish. Every Easter my grandfather would make his lamb and without failure he would coat it with mint jelly. Needless to say I grew to dislike mint jelly greatly. As an adult I figured it was high time to come up with something a bit different then that which my grandfather used so I now use a Rhubarb jelly to do what the mint jelly did previously. Click here

Fresh Home Curing Olives

March 6, 2009 - "Fresh Home Curing Olives" By Joseph Parish. Being from a Greek family and my wife’s step father being Italian we both enjoy some good olives when we can find them. Usually we like those that are still in the brine and not so much the ones that you purchase in the jars. However in a pinch either will do just nicely. Click here