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Survival Food Storage May Get You and Your Family Through Catastrophes and Shortages

Anybody paying attention to the news, who can think ahead and is concerned about their own and their family's survival, must be thinking about survival food storage.

For the past ten thousand years, people have found ways to store foods to get them through periods of winter, between harvests, times when the supply of game animals to hunt ran low, or the fish wouldn't bite, or when insects or disease killed off their crops. With the advent of electricity and home freezers, we can store meats and other foods for a long time -- so long as the electricity stays on.

Drying food in the sun, salting it, canning it and turning fruit into jelly (which is why jelly and jams are also called "preserves").

In recent years we've forgotten these kinds of food storage methods, because the global distribution system and modern food manufacturing kept supermarkets full of fresh foods.

But with the rising cost of fuel, the system is increasingly expensive, reflected in rising food costs. That's also because modern agriculture depends heavily on fertilizers and pesticides. These depend on energy, and so the rising cost of that makes them more expensive than ever, so farmers must charge more for the products just to break even.

Food supplies are growing smaller around the world. Some countries have already had food riots. Americans continue to pig out, and the number of mouths and stomachs around the world continues to multiply. Soon 7 billion people will want their share of a dwindling supply of rice, wheat and corn.

Many Americans are now going back to learn how to can foods, and stocking up on survival foods as part of their emergency preparedness plans.

Others are buying dehydrated and freeze-dried foods from such companies as Richmoor, Natural High, Mountain House, and Alpine Air.

Many people don't have the time or inclination to do their own canning, so they buy modern freeze-dried and dehydrated MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) from these companies and keep these 72 hour kits stored in their homes, cars and offices.

Their repeat business comes from hikers and campers who take their foods when they need lightweight, delicious foods that won't spoil in a backpack. They use modern technology to cook and freeze dry the foods, store them in mylar packages that have been nitrogen flushed.

Let's face it, in a true systematic worldwide collapse, canning will not be an option, because your electric or gas stove won't be operational. Your propane will eventually run out. So will your emergency thirty six hour candles. You'll be back to cooking over a wood fire the same as your ancestors did one hundred thousand years ago.

You can store water, grains, powdered milk, canned goods, infant formula. You'll need to learn about dessicants (which dry things out so they don't spoil), oxygen absorbers, storage containers made out of the best materials (metal, glass or plastic?), CO2 and nitrogen, and diatomaceous earth.

I am sure the human race will survive these difficult times, but when catastrophes happen, often more people die in the aftermath than from the original problem, because they don't get the food, water, heat and medical attention they're used to having so convenient.

You don't have to believe in ancient Mayan prophecies to be worried about our future.

Learn now about survival food storage now -- before you need to.