When storing food over the long-term, there are four items that are considered to be the bare necessities. These basics provide a foundation for anything you might want to eat. Even alone, without any other foods, these four can keep you alive (though probably bored beyond belief with your diet.) The Big 4 are whole wheat, powdered milk, honey and salt. We’ll talk in more detail about each of these over the next week, but for right now we’ll cover the general reasoning behind making these four foods the backbone of your long term storage plan. Wheat has been called … Continue reading →