Practice Preparing Your Emergency Food

Sometime this summer you may want to experiment with your food storage and your alternate cooking sources to make sure that you can cook when you do not have power available to you. A great time to do this would be on a camping trip. If you don’t have time for one this summer, you could set up in the backyard and plan a basic dinner, which you prepare entirely without electricity. If your primary source of emergency preparedness foods are MRE’s or the hiking and camping meals, which are available to you then you should plan a meal that … Continue reading →

Avoid Siege Storage When Storing Food

There are two options when it comes to food storage. You can choose to store food that you eat, and rotate through it on a regular basis. The other option is to have food storage (also known as siege storage) in which you store only the items essential to life. This includes storing large quantities of wheat, honey, flour and freeze dried foods. While these foods can sustain you during an emergency situation you may run into problems by choosing this type of food storage. One problem with siege storage is that you don’t use the food on a regular … Continue reading →

Storing Comfort Foods

When you plan your food storage I highly recommend storing comfort food. Comfort food has a wide variety of definitions. I think mostly of the food that people eat in the winter such as meat and potatoes, and heavy chowders and stews. In an emergency or high stress situation comfort foods can be expanded to foods that your family eats to help them feel better. One type of comfort food is food, which you eat when you are sick. I think that chicken noodle soup is a common favorite. I grew up drinking Gatorade when I was sick and so … Continue reading →

Food Rotation Part 2

Last week I wrote about the importance of using the pantry principle in your food storage. This basically means that you are storing what you eat on a regular basis and rotating through it as you go. This method can save you a lot of money, and your family will be able to continue to eat the foods that they enjoy on a regular basis. For this principle to work you need to set a good rotation system. Ideally it should be one that is easy to use and implement and which requires very little effort on your part. Otherwise … Continue reading →

Using a Food Inventory for your Food Storage

Another key to using the pantry principle in food storage is to have a running food inventory. This will allow you to easily see the food that you have available, and the food that you still need to purchase. It can help you to achieve your goal of storing a good supply of food, as well as make sure that you are rotating through the food in a timely manner. If you haven’t done this already, you really need to make a list of the foods that you prepare on a regular basis. You then need to make a list … Continue reading →

The Pantry Principle in Food Storage

One important principle that relates to food storage is the pantry principle. This goes along with the saying “store what you eat and eat what you store”. This principle allows you to stock up on supplies that you might need in conjunction with the sales of the items. A price book is an excellent tool that you can use to help you find the best prices on items that you will need to store. I would suggest that you start your food storage by making a list of the items that you eat on a regular basis. Then using that … Continue reading →

The Importance of a Rotation System for Food Storage

A rotation system is an important part of any food storage program. To set up a rotation system you figure out a way to make sure that you are using the oldest foods first and then replacing them as you use them. This way you will keep your food storage fresh and replenished. There are several ways that you can approach this. The easiest way is to write the date that you bought the item on the top of the can or bag. If the item has an expiration date this will take care of the need to do that. … Continue reading →

Cooking Wheat: Wheat Berries

So you have your wheat, but what do you do with it? There are three ways to eat your wheat: Whole Cracked or ground into flour Sprouted Today we’ll be talking about the simplest way to eat it, simply cooking the wheat as you might cook rice. Although you’ll find that cooked wheat berries are far chewier than rice. You might like the texture, you might not. It’s a personal preference thing. This recipe makes a large quantity of wheat berries, but you can store the extra in the refrigerator or freezer and use in other recipes. Throw a handful … Continue reading →