Food, Water & Garden 🥕

There are several reasons why we should be aware of the shelf live of different foods. Mainly to avoid food poisoning & illness. Do not believe that by limiting your food stock to 30 days will keep you safe from spoilage and more. While true that hazards or risks are lowered with a smaller food cache many problems still arise. Have you ever had to scavenge for food? If so you need… Read more

This food storage calculator will help you to determine how much food you need to store for a given number of people. Generally people store a smaller amount of food for children under the age of 7. I personally do not see the point as the long term goal so many times exceed 7 years of practice anyway. That being said this calculator assumes its users have (or will have) adult appetites.… Read more

What types of Long Term Food Should You Store? One goal is creating a “food under disaster” plan is deciding what it is we want to store. This can be tough to figure out even with input from family members. So we created a generic food cache inventory list for our users. The image attached  below is a blank sample  of what a generic food cache list might mimic.  Feel free to use… Read more

Food Cache Inventory List We have decided to create a food inventory list for or users to print out to aid them in cataloging a years worth of food. The sheets all use a goal of a 1 year supply. The inventory pack of printable forms can be downloaded and printed out below. Please check out our other long term food storage write ups as well. When looking at your food storage… Read more

Storing Food: How much is enough? So how big of a food cache do you need? That falls back to one of the original questions asked to all interested in long term food storage. What exactly are you preparing for? This answer directly relates to the quantity of food and and supplies in your cache and covers all supplies needed. If you fall prey to a miserable snowstorm that prevents you from… Read more

I am sure it has to be a crummy feeling to wake up only to find a crime scene in your back yard. That being some wild animal has gained access to your chickens and ripped a few apart during the night for a midnight snack. It causes unwanted stress to not only your family but the other chickens which can effect their eggs as well. Its our job to protect them… Read more

Are our readers practicing long term food storage preparation? I am sure most of our readers do in some way or another. Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm. Can you blame them? Statistically the next… Read more

Christopher Parrett the editor of the LDS Preparedness Manual has announced  the 2012 edition, which is the most current release. While released a few years ago I recently now stumbled upon this so I suppose others may find it of use as well. If you click over to the LDS Another Voice of Warning Site, you can download the entire thing - free on Pdf. 429 pages of very good prepping info. The… Read more