One.  The first survival food storage secret is to learn to garden and use whatever space you have available.  From a back yard area, raised beds, container gardens on a deck or tiny herb pots in the kitchen window, folk can grow more than they suspect with a little creativity and effort.  Use eatable landscaping for plants that are decorative as well as that provide food.  Need a couple shade trees?  Why not use fruit or nut trees – they are going to supply shade as well as food.  

Two.  Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other techniques are easier than ever with modern gadgets designed to save food.  It takes a little effort – but on a kitchen counter you can dry enough herbs for a year ; you can make real powdered and flaked pepper, garlic and onion.  

Three.  Next survival food storage  secret is if you freeze food, be sure you have got a means to keep it going in a crisis.  If the electricity goes off you do not want to lose a year’s supply of food!  Have a generator and fuel, get a propane refrigerator, have some way of keeping that food cold.Putting food aside is only one part of increasing your food supply – storing it safely is the other issue.  

Four.  Be discreet.  Don’t gloat about your food supply and don’t spread the news you have six months of food in your basement.  If you do, and there is a crisis, you may be overrun with folks who know you have plenty stocked away.  Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?  

Five.Storage can be a problem?Use areas most people don’t think about.  The pantry is good for many things but if you are putting up many jars of spaghetti sauce, preserves, soups and other sauces you are going to need room.  Have a protected corner of the basement up off the ground ( enough that a wet floor won’t damage the food ).  

Six.  Here is another survival food storage  secret.  Together with your food supply have a means to prepare food including water, griddle and gas/wood/charcoal, etc .  If a storm| typhoon knocks an area down for 2-3 weeks be able to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks.  Have on hand not only requirement items but some luxury items as well .  These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a touch more like home.  

Seven.  Don’t forget storing private hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or chips, toilet tissue and other survival gear can greatly increase the comfort in an emergency.  

Eight.  Do not depend on the govt helping – or on people being friendly.  A catastrophic situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the govt cannot handle it – people have got to be ready to depend on themselves.  Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being restricted to home ).  Remember a train derailment or other issues can change things in a hurry!  Practice that evacuation.  You have 10 minutes- what do you grab?  Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can mean survival.  

Nine.  Be ready to cook from scratch, make bread and do other abilities to get thru if you had to.  If you have the food stocked up it doesn’t do any good if you can’t|are unable to use it.  If you are dependent on mixes make your own mixes in Ziploc bags that seal firmly – label with a marker right on the bag with how much liquid, egg and oil to add.  In a pinch, that bag can be the bowl – simply put wet ingredients in and mix, then decant into a baking pan.  Experiment with your grill to make things before you have got to.  

Ten.  Having the ability to hunt and fish can imply having a continuing food supply.  Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can suggest the difference between eating or not.  In the depression some spoke of having a tiny dog that would go thru culverts and flush out rabbits while the enormous dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out.  Sporting?  Perhaps notbut if it comes to eating or not, how ethical will you be after not eating for 4 days?  

Get prepared now.  Work on getting things growing, on learning the abilities you’ve got to in order to survive.  When the general public food supply is interrupted it will be too late.

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