I never tried anchovies before until a co-worked convinced me to try making this dish for myself. When I saw the list of sparse ingredients I couldn’t believe that a memorable dish could result from so little effort and ingredients. I was wrong though—really wrong. I’ve NEVER made this Read more…
Yes, there is a relatively panic-free way to approach having a sufficient supply of food for everyone I intend to feed. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that the best way to eat an elephant is over easy, right? Just kidding. The best way to eat an elephant is one Read more…
Bacon, bacon, B-A-C-O-N! There are some foodies who consider bacon to be the Food of the God’s. While Paula Deen has her well-known belief of “you can never have enough butter” (and I do SO agree), there are many bacon fans out there that would rather have to listen to a Milli Vanilli Greatest Hits Marathon than do without their bacon. I think we’d encourage a lot more people to carry firearms if we were ever able to convince bacon lovers that zombies might take their precious salted pork someday. “Zombies after my bacon?! Now them’s fightin’ words!”
Remember when I told you about how great sprouts are nutritionally? A seed can increase its nutritional content by 500-600% just with sprouting. Just a little water and 48-60 hours of patience, and you’ve got amazing, live, fresh nutrition! Well, the fermentation of foods is a very similar science. You can take a wonderfully nutritious food such as fruits, vegetables, grains, meats and whole dairy products and compound their nutritional value through fermentation AND do so in such a way that the body just gobbles up those nutrients. Obviously, if we can’t absorb the nutrients, then they don’t do our bodies much good.
It’s interesting what a seemingly innocuous sounding sentence can do. Apparently the phrase “you can wax your own cheese and store it” is a vile enough claim to cause some to turn on their evil buttons. Oh the controversy. But the problem is that the misinformed cheese wax controversy is causing some to not have their favorite food group in stock in the event of an emergency. No cheese? That’s practically against my religion. I’d rather be hung by my toes and pummeled with an organic carrot than be forced to survive without chocolate and cheese. So, I consider it my duty to share the sound reasons as to why I’m completely comfortable waxing and storing my own cheese.
There are 3 aspects that you need to concern yourself with when it comes to your food storage. Nutrition, preparation, and rotation.
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The nutrition aspect has to do with WHAT you store. Be sure it’s not food that will simply enable you to survive, but THRIVE. Feeding your body quality nutrition in a time of stress is critical. It’s one thing to try and live off of fast food and such when you lead a mostly sedentary lifestyle. You may not think of food much
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How to influence that skeptical spouse when it comes to emergency preparedness efforts is a query I hear frequently in my line of work. I affectionately call it the “$64 million dollar question.” Surprisingly, the question isn’t dominated by one particular sex or the other, either. I guess both men and women are equally skeptical when it comes to this topic. Obviously, it is tough to have one member of the family focused on something so important without the support of knowledge, enthusiasm and additional expertise from the other. Being on the same page for this sort of thing boils
Food Storage. It really doesn’t have to be complicated.
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When it comes to emergency preparedness, there are actually 10 different components to consider, listed below in order of priority:
We’ve all thought it. “Where in the world would I put a years supply of food storage?!” Unfortunately, such a question leads many to not even attempt to be prepared for an emergency.
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When it comes to having somewhere to put your emergency preparedness supplies, it usually boils down to priorities. I know you don’t want to hear that, and I realize this isn’t ALWAYS the case. But throughout my emergency preparedness consulting, I’ve always been able to find “more room” for emergency preparedness
When I speak to people about their emergency preparedness state of readiness, inevitably the conversation begins with food storage. In fact, for most individuals, food storage is what they think of when they hear “emergency preparedness.” This is actually a bit of a problem, because food storage is only one aspect out of my Ten Areas of Readiness I teach