In your lifetime, in the United States of America, there has been one disaster above all others. When it occurred, society broke down into those that would live and those that would die. It was a survival food situation. Thousands of people, dependent for generations on government for their daily sustenance were wholly unprepared for what awaited them... Government did not come.

Survival food is the second most important part of your survival strategy in the event of a prolonged unpleasant situation. Eating is considered one of the all time best survival strategies. Drinking is the first most important thing. However, we're discussing what we'll have for dinner here. Besides, only water for meals can lead to drastic dietary choices, by and by...

Survival Food allows you to remain alive to fight another day, and survival food is a special breed of nutrition. Much of it may be dried and to prepare it takes little work on your part. In the even of a disaster or emergency, good healthful survival food is your ticket to extended life.

A disaster pits you against nature... and man. Even short term survival situations may call for long term food storage, because we can never predict when the unpredictable will happen. When the crisis arises, it will do little good if your survival food is out of date.

A top producer of survival food is Mountain House Survival Foods. Their main claim to survival fame is freeze dried food. Mountain House freeze dried food is found in most of the better stocked emergency survival food stashes around the nation and the world.

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Long term food need not be freeze dried. It can simply be dried, or salted, or canned. In hot climates, even fish is dried under the hot sun, as is meat. In cooler spots on the globe canning is the natural way to preserve survival food for your survival food kit.

An adequate survival food supply, one would agree, is necessary to guarantee comfortable, or even marginal survival, depending on the situation. A good food storage plan, taking into account keeping your survival food dry, and safe must be taken into consideration. Rats and other vermin have been known to ruin many a good emergency food strategies since time began.

Mountain House freeze dried foods and canned foods have from a 7 to 25 year shelf life, if kept in good surroundings. This is far longer than typical home dehydrated food or bulk food that you purchase at the grocery store.

You should place Mountain House on your list for emergency food rations for crisis food situations as well as your forays into the forests on hikes. Mountain House makes excellent wilderness survival food as well. Backpacking foods need not be a pain in the back with freeze dried food.

One thing to take into consideration when making your survival food list is to not put things on there you don't like to eat. There is not use in having a year's supply of pineapple on the list when you hate the stuff. On the other hand, even foodstuffs that you can barely stand has vitamins and nutrients necessary to keep you going another day.

When you contemplate your survival kit, think of foods that will be around when you need them.

In one of my very favorite all time movies, Panic In The Year 0, produced, directed, and starring Ray Milland, in a scene in the grocery store shortly after Los Angeles is leveled by a hydrogen bomb, he tells his wayward son, Frankie Avalon to skip the colas and concentrate on beans. Avalon evidently had little training on preparing survival kits. Moreover he gave little thought to survival food storage. A case of pork and beans keeps a lot longer than a half dozen bags of chips.

Chances are that you like those survival food bars filled with tasty grains and nuts. You should put some of those on you list, particularly if they are wrapped in foil. But what about when they run out?

You are tasked with going after game and need something to power you through the jungle and to allow you to get the buck back home. Home made pemmican is the answer, and you have a ready store because you thought ahead and laid in a stock of canned provisions with which to make your tasty bars with. No need to go off on the life giving hunt for food with only a handful of corn in your pouch like the red men did long ago. You are space age, even in a stone age world!

Emergencies are life's way of showing us how great it is to be living. Successfully skirting the minefield that chance and nature places in front of you makes you more alive. Failing your mission does the reverse.

Make a survival food list and check it twice. Follow through and be ready for what comes your way during the Survival Year 0.

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Survival Food - Berry Pudding. 1 pint of milk, 5 eggs, well beaten, a very little salt, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cream tartar ; slowly add flour enough to make a thick batter; at the last add 1 pint of any kind of berries, well sprinkled with flour; boil 1 hour in a well-buttered mold, or, if you have no mold, a floured cloth will do ; after the pudding has boiled hard for 1 hour, remote it from the pot and dip it quickly into cold water, and as quickly turn it out ; this will prevent smoking; eat at once, for it soon becomes heavy.

Survival Food - Oat-meal Crackers. 1 teacupful oatmeal and enough tepid water to wet and make into dough; mix well and quick; the harder the dough the better; if it will bear to be rolled out with the rolling-pin, begin to roll it, stopping to press the ragged edges with your lingers ; keep at it in the same way till it is 1/4 of an inch thick; be quick about it or it will get too dry under your hands ; make only dough enough at 1 time for 1 cracker; do not brown it any in baking; it will be good for months if you put it in your oat-meal barrel and cover it with meal.

Survival Food - Canned Corn. To every 6 quarts of corn take 1 ounce of tartaric acid dissolved in boiling water; cut the corn from the cob, and put in sufficient water to cook; put the acid in while the corn is cooking; when done, seal air-tight in tin cans or glass jars. To prepare for the table pour off the sour water and save it; put in enough fresh water to cook it; for every quart of corn add one small teaspoonful of soda and let it stand a few minutes before cooking; while cooking put in a teaspoonful of sugar; if the corn turns yellow there is too much soda; pour back some of the sour water until it turns white again; when nearly done season with salt, cream, and butter, same as fresh corn. Tin quart-cans are preferable to glass jars.

Washing Fluid. 1 pound of concentrated lye, 1 ounce of aqua ammonia. 4 ounce of salts of tartar, 1 gallon of soft water. Soak the clothes over night, soaping tho dirty spots. In the morning to 3 pails of water add 1 cup of the fluid, making a suds as usual to boil the clothes. Wring the finest out for the first boiler, letting them boil 20 minutes.

After taking these out add the rest; suds and rinse well, and your clothes are ready for the line, white and nice. If some are very much soiled they may require a little rubbing.

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