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 foods 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 foods is one of the nicest thing about surviving. You get to live to eat another day. Below, find a spot on collection of survival foods information.

Popular cinema has for years placed the top culinary option for survivors as each other. This is inadvisable because not only can the eating of human flesh be dangerous in procurement, but also in the eating. The problem is that while your friend Fred may be nourishing, he also may infect you with the human version of mad cow disease. It's all about he proteins and no amount of cooking will disinfect Fred enough to make him safe for the dinner table. Save Fred for last.

The first thing you should consider for your survival foods is your stash. A stash of food is not only the healthy way to survive disaster, but it can also have other positive aspects.

One of my favorite films of all time is Panic In The Year 0. It was produced, directed, and starred by Ray Milland, who was a man of his nuclear times. As the film will attest, Ray must have been scared spitless by the specter of nuclear holocaust. So much so that he made this fine example of human survival in adversity.

With the background of Los Angeles being melted under a nuclear mushroom cloud, he and his family lit out for the hills and good old Shibe's Meadow, their favorite woodsy camping spot.

On the way they stopped by a grocery store and stocked up with a pull along trailer's worth of survival foods. No chips or colas....but lots of beans, flour, salt, and the other necessities of survival including shovels, axes, guns, and bullets.

Of the survival foods, Milland instructed his son, Frankie Avalon (From another marriage) to parcel out the survival foods provisions and bury them in different locations. His theory was that if one of them were taken prisoner by fellow but ruthless survivors, they could extend their lives by giving up the hidden stores of food, one at the time. In a way, your food may serve to be your food insurance.

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that in the case of a general nuclear war, what does it matter? You would be very correct. You're going to die anyway. But there are many other kinds of Armageddons out there where pockets of people will be left to fend for themselves that don't entail nuclear winter. In this case, it would behoove each one of us to have survival foods handy. It's that or turn into a rascally zombie feasting on the flesh of Fred.

What are the best survival foods to store for sustenance during a disaster?

First, no man knoweth the hour of his death or the breed of disaster that he will face. Still, using all of our positive thinking, we must imagine that we will be the ones to survive. Therefore, whatever darkness overtakes us, we still have to eat.

When thinking of your self designed survival foods, let me suggest that the BEST thing to do is to turn to the experts of survival featured on this page. It is in fact what this website is all about. It is written around the very advertisements that festoon my pages. They have already done the homework and know what's best. You'll find everything from band aids to freeze dried bologna when you visit and use their expertise.

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However, if you are an accomplished "do-it-myselfer" and you feel confident in times of plenty to store survival supplies and survival foods up for the bad times, let me suggest that canned foods are tops on the list. Mind you, if you don't like green beans, don't go out and buy a case. It may be fun to show the friends and neighbors your horde of well rounded foodstuffs, but if it comes down to it, are you actually going to eat something you don't like willingly? Survival need not be a belly cursing contest.

Favorite survival foods includes:

• Peanut butter

• Food bars (compressed old time pemmican)

• Freeze dried food. (Tops on the list.)

• Rice, beans, flour, meal, salt, sugar, cooking oil, seasonings like pepper

• Canned food. Lots of canned foods including things you like to eat. Pork and beans can sustain life a long time.

• Seeds... In the list above, seeds are for a really bad affair. Seeds are life in a package. If you are planning long time, seeds are a no-brainer. Very importantly, keep in mind that hybrid tomatoes taste better than old fashioned tomatoes. However, seed from hybrid plants, by design, won't produce like plants the in the second generation. ONLY old fashioned non-hybrid seed will grow true to the picture on the package. If you aren't familiar with gardening, be sure to pack away a "Gardening for Dummies" book along with your garden seed.

In a survival situation, occasionally you don't have time to raise a crop. Here are more foods commonly found in grocery stores that will stave off your unnatural hunger for Fred.

• Pouch food. Think tuna, complete lunches, Ramen noodles, Uncle Ben's complete rice meals, etc.

• Dried Pasta (aka spaghetti) Pasta type stuff keeps for a long time. You can always spice it up with things you can pick up around the yard like wild onions, Fred, etc.

• Instant potatoes. If it's good enough for the family before the disaster, it's good enough for after. Dry food have been making Fred unnecessary for thousands of years. It works every time it is tried.

• Oatmeal, grits if you can get them, cream of wheat. In season, wild growing fruit like blackberries, blueberries, or whatever grows in your neck of the woods can make it taste better.

• Dehydrated food. If you have water, you are in business!

• Country folks will survive, as the song goes, but what of the city folks. Urban types eat too. Hopefully they will have planned ahead, so that they won't have to ration Fred.

City folks, even more than country folks need to concern themselves with protecting their hoarded supply of survival foods. In the city, one is never far from hungry rats and prolific roaches.

Never store you stash in a cardboard box. Cardboard boxes are like icing on the cake to hungry rodents. The LAST thing you want to share your survival foods with is a beady eyed mouse. When you make your safe food place, ALWAYS put away your goodies in plastic containers. A metal box would be even better. The best option (since city folks can't own guns) is to buy a gun safe and fill it completely up with a storehouse of tasty foods. Of course, be sure you have the combination to your food locker/gun safe in a safe location before locking the door.

The most clever and healthy survivors of natural or politician made disasters are those who plan ahead and have a store of tasty survival foods. Those who don't plan ahead are doomed to eating grass, bugs, and Fred. Possibly you, if you don't have some counter measures in place.

So you don't believe in all of this societal breakdown stuff huh? Guess what, it happened during Katrina. Salvation was only a few days away, but it is a known and documented fact that some folks believing that the end of the world was at hand began sacrificing the weak and injured. Like a super cell thunderstorm, survival situations create their own kind of weather. In your case, the way to avoid giving over to the dark side is to KNOW that you are provided for...because you provided for yourself. Survival foods are a good thing to have around. A real good thing.

Pioneer Survival Techniques which may or may not be tasty and healthful...

To Keep Lemons Fresh.
Place them in a jar with water enough to cover them. They will keep fresh in this way several days without changing the water.

Dish for Children.
Boil 1 quart of milk and add, while boiling, 1/2 cupful of oat-meal, and cook a few minutes. Have ready a vegetable dish half full of bread, cut in pieces half an inch square, and pour the milk over it, having previously seasoned it with salt.

Kentucky Corn Cakes.
Take 1 quart of cornmeal and 2 tablespoonfuls of common wheat flour, add salt to taste, and mix thoroughly with a sufficient quantity of buttermilk to form a batter. Next melt ft .heaping tablespoonful of lard, stir it with the batter well, and bake on a hot griddle, pouring them thin.

To Prevent Decay in Meats. (Ed Note: At one time Borax was a "miracle" product. It was learned over time that Borax doesn't actually prevent decay in meat. However, if you have decayed meat, you can follow the directions below to make it look good enough to eat, which by the way, was a common practice with meat packers. Unfortunately, it's still liable to make you violently sick. President Teddy Roosevelt himself took a hand in outlawing this practice which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act.)
Sprinkle on plenty of pulverized borax; rub it well into the meat, and let it remain 5 or 10 minutes on ice, or longer, if desired. Just before cooking wash it well in a strong solution of borax water, and do not rinse again. If it is to be boiled or parboiled, add a little borax in the water in which it is boiled ; a quarter of a teaspoonful will answer.

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.