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Food Storage for Self-Sufficiency and Survival: The Essential Guide for Family Preparedness
Be Well Prepared and Well Fed!
With all the uncertainty in the world today, there is peace in preparing. In an emergency, you don't want to depend on a grocery store or government agency to feed your family. Storing food assures your family's self-sufficiency year-round and benefits your budget when you plan correctly.
This in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide to storing food teaches you a variety of food storage methods that you can customize to meet your family's unique circumstances including family size, tastes, ages, health concerns, income, and living conditions. This is not a generic manual on stocking dehydrated meals that have ten-year shelf lives. It's the guide to storing foods your family loves so you can eat well no matter what challenges life throws at you.
Inside you'll
• Food-storage options for 72-hour emergency kits, short-term emergencies and long-term survival.
• Food-storage planning methods that incorporate the foods and meals your family loves.
• Tips for how to maintain balance and variety in your food storage.
• Budget-friendly ways to purchase food for storage.
• Easy and practical ideas for cooking with food in storage so nothing expires or goes to waste.
• Organization and storage methods for easy food store maintenance.
• Water storage and purification methods.
• Canning, freezing and dehydrating methods to preserve food you produce at home.
Storing food gives you the freedom to stretch your income in tight-budget months, pack quick meals for short-notice trips, and create healthy meals without constantly going to the grocery store. Plus your stored food is available if you do experience an emergency power outage, natural disaster, long-term illness or job loss. Let this guide help you start building your self-sufficiency and food storage today.
With all the uncertainty in the world today, there is peace in preparing. In an emergency, you don't want to depend on a grocery store or government agency to feed your family. Storing food assures your family's self-sufficiency year-round and benefits your budget when you plan correctly.
This in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide to storing food teaches you a variety of food storage methods that you can customize to meet your family's unique circumstances including family size, tastes, ages, health concerns, income, and living conditions. This is not a generic manual on stocking dehydrated meals that have ten-year shelf lives. It's the guide to storing foods your family loves so you can eat well no matter what challenges life throws at you.
Inside you'll
• Food-storage options for 72-hour emergency kits, short-term emergencies and long-term survival.
• Food-storage planning methods that incorporate the foods and meals your family loves.
• Tips for how to maintain balance and variety in your food storage.
• Budget-friendly ways to purchase food for storage.
• Easy and practical ideas for cooking with food in storage so nothing expires or goes to waste.
• Organization and storage methods for easy food store maintenance.
• Water storage and purification methods.
• Canning, freezing and dehydrating methods to preserve food you produce at home.
Storing food gives you the freedom to stretch your income in tight-budget months, pack quick meals for short-notice trips, and create healthy meals without constantly going to the grocery store. Plus your stored food is available if you do experience an emergency power outage, natural disaster, long-term illness or job loss. Let this guide help you start building your self-sufficiency and food storage today.
208 pages, Paperback
First published April 9, 2014
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June 22, 2023
A very good book for the absolute beginner. If you know absolutely nothing about this subject or you have no idea where to start, this is a good resource. Lots of great tips and a nice set of appendices including internet sources for further reading. Of special note is the chapter on all the various hiding places in a house where you can store food, and converting a few example recipes from fresh ingredients to shelf-stable ones. The author is also sympathetic to all personal circumstances and does not present a lot of hugely expensive ideas that would be way out of reach for most people.
However, there’s no information about curing meats, pickling, or fermenting. I was hoping to learn about how to build a cold storage room in my house, but alas. Some of the chapters barely scratch the surface of their subject (the chapter on livestock is so lightweight as to be laughable, but at least it’s a start). Anyway if you’re in any respect a prepper, this one should be in your library.
However, there’s no information about curing meats, pickling, or fermenting. I was hoping to learn about how to build a cold storage room in my house, but alas. Some of the chapters barely scratch the surface of their subject (the chapter on livestock is so lightweight as to be laughable, but at least it’s a start). Anyway if you’re in any respect a prepper, this one should be in your library.
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January 19, 2026This book is an easy read and contains information that I found to be very useful.
Simply to name a few that I can start using today:
How to make your own survival bars, food that will last up to five years on the shelves.
• Advice on storing food in the attic (we don't have a basement). Short answer: it is
better than nothing, but rotated frequently.
• What to store: the Mormon big four if nothing else. That would be wheat berries,
powdered milk, honey and beans. They will last a number of years under the
right conditions, and quite a while even under not so good conditions.
• Advice on water: plan on a natural source if you can, use a filter, but a few drops
of chlorine bleach will generally do the trick. My note to myself: our groundwater
is only about 5 feet down. Keep a shovel on hand and be ready to dig, with
bleach to treat it.
• Tips on home canning. I bought a book on home canning, but this advice is
better. It tells me how to make and preserve applesauce using the pressure
cooker I already have. A project for me and the kids today.
The authors give credit to others for their ideas. The Mormon church is a great source.
The single one star review of this book says that the Mormons' freely downloadable
preparedness manual tells you everything that is here. No, but it is a wonderful
supplement to the information here. The Mormons go into other topics, such as
evacuation plans, communications, medical and so on. So – buy one, get one free. Both
are useful.
In sum, this is an easy book to read. Well worth the investment.
Simply to name a few that I can start using today:
How to make your own survival bars, food that will last up to five years on the shelves.
• Advice on storing food in the attic (we don't have a basement). Short answer: it is
better than nothing, but rotated frequently.
• What to store: the Mormon big four if nothing else. That would be wheat berries,
powdered milk, honey and beans. They will last a number of years under the
right conditions, and quite a while even under not so good conditions.
• Advice on water: plan on a natural source if you can, use a filter, but a few drops
of chlorine bleach will generally do the trick. My note to myself: our groundwater
is only about 5 feet down. Keep a shovel on hand and be ready to dig, with
bleach to treat it.
• Tips on home canning. I bought a book on home canning, but this advice is
better. It tells me how to make and preserve applesauce using the pressure
cooker I already have. A project for me and the kids today.
The authors give credit to others for their ideas. The Mormon church is a great source.
The single one star review of this book says that the Mormons' freely downloadable
preparedness manual tells you everything that is here. No, but it is a wonderful
supplement to the information here. The Mormons go into other topics, such as
evacuation plans, communications, medical and so on. So – buy one, get one free. Both
are useful.
In sum, this is an easy book to read. Well worth the investment.
May 20, 2025
(This has been very resourceful putting together my self-prepardness plan)
Food Storage is something I have been meaning to start for a long time. It is what motivated me to start a garden. With our area prone to wildfires, earthquakes, and power outages, it would be helpful to be more prepared should we ever need to evacuate or be hunkered down for a long period of time.
Food Storage is something I have been meaning to start for a long time. It is what motivated me to start a garden. With our area prone to wildfires, earthquakes, and power outages, it would be helpful to be more prepared should we ever need to evacuate or be hunkered down for a long period of time.
July 10, 2018
Many different forms of food storage are covered in this book with pros and cons listed for each. A must read for anyone who is considering long term food storage.
August 1, 2019
good , helpful, basic info.
January 9, 2023
Easy to find what I'm looking for
Lots of detail, but easy to find the information I was interested in. Hope to put some of this into practice.
Lots of detail, but easy to find the information I was interested in. Hope to put some of this into practice.
January 6, 2015
A good overall manual. I like that it includes not just food storage and water but long term solutions (i.e. homesteading ideas). Most of this stuff was a review for me, as I have done much research on this topic, but she did have a few ideas that I found really helpful and plan to implement. This would be a very good read for someone who is interested in food storage and either hasn't started yet or has a basic knowlege and wants to know where to go from there.
September 30, 2015
Excellent reference for building food storage for emergencies. Very well researched with lots of information on storing food and water, preserving food, rotating supplies, etc.
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