Survival Food: Everything You need to Know to Provide Food Security for Your Family - Through Good Times and Bad

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This book is a virtual encyclopedia of information.

Survival Food presents all the information that you need toprovide food security for your family during disruptions and emergencies.It also provides information on how to make your food supply sustainable. Sustainability enables you to eat better, save money and enjoy foods whose freshness,nutritional value and uniqueness are unavailable commercially.

Survival Food explains how to plan and properly storegrains and legumes for maximum shelf life. It also gives you detailed instructions and sample recipes for turning whole grains into meals. It covers sprouting, baking, making andusing sourdough, making pasta and dumplings, making and using bulgur,making and using parched grain, and many other related topics.It explains how to increase vitamin content with sprouting and how toimprove protein utilization by combining grains and legumes.

Survival Food explains how to get the most from yourgarden (or from the farmer's market). Root vegetables provide a lot of nutritionand food energy for the space required. They also provide more than roots.Instructions and sample recipes are provided for using the green tops of turnips, beets,carrots, rutabagas and sweet potatoes. Three sisters gardens (Corn, Beans and Squash interplanted) provide a large amount of food for the space required. Corn can be harvested as baby corn, sweetcorn and dry flour or hominy corn. Beans can be harvested as green snap beans, green shell beans, dry beans and (some varieties) as ediblevines. Squash can be harvested as a potherb (leaves and vines),blossoms, immature fruit (resembling zucchini) and mature fruit.Instructions and sample recipes are provided.

Survival Food explains how to extend your food supplies by foraging wild plant foods. The most common, widely distributed and available plants are included with descriptions, instructions and sample recipes.

Survival Food covers the pre-electric and pre-refrigeration food preservation methods and technologies. Food preservation using lacto-fermentation, drying andsalting and smoking are described and detailed instruction and examples provided. Non-refrigeration preservation of eggs is discussed with detailed instructions. Quick and simple instructions for preserving dairy is also provided.

Whether you live in the country or in suburbia, you can improve your food security a lot more than you might have thought possible. Beingbetter prepared and more independent gives you a lot less to worry about if theworld goes sideways.