How To Survive The Upcoming Food Shortage

[roro]

Anyone seen/own this?

http://www.foodshortageusa.com/

[Blaik]

Fearmongering used to make a buck....I'm betting most of the "secrets" that you'd learn from that are things you can find here or on the web somewhere. Not to mention there are probably some that are controversial, so that even learning them you'll find that there are multiple schools of thought on that issue and no one knows for fact whether one side is right compared to the other, etc.

But that's my take on it, and completely subjective.

[cranky1950]

It's not entirely impossible, the US has been sucking out and driving up the cost of food out of the third world for years. As The Asian continent becomes more affluent and the US becomes more a pauper nation, more food and raw materials are the only barter items a colony has to offer. A bad harvest and food will get very expensive. Brazil once did a study and determined that it took 20 bags of soy beans to pay for each license of Windows XP. Imagine how may bags a room full of consumer electronics costs or even a set of tires.
Once the country has to balance accounts food is going to get expensive good harvest or bad.

[sailinghudson25]

you can probably find the find here.

This is my biggest concern and scenario. For some reason people in the area do not get enough food. Oil embargo stops transportation, bad harvest all around, decay of the dollar creating absurb food prices.

Learn to ween yourself from outside sources of food. I am about 1/2 way there in annual production on my land. The other 1/2 can come from my storage, and next season have extra prepped land that just need the cover crop stripped.

[Herbalpagan]

That video is a comprehensive collection of items that you can find all over the web. I'm told it's a good solid collection, and can be very helpful. However, unless you have never done anything like that, it's not anything new. I also think that when you go to can, you need the directions right there in front of you and you won't be wanting to run to watch the tv step by step of the way.
JMO

[bulrush]

These are not secrets. I believe the book they want you to buy has the same canning instructions as a free booklet from the USDA.
http://ortho.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/C/CANNING.html

Also, go to www.usda.gov and search for "canning".

[BlueRidgeGal]

Roro, Save your money on that video. There are enough of us here who can walk you through or point you in the right direction.

The big "secrets" to canning don't exist. Canning isn't any different than cooking, it's just a process. The only thing you need to be careful of is cleanliness and sterile jars.

Two different canning processes:
Water bath canning
Pressure canning

Water bath canning is for fruits and acidic foods. Water bath canning can give you jams, jellies, preserves, pickled foods, chutneys, and some tomato products (new hybrid tomatoes are not as acidic as the heirlooms so most tomatoes, tomato sauces are done in a pressure canner).

Pressure canning is for most vegetables, all meats, all soups.

There is probably a good deal of info here, plus resource links and helpful people. The chance of botulism is very very small. I got to wondering about food poisoning a few months ago and researched it out. I got the statistics from the 1930s-1950s and I was surprised that there were not that many cases back then. Nor are there many cases today. More people have problems with e.coli in foods than with home-canned foods.

So, don't be intimidated or too scared to try this. If you are frugal-minded, survival-oriented, and you enjoy good quality food, get yourself a garden and/or begin canning. You just might become addicted like some of us here!

Here's another link (sponsored by Ball, one of the top canning companies in the USA). They will tell you what you should and should not do. Also, if you buy either canners, the instructions will also tell you.

Ball canning info: http://www.freshpreserving.com/

[cranky1950]

This page has a lot of food storage stuff on it. It's also one of the best resource pages in all of Prepperdom.

http://www.buildanark.net/index.php?...%20Videos.html

[roro]

thank you guys! i appreciate you sharing all this info with me!