Posts Tagged ‘food storage’
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Every once in a while I feel we need to back up and go back to basics especially due to the fact that we constantly have new folks showing up for the first time to check out the show. That said even when I revisit a topic I try to bring not material, new view points and new analogies to the table. Today we will discuss the why, how and what behind the often highly misunderstood concept of storing food.
Join me today to discuss…
- Why bother storing food today at all
- Is food storage a symptom of paranoia – (some say yes)
- Time travel back 100 years and everybody did it
- What makes an item a good candidate for storage
- You and your family eat it – duh right?
- The food journal your insurance against expensive charity
- It will last at minimum six months with out freezing/cold storage
- High caloric value or high nutritive value
- Is multipurpose
- Is easy to divide and barter
- Methods for finding room to store your food
- Rotational pantry
- Buckets, Bins and Boxes
- Utilizing “wasted space”
- Mini Root Cellars
- Important considerations
- Insuring food gets used and rotated
- Decentralized storage
- “Rolling your own”
- Drying/Dehydration
- Smoking
- Canning
- Pickling/Fermenting
- Jerky vs. Biltong
- Freezing has a place
- Food storage is one of the most rational actions a person can take
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Perhaps these could even be called baby steps and even so I bet even a few veteran preppers could do say 4-7 of them to improve what they have already done. I figured it was a good time to back up before I roll out with the RV for a long vacation and give people concrete action. Don’t worry there will be shows Wednesday, Thursday and a guest host on Monday, Friday this week is still sort of up in the air. By the way these steps are not in a defined order other than the first three which will help you immensely with the other eighteen.
Join me today as we discuss….
- Step one – keep a food log
- Step two – keep a spending log
- Step three – perform a risk assessment on your life and geography
- Step four – build a basic black out kit
- Step five – build a basic first aid kit
- Step six – start copy canning
- Step seven – cut two expenses, just two of your choosing
- Step eight – Build a basic 72 Hour Kit – BOB
- Step nine – buy some source of back up power – any source
- Step ten – get some source of back up heating
- Step eleven – build two 7.5 gallon tubs or four 5 gallon buckets emergency food
- Step twelve – store a minimum of 50 gallons of water, more if you can
- Step thirteen – acquire a minimum or two emergency radios
- Step fourteen – acquire some means of back up communications
- Step fifteen – build a basic documentation pack
- Step sixteen – build up a 30 day supply or commercial long term storage food for your house hold
- Step seventeen – learn at lest 2 methods of food storage
- Step eighteen – find a local farmer’s market and visit often, learn about seasonal opportunities
- Step nineteen – learn to cook 5 items you have never eaten before with storable items
- Step twenty – store up a reasonable amount of COH (cash on hand)
- Step twenty-one (bonus) – affirm your right and responsibility to survive
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
What? What the hell is wrong with Jack? Here we are it is just about to be the 4th of July, the “dog days” of August are still over a month away and I want to talk about fall? Yes indeed officially “fall” or autumn begins on the 21st of September with the autumnal equinox but when I think about fall gardening I use September 1st as my starting point. Sure it is still hot in many places but the turn of the seasons can be felt already, the days are noticeably shorter, the sun’s angle has begun decline and most fall/winter crops can manage for a few weeks until cooler weather arrives.
But why now, what should you be thinking about for fall in July? Glad you asked, join me today as we discuss…
- Starting plants indoors or in shade, yes really
- Finding your first frost date, isn’t this like spring in reverse
- Time to grow those plants that can’t handle your heat
- Some beans don’t produce well in heat but they can grow in it
- A few frost tolerant crops to plant in the early fall
- Cress
- Spinach
- Lettuces
- Radishes
- Garlic/onion
- Peas
- Carrots
- Broccoli
- Cabbabge
- Calendula
- Swiss chard
- Beets
- The evil squash vine borers are almost done laying eggs, quick plant now
- If you have multiple beds start planning come cover crops for winter
- Is it time to build that green house perhaps one with shade
- Tomatoes? Now? Perhaps
- Peppers in pots
- Surviving the first and second frost really extends a season
- Fire up the canner and dehydrator
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Today I though I would give sort of a mile high view of taking your home from grass hopper fields of green to organized ant hill. Or if you are on the journey already from disorganized ant hill to organized ant fortification. Getting prepared seems tough, it seems beyond reach and on some levels it is. One can never be fully prepared for everything but getting to well prepared for most things is doable in steps.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Another look at the old story, The Grasshopper and the Ant
- Taking an inventory
- Journaling items used on a regular basis
- Committing to copy canning
- Develop a black out kit
- Install emergency lighting
- Set up some sort or back up power
- Develop a documentation package
- Set up at least 2 weeks to 1 month of long term storables
- Install a back flow preventer on your water heater
- Store at least 25 gallons of water, more is better
- Journal your spending – EVERY PENNY
- Form a debt elimination plan and DO IT
- Define your lifestyle vision and WORK ON IT
- Create a get out – get home plan
- Own and know how to use a grill
- Teach yourself at least 2 food preservation methods
- Visit farmers markets
- Talk to your neighbors
- Believe you can get it done, because you can
- Focus on the results, not the battle
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Friday, June 11th, 2010
So it is another call in Friday despite the fact that the ass clowns doing directional boring shut down the neighborhoods power for a few hours. Today the show was delayed, though I could have broadcasted on back up power it would have been hard to do a listener call show with out firing up the generator and waking up my night shift working neighbor.
Anyway we are back and ready to go, the final three calls by the way came in just this AM after I posted an alert on our Face Book Fan Page, if you are not our fan on Facebook, you should consider joining to get alerts like this via facebook.
Join me today as I take your calls on…
- The effect of monetary policy on the American Revolution
- Using coffee to deal with an allergic reaction
- Using plantain as a drawing agent for infections of venomous bites
- The eventual effect of the oil leak on gas prices
- How to bug out to the forest if you must
- Using gray water for irrigation and dealing with black water
- How the Icelandic Volcano effected cardiac patients in the U.S.
- What is the best choice for a “jump pack” for back up power
- What are my top related books for new perspective preppers (check my book list)
- How do you calculate what really equals a 30 or 60 day supply of food
- Thoughts on container growing for the person who will be moving soon
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Today we are going to continue to whittle down on the massive back log of your questions and your feedback. Today we discuss a conversation with a good financial adviser, buying silver bars vs. coins, and the freedom our government officials have to do insider trading and more.
I also want to let everyone know we now have a great new product in The Survival Podcast Gear Shop. You can see my video review of it on my Youtube Channel - It is a very cool French Press Tumbler
Join me today as we discuss…
- If you avoid a massive loss in the stock market during extreme cases is that really “market timing”
- When and where does “buy and hold” make sense
- Why must you do if you are going to work with any financial adviser
- Why 20-Year Term Life Insurance is not a long term investment
- Thoughts on a carry gun for a lady and problems with a Bersa 380
- Food preservation supplies for new preppers on a very limited budget
- How do you choose between silver bars vs. coins, the answer isn’t cut and dry
- How do you get rid of poison ivy vines – it ain’t easy
- Is inside trading legal, it is if you are in congress
- Creative ideas for selling paid for real estate
- The new 1099s are coming in 2011, what does that really mean
- When it comes down to it who should you really listen to about anything
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Okay I am back! Today I am going to try to work on the huge backlog of listener questions and feedback I now have. We have great questions today on things like dealing with heavy recoiling rifles, taxation, castor oil for storing rice and beans and more.
Join me today as we discuss…
- If there was no income tax how could government provide basic services like roads and schools
- How do you deal with heavy recoil from large caliber rifles especially from the bench
- Protecting rice and beans from insects with castor oil
- The government does something right with “sustainable agriculture”
- Avoiding contempt for your fellow American sheeple
- Obama gets a private army, the problem is a lot bigger than Obama!
- Are unpaid internships about to die off, what might be the next big brother step in that world
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Today I lay out the case to you for storing food and how to approach it. More though I explain the positive aspects of storing food whether we ever face a disaster or not. Food storage is largely misunderstood and unfortunately sensationalized today by the media. The reality is far more practical and powerful.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What does it really mean to store what you eat
- Why moms really “get it” if properly approached about storing food
- What is copy canning – special thanks to Ron and Karen Hood on this term
- Why you need commercial long term storables but they are generally not the place to start out
- Using long term foods today, not just during a breakdown
- Learning new cooking methods and techniques for today
- What does it me to really be a producer vs. strictly a consumer
- How to make biltong, please don’t complicate this 5,000 year old process
- Why even incompetent trappers, foragers and fisherman will be an issue if TSHTF
- How you can combine storage philosophies to create a bullet proof food storage plan
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Note – There will be about 9 minutes of today’s show with a distinct decline in audio quality. I apologize for this but I knew I could not recreate the heart felt reality of those 9 minutes. This occurs between about 9 minutes – 18 minutes in. That said the positive aspect is that this shows the difference in audio quality that one change has made in the past two episodes.
Today is a land mark episode of TSP, episode 400! I thought it was a good idea to do an episode on why I do this show every single day, especially for newer listeners that were not around back when the show had only a few hundred or even a few dozen listeners.
I am also running a listener appreciation contest today with a bunch of stuff being given out.
Join me today as I discuss…
- The two people that inspired me most to start TSP
- My story of debt, forgetting what was important and being hit by a market crash
- The impact of 911 on my life and the journey it started
- When I started TSP it wasn’t supposed to become a full time business
- Why I feel people need to grow food
- Why I feel people need to store food
- The reason I am so concerned with the debt load of my fellow Americans
- My concern of an eventual pandemic and the consequences it could pose
- My real concern, the way most of us are living right now
- My vision for TSP and what it is becoming
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Today Tammy Gangloff of Dehydrate2Store joins us on The Survival Podcast to discuss dehydrating foods for long term storage needs. Join us today to learn how to easily and inexpensively build out your pantry by combining dehydrating with selective commercial long term storables.
Join Us Today As We Discuss…
- The advantages of dehydration over canning and freezing
- Why Tammy got into prepping and puts so much effort into spreading the word
- Common mistakes new people make with dehydration and how to avoid them
- The best vegetables and fruits to dehydrate for long term storage
- The shelf life you can get from properly dehydrated and stored food
- What is the best dehydrator and what to look for when you buy one
- All about dehydrating frozen veggies and fruit from the super market
- Where to get the best deals on vacuum sealer bags, O2 absorbers, mylar bags and more
- How dehydrating fits into eat what you store and store what you eat
- Why you are better off just buying some things like egg and milk power and a few others
- The awesome resources at Dehydrate2Store.com and how you can help build them up even more
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
– By Tom Brown
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