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Dehydrated Food: What to Store and How Much to Store

December 20, 2010 by Peggy Layton


This article is a continuation of the last two in which I discussed The Advantages Of Storing Dehydrated Foods and How To Store Bulk Foods.

The basic food items recommended for storage and the quantities to store are listed below. These are only suggestions. Every individual and family is unique in what they like and will eat. If you don’t drink milk or eat meat, wheat, sugar or any other food item listed, then you will need to adjust the amount of these items that you store.

Grains: (300 lbs. per person per year or 75 lbs. for three months.) I recommend that you have a wide variety of whole grains. Make sure your family will eat wheat. Some people are allergic to wheat and find it out when they have to eat it on a daily basis.

Some other grains to choose from are rice, oats, corn, six-grain and nine-grain cereals, farina, germade, barley, buckwheat, rye and super grains like: quinoa, amaranth, triticale, Kamut®, spelt and millet. Included in the grain category are all pastas such as: macaroni, spaghetti and linguini.

White rice verses brown rice: Brown rice doesn’t store very long. It will go rancid if it is not kept in the freezer.

The shelf life is six months in room temperature. If it is kept in the freezer it will last a couple of years.
White rice is the best choice for long-term food storage. White rice stores years longer than brown.

Legumes: (75 lbs. per person per year or about 19 lbs. for three months.) Store a variety of beans. This includes black beans, pinto beans, navy beans, great northern beans, small red beans, lima, dry peas, soy beans and lentils.

Beans are a great source of protein and, when combined with rice, become a complete protein. Beans can be used whole, sprouted or ground into flour to make thickeners or refried beans. When combined with rice in a meal, it makes a great meat substitute.

Milk and dairy products: (60 lbs. per person per year or 15 lbs. for three months) This includes non-fat powdered milk, dried eggs, dried cheddar cheese powder, buttermilk powder and dried butter powder.

Sweeteners: (60 lbs. per person per year or 15 lbs. for three months) Sweeteners include honey, sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, agave and stevia.

Fruits: 30 lbs. dehydrated fruits per person per year or 8 lbs. for three months) This includes dried items such as apple slices, apple bits, applesauce, raisins and fruit mix and all wet-pack canned fruits, as well as fresh fruits in season.

Vegetables: (40 lbs. of dehydrated vegetables per person per year or 10 lbs. for three months) This includes dried items such as bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, sweet corn, onions, peas, potato slices, potato dices, potato flakes, potato pearls, tomatoes and tomato powder and all wet-pack canned vegetables as well as fresh garden veggies.

Fats and oils: (Two gallons of oil and two large Crisco®-type cans of shortening per person per year or one-half gallon of oil and one-half can of shortening for three months) Other alternatives include dried butter and shortening powder, cooking oil, such as vegetable, olive and coconut oil and peanut butter. Good quality extra virgin olive oil, first run cold pressed, or coconut oil will store for up to five years.

Meats and meat substitutes: (35 pounds or more of canned meats per person per year or 8 ½ lbs. of canned meats for three months). (Beans and rice can be included as meat substitutes.) If you are vegetarian, you will need to plan meat alternatives and other non-animal protein type foods. My personal opinion is that you need to have a wide variety of canned meats such as: tuna, salmon, chicken, beef chunks, ham and freeze-dried meats.

Sprouting seeds and beans: (20 pounds per person per year or five pounds for three months.) Some of the different sprouting seeds include; alfalfa, broccoli, radish, mung, red clover, adzuki, sunflower, garbanzo, lentils, sprouting peas, salad blends, etc. These must be specifically for sprouting. Sprouting beans, seeds, legumes and wheat is the best way to have salad greens year round. Sprouting increases the nutritional value by 300 times. A seed, grain, bean or legume turns into a vegetable when sprouted. Sprouting can save your life.

Gardening seeds: (Preferably non-hybrid) Store all varieties of garden seeds that you like. Keep your packets safe and sealed in a plastic bucket away from mice, insects and moisture. Hybrid seeds are genetically altered and will germinate for one season only. If you want to save seeds to plant for the next year, store heirloom of non-hybrid seeds. They are much harder to find, but you can look them up on the Internet and find companies that specialize in these seeds.

Flavorings and adjunct foods: All baking items such as baking powder, baking soda, yeast, salt, flavoring, spices, bouillon, soup bases and sauces.

Condiments and fun Foods: These foods include things such as; jams, jellies, drink mixes, gelatin, sauces, ketchup, pickles, relishes, olives, salad dressings, mayonnaise, candy, puddings, dessert filling, box mixes, popcorn and canned juices, etc.

Baby Food: If you have a baby or little children, they are the top priority in a crisis. Store everything you need for them including food and non-food items such as formula, diapers, wipes, extra clothing, warm blankets etc. Don’t forget baby bottles and nipples and spoons for baby food.

Store some bottles of commercial baby foods. However, once the infant can tolerate solid foods, he or she should be able to eat the foods the rest of the family is eating as long the foods are mashed or thinned with milk. Store some evaporated whole milk which could be added to the nonfat dry milk and reconstituted.

If allergies to cow’s milk are common to the family, then rice cereal may be used in the development of a formula. Sometimes nonfat milk is tolerated whereas whole milk would not be. In my book, Cookin’ With Home Storage there is a chapter on emergency baby food and pet food.

Pet food: Take into consideration what you would feed your pet in the event of a crisis. Store enough commercial dog or cat food for a three-month supply. However, animals can eat some of the same foods that we have stored for ourselves.

Cats are carnivores and eat mostly meat and vegetables. Cats have a hard time digesting grains. Dogs, on the other hand, do well on meat and vegetables mixed with rice.
Birds need the seeds and grains. They can eat some vegetables. Chickens can eat the same grains that we store for ourselves. They will eat table scraps from fruits and vegetables.

Any other animal that needs special food will have to be considered in planning your food storage.

Nonfood Items: Consider all necessary non-food items you may need. I suggest you go through your house and get all like items together in one tote or container.

Label what is in the container and keep it handy if you need it. Use containers that stack on top of each other to save space. If your paper products, medical supplies, vitamin and mineral supplements or personal items are scattered all over the house and you can’t find them, then you don’t have them. Being organized is the key to being prepared.

Be sure to include all paper products like paper plates, napkins, paper cups, plastic utensils, paper towels, toilet paper, tissue, baby wipes, garbage bags, zip lock baggies, waxed paper, plastic wrap and aluminum foil.

Store antibacterial cleansers, laundry and body soap. Store extra personal hygiene items such as combs, hairbrushes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo and cream rinse, lotions, makeup, razor blades and shaving equipment.

Store personal hygiene items such as feminine napkins, baby diapers, baby wipes, salves and creams for diaper rash and infections. Don’t forget medical supplies. These items might include; aspirin, ibuprofen, adhesive bandages, gauze, tape ointments, petroleum jelly, cold remedies, cotton balls, cotton-tipped swabs, scissors and all types of first aid items.

You need a supply of personal vitamin and mineral supplements such as vitamin C, calcium and any other product that you take on a regular basis. This also includes personal medications. If you are taking medications that are mandatory to life, you must store enough for at least three months. This is where the home pharmacy comes in. I know it is difficult to stockpile any type of prescription medications. Talk to your doctor and ask if you could get some extra meds on hand.

Special Diets: If you are on a special diet of any type, you definitely need to take this into consideration when planning out your food storage program. Again, store what you eat and eat what you store.

I personally store a lot of canned meats like tuna, salmon, chicken, beef and dried eggs because I need protein in my diet. If you are hypoglycemic or diabetic, you will need extra protein. Without protein you could become very sick. Most all food storage items are either simple or complex carbohydrates.

Water: Storing water is one of the most important things you can do. You can live for days without food but you must have water to survive.
All dehydrated food needs water to be rehydrated. You will need to store a minimum of 30 gallons per month per person. A three-month emergency supply would be 90 gallons. You can read my previous article on How And Where TO Store Water for more information.

I recommend a product called ION for water purification. It is a water treatment that will kill giardia and dysentery on contact. It takes eight drops per gallon, and one bottle will treat 110 gallons. I keep this product handy because it will also kill bacteria on wounds. If you begin to feel as if you are about to come down with the flu you can use it medicinally by putting 20 drops in a cup of water and drinking it.


On my website I sell a 250 gallon water tank that is 86 inches tall and 26 inches in diameter. It fits in a corner of a room or garage. I recommend it very much because it takes up a lot less space than 55-gallon drums. You would need five of them to equal one 250-gallon tank. It has a spigot to pour water with a drain at the bottom and a hole with a lid on top to fill the tank. The quality of the heavy gauge plastic is food grade and will not break. It is an excellent way to store water.

This information was taken from my books, Emergency Food Storage and Survival Handbook and Food Storage 101. Where Do I Begin?
All dehydrated food storage items, water treatment and storage containers mentioned in this article, as well as all seven books I have written, can be purchased at www.peggylayton.com.

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Have Proper Clothing For Your Survival Situation

December 27, 2010 by Bob Livingston


Clothing is an item oft-overlooked when people begin preparing for a survival scenario. But, Jack Spigarelli notes in his Crisis Preparedness Handbook, surviving without the civilized comforts we’ve become accustomed to places a burden on the clothes we wear.

So Spigarelli recommends setting aside enough ready-to-wear clothing, or the fabric and materials to make it, to last at least one year.

He recommends good quality outdoor clothing such as that made by Filson, Pendleton or Woolrich. He writes that tightly woven fabric is more snag and tear resistant and wears longer. However, loosely woven fabrics are warmer.

Natural fabrics like wool and cotton are more absorbent, and wool retains its insulating properties even when wet. But synthetics have greater strength, resist abrasion and mildew better and dry more quickly. Gore-Tex and similar fabrics, which are waterproof but breathable, are essential, and fleece items are important to have, Spigarelli writes.

In his book, Spigarelli has a table of the basic clothing needs for one person for one year. He recommends adapting the list to age, sex, climate and lifestyle, but it is a great reference for a starting point. Here’s what he says you need:

• Eight sets underwear (two long)
• One pajamas or nightgown
• One warm robe
• Two t-shirts
• Two cotton turtle-neck shirts
• One straw hat
• One knit cap or balaclava
• One heavy-duty work belt
• One pair suspenders
• One or two sweaters
• Two pair leather work gloves
• One pair winter gloves, mittens or inserts
• Two pair work shoes or boots
• One pair waterproof boots/overshoes
• Two pair shoelaces per pair of shoes
• 12 pair socks (eight light, four heavy)
• Four pair of jeans, pants, overalls
• One pair heavy wool pants
• Two to four work shirts (chambray, etc.)
• Two cotton flannel shirts (chamois, etc.)
• Two heavy wool shirts
• One water-repellant windbreaker
• One winter work coat
• One heavy-duty parka

For shoes, be sure they are well-fitting and broken it. It won’t do to don a new pair and then set out on a bug-out that requires you to walk many miles. Your feet will be protesting quickly.

And don’t forget to store foot powder. And keep a supply of moleskin in your first-aid kit to help with blisters and other foot sores.

And one final tip; wear a thin pair of socks over a thicker pair to help avoid blisters if you’re going to be on your feet for a long time.

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Severe Weather Seals Off California Town

December 27, 2010 by Personal Liberty News Desk

Last week’s severe weather in California caused a lot of damage to property and inconvenience to residents, and one town learned the importance of being prepared for a disaster.

The 800 residents of the town of Green Valley Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains became sealed off from the surrounding area after flood waters rose and rock slides covered roadways. Both roads in and out of the community, California Highways 330 and 18, were closed Dec. 22, according the Los Angeles Times.

The newspaper reported that on Dec. 23 the local store was out of milk, but a local malt shop had a stock of chicken nuggets available.

Other areas of the country were hit with flooding or large snow storms as the weather system moved east, causing hardships for travelers and power outages. The intense weather was caused by a powerful, cold storm from the Gulf of Alaska that collided with a river of subtropical moisture from the western Pacific, according to the news source.

Severe Weather Seals Off California Town

Severe weather, earthquakes or other natural disasters, as well as accidents and terrorist attacks are all capable of shutting down the power grid or sealing communities off from rescuers. That’s why having at least a three-day supply of food and water set aside for emergencies is so important.

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FEMA 'Resolve To Be Ready' Campaign Gets Support From Pastors, Preppers

A New Year's resolution to be prepared for emergencies is simple - and could save lives

Posted: December 26, 2010
8:41 am Eastern

By the RNN Wire Staff (RNN) --Thomas Horn owns a publishing house, is married to a horse trainer and has four grandchildren and one on the way. He lives on a farm in rural Missouri.

Horn, a semi-retired minister considers himself a reasonable man with a well-balanced outlook on the future.

But since September 11, 2001, Horn has been stockpiling emergency supplies and encouraging others to do the same.

"Since 9-11 it has become increasingly clear that it is dangerous and even naive to expect government agencies to swoop in to save everybody in the event of a major emergency," Horn explained. "Now we are hearing from federal authorities that it is only a matter of time – when, not if – a catastrophic event could make 9-11 pale by comparison. This year already we have witnessed the Fukushima nuclear disaster and experts have placed even-odds on the same type event striking America or a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) inside the United States within the next five years."

Horn, a veteran minister of 30 years is part of a growing trend where regular people—doctors, mechanics, laborers, receptionists and others—are preparing to survive should a natural or man-made disaster strike.

Theirs is not an extremist community hole up in underground shelters teaching bizarre or cultic ideas.

These "preppers" (as they are called) are regular folks that saw what happened on 9-11, experienced their 401(k)s falling apart as the economy soured, witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and decided to take the future into their own hands.

"These are average people holding down regular jobs who understand the world is not the idealistic place they might have once thought," Horn said. "The proliferation of weapons technology in the hands of terrorists and recent unusual weather patterns have made them aware how things can suddenly go wrong. They are preparing to survive whatever may come."

Avoiding the run on supplies

Joe, 33, manages an emergency preparedness store and recalls what happened following the series of equipment failures and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, following an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011, when nations were gripped with panic and survival merchandise suppliers were inundated with orders of Potassium Iodide and radiation detectors, running out of stock in one week.

"It was a nightmare getting services and products," Joe said. "The number-one supplier of Potassium Iodide was receiving tens of thousands of orders per day and within one week was back-ordered for over four months. The same thing happened following 9/11. At the radiological laboratory where we get Potassium Iodide Tablets (Potassium Iodide shields the thyroid from radiation damage in the case of nuclear contamination), the U.S. military flew in and purchased every tablet they had in stock – millions of pills – leaving the public without a supplier for some time."

Joe explains how the lessons of 9-11 led the private investors he works for to form the wholesale emergency supplies outlet SurvivorMall.com in order to amass in a single-source platform what the public needs to stock up on before another crises occurs.

Business has been booming for such companies lately, with long-term storage food producers and survival gear manufacturers shipping product as fast as they can make them, testament to the result of a growing body of people agreeing on the need to prepare before something happens and stores sell out again.

"Our business has doubled each year for the last three years," Joe acknowledges. "Especially our long-term storage freeze-dried foods. Next to that, our commercial gas masks and hand-crank devices like NOAA radios have been flying off the shelves."

Making plans to survive

Allie Anderson is one of twenty authors that contributed to the survival book How To Overcome The Most Frightening Issues You Will Face This Century. She explains how the "prepper" movement and economic downturn led her and her husband to pack up, leave the West Coast, and purchase land in the Midwest where a stream provides a natural water supply, which they can use for drinking and bathing in a crises, and to grow food for themselves and their children.

During a recent power outage that lasted three days, the Andersons practiced their off-grid plan, drawing water from the spring and boiling it over an open fire (which they were able to do as a result of having a one-year supply of firewood for just such an emergency). They carried containers of water into the house to use for baths and laundry, and ate vegetables and wild herbs they harvested from their gardens. Their son, 16, and their daughter, 11 worked right alongside them.

"We have about a one-year supply of necessities and can barter with neighbors for other items such as milk, eggs and meat if we need to," Anderson said. "We also have a large pantry with bulk flour and dry meals, at least a one-year supply at a time. I hope we never have to use them as a result of an emergency, but we are ready to do that if the day ever comes. We never want to be put in the position of having to beg for food or basics."

Church leaders advocate preparedness

Being prepared to survive under a variety of scenarios including a layoff, severe weather, global pandemic or terrorist attack is just common sense say Church leaders.
Some preppers foresee a time they call TEOTWAWKI, an acronym that means "the end of the world as we know it."

"It is wise council when preachers advocate disaster readiness to their flock," said Thomas Horn. "The Book of James measures faith by personal action, and Hebrews 11:7 describes true faith this way: ‘By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear and prepared an ark to the saving of his house.’

"God told Noah that He would destroy the earth by a flood. He gave Noah instructions on how to be prepared so that he and his family could survive. Noah didn’t know when the flood would come, only that it was prophesied, and he prepared for it. When the Flood arrived, he was ready. His faith in and obedience to God’s word, his survival instincts, and ultimately his preparedness actions saved his family and preserved the human race."

Horn believes the parallel between Noah and today is worth noting. "As it was in the days of Noah," he cites Luke 17:26-27 concerning the last days. "Noah's actions should define the modern believer's responsibility, including the need for spiritual and physical preparedness."

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Shipping Container As An Underground Shelter

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Dec 23, 2009

Final attempt to record building of an underground shelter using a 20 ft. shipping container. For those wondering why I didn't simply pile dirt over it without pouring a concrete cap first..... These containers are mostly sheet metal. Heavy duty as it is, the roof and sides will push inwards from the weight. Eventually the metal will rust through and you'll be buried alive. My way will insure it is still there a few hundred years from now. Problem is, you'd better keep an eye on your sump pump. If it goes bad or loses power, you'll go in one day and find it the whole thing flooded. A surface alarm letting you know the water level is above where it should be isn't a bad idea. Putting the sump pump on a UPS is also a good thing.

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Food The Currency of the Future

January 3, 2011 by Peggy Layton

This is the final article of my series on Dehydrated Foods in which I discussed: The Advantages Of Storing Dehydrated Foods, How To Store Bulk Foods, What to Store, and How Much to Store.

Right now an unprecedented number of Americans are returning to a practice of our self-reliant and independent forefathers: Storing supplies of food. The events and circumstances we are facing here in America are unfamiliar to most of us. But they are so serious that we each must choose wisely how we will face our future. You can’t control earthquakes, floods, or the real estate meltdown, but if you have food and water reserves you will have personal solutions to how these things affect you and your family.

History has proven over and over again that food and water is the solution to almost every major problem, particularly those involving independence, freedom, security, and yes, even survival. Runaway inflation in 1923 Germany followed the same inflationary path that the United States is presently on. With runaway inflation the price of a loaf of bread doubled daily until it cost so much that it was impossible to purchase.

Just recently, the National Inflation Association released a report with projections of future U.S. food price increases due to the massive monetary inflation being created by the Federal Reserve’s $600 billion quantitative easing. This report was written by NIA’s President Gerard Adams, who believes food inflation will take over in 2011 as America’s greatest crisis. According to Adams, “making mortgage payments will soon be the last thing on the minds of all Americans. We currently have a currency crisis that could soon turn into hyperinflation and a complete societal collapse.”

This is one of the primary reasons that more and more Americans are putting away supplies of food and water. It always has been, is now and forever will be that food and water are what we depend on the most to survive and having plenty of each is the most comforting source of safety and security for every human being on our planet.

Let’s look at a few other good reasons to build your food reserves….

• Legislation to prevent people from gardening is being proposed and a Doomsday Seed Vault is being built in Norway with the intent of being the only source for seed to grow food worldwide.
• Global warming — whether real or fabricated — will likely be used to control fertilization of crops and tax many farmers out of business.
• Christians searching the Book of Revelation believe that there will come a day when no one will be able to buy or sell without the “mark” (most consider this the ID card.) The National ID card is expected to be required in order to buy food.
• Imported food from countries with no safety standards for insecticides, fertilizers, bacterial and chemical contamination have entered our country’s food supply and have proven to be very dangerous. Storing safe, clean food is essential.
• The financial and emotional impact of job loss and illness are hugely reduced with a strong savings account in the form of food.
• In the case of quarantines, martial law, disasters and emergencies, if people do not have their own individual supplies, they will be dependent and helpless like the miserable conditions people faced after hurricane Katrina.
• With a food supply you can help your neighbors, family members, or anyone in need.
• Storms and weather could make food impossible to transport, destroy crops and isolate some people from food supplies.
• The gasoline prices are predicted to reach $5.00 per gallon in the near future. When this happens the price of food will go up by about one third. It will put trucking companies out of business and make it almost impossible to get necessary supplies needed for everyday life.

In any of these scenarios, the most valuable asset or currency you will have is food and water. It will be more precious than gold, silver or cash. Having food and water reserves is our greatest need. Let’s face it, when you’re hungry, nothing else matters.

Alternative Cooking And Other Equipment Needed

Another thing to consider is alternative sources of heat and cooking equipment. Make sure you have a propane stove with enough propane for three to 12 months, and don’t forget the matches. Store a lot of them. (Two large boxes per month.) A wood stove is a big investment, but it will come in real handy if there is no heat or power because you can also cook on the top of the stove. Any other outdoor or camping stove will work as well.

Menu Planning

It is very important to plan out one week of menus and calculate all the ingredients used for every recipe. These menus should all be your favorite recipes and only what you know your family will eat. When you are finished with the menu, then multiply the ingredients used by 12 (because there is approximately 12 weeks’ worth of meals in a three-month period of time, give or take a few days). That is how much you will need to store of each item.
These foods would get you by in a short-term emergency without having to change your diet and run the risk of getting sick from foods you are not used to eating. For a one-year supply of food, multiply the ingredients by 52 weeks. I recommend that you add pre-packaged convenience foods like eFoods. I will explain how to order them at the bottom of this article.

One-Week Menu Planning Chart

This chart is a sample to help you plan a week’s worth of menus and itemize all of the ingredients you’ll need to purchase to have a 3-month supply of the foods that you normally eat. This chart came out of my book, Food Storage 101. Where do I begin? Make your own charts for every day of the week. You must tailor your list to your family’s eating habits and according to the way you normally eat. If you are using eFoods or convenience meals, just insert the name of the meal into the dinner menu plan.

How Much Of The Bread Baking Ingredients Does It Take To Make Bread?

I want to get you thinking about how much food it would take to sustain life for an extended period of time. I did the calculations on how much of the bread baking ingredients it would take to make one loaf of bread per day per family and it was shocking. I took my favorite recipe and calculated all the ingredients. It makes two loaves of bread per batch. I need 90 loaves for a 3-month supply of whole wheat bread. If you have a larger family, you might need two loaves per day.

Keep in mind that homemade whole-wheat bread is different from store-bought bread. Most families can eat an entire loaf at one meal, combining it with a pot of soup or casserole of some kind.

This is what I found out:
For a 3-month or 12-week supply I will need to store this amount:

• 30 cups of powdered milk
• 11½ cups honey or sweetener
• 3 cups salt
• 15 cups vegetable oil
• 6 cups dried egg
• 6 cups of dried yeast
• 20 gallons whole wheat flour or (combination of white and whole wheat)

For a 1-year or 52-week supply I will need to store this amount:

• 8½ gallons of powdered milk
• 3 gallons of honey or sweetener
• 13 cups salt
• 4 gallons of vegetable oil
• 1¾ gallons of dried egg powder
• 1¾ gallons dried yeast
• 82 gallons of whole-wheat flour or a combination of (white and whole wheat flour) this equals approximately 16½ 5-gallon buckets.

This is a lot of food and ingredients for making bread. Each family is different, and you must tailor your plan to fit your lifestyle, what your family eats and how much they eat. If you do not eat bread, then don’t store the ingredients for bread. Use your own favorite recipes that can be made either with dehydrated, dried or canned foods that are storable.

Take into consideration that you will have fresh food in season, and if you grow a garden and bottle your own food, include these foods into your plan. Rotating the food will use up the products within the time of the shelf life. As you use them up, you will need to replenish the ingredients. It will take some planning. Each adult needs between 1,500 to 2,500 calories per day; especially those that are active, walking or working hard. A crisis is no time to change your diet.

The Best Way To Build Up A Food Reserve

I have been asked this question many times. “What is the quickest and easiest way to build up food reserves for three months to a year?”

Here are my recommendations:
I’ve been testing a line of nutritious fast-and-easy gourmet meals by eFoods Global that will store for a minimum of 15 years. This company has a new concept in storable foods that are delicious, nutritious, affordable, clean and convenient for daily use. It reminds me of the pre-packaged food from the grocery store like soup mixes, Hamburger Helper® and Rice-A-Roni®.
Some of the features of eFoods Global are:

• The food is dehydrated from premium-grade, fresh raw fruits, vegetables, dairy products, grains, beans and legumes.
• All meals are complete with everything in them. All you do is add water.
• These meals can be used every day for fast, convenient and healthy food.
• There are no genetically modified (GMOs) foods in eFoods.
• There is no added monosodium glutamate (MSG).
• No imports from countries using illegal fertilizers and insecticides.
• No hydrogenated oils.
• They are packaged for long-term storage in Mylar® pouches.

The company lets you try before you buy; simply go to www.peggylayton.efoodsglobal.com and watch the three-minute video, and then click on TRY IT to receive three packages of sample food that will feed two to four people per package. All you do is pay $9.95 for shipping.

I am very impressed with their food. I like the fact that there is no MSG in the food. I am very sensitive to MSG and get sick within 20 minutes if I eat foods with this additive in it. I have never been sick eating the food from eFoods global.

It is dehydrated, not freeze-dried, so the prices are very reasonable. It only takes 15-20 minutes to cook and it’s done, and the cooking instructions are on each package. The food is delicious.

I like to store them in the heavy-duty boxes they come in. However, another good way to store these meals is in a 5-gallon bucket with a tight-fitting lid.

The packages include soups like cheddar broccoli, Italian chicken, vegetable beef, tortilla, corn chowder, minestrone, chicken noodle, chili and potato cheddar. Entrée and other baking items include chicken pasta Alfredo, cheesy chicken rice casserole, beef stroganoff, au gratin potatoes, instant seasoned potatoes, pancake mix, corn muffin mix, cornmeal dumplings, granola, powdered milk, wheat bread mix and buttermilk biscuit mix.



The best part of this opportunity is that you can earn food credits and money by referring others. These weekly food credits can be redeemed for food, can be gifted to others and can be used as currency to purchase preparedness items in the forthcoming eFoods Global online shopping mall. I personally want to redeem my food credits for boxes of food to help my seven adult children in their efforts to stock up.

Please call me if you have any questions about the program. I can be reached at 435-835-0311 or cell 435-851-0777 in Utah. The website to check it out is http://www.peggylayton.efoodsglobal.com. Email me at splayton@sisna.com

To purchase any of my seven books or my other products: Dehydrated food, water storage, water purification and preparedness products go to http://www.peggylayton.com.

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Self-Reliance and Survival

What we will witness in 2011 is the collapse of the Institution. For the past 100 years we have come to embrace institutions as a means to survival. We have permitted our individuality to be absorbed into the group. This will prove to be a fatal mistake in the future, if we don't make the necessary adjustments right now.

To be truly self-reliant is to be truly free from the moral compromises so prevalant in our modern society. Work is a commandment from God. It is also a blessing to the individual. Man was not meant to retire to the golf course for the last 30 years of his life. He was meant for work. Those that have lived off of interest income or investment income need to realize that the Satanic Psychopaths are taking it all away. May I recommend the following:

1. Downsize your life. Make a list of what you need to survive and what you could do without. Sell or donate the stuff you can do without.

2. Go into home storage. Most of us don't own the required land necessary to produce enough food for ourselves and our families. Yet, there is no reason why we cannot store food and the other necessities of life.

3. Learn about Healing Herbs and other Holistic methods. We need to divorce ourselves from our dependance on pharmaceuticals that may not be around during a time of social chaos.

4. Improve our diets. Eat a diet richer in veggies and fruit. Cut out unnecessary sugar and salt.

5. Exercise. Physical Health is critical for survival.

6. Live a dualistic lifestyle. Continue to enjoy the comforts of our modern society while planning to live without them.

7. Prepare a place of retreat. The more remote, the better. A small organization of family and friends will fare much better than a lone wolf during the coming chaos.

8. Urban areas are toast. Suburban areas are next. Rural areas will fare better for a short while, but we will all be forced into more remote areas over time. Plan a community that is portable and can literally move overnight.

9. You will need a tent, portable wood-burning stove, water source, water filtration device, food storage and a firearm with ammunition. Tools and utensils are also necessary. Remember, the goal is to stay out of the FEMA camps. These will be changed into concentration and death camps overe time. You don't want to be there when that happens.

10. Get a Boy Scout Manual, fishing gear and hunting knife. Keep a Bible and/or other Holy Book. Pray individually and as a group for Divine protection and that you might remain invisible to your enemies.

Now is the time to convert your long-term and mid-term savings into silver and gold. There will come a time, very shortly, when they will be the only currency that will be accepted. I saw the day come when an ounce of silver would buy an acre of land. There will be a short transition time after the coming economic collapse for those with precious metals to buy as much land, food and other supplies as they could want or need. That day is coming very soon.

Eventually, all that will matter is the basics: Food, water, warm clothing, shelter and fuel (wood burning stove). Everything else will be considered a luxury. In order to stay portable, your community will eventually abandon everything else anyway. Backpacks, snowshoes, warm boots and socks will also be extremely valuable to you and your group. Remember, we don't have to defeat the Satanists, we just have to outlast them.

Let them have their underground bunkers, we'll take the mountains and forests. I would rather have the high ground anyway.

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