Thread: BASIC LIST / SUGGESTED ITEMS FOR LONG TERM SURVIVAL

25 Year Shelf Life

Video: Wise Food Storage on Good Things Utah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7X2c7xx ... r_embedded



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Wise Food Storage Meals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4EmTdIJ ... re=related



Nov 3, 2010

www.preparingwisely.com Wise Food Storage Meals are freeze dried meals that store for up to 25 years. What makes these meals so great is that they come sealed in mylar pouches that are in turn packed into square buckets to maximize room and provide a great way to protect the meals. The buckets are easy to transport. Just measure out the contents of the meal, add hot water, allow to rehydrate for 15 minutes and eat!

Lunch & Dinner

* Stroganoff
* Cheesy Macaroni
* Chicken ala King
* Creamy Chicken Pasta
* Creamy Potato Soup
* Chicken Teriyaki
* Cheesy Lasagna
* Beef Teriyaki and Rice
* Southwest Beans and Rice
* Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

http://www.wisefoodstorage.com/our_meal ... unchdinner

Breakfast

* Honey Glazed Granola
* Brown Sugar Oatmeal
* Multi-Grain Cereal

http://www.wisefoodstorage.com/our_meal ... =breakfast


Outdoor Meal Variety

At Wise Foods we provide a wide variety of great- tasting GOURMET OUTDOOR MEALS that you will love to eat! These ready-made cook in the pouch meals are prepared in minutes by just adding water! Finally . . . dependable, simple and affordable outdoor meals that will meet your needs when you need it most.

* Stroganoff
* Cheesy Macaroni
* Creamy Chicken Pasta
* Cheesy Lasagna

http://www.wisefoodstorage.com/outdoor_ ... al_variety

Stocking Up Long Term Emergency Food Supply

240 serving package

360 Serving Package

720 Serving Package

1080 serving package

1440 Serving Package

2160 Serving Package

2880 Serving Package

4320 Serving Package

Food Storage Calculator

https://www.wisefoodstorage.com/store/product.php

This all breaks down basically into one Sentance

"The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive"

2160 Serving Package

Servings included in this package

Crunchy Granola (240 servings)	Apple Cinnamon Cereal (240 servings)	Brown Sugar and Maple Multi-Grain Cereal (240 servings)	Cheesy Lasagna (144 servings)	Ala King and Rice (144 servings)
Pasta Alfredo (144 servings)	Chili Macaroni (144 servings)	Savory Stroganoff (144 servings)	Creamy Pasta and Veg. Rotini (144 servings)	Cheesy Macaroni (144 servings)
Hearty Tortilla Soup (144 servings)	Teriyaki and Rice (144 servings)	Tomato Basil Soup (144 servings)

http://wisefoodstorage.com/2160-serving-package.html

Building A Fire In Wet Conditions

March 17, 2011 by Scott B. Williams



Many people dismiss fire building as a no-brainer—just get some wood and light it with a match.

Nothing could be farther from the truth and real backwoods experts know that fire building is an art and a craft. In freezing cold conditions the ability to build a fire can save you from certain hypothermia if you are caught out in the wilds without adequate clothing or shelter to stay warm.

All fires depend on fuel in the form of combustible material and, in the woods, this usually means dry leaves, twigs, branches and other chunks of wood. If it’s raining out, how do you find dry wood? It’s easier than you think if you know where to look.

Not every piece of wood in the forest gets soaked in a rainstorm. The most accessible dead branches you find lying around on the ground that work well in fair weather will be wet however, so you must look elsewhere.

Standing trees are much less likely to absorb water than those lying on the forest floor. Often you can find dry dead branches still attached to the lower trunks of pine and spruce trees, shielded from falling rain by the dense needles of the living branches. The outer layers of these limbs may be wet, however, so you will need a knife, machete or axe to cut it away and reach the dry wood inside.

A sharp cutting tool will give you the ability to split large pieces of wet wood to get at the dry interior, or even to cut down small standing dead trees that can then be split into useable fuel.

Even better than wood that is merely dry on the inside is the wood you can sometimes find in old stumps that are full of concentrated pine resin. Called “lighter knots” or “fat lighter” by country folk, this resin-rich wood will burn with a hot and bright flame even when wet, if you first cut it into little pieces of kindling to light it.

You can identify such fat lighter by the smell and color of the wood when you cut into it. It will smell like pine pitch or tar and is bright yellow or orange inside, often oozing sap. It can be found in any forest where there are conifers such as pine, spruce or cedar.

Once you find a source of ignitable fuel, try to locate your fire so that it is at least partially sheltered from more falling rain. Don’t give up on a fire just because it’s raining. Remember there is always dry wood somewhere in a forest, but it takes a little effort and a sharp blade to get it.

–Scott B. Williams

http://www.personalliberty.com/survi...et-conditions/

Lighter Knot Stumps

Not long ago a "fellow member" asked how to specifically I.D. "Fat Lighter Stumps".(not lighter logs)

So, while on my property "chopping & fire building", I decided to take a few pictures of "Mississippi Lighter Knot Stumps!"

These where almost "dripping", very ripe & red.

Locating tips,

1. Lighter Knot Stumps are very common around the old fencepost/property lines of our Great Grandparents where they where chopped or sawed.
2. Lighter logs more common down here in wild or heart of yhw woods where they fell naturally.

Very plentiful down here, never have to work to find them, but of course Mississippi is full of Pine! Hope this helps, GOD Bless









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Finding Fat Lighter - Fatwood - Firestarter

Special thanks to Patrick319

If you live around or travel through some pine woods, take a walk one day and get some fat lighter wood. Fat lighter, fatwood, etc. is basically very old pine wood that has a high concentration of flammable sap. The tree's sap was concentrated in the stump when it fell or was cut down. Then, the sap dried. Here are a few pointers in looking for your fat lighter, should you pass through an area with pine woods.

These are some pine woods behind my house.



After searching for less than a minute, we come across a hopeful-looking stump.





This is what we're looking for. To make sure, take your trusty hatchet and hack off a piece of the side. You should see some very rich-colored pine wood that (obviously) has a pine aroma. Sometimes, this aroma is so strong it smells like turpentine.



This is definitely what we're looking for. We could just hack what we need off the top, but if transporting a lot of fat lighter or you are in need of a little extra nourishment (even in the winter if you're in the south), it's easier just to take out the whole stump. Kick the piss out of the stump with your heel and work it back and forth a little, breaking the few remaining large roots that haven't rotted.



Now that we have it loosened, squat over the stump and grab it with both hands. Now push up with your legs and just use your hands to hold on. It is much easier squatting the stump than trying to wriggle it out with just your arms.



Many times after you have pulled it out, there will be food laying on the ground beside it. Whether or not you eat this food will probably depend on how hungry you are. Yummy!



Now take this stump and carry it to your camp. A good pointer for finding fat lighter is that there will always be something sticking up out of the ground. The less wood you can see protruding above the ground, the less fat lighter there is underground.



Compare the little bit of usable fat lighter from this stump to the previous one.



If there is nothing sticking out of the ground, there is a good chance that the only thing you'll get out of that hole is 'food' or mulch for your survival garden. Here is such a hole. Notice that no wood sticks out of the ground.



After we clean the debris out of the stumphole, we are left with this.



In this stage of decomposition, the water has flowed back into the wood fibers and the grubs and termites have eaten it down to mulch. These are rotten stumps. You won't be starting a fire with this stuff. You might possibly put one out with it.... Just for the record, this doesn't have the pine aroma.



Now we return to the house with our fat lighter and set it on fire with our tinder, lighter, matches, or whatever. A sooty black smoke comes from the fat lighter and it burns like a torch.



When looking for fat lighter, you are looking for a pine stump with:

1.Something sticking out above the ground

2.A firm, rich-colored wood

3.A strong pine smell

http://www.survivalmonkey.com/fat-lighter.html

How to Make a Firebed

(If the pictures do not show go to the link at the bottom of the page and go to the website)

Imagine a cold weather wilderness survival situation where your clothing is inadequate and you have limited sleeping gear or none at all. Exhausted and nearing hypothermia, you need sleep but know that if you lose consciousness you will never wake up.

Survival Topics will show you how to survive; there is a method where you can get plenty of comfortable, warm sleep outdoors in cold weather even if you are not dressed for the cold and have virtually no survival gear http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/survival-gear/ or survival skills http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/ ... al-skills/ other than being able to make a special kind of survival bed and build a fire. http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/ ... ive-guide/ In fact, care must be taken to make this bed cool enough to sleep in!

The survival bed that makes your stay in the cold wilderness much more comfortable or even save your life is known as a firebed

http://www.survivaltopics.com/

Survival Topics Firesteels



Firesteels are one of the Most Reliable Ways to Start a Fire in the Wilderness, even when wet!

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Users report these firesteels give the largest sparks they have ever seen.

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