20 Tips for Successfully Managing Your Food Supply

These Tips and Tricks Will Help You Kick Off Your Plan and Accelerate Your Progress as You Prepare for Any Sort of Survival Situation. By: Christopher Nyerges
 

- Christopher Nyerges

1. WHAT TO EAT

1.1. How much do you eat? Carry a little notebook and pen for a couple weeks. Jot down everything and how much you eat. Everything, including snacks. This is the only way you can analyze what your actual consumption, and how much you actually eat versus how much you think you eat.

1.2. “Passport to Survival” is a book that shares recipes for all the things that you can make and bake if you’ve stored wheat, honey, salt and powdered milk. Wheat is made into flour for bread, groats for hot cereal and even sprouted for fresh greens. The powdered milk makes milk, but also yogurt. Though storing just four items is probably not a good idea, this book shows that a lot of diversity is available with very little.

1.3. “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Lappe explains how to get complete proteins from grains and legumes. It’s not highly complicated, but if you’ve chosen to be a vegetarian, you’ll want to plan your meals carefully so you get all that your body needs. Some traditional examples of getting a complete protein by combining grains and legumes, including rice and soy, wheat and garbanzo, and corn and beans.

2. CANNED GOODS

2.1. Canned goods will likely be a part of your survival pantry. You can purchase a broad variety of foods in cans, and they should last several years, but not forever. When you purchase canned goods, take an indelible marker and write the date and contents on the top of the can. Then, when you select food from your larder, you’ll know what to eat first whether the label has survived storage or not.