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Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook Review
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Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook
I bought this book many years ago and have found it to be a very useful resource for home food storage. It is loaded with recipes that can be used in everyday meals. These recipes are geared around using your food storage so it can be rotated. Although these recipes discuss using an oven to do the cooking, easy alternatives include Dutch ovens and box ovens. More information on those will be located on my site.
Suffice it to say, about 10 charcoal bricks on a Dutch oven or in a box oven (box wrapped in foil) will give you about 350 degrees for cooking. Using these things will make the recipes work well in any condition where you can maintain the temperature.
The real magic of this book is the charts, conversion tables, and research that were put into it. One of the charts helps you to calculate your “Family Factor” so you know exactly how much food storage your family needs. No other book or food storage calculator does this. They just lump you in with some general number. James Stevens was years ahead of everyone when he created this.
Not sure where to get your emergency preparedness and food storage supplies? He takes care of that too. There are thousands of dealers listed by state and zip code. All you have to do is look up your state and zip code and voila. Although printed in 1997/98, many of the links and phone numbers to business are still good, but there are many that aren’t due to attrition.
Over 750,000 copies of this book were sold. I look forward to his 11th ed. I highly recommend it for your library. Or, add it to your cookbooks. It is a must for anyone who prepares for emergencies or has food storage.
Jim
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook Overview
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine what would happen if you became ill and couldn’t work, or if an earthquake or hurricane or bomb left your community devastated. It happens all the time. When unexpected disasters happen, people who are even a little prepared are much better off than those who have taken their dependence on outside resources for granted. When you imagine the security of not having to worry about going to the store for even a few weeks, a comprehensive storage system begins to make sense.
Now in its 11th edition, is one of the best-known preparedness bibles around. Stevens lays out a yearlong storage program of 15 food and nonfood categories, six of which (water, wheat and grains, dairy products, sweeteners, “cooking catalysts” like salt and oil, and sprouting seeds) are capable of sustaining life indefinitely in a no-frills diet. The other 9 categories are designated “Building Blocks,” and improve upon the basic diet and support a more routine, less Spartan existence while relying on stored supplies
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook Specifications
Never mind all the year 2000-type scare scenarios. Just close your eyes for a moment and imagine what would happen if you became ill and couldn’t work, or if an earthquake or hurricane or bomb left your community devastated. It happens all the time. When unexpected disasters happen, people who are even a little prepared are much better off than those who have taken their dependence on outside resources for granted. When you imagine the security of not having to worry about going to the store for even a few weeks, a comprehensive storage system begins to make sense.
James Talmage Stevens’s Making the Best of Basics, now in its 10th edition, is one of the best-known preparedness bibles around. Stevens lays out a yearlong storage program of 15 food and nonfood categories, six of which (water, wheat and grains, dairy products, sweeteners, “cooking catalysts” like salt and oil, and sprouting seeds) are capable of sustaining life indefinitely in a no-frills diet. The other 9 categories are designated “Building Blocks,” and improve upon the basic diet and support a more routine, less Spartan existence while relying on stored supplies. (Some of them, such as medical supplies and fuel, will seem as essential to some readers as the first six.) The book’s main messages–store what you eat, eat what you store, use it or lose it–are at the core of its calm advice and simple, nutritious recipes. The 10th edition has been updated with a yellow pages section that lists current preparedness resources throughout the U.S. and Canada, including Web resources.
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