Food Storage

-According to Brianna

1 Year supply

• Any food is better than no food• Just start with whatever you’ll eat• Store what you eat and eat what you store• Need to have your body use to what you store• Health reasons for eating what you store– Enzymes– Gut– Addictions

Fats

• Coconut Oil is my favorite• Tallow is awesome• Canned Fish (sardines and salmon)• Olive oil is good but a short shelf lifeWhy:• Needed for mineral and vitamin absorption• Imperative for brain, skin, gut, and hormones

Sugars

• Raw Honey! Almost a complete spectrum of nutrition!

• Others: maple syrup, molasses, and fruit• Sugars are needed for energy and honey is

one of the best was to get a good boost without damage to the body.

• Take into account diabetes and other health concerns.

Protein

• Protein from canned meats, dairy, eggs, beans, grains and seeds

• My preferred is canned fish (sardines, salmon and tuna)

• My favorite grains and seeds are: quinoa, millet, and chia

• Note: need to be use to eating beans and grains because the body creates certain enzymes slowly to break them down

Carbs

• Grains, Beans, fruits and veggies• Carbs are essential and needed yet to can

create spikes in blood sugars when they are refined (= crappy energy output)

• White flour and white rice are blood sugar spiking carbs –use sparingly

Vitamins/Minerals

• Huge! • Store herbs and supplements (whole food) that

give you a good spectrum of vitamins and minerals

• Know for the long term how to get all your nutrition (alfalfa, nettles, blue/green algae, bee pollen and kelp)

• Salt and clay• Note on probiotics and enzymes

Quality vs Quantity

• Having a clean colon and intestine insures that you are absorbing all your nutrition

• Cleaned out body = need for less food• Needed less food and being able to absorb all

your food to the fullest extent can make or break you in certain situations

Eating what you store

• If your body isn’t use to it, you might kill yourself trying to go to strait whole wheat

• Diarrhea is serious especially in times of high stress

• What does the body do in high stress situations• Take into account food addictions and some

children just won’t eat food, they would rather starve

Making Food Digestible

• Souring grains and beans• Fermenting fruits and veggies• Making yogurt out of powdered milk• Making sprouts out of grains and beans (check

to make sure your food sprouts, many do not because of chemicals or fumigation)

Other Considerations

• Ready made food that doesn’t take water for prep (canned meats, soups and other foods)

• Freezed dried has more nutrition than other preservation ways

• Fresh is best so sprouts would be imperative• Have canning tools to help preserve harvests• Cows, goats, pigs chickens, rabbits, and bees

Purpose of Food Storage

• Food storage according to Brianna:– Its enough to get things going off the land– Gardening– Farm Animals– Hunting– Sustainable living day to day– What skills or tools do you need to be able to live

off the land once your food storage runs out?