One way I save money with my long-term food storage is my dehydrator. 5-Tray Excaliber Food Dehydrator

If you don't want to wait to get your food stores in, then a quick and easy way to ensure that your family will be fed in the coming food shortage is with freeze-dried foods. Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food

While you're getting your edibles in place, don't forget the water. You will need water for drinking, cooking and sanitation. Water Barrels and Storage

Wild Food Adventures ™ - Provides expertise in wild edible plants and foraging

The Farm Gal - Learn how to dry fruits and vegetables in your food dehydrator.

Backyard Gardener - Excellent source for gardening information.

With these types of “open and eat” survival meals, you can still eat even if you lose your cooking equipment. Of course, you can always rig up a fire and spit after you catch a meal, but if you are injured the best course of action is to have some fast and easy ready-to-eat meals handy.

There are several online sources that will give you tips for preparing for a survival situation, as well as help you choose the correct foods for your emergency plans. They offer a number of long-term storage and survival food products ideal for inclusion in a bug-out bag or a survival shelter.

However, if the cost is prohibitive, you can keep the cost down by dehydrating and vacuum-packaging your own foods for survival . Not only will you realize a significant cost savings, but you have the assurance of knowing exactly what ingredients are in each meal.

From preparing in advance by purchasing long-term storage foods and planting a garden, to learning how to identify edible wild plants and butcher your own meat, it is possible to survival hunger.

• Hunger Survival
• Urban Gardening

Long-term food storage techniques can mean using food storage methods employed by our ancestors. Not sure how to get started on a long-term food storage progarm or hows and whats? Here's the information you can use to ensure that your family has food to eat in the coming rough times.

• Ancient Food Storage
• Emergency Food Storage
• Emergency Water Storage
• How Much Food To Store
• One Year Supply Of Food
• Ice Cream in a Bag - Freeze Dried Ice Cream

There are a wide variety of ways to survive hunger in the wilderness, including edible plants, trees and mushrooms.

• Common Wild Mushrooms
• Coniferous Forest Plants
• Edible Wild Mushrooms
• Other Coniferous Forest Plants
• Plants In Deciduous Forests
• Useful Wild Tree
• Wild Mushrooms

Learning how to butcher wild game is a skill necessary to survival. In fact, once you learn to butcher a deer or elk, then preparing a squirrel or rabbit will seem like child's play.

• Butcher a Deer
• How To Butcher
• How To Butcher 2

You can create your own dehydrated meals that are perfect for long-term food storage, bug out bags and backpacking; save money, eat healthy and have a taste of home.

• Backpacking Food