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     This is the best inexpensive guide to family emergency storage available! You'll find it to be an excellent starting point for building an emergency readiness library. 

The first portion of the book focuses on food storage. It covers many aspects of the subject in considerable depth, presenting eight different plans which you can use to guide your family's personal storage program. These range from the basic five foods to comprehensive plans involving many foods, and also includes programs based on dehydrated foods and freeze-dried products. Valuable information is provided on rotating foods to maintain freshness, the average shelf-life of numerous food products, and detailed insights on controlling food-storage factors such as temperature, moisture, time, light, and insect elimination. Plans are provided for making an inexpensive rolling-can shelf unit. The focus shifts to quantity food buying, and the book provides numerous tips on how to use your funds to the best advantage. Then the entire food-storage process is summarized in the Keys to Successful Food Storage chapter. 

The second portion of the book deals with other types of emergency storage. Its coverage includes emergency light sources, emergency heating, medical supplies, paper goods and sanitation needs. and storing clothing and gardening supplies. 

Your Guide to Emergency Home Storage presents a broad spectrum of essential ideas that will help you begin and organize your family's personal readiness program effectively 

Table of Contents

Introduction, 7
Why Emergency Home Storage?, 7

Food Storage, 9
Where Do I Start?, 9
Plan One--Comprehensive, 11
Basic Items, 11
Basic Helpers, 12
Canned Goods, 14
Fats and Oils, 15
Fruit Juices, 15
Meats, 16
Other Items, 16
Your Food Storage Program, 17
The Initial Food Storage Program, 17
Prepared Foods Have A Place, 19
Plan Two--The Basic Five, 19
Plan Three--An Expanded Basic Food Storage Program, 24
Using Your Computer to Inventory Your Storage Supplies, 26
Food Storage: The Planned, Sensible Accumulation of Goods, 29
Long-term Storage, 31
Rotation Storage, 32
Combination Plan, 32
Some Tips on Storage, 33
The USDA Food Pyramid, 36
Plan Four--A Personal Storage Plan For One Year, 37
Plan Five--A Suggested Storage Plan Based on Wheat, Honey, Salt, and Powdered Milk, 41
Plan Six--A Suggested Food Storage Plan Using Dehydrated Foods, 42
Plan Seven--One Year's Supply of Low-moisture Foods, 43
Plan Eight--Four Month's Supply of Low-moisture Foods for a Family of Five, 44

Rotation, 45
Reasons for Rotating Stored Foods, 45

Average Shelf Life of Canned Fruits and Vegetables, 47
Fruits, 47
Vegetables, 47
Other Foods, 48
Mixes and Packaged Foods, 48
A Practical Plan for Food Storage Shelves, 49

Solving Food Storage Problems, 50
Temperature, 50
Moisture, 51
Molds, Insects and Rodents, 51
Time, 53
Light, 53
Containers, 54

Fresh Produce for Home Canning, 55
Freezing Points, Recommended Storage, 56

Conditions, and Length of Storage Period of Fruits & Vegetables, 56
Vegetables, 56
Fruits, 57

Timely Tips on Quantity Food Buying, 58
Does Bulk Buying Save Money?, 58
Here's How It Works, 59
Try These Different Approaches, 60
Two Main Ways to Make Quantity Purchases, 62
Other Important Shopping Hints, 62

Notes and Ideas on Storing Bulk Food, 64

Keys to Successful Food Storage, 66

Emergency Light Sources, 67
Candles, 67
Flashlights, 68
Kerosene Lanterns, 69
Two-mantle Gas Lanterns, 69
Storage Cautions, 70

Emergency Heating, 71
Other Heating Suggestions, 72
Emergency Cooking, 72

Emergency Medical Supplies, 74
Critical Personal Needs, 74
Books & Manuals, 74
Basic Medicines, 74
Burns, 75
Cuts & Abrasions, 75
Broken Bones, 75
Poisons, 76
Bleeding, 76
Other Supplies, 76

Paper Goods and Sanitation Supplies, 77
Paper Goods, 77
Plastic Goods, 78
Sanitation Supplies, 78
Meeting Emergency Toilet Needs, 79

Clothes, 80

Gardening, 81

Basic Survival Library, 82

Index, 96

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