Series: Best Food Storage Books

  • Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

    Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

    This entry is in the series Best Food Storage Books

    Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties…;



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    Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables.
    Storey Publishing



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  • Food Storage for Self-Sufficiency and Survival: The Essential Guide for Family Preparedness

    Food Storage for Self-Sufficiency and Survival: The Essential Guide for Family Preparedness

    This entry is in the series Best Food Storage Books

    Be Well Prepared and Well Fed!With all the uncertainty in the world today, there is peace in preparing. In an emergency, you don’t want to depend on a grocery store or government agency to feed your family. Storing food assures your family’s self-sufficiency year-round and benefits your budget when you plan correctly.This in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide…;



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    Be Well Prepared and Well Fed!

    With all the uncertainty in the world today, there is peace in preparing. In an emergency, you don’t want to depend on a grocery store or government agency to feed your family. Storing food assures your family’s self-sufficiency year-round and benefits your budget when you plan correctly.

    This in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide to storing food teaches you a variety of food storage methods that you can customize to meet your family’s unique circumstances including family size, tastes, ages, health concerns, income, and living conditions. This is not a generic manual on stocking dehydrated meals that have ten-year shelf lives. It’s the guide to storing foods your family loves so you can eat well no matter what challenges life throws at you.

    Inside you’ll find:

    • Food-storage options for 72-hour emergency kits, short-term emergencies and long-term survival.
    • Food-storage planning methods that incorporate the foods and meals your family loves.
    • Tips for how to maintain balance and variety in your food storage.
    • Budget-friendly ways to purchase food for storage.
    • Easy and practical ideas for cooking with food in storage so nothing expires or goes to waste.
    • Organization and storage methods for easy food store maintenance.
    • Water storage and purification methods.
    • Canning, freezing and dehydrating methods to preserve food you produce at home.

    Storing food gives you the freedom to stretch your income in tight-budget months, pack quick meals for short-notice trips, and create healthy meals without constantly going to the grocery store. Plus your stored food is available if you do experience an emergency power outage, natural disaster, long-term illness or job loss. Let this guide help you start building your self-sufficiency and food storage today.

    Living Ready



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  • Putting Food By: Fifth Edition

    Putting Food By: Fifth Edition

    This entry is in the series Best Food Storage Books

    “The bible of home canning, preserving, freezing, and drying.”—The New York Times For decades, Putting Food By has been the one-stop source for everything the home cook needs to know about preserving foods—from fruits and vegetables to meat and seafood. Now, this classic is fully up-to-date with the twenty-first-century kitchen. Whether you’re preserving to save money…;





    “The bible of home canning, preserving, freezing, and drying.”—The New York Times
     
    For decades, Putting Food By has been the one-stop source for everything the home cook needs to know about preserving foods—from fruits and vegetables to meat and seafood. Now, this classic is fully up-to-date with the twenty-first-century kitchen. Whether you’re preserving to save money or to capture the taste of local, seasonal food at its peak, Putting Food By shares step-by-step directions to help you do it safely and deliciously.
     
    This fifth edition of Putting Food By includes:
     
    ·         Instructions for canning, freezing, salting, smoking, drying, and root cellaring
    ·         Mouthwatering recipes for pickles, relishes, jams, and jellies
    ·         Information on preserving with less sugar and salt
    ·         Tips on equipment, ingredients, health and safety issues, and resources

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  • JeBouffe Home Canning Step by Step Guide (second edition) Revised and Expanded

    JeBouffe Home Canning Step by Step Guide (second edition) Revised and Expanded

    This entry is in the series Best Food Storage Books

    This guide is intended to provide you with the essential information to make your first small jars in a safe and enjoyable way. It will guide you through all stages from preparation to storage of your products.You will discover the principles of conservation for different types of food, the benefits of home canning, the recommended…;





    This guide is intended to provide you with the essential information to make your first small jars in a safe and enjoyable way. It will guide you through all stages from preparation to storage of your products.

    You will discover the principles of conservation for different types of food, the benefits of home canning, the recommended methods as well as the ones to avoid.

    Then you will learn the two proper methods of treatment: the boiling water bath and the pressure canning methods. You will find a list of essential equipment and the detailed steps for a successful canning experience.

    Finally you will gain some hands on experience with our easy and delicious recipes.

    This guide do not claim to be scientific or complete. We simply wants to give you the tools you need to get into the fun activity of preparing your home preserves.

    About this second edition:
    Following the success of the first edition, and thanks to some suggestions from our readers, we offer this revised version, corrected and expanded. We have included the imperial and some tables on the processing time for the preservation of the most popular fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. We also cover the effect of altitude on the processing time and pressure required for the safe canning of foods.

    Improving on the initial contents of this document we have also redesigned it to make it more educational, more fun to read and use.

    We hope that this new revision will meet your expectations and wish you a successful canning experience and “Bon appetit”

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    12 recipes that will allow you to practice the canning techniques. They are divided into three levels of complexity:

    Level 1 = easy. The recipes are very simple. You can focus on techniques for canning without too much worry about the recipe itself.
    Recipe # 1 – Apple sauce with a touch of nutmeg and vanilla (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 2 – Canned Pears (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 3 – Canned fresh tomatoes (pressure canning method)
    Recipe # 4 – Canned Carrots (pressure canning method)

    2 = medium level. The recipes are a little more elaborate. There are more steps before moving on to canning.
    Recipe # 5 – Tangerine marmalade (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 6 – Pork Cretons à la JeBouffe (pressure canning method)
    Recipe # 7 – Quick and Tasty Green Ketchup (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 8 – Marinara Sauce (pressure canning method)

    Level 3 = complex. The recipes are longer and more complex. There are more steps before moving on to canning.
    Recipe # 9 – Plum jam with cinnamon (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 10 – Nectarine Chutney (pressure canning method)
    Recipe # 11 – Cherries and Raspberries Spread (boiling water method)
    Recipe # 12 – Kedjenou chicken (pressure canning method)

    By following these recipes step by step, we guarantee the success of your first home preserves. After having practiced the basic techniques you can apply them to your favorite recipes and get our book “JeBouffe Home Canning Recipes volume1” for even more idea.



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  • Food Storage: Preserving Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

    Food Storage: Preserving Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

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    There are a lot of books about food preserving but what sets this book apart is that each food and all the methods for preserving that particular food are described in their own chapters. Find the food or preserving method in the table of contents that you want to learn about and go right to…;





    There are a lot of books about food preserving but what sets this book apart is that each food and all the methods for preserving that particular food are described in their own chapters. Find the food or preserving method in the table of contents that you want to learn about and go right to that section. The active Table of Contents on the kindle version allows you to click on a subject and go right to it. The book includes parts I and II:

    Part I is an explanation of all the preserving methods, how to do them, and what you’ll need: Canning, Dehydrating, Freezing, Salting, Brining, Sugaring, Smoking, Pickling, and Fermenting, as well as some not-as-often heard of ones as Ash, Oil, and Honey for preservation.

    Part II starts with meat and works it’s way through beef/venison/elk, pork/bear, goat/sheep, rabbit, chicken, turkey, duck/goose, and fish; then dairy: milk, butter, cheeses, yogurt and sour cream, and finishes with a chapter on preserving eggs. All the methods that work well with each food are explained along with directions for the preparation and processing of that food. There is also information about what doesn’t work and why.

    The next volumes, “Food Storage: Preserving Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds” and “Food Storage: Preserving Vegetables, Grains, and Beans” are also available in print and kindle format, exclusively from amazon.com, and are set up in the same handy-to-use format. Or save money and buy the compilation of all three volumes in one handy book, “Food Storage: Preserving Everything, Every Way”, available July 2015.



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  • Store This, Not That!: The Quick and Easy Food Storage Guide

    Store This, Not That!: The Quick and Easy Food Storage Guide

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    You’ve heard it countless times. Get your food storage. But if you’re just starting out, there’s a problem with that advice….  WHERE DO YOU START?  Ever wish you could get the Cliff notes for food storage? You know, just go straight to what works, and forget everything else? Well here’s your chance! We’ll help you…;





    You’ve heard it countless times. Get your food storage. But if you’re just starting out, there’s a problem with that advice…. 

    WHERE DO YOU START? 
    Ever wish you could get the Cliff notes for food storage? You know, just go straight to what works, and forget everything else? Well here’s your chance!
    We’ll help you quickly decipher what you should and should not be storing, share with you space saving tricks and insider information to save you $1,000s of dollars when buying your food storage, and in the end, how to make something your family would actually eat!


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  • Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis

    Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis

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    What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Do you have a plan in the event that your power, telephone, water and food supply are cut off for an extended amount of…;





    What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Do you have a plan in the event that your power, telephone, water and food supply are cut off for an extended amount of time? What if there were no medical or pharmaceutical services available for days, weeks, or months? How prepared are you?

    With this guide by your side, you and your family will learn how to plan, purchase, and store a three-month supply of all the necessities—food, water, fuel, first-aid supplies, clothing, bedding, and more—simply and economically. In other words, this book may be a lifesaver.

    Inside you’ll find 10 steps to an affordable food storage program plus how to:
    • Prepare a home “grocery store” and “pharmacy”
    • Use what you store and store what you use
    • Store water safely and provide for sanitation needs
    • Create a first-aid kit, car kit, and 72-hour emergency kit for the whole family
    • And many more invaluable hints and tips

    “This clear, concise, step-by-step program is not only affordable and doable, it’s essential in these uncertain times. Now, everyone from apartment dwellers to basement owners can store a three-month supply of the essentials, including peace of mind!” Joni Hilton, author of Once-a-Week Cooking Plan and Cooking Secrets My Mother Never Taught Me



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  • Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation

    Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation

    This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Best Food Storage Books

    Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition. Translated into English, and with a…;

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  • Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

    Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

    This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Best Food Storage Books

    Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties…;

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    Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables.

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