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Summary: Lots of Food Storage Info Here
Review: A very informative book, with plenty of quick reference charts, including shelf-life charts. The goal is to store a one-year supply of food. Lots of useful information, for example, forget about the expiration date on a can, its good to eat until it starts buldging or the seam breaks.The only thing this book doesn't explain is how to defend your food supply against hoards of hungry armed neighbors. ...
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Summary: Comprehensive, yet complicated.
Review: At first glance, this book looked like a great comprehensive source for information. After reading through the first two chapters, I had spent hours, and was struggling to weed through all of the information. It is a good preparedness encyclopedia, but if you plan to use this as a workbook, hopefully you have a high tolerance for boredom, and many hours to sift through the detail.
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Summary: Basics has sold over 350,000 copies.
Review: Concerns about the Year 2000 computer bug, unexpected job loss, volatile financial markets, and natural disasters such as severe storms have made home storage and preparedness a current topic all across the country.Making the Best of Basics has been the home storage and preparedness bible for a generation of readers. With over 350,000 copies sold, Basics is the most comprehensive single volume available on in-home storage. Making the Best of Basics has been updated for the '90s and offers the average family a manageable and effective plan to enable them to live on resources in their own home in a near-normal manner for up to a year. Basics includes chapters on storing and using (including 200 recipes) everything from water, wheat, and dried fruits and vegetables to vitamin supplements to maintain your family's health and emergency sources of fuel and energy. Basics is an excellent and proven source you can use to prepare for an uncertain future.
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Summary: Wouldn't face Y2K without this book!
Review: Excellent book on food storage, sprouting, heating alternatives, ect. Wonderful for the person who is attempting this for the first time. This book may mean the difference between life and death for FAMILIES caught in a survival situation. A huge book, great value for the price. Simple step by step diagrams, tables, charts and graphs. Y2K is going to catch many people unprepared, not if you have read this book.
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Summary: Well thought out preparation and storage - a must for Y2K
Review: Few know more about food preparation and storage than the Mormons. Their reputation for being ready for any emergency or natural disaster is well known - up to 2 years food supply for each family. I bought the 10th edition and was amazed at the resources including an exhaustive preparedness resource index. These are methods are grandparents and the pioneers knew well but today's generation is unfamiliar with. It is nice to see this heritage passed along. Thanks for an excellent resource. I would also like to recommend The Survivor's Guide to The Year 2000. It is to financial and investments what this book is to food preparation: all the essentials for the LDS family and everyone else who feels that "peace of mind follows preparedness." There is security in knowing you are ready for anything. I heartily recommned both resouces to all. Thanks again.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I had been reading and thinking about preparing for about a year, but didn't know where to start and hadn't taken action until I bought and read the book. It has excellent information on how much to buy, shelf life, recipes, storage suggestions, resources, and more. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: It has always been the best on the market and always will be
Review: I have one of your sixth editions from 1977. I find myself going back to it often when I am looking for information on basic recipes and food storage. I can imagine what your new edition is like. Keep up the good work.
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Summary: MAYBE I'LL HAVE TIME AT Y3K
Review: i WAS HOPING THAT I WOULD HAVE TIME TO READ THIS IN MORE DETAIL WHEN THE Y2K BUG WAS SUPPOSSED TO BITE. Since it didn't ,I have not had the time to get deeper into this book. I like it though and maybe when the children are grown I will try some of those recipes for bread.The storage info. is neat. I always wondered how the old-timers did that stuff !
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Summary: A great resource for helping restore a lost heritage!
Review: In a time where we have become too dependent on others to take care of us, it is refreshing to know there are books like this that can restore or preserve a heritage of skills / knowledge for our posterity. Thinking of and sowing into the lives of others following behind us is a blessing and responsibility, many no longer cherish. This book is for those who do.
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Summary: Confused on the topic? Don't know where to start? Read it.
Review: In preparation for a "worst case" year 2000 problem, I was swamped in starting my family's food storage plan. I had no idea where to start. This book took me by the hand and provided everything I needed from answering the following: Working with a tight budget? What to store? How much for how long? How to cook? Nutritional content? How to Store? The worksheets were very, very helpful and I highly recomend this as the first purchase of any year 2000 problem preparations.
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