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Summary: Excellant survivers handbook
Review: Loved this book, Their are many need to know facts in here. A must for starting out and getting to know your products. Good recipes and starters for making breads.
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Summary: This is a rehash of Red Cross information
Review: Nice job in taking away credit from the Red Cross. Are you donating any funds to them for this book?
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Summary: An Excellent Starting Point
Review: Okay, Y2K came and went and civilization is still here. (Why? *Preparedness.* If we hadn't spent those billions of dollars getting ready, it would have been bad. Real bad.) But earthquakes, floods, economic dislocation, and other bad things are still real, still very much with us, and could happen at any time. As this book says, "It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it!"This book is a real help in getting your own personal preparedness program going. Maybe you'd like a year's worth of food in storage. Or maybe you'd just like to be a little more comfortable this winter when a snowstorm knocks out the power and keeps you away from the grocery store for three days. Those extremes, and anywhere in between, are addressed in this book. Some people say this books uses "scare tactics." Well, the world is a scary place. We've managed, at least in the industrialized nations, to take a lot of the scary out of it - but remember those petrol strikes in the UK last year? Another few days and the stores would have been empty. It can happen anywhere, any time. What's the harm in being ready for it? Then when it doesn't happen, you've just got some extra resources. But when it does - and eventually it will - you'll be very glad you read this book.
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Summary: This is the bible on self-sufficiency.
Review: The premise here is that we all know we're at high risk for some disaster. We just don't know when or what. But whether flood or unemployment, the unexpected crisis needs to be weathered when it hits. In this bible on self- sufficiency, you'll learn about basic home storage of food and water, basic recipes, basic kitchen gardening, basic directions for drying fruits and vegetables, and even basic self-health care. Very reasonable, down-to-earth advice to keep you watered, fed, and healthy during tough times.
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Summary: Will help you prepare for emergencies...
Review: The publisher, Gold Leaf Press Says: Basics has sold over 350,000 copies. 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: Fantastic - Not just for Y2K
Review: This book has given us plenty of ideas for conservation measures which we hadn't thought of, as well as those things to purchase in order to keep us independent in case the wolf is at the door. In these times of uncertain unemployement as well as the political climate, it is good to know that we as well as other prepared and intelligent individuals will survive.
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Summary: More food prep oriented than emergency
Review: This book has some useful information but it doesn't fit the bill as an emergency book because much of it includes things like recipes which you cook in an 350 degree oven - which you may not have in a true emergency. Also, there are a lot of charts that look good but really don't help that much. 9 pages on the use of honey seems a bit much too. Resource section lists lots of resources but closer examination shows that many aren't geared to individuals or only carry one item for emergency use.
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Summary: This Book Has It All!!
Review: This book is easy to read, practical and extremely interesting. It is comprehensive and well-designed. I picked it up and immediately skipped to the chapter about food dehydration at home. I learned things that I was able to put in practice right then. The Supply Check lists seem almost overwhelming but at least there is plan which makes sense. Most certainly, it will take a lot of effort to put our family Preparedness Plan in place and that is a daunting task. The author offers useful advice and helpful suggestions to help guide us through our decisions. This book is packed with useful information for anyone concerned with personal and family preparedness. If you are concerned about the possibility of some social disruption next year due to the millennium bug or would just like to be better informed and prepared for any type of natural disaster, this book will be a reference tool you won't want to be without. I'm glad I purchased the book at AMAZON -- the ordering was easy and the shipment arrived in perfect condition within 3 days. I had seen the book selling for $30 at a local long term food storage distributorship.
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Summary: The only book your family needs
Review: This book is fantastic for the novice. It contains all the info needed for your family survival. Best I've read yet.
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Summary: WARNING WARNING WARNING!
Review: This book is helpful in many ways, but DO NOT use his numbers for the amount of food to store per person, unless you are feeding a professional football player in training. He mixed up the USDA recommmended amounts for the average family of 2.3 people, and used that figure for one person.. WE actually figured it out, and you would have to eat something like 10,000 calories per day to eat those amounts. Look at it carefully. How many people use 10 gallons of oil per person per year?
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