The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Sufficient Living

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to be green, save green, grow greens-even turn a thumb green.

Self-sufficient living can mean a healthier life, a way to protect the earth, or a way to save money. This guide helps readers find their perfect degree of self reliance in the areas of food, shelter, energy, clothing, and more. For both the urban and rural dweller, it covers gardening, cooking from scratch, preserving food, raising livestock, keeping chickens, generating or supplementing energy, essential tools and equipment, foraging for wild foods, hunting, fishing, and trapping.

•Saving money in today's economy and self-sufficiency go hand-in-hand

•For the growing number of eco-friends considering self-sufficiency

•Existing books focus on either rural or urban self-sufficiency, but this covers both

Jerome D. Belanger started and ran Countryside magazine for 30 years. Along with magazine articles, he has written six books on country living. He and his wife also operated a general store for tools and supplies for simple living, while they lived self-sufficiently on a small farm.

Coleman National Forest Campground and Recreation Directory, 2nd: The Only Complete Guide to All 4,300+ National Forest Campgrounds

Finally, in one easy-to-use volume, a comprehensive directory of National Forest Campgrounds. Approximately 20 million individuals visit our National Forests each year, taking advantage of the more than 4,000 campgrounds. With this easy to use guide--organized by state and then by National Forest--descriptive text, photographs, maps, and icons will help readers to locate, evaluate, and reserve the site best suited to their needs. Campgrounds are divided into three categories: Full (with showers, full RV hookups, etc), Standard (semi-developed, running water available), and Rustic (no paved road, pit toilets). Campground descriptions will be supplemented by directions, fees, available services, number of sites, etc. The directory also features informative maps as well as local information and history.

There are over 4,300 National Forest campgrounds across the United States - tucked in remote canyons, among dense forests, alongside lakes and steams or on mountaintops. While some are popular and well-known, many are obscure gems, seldom visited. This directory will help you find National Forest campgrounds that best fit your needs. A photo, map and description accompanies campground information from every national forest.

National Park Service Camping Guide

The National Park Service Camping Guide is a wonderful resource for anyone who enjoys camping in a National Park. The book describes nearly 450 campgrounds in 123 national parks, recreation areas, monuments, and other areas managed by the National Park Service.

Camping With the Corps of Engineers: The Complete Guide to Campgrounds Owned and Operated by the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers

Lists, alphabetically by state and by reservoir, all Corps of Engineers campgrounds and provides directions to the sites, describes facilities and activities there and includes the most current camping fee information.

Don Wrights Guide to Free Campgrounds Eastern Edition - Now Includes Campgrounds 12 and Under in the 29 Eastern States

Lists, alphabetically by state and city, all campgrounds where overnight camping fees of $12 or less are charged. It provides its buyers with an opportunity to save significantly on their travel costs when current overnight camping fees are typically $25 to $50 per night.

Don Wright's Guide to Free Campgrounds Western Edition Campgrounds $12 And Under In The 17 Western States

Lists, alphabetically by state and city, all campgrounds where overnight camping fees of $12 or less are charged. It provides its buyers with an opportunity to save significantly on their travel costs when current overnight camping fees are typically $25 to $50 per night. The Western Edition now contains an enormous number of county and city parks with free or low-cost overnight camping as well as campgrounds of the national forests, national parks, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation, Army Corps of Engineers and most state park systems.

Nature's Art Box: From t-shirts to twig baskets, 65 cool projects for crafty kids to make with natural materials you can find anywhere

Whether it's a city park, a suburban backyard, a farmer's field, or the sandy seashore, there's a treasure trove of natural art materials out there. Twigs, vines, pinecones, flowers, leaves, rocks, shells, moss, feathers - they're all gifts of the earth. Add just a few inexpensive store-bought items, such as glue, string, and wire, and anyone can create beautiful, natural works of art.

In NATURE'S ART BOX, writer, gardener, and nature-crafter Laura C. Martin offers 65 cool projects kids will love to make, using materials they can find just about anywhere. She explains how to make paints and inks from flowers and other plants; how to use shells, moss, seedpods, and cones to embellish large objects; how to build elf-sized furniture; how to decorate picture frames, birdhouses, and keepsake boxes with woodland treasures; and how to dig clay, weave vines, and make natural dyes to color T-shirts.

While Martin teaches kids to see the possibilities of the natural world, she also teaches them to respect what the earth offers. She warns them against stripping bark off live trees, plucking every flower in the field, and clearing the ground of every nut and seed. NATURE'S ART BOX helps kids learn to be good artists and conscientious stewards of nature's resources.

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

From Publishers Weekly
While the phrase artisan bread typically evokes images of labor-intensive sessions and top-notch ingredients, for authors Hertzberg and François it means five minutes. An intriguing concept—high-quality, fresh bread in less time than it takes to boil water. The authors' promises of no kneading, no starter, no proofing yeast and no need for a bread machine is based on the concept of mixed and risen high-moisture dough stored in the fridge for up to two weeks (dough is cut into pieces and popped in the oven for fresh loaves as desired). Note: for those tracking minutes, the five-minutes doesn't include the 20-minute resting time for dough or 30 minutes for baking. After concise, introductory chapters on ingredients, equipment, and tips and techniques, readers are presented with the master recipe, a free-form loaf of French boule that is the model for all breads in the book. Three main chapters—Peasant Loaves, Flatbreads and Pizzas and Enriched Breads and Pastries—are filled with tempting selections and focus on ethnic breads and pastries including Couronne from France; Limpa from Scandinavia; Ksara from Morocco; Broa from Portugal; and Chocolate-Raisin Babka from the Ukraine, but the basics (Oatmeal Bread, Bagels, White Bread) are all here, too. A smattering of companion recipes such as Tuscan White Bean Dip and Portuguese Fish Stew are peppered throughout. While experienced bakers and true gourmands will skip this one, those looking for an innovative approach to making bread just might find it in these recipes. (Nov.)
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Coauthors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François prove that bread baking can be easier than a trip to the bakery. Their method is quick and simple, bringing forth scrumptious perfection in each loaf. Delectable creations will emerge straight from your own oven as warm, indulgent masterpieces that you can finally make for yourself. In exchange for a mere five minutes of your time, your breads will rival those of the finest bakers in the world.

With nearly 100 recipes to put this ingenious technique to use, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will open the eyes of any potential baker who has sworn off homemade bread as simply too much work. Crusty baguettes, mouth-watering pizzas, hearty sandwich loaves, and even buttery pastries can easily become part of your own personal menu, and this innovative book will teach you everything you need to know.

The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread

"A bread baker, like any true artisan or craftsman, must have the power to control outcomes," says Peter Reinhart, author of The Bread Baker's Apprentice. "Mastery comes with practice." As in many arts, you must know and understand the rules before you can break them. Reinhart encourages you to learn the science of bread making, but to never forget that vision and experimentation, not formulas, make transcendent loaves. The Bread Baker's Apprentice is broken into three sections. The first is an amusing tale of Reinhart's visit to France and his discovery of pain à l'ancienne, a cold-fermented baguette. The second section comprises a tutorial of bread-making basics and Reinhart's "Twelve Stages of Bread." And finally, the recipes: Ciabatta, Pane Siciliano, Potato Rosemary Bread, New York Deli Rye, Kaiser Rolls, and Brioche, to name a few. All recipes include bread profiles and ingredient percentages. Reimagined for modern bakers, these mouthwatering classic recipes are bound to inspire. --Dana Van Nest

From Library Journal
Author of the well-respected Brother Juniper's Bread Book and Crust & Crumb, baker-turned-culinary instructor Reinhart draws on his baking and teaching experience to provide an authoritative but unintimidating guide to baking professional-quality loaves of all sorts. He begins with an account of a recent tour of specialty bakeries in Paris, including Gosselin, where he learned to make the young baker's unique pain l'ancienne which, Reinhart says, would be better called pain moderne, as it uses a modern invention (the refrigerator) to produce a "cold-dough delayed-fermentation" baguette, the best he has ever tasted. He found this technique revolutionary, and he includes the recipe here, along with a wide variety of other artisan and classic breads, from Ciabatta to Poilene-Style Miche to Tuscan Bread. The recipes are preceded by a 50-page primer on the "twelve stages of bread," and there are dozens of photographs, including particularly helpful ones of shaping different loaves. Valuable for both the professional and the novice, this is highly recommended for all baking collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

Part novel, part survivalist-handbook, Patriots tells of a small group of friends facing every American's worst nightmare—the total collapse of society. The stock market plummets and hyperinflation cripples commerce and then a seemingly isolated financial crisis passes the tipping point when an unprepared government fails to act. Practically overnight, the fragile institutions of democracy fall apart and every American is forced to survive on their own.

Evading mobs of desperate, out-of-control citizens who have turned Chicago into a wasteland of looting and mayhem, this novel's protagonists make their way to a shared secure ranch in the wilds of northern Idaho. Here the survival-driven group fends off vicious attacks from the outside and eventually assists in restoring order to the country. The compelling, fast-paced action-adventure novel has readers jotting notes and referencing the book's impressive index for informative survivalist tips on everything from setting up a secure shelter to treating traumatic flesh wounds.

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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

Happy Adventure is a schooner with a fatal flaw, it leaks like a sieve. Regardless, Farley is determined to sail this boat.

This book was first published in 1969, but is a timeless piece of work. Mowat is a natural story teller and his narrative and anecdotes are brilliant. He wrote this during his eight year residency in Newfoundland.

Better Than Store-Bought: A Cookbook Authoritative recipes for the foods that most people never knew they could make at home

Great cookbook for recipes that you don't normally see. This is one of those MUST HAVE cookbooks! Even if you don't use cookbooks, you will find this one fascinating just to read; and then I can almost promise you will want to make something from it!

Down-to-earth Vegetable Gardening Know-how By Dick Raymond

A classic beginner's gardening text (over 300,000 copies sold)

Dick Raymond's Gardening Year

Nationally renowned TV and radio personality and author of The Joy of Gardening, Dick Raymond gives the perfect plan for everything you want to grow.

Passport to Survival: Four Foods and More to Use and Store

One common food storage program (particularly among Mormons) involves just four basic commodities: wheat, powdered milk, honey and salt. While this might not sound very exciting, it's enough to keep body and soul together, and as such is of special interest not only to people interested in a food reserve, but to those who grow their own wheat.

In her 1969 book Passport to Survival, (Bookcraft Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah) Esther Dickey lists recipes for over a hundred ways to use these four basic foods! We're not talking about recipes for bread and other baked goods, of which there are probably thousands. No, we're talking about steamed wheat, bulgur wheat, sprouts, "cereals without boxtops," mock walnut meats, wheat thins, teas, soups, and even desserts and candies!

She makes chow mein with gluten cubes (see page 44), stew broth (also made from wheat, although you could use bouillon cubes thickened with gluten water) and wheat sprouts (see page 56).

Emergency stew consists of gluten cubes, stew broth, and noodles or mock tater tots (made with 1/4 cup dry milk, 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 cup of thick starch left over from making gluten. Combine all ingredients, drop mixture from a teaspoon onto a cookie sheet, and bake until brown.)

Or how about mock chicken legs? This is made with a taco filling —made from wheat sprouts, steamed wheat, cooked gluten and fine crumbs, ground and mixed—shaped into small rolls. Roll in crumbs, insert a toothpick in the small end, and heat in a casserole.

Wheat flakes: Make a thin batter of 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of water (or more), and 1 teaspoon salt. Mix lightly with a spoon, but do not overbeat. Pour onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces. Add walnut flavoring to melted butter, stir in wheat flakes, and you have mock walnut meats.

And that's hardly a start. Imagine what you can do with even a few additional ingredients... or with meat, eggs, milk and vegetables from your homestead! If you're concerned about storing food and can't afford the expensive freeze-dried prepared products, by all means stock up on — and learn to use — the basic four. (And if you can find a copy of this 30-year-old book in a used book store, by all means, grab it quick!)

from a review in Countryside magazine... http://www.countrysidemag.com/issues/83/83-2/Countryside_Staff.html

Skills for Survival: How Families Can Prepare

Product Description
In an unpredictable world that harbors potential disasters ranging from drought and famine to war and economic collapse personal peace and self-confidence are difficult to establish. In times of nuclear giants and ethical infants, each person must find a way to ground himself on solid foundations. Skills for Survival: How Families Can Prepare provides a path to personal assurance and security. By outlining skills in areas like emergencies, gardening, and food, Esther Dickey prompts readers to exercise their ability to solve the problems of an uncertain future, sharing her hard-won insights so others can stand firm and emotionally prepared when the time for preparation has passed.

About the Author
Esther Dickey has a lifetime of experience and background which make her well qualified to write a book with the depth of Skills for Survival. She experiments continually with the things about which she writes - recipe preparation, gardening techniques, emergency clothing, survival equipment, nutritional principles, herb usage, etc. Her penetrating interest in proper diet and good nutrition, coupled with her advocacy of storing food and other necessities against possible future emergencies, has made her well respected in the fields of self-sufficient living and emergency preparedness. Mrs. Dickey's approach to family preparedness has attracted wide attention from the news media, and her experiments and demonstrations have been reported in newspapers and magazines, in addition to television and radio. Her personal demonstrations always attract large audiences and have wide appeal. She has traveled abroad and gained a following overseas as well as across the United States. The author lives in Gresham, Oregon. She and her husband, Russell Dickey, are the parents of seven children. Many of her experiments and activities are described and pictures in Skills for Survival, giving the reader an intimate acquaintance with this remarkable woman and her work.

The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook

Product Description
An 128 page manual designed to prepare the average citizen to cope with any kind of catastrophe, whether it's Y2K or a natural disaster. Practical and detailed information on food and water storage, waste disposal, lighting and heating without electricity, what tools and equipment to have on hand, first aid and emergency medical kits, buying and growing food and more. It's important to have nourishing and comforting food during difficult times. Included is an array of recipes that do not use refrigerated items and are easy to prepare. Also meal suggestions and tips for cooking without a kitchen stove using either a fireplace, wood stove, campfires or a chafing dish. A full listing of mail order and web sources provided.

About the Author
Dorothy Bates is a former home economist and successful realtor. Author of 9 books, she lives in rural Tennessee where she conducts culinary workshops and works part-time as an investment counselor. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Albert K. Bates, the son of Dorothy Bates, is a retired public interest attorney and author of 6 books on energy, environnment, and history. He currently travels, lecturing and teaching permaculture and village design for the Global Ecovillage Network.

The Classic Wheat for Man Cookbook: More Than 300 Delicious and Healthful Ways to Use Stoneground Whole Wheat Flour

Nearly 300 ways of using the vital fiber and abundant nutrients of whole wheat in appealing dishes and menus.

Nutritional information, recipes for whole wheat cereals, breads and rolls, cookies, cakes, desserts; whole wheat to improve flavor and nutrition in meat dishes, casseroles, vegetables, soups. Illustrated.

More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook)

This humble cookbook, bound with practical spiral binding, defined much of how we ate as children and how we've come to think about food since. More-With-Less (World Community Cookbook) was first printed in 1976, and it emphasized seasonal, organic eating long before these ideas became mainstream.

The cookbook draws its recipes primarily from Mennonite kitchens, where grains and vegetarian sources of protein are used much more heavily than animal, and the book argues against the protein overeating in the modern American diet, as well as just overeating in general.

There are many recipes in the book drawn from other cultures - the book opens with a poem from a Somali poet and some facts and figures on worldwide food shortages. If that sounds like glum reading though, don't fear - the author argues that living simply is a way to joy, and good eating and good hospitality go hand-in-hand. This hospitality should extend to the whole planet, and being wise and restrained in what we eat cares for our neighbors everywhere.

How are the recipes, then? We love many of their whole grain recipes, like Barley-Lentil Stew and homemade granolas, and simple, nourishing sweets like Applesauce Pudding. There's scads of recipes for whole-grain breads and vegetarian bean dishes - many of them with interesting stories and provenance, like Puerto Rican Rice and Pigeon Peas. The recipes with meat provide gentle encouragement to use a little less and make meat stretch farther for reasons of health and economy.

It's full of good recipes for kids, too, that encourage participation as well as good eating. Peanut butter balls with milk powder and honey were a favorite treat in our household.

There are many cookbooks that have come along in recent years that individually offer more in terms of health, eco-consciousness, or authentic recipes from international cuisines, but we still haven't found a cookbook that offers so much in one small package. Highly recommended. Review from here http://tinyurl.com/atz98z

Cookin' with Home Storage

Product Description
This best-selling cookbook is full of delicious recipes all made from your personal home storage.

About the Author
Peggy Layton a Home Economist, holds a bachelors of Science degree in Home Economics Education from Brigham Young University with a minor in Food Science and Nutrition. Peggy is married to Scott Layton and together they have 7 children. With nine people to feed Peggy writes about food storage and production from a hands on point of view. She is well known for writing and speaking on the subject of bulk food preparation. Peggy has written a series of books on the subject of food storage. All these books have been well recieved and are being sold nationally. Peggy is dedicated to bringing you tried and tested recipes as well as accurate information

Eating Off the Grid: storing and cooking foods without electricity

Product Description
A user-friendly cookbook for making meals from scratch using basic foods that require no refrigeration or freezing. Beginning chapters offer advice on non-electric cooking and cooling alternatives, as well as complete ingredient and utensil lists that cover all recipes. Separate chapters for stovetop and baked main dishes and breads accomodate different cooking appliances. Recipe nutrition information and exchanges are included for diabetics and others with special dietary needs. A sample four-week meal plan and accompanying grocery list for a family of four, along with guidelines to help you create your own meal plan, help you combine the recipes to begin "eating off the grid."

About the Author
Author Denise Hansen is a registered dietitian with research experience in basic food diets. She has taught college courses in food science, food preparation and preservation, and nutrition. Besides her professional experience, she has over twenty years experience in the kitchen "trenches," growing, storing and cooking basic foods for her family. This unique combination in the author gives the cook the greatest success. She has written each recipe carefully to give you all the details needed for best results, and explains the hows and whys.

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Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less

From Library Journal
Callenbach, a health and ecological writer in California, aims to show readers how to lead a self-determined, original lifestyle--and to do so frugally. His philosophy is based on three points--environment, health, and money--and he argues that doing something to benefit one of these points will inevitably benefit the other two. Another way of stating his philosophy is "Enough is enough"; more only encumbers. This leads him to recommend a lifestyle that is reminiscent of the counterculture of the 1960s. Callenbach applies this philosophy to every aspect of life: food, finances, car and home ownership, health, employment, and child rearing. The topics covered are wide-ranging but are rarely fully developed; the advice is occasionally suspect but overall sound, if more useful to those living in large cities than other areas. A useful book for past, present, and future flower children.

Product Description
This fun and practical guide offers a huge variety of tips on living for less "with grace, humor, [and] imagination." The author covers a wide range of topics including food, housing, transportation, clothes, and entertainment.

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

Amazon.com Review
Though tightwad seems like a derogatory term, author Amy Dacyczyn wants to assure you that it's okay to be a penny-pincher. This self-styled "Frugal Zealot" wrote and published The Tightwad Gazette for over six years to spread the frugal gospel. Each issue contained tips from her personal experience and from her many readers. The wealth of information contained in all these issues has been compiled into one volume for the first time. You'll find literally thousands of ideas for saving money, from the simple or practical to the difficult or bizarre. On the simple, practical side, Dacyczyn advises would-be tightwads to keep track of price trends at several stores in a "price book" and to buy in bulk when prices are low. Other, stranger offerings include tips for turning margarine-tub lids into playing-card holders, old credit cards into guitar picks, and six-pack rings into a hammock or volleyball net. More helpful are inexpensive recipes for making homemade versions of pricey, well-known products and ingenious ways to fix broken or damaged items. The book's disorganization encourages browsing, but the detailed index will point you to the exact page for specific items. Dacyczyn's occasional "thriftier than thou" tone is balanced by the friendly support for frugality that infuses every page. She even reminds her readers that it's okay to "sweat the small stuff"--because this small stuff is the essence of frugality. --C.B. Delaney

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In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. Dacyczyn describes this collection as "the book I wish I'd had when I began my adult life." Packed with humor, creativity, and insight, The Complete Tightwad Gazette includes hundreds of tips and topics, such as:

¸ Travel for tightwads ¸ How to transform old blue jeans into potholders and quilts ¸ Ten painless ways to save $100 this year ¸ Picture-framing for pennies ¸ A comparison of painting versus re-siding your house ¸ Halloween costumes from scrounged materials ¸ Thrifty window treatments ¸ Ways to dry up dry-cleaning costs ¸ Inexpensive gifts ¸ Creative fundraisers for kids ¸ Slashing your electric bill ¸ Frugal fix-its ¸ Cutting the cost of college ¸ Moving for less ¸ Saving on groceries ¸ Gift-wrapping for tightwads ¸ Furniture-fusion fundamentals ¸ Cheap breakfast cereals ¸ Avoiding credit card debt ¸ Using items you were about to throw away (milk jugs, plastic meat trays, and more!) ¸ Recipes galore, from penny-pinching pizza to toaster pastries ¸ And much much more . . .

The NEW Passport To Survival. 12 Steps to Self-Sufficient Living

The New Passport to Survival, 12 steps to Self-Sufficient Living
The basic premise of this book is that for everyone, even for us who live in bounteous America, the time will probably come when food and other necessities are unobtainable.

This situation may be brought about by any one of a number of causes - personal sickness or injury, unemployment, war, riot, transportation strikes, and so on.
Our urban society is particularly vulnerable.

We may live in a world where we have became used to the convenience of stopping by the store any time that we want something, but as we are seeing with current world events, this may not always be the case.

Now you can learn to be self-sufficient in 12 easy steps: •

How to Afford and Maintain A Year's Supply •

Building Your How-To Library •

What To Store and Where To Store It •

Water - Storing and Treating •

What FOODS To Eat and Why •

Food Preparation Equipment •

Recipes - The Switch to Whole Foods •

Keeping Clean - Sanitation •

Energy - Keeping Warm or Cool •

Emergency Doctoring •

Gardening & Sprouting

With such a small percentage of our population engaged in farming, any interruption in the supply of food would cause markets to empty within hours and people would be unable to acquire even the most basic foods.

With little storage space and even less extra cash to purchase extra food, what foods can we store?

Rita will teach you how to use the seven "emergency" foods -
Grains, Legumes, Sprouting Seeds, Oil, Powdered Milk (or alternate sources of calcium and protein), Honey, and Salt - to prepare appetizing meals in normal times in preparation for a survival diet.

She presents creative ways to serve down-to-earth meals, demonstrating the tremendous versatility of these simple foods.
With her suggestions, you can have your own well-stocked pantry... ready for any emergency, whether you are faced with a minor or major disaster.

Emergency Essentials: Tips for Preparedness

Earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes, fire or flood, severe weather, loss of employment, personal injury, sustained power outages: such disasters are usually unforeseen and can disrupt our lives as well as threaten our safety. In this helpful book, preparedness experts Rita Bingham, Barry Crockett, Peggy Layton, LeArta Moulton, J. Allen South, and Vicki Tate, along with the knowledgeable staff at Emergency Essentials teach principles and share information that will minimize suffering and help individuals and families to survive emergencies. Learn how to prepare your family on subjects covering: *water storage and replenishment, *food storage, *warmth, shelter, clothing, *light, tools, communication, *first aid and sanitation. Being prepared is the key to confidence and peace of mind. 132 pages.

How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System

I have this book and recommend it as a quick read to get you thinking about food storage.

FURminator deShedding Tool

Designed to reduce shedding better than any brush, comb, or rake, this innovative tool works effectively for all shedding breeds of dogs and cats, both long- and short-haired. It addresses the issue of the undercoat, which can become a dense mess of loose, dead hair and the major source of shedding, and the allergies and cleanliness problems that come with it. The revolutionary grooming device utilizes a unique 4-inch stainless-steel edge that grabs loose undercoat hair and quickly and easily removes it, without damaging the topcoat. It actually brings out the pet's natural oils, leaving a shiny and healthy topcoat. The pet will enjoy the feeling the de-shedding tool provides, and caretakers will appreciate the results. Used by veterinarians and recommended by doctors for people who have allergies, the tool is proven to decrease shedding by 60 to 80 percent for about four to six weeks. The patented de-shedding tool features a comfortable, ergonomic grip handle and measures 6 by 1 by 4-1/8 inches.

Product Description
People love their pets but they hate the shedding. This tool pulls out incredible amounts of loose hair and undercoat without cutting or damaging the pet's top coat. Small is blue, Medium and Large are yellow.

Greenies Pill Pockets for Cats

Product Features

• Contains probiotics for intestinal health.
• Eliminates the need to force a pill down pet’s throat or wrap it in fattening table food.
• Patented design accepts all standard size medications.
• Softness of this unique formula allows the end of the pocket to be pinched closed holding the medicine until swallowed.
• Made from high quality nutritionally beneficial ingredients. Your cat will love taking medication in Pill Pockets.