Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook

by James Talmage Stevens

Book Overview

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine what would happen if you became ill and couldn't work, or if an earthquake or hurricane or bomb left your community devastated. It happens all the time. When... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882723252
• ISBN13: 9781882723256
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gold Leaf Press (WA)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

My First Choice for a book to learn how to be prepared and begin a more self reliant life

This book explains several methods of food processing for long term storage and has recipes for foods we can make ourselves either to save money or in case the finished product is not available. You will store things that you can make food from. You will learn what essential foods to have, how to store and use the food. It will give you the knowledge to be more self reliant and have stored food that you can rely on when stores are closed, you are injured and unable to work, prices are high or if there is any disruption of the food chain. Stevens also covers fuels, lighting, and other things. The book helps you to plan for hard times and how to build your own food pantry which will feed your family in any emergency. This is TRULY a MUST HAVE book for a survival or prepping library.

Well thought out preparation and storage - a must for Y2K

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.

A great resource for helping restore a lost heritage!

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.

The best book on basic living - especially for city slickers

This is the only book you will need to become enlightened on "country living"! You will discover how much fun sprouting your own seeds can be, how to rotate and label storage, how to make sourdough, and many other things that have been lost with super-market living. What a great book! If you want to have a year of stored food, and don't know where to start, you will really have a handle on it once you read this book!