Survival Food Recipe: Soup/Gravy Mix From Storage Staples

A good soup or gravy recipe mix can do a lot to stave off diet monotony!

When the big earthquake hits the Oregon coast, or there is a quake along the New Madrid Fault, or the water keeps rising and shuts off the roads you’ll still have to keep eating. That’s why we’re preppers, and why we prepare for emergencies and disasters!
And while you may be feeling pretty good that you have a stock of rice, beans and other staples, there must be provisions to make different-tasting meals. Otherwise, at some point, diet monotony will set in. Being able to introduce different, familiar tastes into the equation, while using what is on hand, will be important!
Here is an easy recipe to make gravy or a soup base, using storage foods.

Survival Recipe: Blackberry Buttermilk Breakfast Cake

I can hear the groans and complaints from the hardcore preppers and survivalists already: “A CAKE? That’s supposed to be a SURVIVAL RECIPE?”
Yep. It is. And here’s why.

Survival Food: Southwest Chicken Corn Chowder

Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation with simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods. This chowder recipe was featured as the weekly Survival Recipe on the SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio program of  Feb. 11, 2011. Host Leon Pantenburg interviewed Jan LaBaron about her new food storage cookbook: ” Jan’s Fabulous Food Storage Recipes: Converting Stored Foods Into Usable Meals.” To read the story, click here.
To listen to the entire radio show interview, click here.

Hardtack: A Great, Traditional Survival Food and Emergency Ration

Hardtack is a traditional survival ration, and is easy to make.

Looking for a way to use up surplus flour, or make a cheap trail food or durable survival ration? One answer may be hardtack, a baked, unleavened wheat cracker. As a survival food, hardtack has a proven track record.
Hardtack is one of the original trail and emergency foods, and it is worth considering if you are a prepper or are interested in wilderness or urban survival.
The advantage is that hardtack is easy to make, transports easily and will last a reasonably long time if stored in appropriate containers. The disadvantage is the bland taste, and traditional toughness.
Try these recipes and see if you can find one to include in your survival food recipes!

From The Boundary Waters: Hudson Bay Bread

The only item on the lunch menu the first day was a three-inch square of Hudson Bay Bread gobbed with about two tablespoons of peanut butter. I’d worked up quite an appetite paddling and portaging that morning, and privately wondered where I’d get the energy to last the rest of the day.
To my surprise, the Hudson Bay bread was so rich, filling and full of calories
that I could barely finish it. I had ample energy to paddle, portage and hike until that evening. That was lunch for several days, and Hudson Bay Bread fueled many rigorous miles of paddling and portaging!
If you are outside in cold weather, doing vigorous activities, you'll like this recipe!

Try This Tasty hardtack Recipe

Looking for a way to use up surplus flour, or make a cheap trail food or durable survival ration?
One answer may be hardtack, a baked, unleavened wheat cracker.  
As a survival ration, hardtack has a proven track record. But hardtack is traditionally - and notoriously - bland, boring, and tough to eat.
I was sent this recipe, and made up a batch just before an elk hunt. It's great! Sample some, and you may have just come up with a new favorite trail food!