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May 17th, 2012
Food Storage
Food Storage Methods For Campers
The initial factor for you to do whenever you arrive in the camping area is always to secure the meals, garbage and then for any other perfumed items. Including canned food and dehydrated food .
Bear canisters are recommended for individuals hikes. Hanging food with rope is not a guaranteed method of securing food. Bears can break your rope or break the branch your rope is fastened to regardless of the way you hang it.
Never store food within your tent or backpack! Tents, backpacks together with other gear are actually destroyed by bears because food remains stored in them. Avoid cooking or eating in tents. Don't leave food, garbage or any perfumed items unwatched for any time period unless of course obviously they are secure in the bear canister or by a bear wire.
In case your a bear makes it into your camp never give up the meals. Bang containers and pans making noise to discourage further exploration.
Clean dirty dishes immediately. Strain food pollutants and eliminate waste water no less than of 200 feet from campground or water to prevent attracting wildlife.
Don't eliminate food waste inside the backwoods. Pack out all uneaten food and food pollutants. Treat food wrappers along with other garbage much like food. Keep a clean camping area.
Avoid odor-tainting your backpack. Carry food and garbage in plastic bags. Avoid cooking greasy or odorous foods.
Just in case your foods aren't properly placed, it may be confiscated together with a $50 fine may be served to protect site visitors, property and bears.
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Do You Have Food Insurance ?
It amazes me that when I bring up the subject of dehydrated food storage most people think I am nuts and going off the deep end. We have car insurance, home owners/ renters insurance, life insurance and some folks even have dog and cat insurance.
What good is any of this kind of insurance going to do for you if you have nothing to eat when times get tough and hyperinflation keeps on pushing food prices beyond most individuals incomes.
With the current downward political climate and natural disasters drastically increasing worldwide, food is the best insurance one can invest in for the unexpected. There are numerous businesses around that strongly recommend investing in precious metals like gold, silver, platinum, etc. But when all heck breaks loose, the question is, can you eat gold coins? What do silver coins taste like?
The major population countries, China and India, are literally going around the world farming the rest of the planet to try and get enough food for their people. China is losing about 60 percent of its wheat crop this year, and China is the largest wheat producer in the world, and Russia lost enough wheat so that they shut down all exports, and that is very serious, and we generally assume that we are a wheat-based dietary country, but the amazing thing is that all roads kind of right now lead back to corn.
In the twentieth century, the United States was the bread basket for the world. She could feed her own population along with several other countries. With the U.S. converting grain from food to bio-fuels and farmers producing less food, the United States will be importing 40 percent of its food to feed her people by 2012.
A little known fact is that only 2 percent of the world population feeds the other 98 percent. Over the last few years, food shortages have been reported worldwide and continue to worsen. Since 2006, over 73,000 starving people have died in food riots in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and the Middle East.
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Food Storage Survival Tips
From day one of the disaster to years after the disaster, have the types of foods on hand that will keep you, your family and/or survival group alive for the long haul. Make sure your food storage pantry is well stocked, most experts suggest at least a one year supply of dehydrated food.
Nutritional dehydrated food is a critical element in surviving a post disaster situation. If you have a weak immune system, you are very susceptible to increased infections and sickness from a number of external sources. I also recommend nutritional food supplements to help boost your immune system in the early stages of your survival.
Quick & Easy To Fix Dehydrated Food will help keep a positive mind set with your family and/or your survival groups morale which is a key factor in surviving for the long haul.
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It is very important to rotate for short term survival your dehydrated food. That is why it you must date your packages when you place them into your food storage pantry. You definitely do not want food that is outdated and then get very sick after eating it in a post disaster survival situation.
Remember how important it is that under any emergency survival conditions the intake of protein foods must be modified in direct proportion to the availability of water. However plentiful the dehydrated food, your intake must be reduced if water is scarce. For example, one volume of protein food will require two equivalent volumes of water for proper digestion and the elimination of waste.
Carbohydrates, on the other hand, require substantially less water for their digestion. If a normally healthy, active person requires 3,000 calories a day, a non-active person under survival conditions could reduce their requirements to about 600 calories a day.
Dehydrated food storage is a wise decision for emergency situations. Dehydrated food has nutritional value that freeze dried food does not have. Dehydrated food is simple to store and it does not require a lot of space.
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Emergency Survival Kit
You may need to survive on your own after an emergency. This means having your own food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least three days. Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. You could get help in hours, or it might take days. In addition, basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment, and telephones may be cut off for days, or even a week or longer.
Consider two kits
In one, put everything you will need to stay where you are and make it on your own. The other should be a lightweight, smaller version you can take with you if you have to get away. Pack dehydrated food this is light weight and you can cook it over an open fire.
Make a Plan for what you will do in an emergency
Plan in advance what you will do in an emergency. Be prepared to assess the situation. Use common sense and whatever you have on hand to take care of yourself and your loved ones.
Develop a Family Emergency Plan
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations. Consider a plan where each family member calls, or e-mails, the same friend or relative in the event of an emergency.
It may be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to call across town, so an out-of-town contact may be in a better position to communicate among separated family members. Be sure each person knows the phone number and has coins or a prepaid phone card to call the emergency contact. You may have trouble getting through, or the phone system may be down altogether, but be patient.
Depending on your circumstances and the nature of the attack, the first important decision is whether you stay put or get away. You should understand and plan for both possibilities. Use common sense and the information you are learning here to determine if there is immediate danger.
Hyperinflation
Sticker shock in grocery store checkout lines and gas pumps around the western world is starting to set in. At this point, you have to be living under a rock to not notice that prices of goods and services around the world are increasing substantially.
Much of the blame for rising prices has rightfully been caused by uncontrolled expansion of central bank balance sheets-- the US Federal Reserve, for example, created more money in the last two years than it had created in the previous 200. Dening the possibility that any of this money could impact consumer prices is just what one would expect from an elite controlled system.
There is another factor, however, that weighs heavily on hyperinflation, and it is seldom discussed is taxation.
Everybody hates paying taxes, but what few people realize is that tax hikes fuel rising prices. When payroll tax rates, import duties, corporate profits tax rates, sales tax rates, etc. increase, it is always the consumer who ends up paying the bill.
This is happening across the world right now, including in the United States. While governments in places like Illinois have made headlines for infamously raising their income tax rates in the middle of the night, local government tax hikes are going largely unnoticed.
Take a look in you own backyard there is a good chance that either your state, city or county politician have already or are in the process of sneaking in some kind of tax increase to off set their poor management of your money.
I look at it two ways you can either accept this form of hyperinflation and starve or you can create multiply streams of income to survive this tidal wave of fuel, food and tax hikes.
What is your plan to off set their plan? I hope you have one because this is only the beginning of what some experts are saying will result in triple digit inflation.
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I was in the grocery store this morning and as I walked down what they call the Wall Of Values I counted more than 18 pallets of food storage freeze dried food. This only reinforced my commitment to build my emergency dehydrated food supply every month.
Bottom line, the dollars that we have saved our whole lives are becoming worth less and less over time, unless they are invested in things that also go up in value during inflation. During these hard times Folks, we have to be smart where we spend our money.
For me, locking in today's food prices for up to fifteen years by purchasing dehydrated food storable food at a wholesale producer discount is an absolute must! Now I am not only saving money I am also securing the future for my familys food supply.
Think about this today a can of Campbells cream of mushroom soup costs about buck on sale. Do you think that it will cost more or less in five years from now? Silly question you may be thinking.
Well it is that simple if I buy emergency dehydrated food and fill up my food storage room at todays prices and I have up to a 15 years shelf life, do you think my cost will be more or less for the food we will be eating in five years. Now is this another silly question?
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Sounding The Alarm! Perfect Storm On The Horizon!
Today, we are sounding the alarm for a coming economic crash that is not only expected, it is a certainty. The tragedy in Japan is just the latest shock in a series of tremors that will result in the most destructive economic tsunami to ever hit our planet!
Here are just a few more urgent matters foretelling the perfect storm,
Rising worldwide demand for commodities to be intensified as Japan begins to rebuild
Shortages of critical automobile and computer components from Japanese industry will result in more layoffs here in America
Increasing tensions in the Middle East driving gas prices to record levels food prices always match fuel prices
High gas prices are forcing more businesses to close their doors, ensuring more lost jobs
Countries with the highest populations have lost their crops to drought and are buying American unprotected exports of food, creating huge future shortages
The US dollar is falling against all major currencies, inflating prices of gold and silver
We are in the sixth year of a worldwide famine caused by erratic weather that has destroyed global crops
Banks are refusing necessary seasonal loans to farmers causing fewer acres to be planted and food items to be sold
Ethanol subsidies are driving fuel and food prices
Relaxed investment regulations allowing speculation in food commodities
Modern agricultural methods are dependent on petroleumas fuel prices rise, food costs skyrocket
The fuse is now lit for the greatest explosion in FOOD prices the world has ever seen! Millions of people will ultimately have to grow their own food. With the speed at which the world and American food conditions are deteriorating, there is not time to grow food, and the task of canning to freeze food prices and availability at present levels is virtually impossible.
Will you be able to feed yourself and your loved ones when a cup of soup and a slice of bread sells for 50 dollars or more? For most of us, the ONLY option is to secure a supply of food now before these economic tidal waves flood our shores.
These events that affect us so intensely are beyond our control. But our greatest dependency, food, will enable us to deal with all of these adversities if we are wise in our preparations and to empower ourselves with the thought that if it is to be, it is up to me.
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I say this not as a scare tactic but as a concerned fellow human being who has been watching very closely not only the weather and natural disasters but what also is happening to the U.S and worldwide economy.
Please do not fall for the crap you are reading in the newspapers, hearing on the radio or watching on TV. You will never hear or see the information you need.
If good food storage guidelines are followed, using and replenishing your food storage should become a commonplace, everyday activity, as normal as preparing meals.
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Are You Prepared for the Next Earthquake?
By taking action to be prepared, you can lessen the impact of an earthquake on your family. Set aside some emergency supplies like dehydrated food, and teach your family what to do at home during and after a disaster. You could be without help for up to 72 hours, so learn to cope for at least that long.
Movement of the ground is seldom the actual cause of death or injury. Most casualties result from partial building collapse and falling objects and debris, like toppling chimneys, falling bricks, ceiling plaster, and light fixtures. Many of these conditions are easily preventable.
Because earthquakes occur without warning, its important to take steps now to prepare, especially if you live in Very High and High earthquake areas. Knowing what you can do and how to respond with constructive and protective actions, can make yourself, your family, and your home safer. Consult your local Building Department if you are unsure of the earthquake hazard in your locale.
Its always a practical idea to keep a supply of non perishable food on hand that can be rotated into your diet and replenished on a regular basis. Have a sufficient supply of canned or dehydrated food, powdered milk, and canned juices for at least 72 hours. Dried cereals and fruits and non- salted nuts are good sources of nutrition.
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Hyperinflation
For those of you who are in denial and just can not accept that the elite are in control and are purposely causing this hyperinflation , please wake up and do something. You can start by stop listening to mainstream media and start doing some serious research of your own.
Whose Plan Are you Following?
Day after day you can see that there is definitely something seriously wrong with our world. I believe that there are two plans that are affecting our surroundings. For those of you who experienced the hyperinflation and economic crises of the seventies, may have all ready long forgot about the fuel shortages and the long gas lines, I am here to remind you of this and to ask you whose plan are you following?
Brief Overview - Plan A Designed For Failure
Take a walk back in history with me and see if this is the plan you are following. What you have learned through the educational system beginning in kindergarten up through your college years if you went that far has all been nothing close to the truth.
This system was and still is designed for the majority of you to be a failure and enslaved for the rest of your working lives on this planet. Back in the early part of the 20th. century most people were entrepreneurs who earned a living by either owning a farm or some type of wholesale/retail business.
This was becoming very prosperous for the common man, and is my opinion started to worry the elite. If this were to continue their power over everyone would be jeopardized. Seeing this coming guess what the elite planned next? If you said the Industrial Revolution congrats you have been paying attention to what is happening.
The Industrial Revolution fueled by wars created to start the change from owning a business to working for a corporation. Needing tens of thousands of factory workers to help supply the military build up, low wages and working conditions was reason to form unions.
Now being locked into a job the common man starts to become comfortable and forgets that he was once his own boss and is now a paid slave. As he starts to accumulate stuff like buying a home, an automobile and other luxuries can you guess what happens next.
The Stock Market Boom
Although the stock market has the reputation of being a risky investment, it did not appear that way in the 1920s. With the mood of the country exuberant, the stock market seemed an infallible investment in the future. Does this seem familiar to you?
Create a boom and suck in the common man to invest all his hard earned money with hopes of becoming wealthy. A clever part of Plan A.
Stay tune for part two of Whose Plan Are YOU Following.
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Hyperinflation
The National Inflation Association announced November 5th 2010
NIA Projects Future U.S. Food Prices
Coffee futures are currently trading for $2.06 per pound and the average grocery store sells a 11.30 oz container of Folgers Ground Classic Roast Coffee for $3.99. In April of 1977, coffee reached a high of $3.38 per pound, which based on the CPI is $12.29 per pound in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, coffees real inflation adjusted high in April of 1977 was $40.08 per pound.
NIA expects coffee to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price for a 11.30 oz container of Folgers Ground Classic Roast Coffee in your grocery store will likely rise to around $77.71.
Orange juice futures are currently trading for $1.66 per pound and the average grocery store sells a 64 fl oz container of Minute Maid 100% Pure Squeezed Orange Juice for $2.99. In November of 1977, orange juice reached a high of $2.20 per pound, which based on the CPI is $7.76 per pound in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, orange juices real inflation adjusted high in November of 1977 was $25.33 per pound.
NIA expects orange juice to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price for a 64 fl oz container of Minute Maid 100% Pure Squeezed Orange Juice in your grocery store will likely rise to around $45.71.
Whether you believe it or not we are moving rapidly into hyperinflation.
How would you like to be in a position in five years eating food that cost you the same price as if you paid for it now? How about ten years or even fifteen years?
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The National Inflation Association announced November 5th 2010
NIA Projects Future U.S. Food Prices
Sugar futures are currently trading for 0.3166 per pound and the average grocery store sells a 32 oz package of Domino Granulated Sugar for 2.19.
In November of 1974, sugar reached a high of 0.65 per pound, which based on the CPI is 2.757 per pound in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, sugars real inflation adjusted high in November of 1974 was 8.99 per pound.
NIA expects sugar to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price for a 32 oz package of Domino Granulated Sugar in your grocery store will likely rise to around 62.21.
Soybeans futures are currently trading for 12.75 per bushel and the average grocery store sells their cheapest store brand 32 fl oz container of soy milk for 1.49. In June of 1973, soybeans reached a high of 12.90 per bushel, which based on the CPI is 63.75 per bushel in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, soybeans real inflation adjusted high in June of 1973 was 207.97 per bushel. NIA expects soybeans to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price for the cheapest store brand 32 fl oz container of soy milk in your grocery store will likely rise to around 24.31.
Will these be the prices in the near future, time will only tell. I am sure not going to wait and see my hard earned money be sucked up by hyperinflation for not being prepared.
What would you do if there was a food shortage and your family had no money?
How would you like to be in a position in five years eating food that cost you the same price as if you paid for it now? How about ten years or even fifteen years?
How would you like to be able to have such a large supply on hand that you were able to help out your loved ones and those in need?
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NIA Projects Future U.S. Food Prices
For many decades, most American students went to college to get a job on Wall Street. (When the financial system collapses due to hyperinflation, most of these Wall Street jobs will be gone forever.)
With all the fantasy wealth being created on Wall Street, no Americans had any desire to become a farmer. Large portions of the country that were once farmland, have now been turned into housing developments. There is a lack of young farmers in America and this will soon lead to major food shortages. The fundamentals are there for agricultural commodity prices to go through the roof like nothing any American has ever experienced before.
During the months of September and October alone, just in anticipation of the Federal Reserves quantitative easing announcement, cotton prices rose by 54 percent, corn prices rose by 29 percent, soybean prices rose by 22 percent, orange juice prices rose by 17 percent, and sugar prices rose by 51 percent. Wheat prices are also up 36 percent since the beginning of July. Despite these huge increases in commodity prices, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS)s consumer price index (CPI), food prices only rose 0.3 percent in September. (The BLSs October CPI report will be released on November 17th.)
The BLS today calculates the CPI differently than they did decades ago. Being that retired Americans are supposed to receive social security payment increases when the CPI rises, the BLS purposely manipulates the CPI as low as possible using geometric weighting and hedonics. Geometric weighting gives a lower weighting to goods that are rising in price and a higher weighting to goods that are dropping in price.
The BLS justifies this by saying that if the price of steak is rising but hamburgers are falling, Americans will switch to eating hamburgers. Hedonics accounts for the increased pleasure that a product provides. Meaning, if the price of a computer goes up 10 percent but it is now twice as fast, the BLS can say the price declined 45 percent.
NIA believes real price inflation in the U.S. is already 5 percent and the recent spike in agricultural commodity prices along with Bernankes just announced 600 billion in quantitative easing will send the real inflation rate back up to above 10 percent in early 2011. Once Americans wake up and realize just how rapidly the U.S. dollar is being debased, NIA believes we will see a rush out of the U.S. dollar that could eventually trigger an outburst of hyperinflation.
Despite the recent rise in agricultural commodities, food manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers have been reluctant to pass commodity price increases along to the consumer because they know that Americans have been struggling to make their mortgage payments. However, agricultural commodity price increases have gotten so far out of control that if corporations do not start passing them along to consumers immediately, they will simply go out of business.
Almost all agricultural commodities are down substantially from their all time inflation adjusted highs from the 1970s. This should not be, because our national debt is now 15 times larger than it was in 1980 and our GDP has only grown by 1 and 1/2 times since then. The only way our nation can pay back its national debt is by the Federal Reserve monetizing it. NIA is confident that the upcoming monetization of our debt will send nearly all agricultural commodities soaring to new all time inflation adjusted highs.
Corn futures are currently trading for 5.90 per bushel and the average grocery store sells corn for 1.25 per ear. In September of 1974, corn reached a high of 3.83 per bushel, which based on the CPI is 16.55 per bushel in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, corns real inflation adjusted high in September of 1974 was 53.97 per bushel. NIA expects corn to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price of a ear of corn in your grocery store will likely rise to around 11.43.
Wheat futures are currently trading for 7.14 per bushel and the average grocery store sells a 24 oz loaf of the cheapest store brand of wheat bread for 1.69. In February of 1974, wheat reached a high of 6.45 per bushel, which based on the CPI is 29.85 per bushel in todays dollars. Based on the way NIA calculates real price inflation, by eliminating geometric weighting and hedonics, wheats real inflation adjusted high in February of 1974 was 97.37 per bushel. NIA expects wheat to reach new inflation adjusted highs this decade and if so, the average price for a 24 oz loaf of the cheapest store brand of wheat bread in your grocery store will likely rise to around 23.05.
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With the current turmoil in the Middle East and North African nations, oil prices are nearing all time highs! As a result, gas and food are about to get much more expensive!
When you buy food for you and your family do you view it as an investment or an expense? For as long as I have been buying food I have always looked at it as an expense, knowing that it will be consumed quickly while understanding I would have to do this again very soon.
After watching all that is going on with the economic unrest here in the states and what is happening to rest of the worlds economy I have had a different perspective on buying food.
For me, locking in today's food prices for fifteen years by investing now by purchasing dehydrated storable food at a wholesale producer discount is an absolute NO BRAINER! Now I'm saving money while making money, while protecting my family from a future crisis! How cool is that?!
Bottom line, the dollars that we have saved our whole lives are becoming worth less and less over time, unless they are invested in things that also go up in value during inflation.
Investing is storable food is not only a good thing to do as an investment as hyperinflation starts to rear its ugly head it just might be one of the smartest things to do as we continue to head into economic uncertainty.
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Drying or dehydration is the removal of the majority of water contained in the fruit or vegetable
and is the primary stage in the production of dehydrated fruits and vegetables. Several drying methods
are commercially available and the selection of the optimal method is determined by quality
requirements, raw material characteristics, and economic factors. There are three types of drying
processes: sun and solar drying; atmospheric dehydration including stationary or batch processes (kiln,
tower, and cabinet driers) and continuous processes (tunnel, continuous belt, belt-trough, fluidized-bed,
explosion puffing, foam-mat, spray, drum, and microwave-heated driers), and subatmospheric
dehydration (vacuum shelf, vacuum belt, vacuum drum, and freeze driers).
Sun drying (used almost exclusively for fruit) and solar drying (used for fruit and vegetables) of
foods use the power of the sun to remove the moisture from the product. Sun drying of fruit crops is
limited to climates with hot sun and dry atmosphere, and to certain fruits, such as prunes, grapes, dates, figs, apricots, and pears. These crops are processed in substantial quantities without much technical aid by simply spreading the fruit on the ground, racks, trays, or roofs and exposing them to the sun until dry.
Advantages of this process are its simplicity and its small capital investment. Disadvantages include complete dependence on the elements and moisture levels no lower than 15 to 20 percent (corresponding to a limited shelf life).
Solar drying utilizes black-painted trays, solar trays, collectors, and mirrors to increase solar energy and accelerate drying.
Atmospheric forced-air driers artificially dry fruits and vegetables by passing heated air with controlled relative humidity over the food to be dried, or by passing the food to be dried through the
heated air, and is the most widely used method of fruit and vegetable dehydration. Various devices are
used to control air circulation and recirculation. Stationary or batch processes include kiln, tower (or
stack), and cabinet driers. Continuous processes are used mainly for vegetable dehydration and include
tunnel, continuous belt, belt-trough, fluidized-bed, explosion puffing, foam-mat, spray, drum, and
microwave-heated driers. Tunnel driers are the most flexible, efficient, and widely used dehydration
system available commercially.
Subatmospheric (or vacuum) dehydration occurs at low air pressures and includes vacuum shelf, vacuum drum, vacuum belt, and freeze driers. The main purpose of vacuum drying is to enable the removal of moisture at less than the boiling point under ambient conditions. Because of the high installation and operating costs of vacuum driers, this process is used for drying raw material that may deteriorate as a result of oxidation or may be modified chemically as a result of exposure to air at elevated temperatures.
There are two categories of vacuum driers. In the first category, moisture in the food is evaporated from the liquid to the vapor stage, and includes vacuum shelf, vacuum drum, and vacuum belt driers. In the second category of vacuum driers, the moisture of the food is removed from the product by sublimination, which is converting ice directly into water vapor. The advantages of freeze drying are high flavor retention, maximum retention of nutritional value, minimal damage to the product texture and structure, little change in product shape and color, and a finished product with an open structure that allows fast and complete rehydration.
Disadvantages include high capital investment, high processing costs, and the need for special packing to avoid oxidation and moisture gain in the finished product.
Postdehydration Treatments
Treatments of the dehydrated product vary according to the type of fruit or vegetable and the intended use of the product. These treatments may include sweating, screening, inspection, instantization treatments, and packaging. Sweating involves holding the dehydrated product in bins or boxes to equalize the moisture content. Screening removes dehydrated pieces of unwanted size, usually called fines. The dried product is inspected to remove foreign materials, discolored pieces, or other imperfections such as skin, carpel, or stem particles.
Instantization treatments are used to improve the rehydration rate of the low-moisture product. Packaging is common to most all dehydrated products and has a great deal of influence on the shelf life of the dried product. Packaging of dehydrated fruits and vegetables must protect the product against moisture, light, air, dust, microflora, foreign odor, insects, and rodents; provide strength and stability to maintain original product size, shape, and appearance throughout storage, handling, and marketing; and consist of materials that are approved for contact with food. Cost is also an important factor in packaging. Package types include cans, plastic bags, drums, bins, and cartons, and depend on the end-use of the product.
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This blog will give my Google readers a wide variety of information about hyperinflation and why storing dehydrated food is not only a great investment but is also the smart think to do as we watch our hard earned dollars sink like standing in quick sand.
It looks like what some experts have been warning about is clearly becoming a reality. How much has your household expenses increased in the last couple of months? In just gas alone our expenses have gone up $40 per month and if you figure in food just add another $50 a month and there are only three of us.
Let us talk a little about food I do about 95 percent of the grocery shopping for our household. This morning I was talking to my wife about planting the largest garden that we have ever planted this spring. Food storage will be our top priority for the remainder of this year.
My back ground is 25 plus years in the retail grocery industry and I can see the writing on the wall gocery prices are jumping up at a rate far above anything I have ever seen before. Just this last week we saw a 60 cents per pound jump in retail meat prices and I was told we can expect up to another 80 cents and possibly $1 per pound jump in the near future.
Just last month the store I shop in ran an add on freeze dried foods and people went nuts over this stuff. This got me curious and I started to read the ingredients and I was wondering why people would pay this ridiculous price for something that had very little or zero nutritional value according to my standards just because it had a 15 plus year shelf life.
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Drying Or Dehydration
Dehydration of fruit and vegetables is one of the oldest forms of food preservation techniques known to man and consists primarily of establishments engaged in sun drying or artificially dehydrating fruits and vegetables. Although food preservation is the primary reason for dehydration, dehydration of fruits and vegetables also lowers the cost of packaging, storing, and transportation by reducing both the weight and volume of the final product. Given the improvement in the quality of dehydrated foods, along with the increased focus on instant and convenience foods, the potential of dehydrated fruits and vegetables is greater than ever.
Dehydrated Food Process Description
Dried or dehydrated fruits and vegetables can be produced by a variety of processes. These processes differ primarily by the type of drying method used, which depends on the type of food and the type of characteristics of the final product. In general, dried or dehydrated fruits and vegetables undergo the following process steps: predrying treatments, such as size selection, peeling, and color preservation; drying or dehydration, using natural or artificial methods; and postdehydration treatments, such as sweating, inspection, and packaging.
Predrying Treatments
Predrying treatments prepare the raw product for drying or dehydration and include raw product preparation and color preservation. Raw product preparation includes selection and sorting, washing, peeling some fruits and vegetables, cutting into the appropriate form, and blanching for some fruits and most vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are selected; sorted according to size, maturity, and soundness; and then washed to remove dust, dirt, insect matter, mold spores, plant parts, and other material that might contaminate or affect the color, aroma, or flavor of the fruit or vegetable. Peeling or removal of any undesirable parts follows washing. The raw product can be peeled by hand generally not used in the United States due to high labor costs, with lye or alkali solution, with dry caustic and mild abrasion, with steam pressure, with high-pressure washers, or with flame peelers. For fruits, only apples, pears, bananas, and pineapples are usually peeled before dehydration. Vegetables normally peeled include beets, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions, and garlic. Prunes and grapes are dipped in an alkali solution to remove the natural waxy surface coating which enhances the drying process. Next, the product is cut into the appropriate shape or form , halves, wedges, slices, cubes, nuggets, etc., although some items, such as cherries and corn, may by-pass this operation. Some fruits and vegetables are blanched by immersion in hot water 95 to 100 C, 203 to 212 F for exposure to steam.
The final step
The final step in the predehydration treatment is color preservation, also known as sulfuring. The majority of fruits are treated with sulfur dioxide SO2 for its antioxidant and preservative effects. The presence of SO2 is very effective in retarding the browning of fruits, which occurs when the enzymes are not inactivated by the sufficiently high heat normally used in drying. In addition to preventing browning, SO2 treatment reduces the destruction of carotene and ascorbic acid, which are the important nutrients for fruits. Sulfuring dried fruits must be closely controlled so that enough sulfur is present to maintain the physical and nutritional properties of the product throughout its expected shelf life, but not so large that it adversely affects flavor. Some fruits, such as apples, are treated with solutions of sulfite, sodium sulfite and sodium bisulfite in approximately equal proportions before dehydration. Sulfite solutions are less suitable for fruits than burning sulfur SO2 gas, however, because the solution penetrates the fruit poorly and can leach natural sugar, flavor, and other components from the fruit.
My choice for food storage is dehydrated food it not only taste great it is very easy to carry when you are hiking or hunting and you do not need a huge food storage area in your home for a lagre amout of food.
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Our country could be on the brink of a possible financial collapse, so many people are getting prepared. Are you prepared? This is not to frighten you, but to advise you to be like a Boy Scout and Be Prepared.
For Immediate Release
Recently, the FED has decided to print billions of dollars for quantitative easing. This pumping of more money into the system will only steal the purchasing power from each and every one of us, through inflation. This inflation will not create jobs but will have the reverse effect and it will cause prices of our every day goods and services to rise, making it harder for most of us to live on a fixed income!
Bottom line, the dollars that we have saved our whole lives are becoming worth less and less over time, unless they are invested in things that also go up in value during inflation.
Investing in storable food is not only a good thing to do as an investment as hyperinflation starts to rear its ugly head it just might be one of the smartest things to do as we continued to head into economic uncertainty.
We can cut back on entertainment, cut back on college education, we can sell our McMansion that we thought were an investment and can no longer afford and move in with family members or friends. We can sell our car, use mass transportation, and consume less fuel.
However, we can never stop spending money on food.
Hyperinflation
The National Inflation Association announced November 5th 2010 projections for future U.S. food prices
based after this weeks announced $600 billion in quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve announced this week that it will be expanding its balance sheet by $75 billion per month until the end of June 2011, for total quantitative easing of $600 billion. Quantitative easing is nothing more than inflation and when the Federal Reserve creates inflation, it steals from the purchasing power of the incomes and savings of all Americans.
Inflation does not create jobs. Inflation merely causes prices of goods and services to rise and makes it more expensive for American families to support themselves. While years ago it was possible for a father to support an entire family of four or five on one income; today, both parents need to work and they also need to get deeply into debt just to make ends meet. With all of our societys technological advances of recent years, Americans cost of living should be declining, but it has instead been spiraling out of control due to the Federal Reserves destructive monetary policies.
Politicians love inflation because it allows them to monetize their deficit spending. Politicians can also take credit for an economic recovery when stock prices rise. However, nominal stock market gains mean nothing to middle class Americans if prices of food and other agricultural products are rising at a much faster rate.
Inflation does not cause the prices of all assets, goods, and services to rise equally. Real Estate, for example, will likely rise the least this decade, because the U.S. government never allowed the Real Estate bubble to fully deflate and there is still an excess glut of vacant homes on the market.
NIA expects both Real Estate and stock market prices to decline in terms of real money, gold and silver. The best way to value stocks and Real Estate is not in fiat U.S. dollars, but in terms of real money, gold and silver. The Dow Jones is currently worth 8.2 ounces of gold.
After the NIA Projects Future U.S. Food Prices inflationary crisis of the 1970s, the Dow Jones declined to just 1 ounce of gold. We believe the Dow Jones currently 11,434 is guaranteed to meet in price with gold currently $1,390 at some point this decade.
The median U.S. home is currently worth $171,700 or 6,550 ounces of silver. After the inflationary crisis of the 1970s, the median U.S. home declined to below 1,000 ounces of silver. NIA believes that because this decades Real Estate bubble was so large, Real Estate prices will likely over correct to the downside and the median U.S. home will be worth only 500 ounces of silver at some point this decade. Therefore, if you buy just $13,000 worth of physical silver today, NIA believes you will be able to pay cash without any mortgage for an average American home within the next 5 to 10 years.
NIA believes the only asset class that has the potential to rise in value by more than gold and silver this decade is agricultural commodities. Inflation gravitates most towards goods that Americans need to live and survive. There is nothing that Americans need more to live and survive than food.
Americans can cut back on entertainment the New York Mets just announced a 14 percent decrease in ticket prices for next season. They can cut back on college education NIA considers college to be a scam. Americans can sell their McMansion that they thought was an investment and can no longer afford and move in with family members or friends. They can sell their car, use mass transportation, and consume less fuel. However, Americans can never stop spending money on food.
Well it has only been 4 months since these projections and look at the gas and food prices, this is not to be taken lightly. What If The Media Is Right And We Do Have A Food Shortage!
Will You Be Stuck In One Of Those Food Lines? Do you have food reserves stock piled to protect you and your family from hyperinflation?