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Preparation
Information and Links
posted by dpfan
Getting Started - Research
If you are going to prepare, the first thing you need is a plan. You
will need to decide what threats you want to prepare for, for what
period of time, and how many people you want to provide for. I highly
suggest you do not do what I did, which is go to Wal Mart and fill your
grocery cart. You will be discarding most of what you have purchased in
a few years and have to do it all over again.
To make a plan you need information. Purchase a good book on the
subject that will teach you about self sufficiency, food storage and
planning, shelf life of different foods, etc. Most good books have
charts that will help you determine how much food you will need of each
food group, and what else you will need. Here are my favorite books on
the subject:
The NEW Passport To Survival. 12 Steps to Self-Sufficient Living by
Rita Bingham
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James
Talmage Stevens
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
No Such Thing As Doomsday by Philip L Hoag
http://www.yellowstonetrading.com/m...ategory_Code=bk
Here are some websites with general survival/preparedness info:
http://www.survival-center.com/index.htm Great
basic site with some good info
http://www.survival-center.com/guide/ Intro guide
from the same site
http://www.pipeline.com/~jeriwho/emer_faq.htm Good
beginners intro guide
http://www.pep-c.org/homepage/
another good beginners guide
http://www.survivalforum.com/
http://www.alpharubicon.com/index2.html
http://www.oism.org/ddp/
Doctors for disaster preparedness, interesting site
While many of these sites have the word “survival” in them, don’t be
put off by that. I am not an outdoorsman and have 2 small children to
take care of. I will not be running around in the woods eating insects
anytime soon. lol Survival to me means have extra food on hand, a
means to cook it, heat my home and maintain certain necessities such as
laundry, bathing, etc..
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