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The Food Book
How to Buy, Grow, Hunt, Fish, Find, and Store Food

Copyright © August 2, 2021 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
All Rights Reserved.

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ISBN: 978-1737068020
Type of Book: Paperback
Book Size: 6 inches by 9 inches (Note: Some of my other books are 8.5 inches by 11 inches.)
Number of Pages: 356
Normal Retail Price: $14.95

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Book Description on Amazon.com

Food is one of the most important necessities of life. Therefore this 356 page book is 100% about food.

The information in this book is timeless. Some of the information in this book has been known for thousands of years. Unfortunately very few people today clearly understand the basic concepts that their ancestors knew and used to ensure their long-term survival. Therefore it is my opinion that many people in the not too distant future will perish because they will not know the following life-sustaining information:

1. All the different ways to procure food, including the advantages and disadvantages of fresh food, frozen food, canned food, freeze dried food, dehydrated food, and Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MREs).
   
2. All the different ways to safely process food for human consumption, including how to correctly process the most commonly available edible wild plants and wild game animals.
   
3. All the different ways to preserve food, including which preservation methods help to retain the maximum amount of flavor and nutrition of each specific type of food.
   

This book contains detailed information on all the above topics.

The author of this book has more than 50 years of experience using the skills discussed in this book. He has written more than 20 books, including 2 cookbooks and 3 survival manuals. He has conducted a variety of shelf life tests on different ways to store food and vegetable seeds, and the results of his experiments are included in this book.

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Table of Contents

Chapter		Page
	Section One: Introduction
1	The Importance of Food	1
2	Shelf Lives of Different Types of Food	7
3	Food Safety Rules and Food Storage Recommendations	9
4	Water for Cooking Food and for Preparing Beverages	11
	Section Two: Foods That Should be Purchased
5	An Emergency Food Supply	19
6	30-Day Emergency Food Supply	27
7	One-Year Emergency Food Supply	33
8	Salt, Black Pepper, Spices	39
9	Dairy Products and Cooking Oils	45
10	Sweeteners: Sugar, Honey, Maple Syrup	53
11	Grains: Corn, Oats, Wheat	59
12	Rice: White, Brown, Wild	65
13	Beans: Dry and Canned	71
14	Canned Foods Available at a Grocery Store	83
15	Freeze Dried and Dehydrated Foods	87
16	Beverages: Coffee, Tea, Fruit Juice, Electrolytes, Alcohol	91
	Section Three: Edible Wild Plants and Nuts
17	Edible Wild Plants and Plants to Avoid	101
18	Acorns	111
19	Hickory Nuts and Black Walnuts	121
	Section Four: Meat and Fish
20	Farm Animals	123
21	Beef	127
22	Pork	133
23	Poultry: Chicken, Duck, Goose, Turkey	135
24	Seafood: Fish and Shellfish	139
25	Wild Game Animals	145
26	How to Use Traps and Snares to Catch Wild Game	151
27	Fishing Options including How to Use Gill Nets	158
28	Other Edible Critters	175
	Section Five: How to Grow Fruits and Vegetables
29	12-Year Shelf Life Study on Garden Seeds	177
30	Two More Shelf Life Studies on Garden Seeds	185
31	Garden Location, Compost, Mulch, Crop Rotation	189
32	The Different Types of Seeds and How to Grow Seeds	201
33	How to Grow Vegetables from Seed	221
34	How to Grow Fruits, Nuts, Grapes, and Berries	227
35	Some Common Reasons for a Poor Harvest	241
	Section Six: Options for Heating and Cooking Foods
36	Cookware: Stainless Steel, Enamel, Non-Stick, Cast Iron	243
37	Options for Heating Food to a Serving Temperature	257
38	Ovens, Stoves, Grills, Fireplaces, Campfires, Solar Ovens	259
	Section Seven: How to Preserve a Few Specific Foods
39	Meat Grinders and Grain Grinders	275
40	How to Render Animal Fat	277
41	Meat Jerky	279
42	Pemmican (Meat Jerky, Dried Fruit, Melted Animal Fat)	283
43	Parched Corn and Rockahominy (Pinole)	287
	Section Eight: Long-Term Food Storage Options
44	Introduction to Long-Term Food Storage	289
45	Refrigeration and Freezing	297
46	Canning Equipment and Glass Canning Jars	299
47	Vacuum Sealing	307
48	Leave in the Ground During the Winter Months	309
49	Root Cellars	311
50	Drying and Dehydrating	315
	Appendix: RDA Tables and Food Nutritional Data	323
	Index	347
	About the Author	352

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