Prepper's Dehydrator Handbook


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Tips, tricks, and techniques for preparing shelf-stable foods in your dehydrator—from the founder of PreparednessMama. Instead of relying on preservative-filled packaged goods, fill your prepper stockpile with the tastier, healthy alternative—dehydrated foods. Whether you grew it, butchered it or purchased it fresh, it’s going to be more delicious and more nutritious if you personally preserve it in your own dehydrator. Packed with everything you need to know about this power method for creating shelf-stable foods, Prepper’s Dehydrator Handbook includes: Tips for locking in produce’s natural flavor Seasoning recipes for delicious jerkies Drying techniques for delicate herbs Tricks for working in bulk to keep costs down Crucial advice on how to prevent spoilage “Everything you need to know about getting started dehydrating and building up your food supply is in this book. Solar drying, oven drying, dehydrator drying and microwave drying are all covered.” —Country Living in Cariboo Valley “This book will be a very important book in my cookbook collection as well as a great reference book for my food storage. I found this to be one of the most complete books on dehydrating that I have seen or owned. I think you will find this to be a very important part of your food storage books too.” —Living Life in Rural Iowa




The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook


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The dehydrator is an incredibly useful tool for long-term food storage and making the most of your garden harvest.




The Beginner's Guide to Dehydrating Food, 2nd Edition


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This essential companion for putting your food dehydrator to work features instructions and techniques for drying all the most popular fruits and vegetables, along with meat and herbs. You’ll learn to dry fruits and vegetables at their peak, giving you an easy and economical way to stock your pantry with apple rings, mango slices, banana chips, dried soup beans, tomatoes, and much more for year-round enjoyment. In addition, drying guidelines for specialty items like meat jerky, fruit leather, dried herb and spice mixtures, backpacking meals, and even baby food round out this friendly handbook.




Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook


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A handy guide to field-tested medical procedures for when no doctor is available—from the author of The Neighborhood Emergency Response Handbook. When disaster strikes and no first responders are around, you’ll have to rely on your own medical knowledge to survive. Prepper’s Survival Medicine Handbook goes beyond basic first aid to teach you military-tested methods for treating life-threatening medical conditions, including: Gunshot wounds Third degree burns Radiation exposure Broken bones Ruptured arteries Severed limbs Poisonous snakebites Anaphylactic shock The author, an emergency responder, details step-by-step treatment for everything from hypothermia and heat stroke to seizures and cardiac emergencies. Using information from actual military field manuals, this book provides everything you need to keep you and your loved ones safe when there’s nowhere else to turn.




Just in Case


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If disaster strikes and public services are limited, you want to know that your family will be taken care of. Learn how to inventory and rotate your food supply, pack an evacuation kit, maintain communication with loved ones, and much more. You’ll soon gain the ingenuity and resourcefulness to get your family through even the most unfortunate circumstances.




The Prepper's Canning Guide


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A practical and approachable guide to amassing an emergency food supply filled with your own natural dishes, featuring a variety of recipes. As the disaster drags on for days, weeks, months or even years, food scarcity and starvation will fuel people’s desperation. Even preppers like you will need more than dried beans and rice to survive. With The Prepper’s Canning Guide, you’ll learn the lifesaving techniques to take your food storage to the next level, including how to: • Store nutrition-packed foods • Create delicious MREs • Can protein-rich meat and poultry • Make canned produce last longer • Use time-tested water-bath methods • Utilize modern pressure canning From food safety guidelines to grid-failure canning tips, this book will guarantee your family stays safe, secure and well-fed.




The Prairie Homestead Cookbook


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Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.




LDS Preparedness Manual


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The Prepper's Ultimate Food Storage Guide


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Take emergency preparedness to the next level with this guide to storing and preserving healthy food for you and your family for a lifetime. Be prepared for any catastrophe—whether a pandemic, natural disaster, or other grid-down situation—with this comprehensive food storage bible. It’s with advice from the best preppers on canning, dehydrating, stockpile maintenance, and shelf-stable cooking. This 4-in-1 book collection offers your one-stop-food-shop for everything you need to know, including: Building a long-term stockpile on a budget Must-have alternative cooking gear for grid-down living How to dehydrate everything from meats to fruits and vegetables Techniques for creative canning, from jams to entire entrees Food-safety guidelines for safe meal-prep and storage Hundreds of tasty recipes for nutritious meals And much more The Prepper’s Ultimate Food-Storage Guide is the self-reliant solution to a lifesaving food supply that will keep you and your family healthy for a lifetime. Stay safe, and stay prepared!




Dehydrating at Home


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A food dehydrator is a versatile kitchen appliance that enables you to easily preserve large quantities of fresh foods and create healthier versions of grocery store treats. Not only can you and your family snack healthier and add variety to your diet, you can save money at the same time! The snack recipes in Dehydrating at Home are a perfect solution for busy families who do not want to compromise when it comes to health and nutrition. Dehydrating at Home features easy recipes for the beginner such as Dried Nectarines, Strawberry-Apple Fruit Leather, or Dried Tomatoes. It also features a wide variety of recipes that take dehydrating to the next level such as Polka Dot Fruit Roll Ups, flatbreads, cookies, and yogurt. The majority of the recipes are inspired by fresh seasonal ingredients that develop upon the ingredients' innate deliciousness. Dehydrating at Home emphasises foods that store well for months in addition to being easy to grab on your way out the door to school, work, sporting events, or a walk in the woods. The Herbs & Seasonings chapter is an exception to this rule, but its simple recipes strive to make your time in the kitchen easier and more fruitful. Once you learn what to look for in a dehydrator, how to prepare your foods for dehydrating, and how to store your bounty, your dehydrator can become a major player in your kitchen that can save you a great deal of money as well as produce foods that are much fresher and tastier than their supermarket counterparts.