This 100+ page emergency and disaster preparedness guide will get you started on your way to developing and implementing your own survival plan.

The guide covers everything from actions to take in given situations, to developing a "place of action" for survival situations.

• Learn how to build wilderness shelters,
• acquire food and water,
• first aid and more.

One of the most comprehensive guides available in an easy to download format. This guide also includes checklists and recommended courses of action.

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Consider a future where you are out of work, your neighbors are out of work, and most of your town or city is out of work. How do you survive? How do you support your family? How do you eat or stay warm in the winter?

We do not live in an age of self sufficiency. We do not make or create all of the things we need to survive. We are specialists.

As a global depression sweeps the land, it will not be easy to un-specialize. But we may have to. We will need to raise part of our own food. We will need to collect wood for fire and warmth. We will need to make modifications to our homes to switch from a heavy energy consumption household to one that can keep us safe and warm without electricity or gas arriving with dependable regularity.

Now, if you raise food, a garden you may find yourself in a position of having extra food to barter with at the end of the growing season. In the early years, you will not be expert at understanding how much food you can truly can, store or keep through the winter. Apples and Potatoes can keep for a long time if stored in a cool relatively dark location free of vermin. Other vegetables will need to be canned.

Canning vegetables does take as much work as growing and harvesting vegetables so prepare yourself for a lot of work. It also takes some skill, so while you still have some credit left on your credit card invest in some books that can help you learn how to can those vegetables that you may need to survive and possibly even barter with.

Alcohol also is a commodity that has a high value in a barter economy. It can be used both for medicinal purposes (cleaning wounds and preventing infection) as well as for the type of consumption we are more familiar with today. Once you distill alcohol or brew beer, it becomes relatively portable. It can also be stored for a significant period of time. While it can be relatively easy to make alcoholic beverages, it is not always as easy to make ‘safe’ alcohol, which is why many people suffered brain damage from alcohol in previous centuries. So again, if you are going to consider making alcohol for a bartering commodity make sure you learn how to do it right, and buy a couple of the many guides available today that explain the how to of distilling alcohol or brewing beer.

Now is the time to start stocking up on food. You should focus on purchasing canned goods first. There is no need to go out and buy everything all at once, but you should deliberately by additional canned good items.

As you purchase canned goods, focus on things that will complete an entire meal. Purchase canned meats, and canned vegetables both.

Your goal should be to purchase at least six months worth of food and canned goods. Do not buy food that you or your family will not eat. Instead focus on the food that you will eat, and it is okay for you to start eating this as you buy it.

Where they apply, pay attention to expiration dates on the canned goods and organized your canned goods in a pantry so that you can identify those items that will need to be eaten first.

If you have experience in investing, you can look at your canned goods purchases as an investment in the future. In fact, the reason why you should buy canned goods over a period of time, as opposed to all at once, is for two reasons. For one reason, this will ensure that you have a wide range of products and canned goods for that will have differing expiration dates. You do not want to have all of your food go bad at the same time!

The second reason for purchasing canned goods over a period of time to prepare for the global depression involves investment concept known as dollar cost averaging. Essentially the idea is that you do not want to purchase something all at once, instead you purchase it over time and the average cost that you will pay for the items that you buy should ensure that you pay on average the best price available, as opposed to paying too much during a spike in prices.

There could also be a third reason.  We do not want to trigger a food panic.  Cover yourself gradually, but do not go crazy or over board. 

In our next article, we’ll talk about other food items that you will need to focus on next after you have your canned goods taken care of. We’ll give you two hits, gardening, fishing and hunting.