>> Marjory: Hi this is Marjory Wildcraft with Grow Your Own Groceries and today I'm privileged
to be able to interview Lisa Bedford.
Lisa is also known as the survival mom and she's the author of a new book called Survival
Mom: How to Prepare for Everyday Disasters and Worst Case Scenarios.
It's a book with a whole huge amount of really useful information for people especially
new and coming in to the preparedness community and wanting to be just a little more prepared
for things that might come at us.
Today Lisa is going to talk about three tips for getting started in starting your back up
food supplies.
Lisa, why don't I let you go with that.
>> Lisa: We want to start with a foundation of just beginning where you are.
That is so important to not be intimidated by what you hear other people saying or doing.
Just start right where you are and so survival moms may find themselves in an apartment or
a very small home or something much larger so just start where you are.
With that as a foundation with food storage you want to start with what you already like
and know how to make.
That is so important because so many times in the past when a crisis emerges people want
to stock up on foods they're unfamiliar with.
>> Marjory: Yeah so they're going to buy the buckets of this and that and the other
of what they don't actually eat.
>> Lisa: Right, they'll be buying just tons of beans in cases which you know they never
eat beans or freeze-dried food, they never tried freeze-dried food but that's the survival
thing to do.
You want to start with what your family already enjoys.
A lot of times we are having the impression that in a crisis our kids will eat anything
if they're hungry enough.
People who say that never dealt with a four or five year old kid who is just determined
they are not going to eat whatever it is you cooked for dinner and if that is not going
to happen now-you know hunger is only going to make the crisis bigger and intensify the
feeling of panic.
Why do that?
Why set your family up for that?
First of all start where you are with what you already like.
Secondly, you want to make sure that the foods you want are accessible so if you're trying
to go for organic freeze-dried foods-those may be difficult to come by.
Start with just your local grocery store.
My food tip is to start with foods that are very easy to prepare and that is so vital
because in an emergency-let's say you don't have access to your kitchen or you don't
have access to electricity or the stove or the range you're used to cooking on and
you find yourself having to heat up food in a solar oven or campfire or something like
that-just get rid of any recipes that are overly complicated.
>> Marjory: I heard you were recommending that people make soups are really easy to
make.
>> Lisa: You know I think that every family needs to have a stock pile if you will or
a stash of ingredients specifically for soup.
For example you can buy a number ten can-that's about a gallon of chicken bouillon or beef
bouillon.
You can also buy that same size can of tomato powder so you could make a soup base with
a chicken broth, a beef broth, or a tomato based soup and then use whatever you have
on hand.
It could be garden fresh vegetables, it could be canned vegetables that you picked up at
the supermarket for $.59 a can, it could be canned beans or it could be dried beans that
you cooked.
The variations are limitless and the nice thing about soup is that you can really make
it filling with something my grandma used to call meal stretchers.
That would be ingredients like rice, beans, pasta, so all of a sudden maybe we don't
have a whole lot of money for meals but I can throw in a handful or two of elbow macaroni
and that makes the meal more filling and it's going to go a lot further.
Soup is probably my number one survival recommendation when it comes to food storage.
>> Marjory: That's great because almost everybody likes soup of some form and kids
will always dig out the parts that they like best so you don't have to worry about.
Thank you so much for spending time for us and I highly recommend Lisa's book and by
all means do get started with storing some back up food because we just don't know
what's happening and it just makes sense to have a little bit of food in our pantries.
This is Marjory Wildcraft with Grow Your Own Groceries and we'll see you on the next
segment.