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Survival foods are always gonna come down to 2 things. These are calories and shelf life.
It will be very important that we force ourselves to learn how to make these foods so that, in times of need, you have the ability to execute them.
These foods are not necessarily hard to make but they can be deceptively easy looking and practice makes them much better and more palatable. While they might not all be your favorite things to eat they all have survival benefits.
This is an article about survival food and an ancient bread recipe for bannock.
This is a food that is very simple to make and can last for a very long time.
With the introduction of a few ingredients, you can also make this long shelf life food work for things like Vitamin C.
Learn about it with this recipe.
How to Make Bannock the Survival Food Rich in Vitamin C
Bonus: How to Make Pemmican, the Original Survival Food
Invented by the natives of North America pemmican was used by Indian scouts as well as early western explorers.
Native Americans spent a great deal of time on the go and depended on having portable, high-energy, highly nutritious, and filling foods that would last for long periods of time without refrigeration.
Pemmican is a portable, long-lasting, high-energy food. It's made of lean, dried meat that's crushed into powder and mixed with hot, rendered fat. This makes it one of the ultimate foods to have stockpiled for when SHTF or disaster strikes.
Learn How to Make Pemmican
People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how folks 150 years ago did it.
These guys were the last generation to practice basic things, for a living, that we call "survival skills" now.
