Tag: nutritious food

Food and Water Priorities

Nutritious food and clean drinking water are two of the most important priorities that you can consider next to shelter and first aid supplies. You can go three weeks without nutritious food but only three days without clean drinking water.

Above Video Titles:
Sensible Food Supply Preparation Part 1 and 2

Source of Above Videos – YT Channel SootchOO:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sootch00

* When storing clean drinking water or any water for that matter, make sure you use sturdy containers. The thin plastic gallon milk containers are not good to store water in. After a while they start to degrade and eventually leak. I used them and had them stored in a utility cabinet and one day noticed water on the floor beside the cabinet. Come to find out some of the containers were leaking. They were not stacked or anything.

I’ve also bought some of the Meijer 2 gallon spring water containers for clean drinking water and I found out that they do not store well if you stack them.They leaked water all over the carpet in a bedroom closet. I had stacked them on top of each other and they were not strong enough. I only did one level higher and they did not hold up to the pressure.

A while back I bought seven Reliance Products – Aqua-Pak 2.5 Gallon Rigid Water Containers from Amazon.com to use for clean drinking water, and am also using the big thick plastic gallon containers that Arizona and Trade Winds tea comes in. So far I haven’t had a problem with them leaking.

* Review of the Big Berkey Filter to use for clean drinking water. My experience with the Big Berkey Filter is this. Save your money! It did filter and did a pretty good job, but for $250! I returned it. I will just use our brita pitcher filter. If we run out of the brita filters, I have coffee filters we can use. When I used the red food coloring in the water that was being filtered in the Berkey as was suggested by Berkey, it filtered most of it out, but you are still gonna have to treat the water with some other treatment because it did not remove all of it. I could still see a very, very pale pink color in the filtered water and that let me know that not everything will be filtered out. So why pay so much when you can use something else that is much cheaper and does a decent job. See link below in the links section about how to make your own $15 DIY Filter. Some people also just use asock (clean of course LOL!), a pillowcase or something to strain out the debris in their water if any, then use some kind of method to purify it.

* Some people use clorox to make clean drinking water, but it is only good for about 6 or 7 months then it loses some of its strength. There are other things you can use to purify your drinking water, don’t limit yourself to the chlorine. It is not that healthy for you. Do what they do in other countries to purify their water. Use a WAPI to pasteurize the water. See information below.

So what is a WAPI? “The reusable WAPI (Water Pasteurization (Indicator) is a simple, low cost device containing a special soy wax that helps users determine when water has reached pasteurization temperatures so they will have clean drinking water. The wax melts at the same temperature as the water is pasteurized.”

Thus you can have clean drinking water for very little cost. See the link below to learn more.

Below are some other water purifying options:

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Words of Wisdom: Always have a back up plan in place. Two or three different ways to filter and treat your water. Foods stored different ways. Frozen, canned, dried or freeze-dried.