Basic starter info on survival prep
 

Can anyone recommend a good starting place for a survival prep newb to learn what kinds of foods, gear, and other supplies are useful to stock up on, and how to calculate what quantities of each to put away for any arbitrary number of people over some target period of time?

It would be nice to find information that covers how to package and store foods, what kinds of mills and purifiers and fuel sources exist and what the tradeoffs are between the various types.

Information on how to kill, gut, pluck, and prepare a live chicken or other domesticated animals and game would be useful too.

This part of the forum has a lot of information, but there's no really good beginning survivalists guide that pulls it all together. A lot of things I can figure out on my own, but I might miss important details without some help.

I'd like to start putting away some food and equipment that will come in handy when TSHTF, but there is just a lot of things I don't know, and I'd rather not waste a lot of time and money doing the wrong things.

Re: Basic starter info on survival prep
 

From the horses mouth

http://www.providentliving.org/chann...1706-1,00.html

http://waltonfeed.com/grain/faqs/

Re: Basic starter info on survival prep
 

Those look like great starting places. Thank you.

Re: Basic starter info on survival prep
 

survivalblog.com
backwoodshome.com

Re: Basic starter info on survival prep
 

James Dakin has an awesome blog http://bisonsurvivalblog.blogspot.com/ focusing on frugal prep's. Buy his pdf (it's a couple of dollars) and take what'll work for you..

Re: Basic starter info on survival prep
 

Unfortunately, the site he sells through requires your physical address to place an order, and I'm not all that interested in providing that for a $3.00 e-book that I'm going to download.