How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System [Paperback]

Anita Evangelista (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

This concise little book will help you store up the foods your family eats at the lowest cost possible – using proven techniques and systems. No room to store extras? How much should you store? How do you keep track of everything? What are the most important “rules” of food storage? How about food canning, freezing, drying, or raising a garden? This book has answers, plus lots more!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Breakout Productions (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966693205
• ISBN-13: 978-0966693201
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,268,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Greetings!
Thanks for your interest in my books....whether on thrifty livestyles, self-reliance skills, country living, fencing, preparedness, or hypnotism. As of early 2006, I'm working on topics that include "A Clinician's Guide to Effective Weight Loss Plans" and "The Bus Rider's Manual" (no publishers lined up, yet). At the same time, I'm completing my doctorate in nursing...so expect more health books. My heart is still in the country and involved in preparedness, though, so there will be more in those areas as time goes by.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A useful book, June 26, 2002

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Jim Bivens (An Illinois Farm, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System (Paperback)

My wife and I have read and used "How To Develop A Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System," and have found it to be a useful centering point for our stocking up activities. We both recommend this book.

On a side note, one of the reviews of this book appearing on this site misrepresents one of Mrs. Evangelista's statements, definitely casting doubt on her credibility. The writer of the review states that the author advocates taking retreaved cooking oil from restaurants and turning it into "soups." I thought this was rather odd for anyone to suggest, so I looked up the reference. Evangelista says: "Used frying oils make excellent soaps [not soups], when strained ..." There is, I think, a big difference between soap and soups. I suggest the reviewer, who gave the book a one star rating, read the book for comprehension next time around. I give that reader's review a no-star rating.

Anita Evangelista is a good writer, and reading this book, and her other farm-related books, will be useful to country dwellers and city-dwellers alike.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gladpuppy1 made a BIG mistake, June 26, 2002

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Anita Evangelista (Springfield, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System (Paperback)

Gladpuppy1 stated that my book included this phrase: "Used frying oils make excellent soups when strained."

In reality, what I wrote was this: "Used frying oils make excellent SOAPS when strained." This is on page 30.

Readers can make their own decisions about the validity of the remainder of the reviewer's comments.

By the way, I was not able to post this comment without entering a "star rating" -- otherwise, I would have left it blank.

Thanks for considering my book!

Anita Evangelista

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good, basic common sense, and lots of it., February 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System (Paperback)

God talks to some folks directly. To the more sane among us, he sends messages along more conventional routes. This book is one of those gentle proddings. HOW TO DEVELOP A LOW-COST FAMILY FOOD-STORAGE SYSTEM is a direct appeal to common sense. Whether you believe the world is coming to an end or not, one day you might encounter a snow storm, a trucker strike, or a short period of unemployment that could disrupt your ability to come by food easily. Having some goodies stored up, then, is nothing more than a buffer against that eventual rainy day that comes to all of us. And Ms. Evangelista tells us how to accomplish this simple, but generally overlooked, form of personal insurance with a straightforward, no nonsense delivery. Read the book and find out how to develop a food supply that will see you happily through any tough days that might come along. Then, in the event you find yourself house bound by an icy road, or being threatened by an impending hurricane, you won't look at an empty kitchen and curse yourself for being so short sighted. Take that old Boy Scout motto to heart, and "Be prepared."