Many preppers know that it is important to use all the supplies you have available to them. Sometimes this means you have to get creative and re-purpose items. Now that you don't have to let all that food in your fridge end up in the trash, you can actually save it if you apply these amazing tips!

Here Is How To Save Your Perishable Food During a SHTF Situation: 

One thing the can be done is to start stocking a prepper’s pantry in your home. Foods that are shelf stable and nutritious are the best to stock. Along those lines, you want to ensure you have canning supplies, Mylar storage bags and plastic bags on standby to store all the food you are about to preserve.

Another method that is done in the JJ home is when the groceries are brought home, all meats are cooked immediately, placed into Ziploc bags, and then into the freezer they go. Remember, after a power outage your fridge will still keep things cool for about 24 hours. The frozen meat adds about another 24 hours to its “frozenness” until it needs to be consumed. You can do this with other portions of food as well, such as soups, pasta, vegetables, and so forth. It’s better to have it a few days longer than to lose it in the first 24 hours.

That frozen meat? It’s cooked, so if you have the generator, why not stack up those dehydrator machines with already-cooked meat and dry it out? It would be a one-day risk, and you could dehydrate a certain amount of it and have it last a little longer. There’s also another method. Break out your canning manuals, and prepare to can. For this you’ll need something a little special.

Yes, that green camping stove…runs on white gas/Coleman fuel or gasoline. The reason this is a “goodie” is that you can steadily regulate your temperature and pressure with this little gas-burner stove as you are monitoring your work. Such regularity is important when it comes to canning. Can away! You’ll need to know your stuff: your elevation and the proper recipes that you have in your canning manual for your ratios of seasonings and salt. Can the meat, can the veggies, can whatever you can!

Meat can also be salted; therefore, it would behoove you to pick up some 25 – 50 lb. bags of salt, and whatever can’t be canned can be preserved in this manner.  Yes, time to break out the charcoal and mesquite chips and smoke the daylights out of that meat. Smoke some veggies, and dehydrate them as well. It’ll be a race of the likes of which you’ve never run.

Seafood is tricky. I’d throw that in the Brinkman and smoke the daylights out of it, being careful to season it, as dried fish on its own tastes pretty crappy. Just try and avoid the use of butter or dairy sauces or any cheese.

If you act as quickly as possible you can use these methods, tips, and tricks to save as much as your perishable food as you can. You can dehydrate it using a camping stove that every prepper probably has. You can also can any food possible. If all else fails, you can even salt and smoke some meat and vegetables if necessary. This way you can stop wasting perishable foods and add them to your stockpile if you have to bug out. This should make every prepper feel a little better because you won't have to leave so much food behind after all!

If all else fails, you can even salt and smoke some meat and vegetables if necessary. This way you can stop wasting perishable foods and add them to your stockpile if you have to bug out. This should make everyone feel a little better because now you won't have to leave so much food behind after all!

To find out more ways to save perishable food in an emergency, please visit Ready Nutrition.