Review: Great idea bad implementation
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
The Survival Pantry: The Prepper's Guide to Survival Food Storage by author Charlie Morgan is a very basic book concerning emergency preparedness. He had the right idea but implemented his idea poorly. Why? The book has some writing errors followed up by some errors in information. Here are a couple samples of bad writing:Start Collecting Some Few Items (a topic header poorly written)To make your plan flexible enough, conduct your employer...Factual errors:I read only one serious factual error and that concerning canning food at home. The author does not mention the use of water bath canning used to preserve high acid foods such as fruits, jams or jellies. He does mention using a pressure cooker to can foods. You need to use a pressure canner such as the [Presto 01781 23-Quart Pressure Canner and Cooker to safely preserve low acid foods such as meats or vegetables.Also, his information concerning water purification is slightly incorrect. He writes "If you decide to disinfect your water using liquid bleaches, avoid using color safe bleaches, bleaches with added cleaners and the scented bleaches." Bluntly put you should only use plain old bleach. There is no choice as only plain old bleach can safely disinfect water. Better yet you could purchase water purification tablets from your local camping store. I don't think the author mentioned that or perhaps he did and I missed it.Overall, this book provides very basic information that tends to be fairly accurate with a few exceptions. If you are truly concerned about disaster preparedness you can contact FEMA or the American Red Cross to get all the information you need.Recommend with caveats given.