Another excellent resource for food storage and preparedness. This book is slightly easier to start with than making the best of basics. We use the two together. Peggy Layton has also published many useful books on cooking with food storage, if you want more information.

If you prepare to garden ahead of the storm, this is an excellent book and the method can be used anywhere. Low space requirements.

Saving seeds successfully requires having heirloom or open pollinated seeds. If you are interested but are not sure where to get these, I would suggest www.everlastingseeds.com. They make getting seeds affordable and easy. They honor American veterans and give a 50% discount to disabled veterans. They will also buy the seeds you save back to increase their stock for the next season.

This book probably stretches beyond what a lot of people think of as a survival book, but is a good way to solve a very important problem - water storage & availability.

This is a survival staple in our home instead of powdered cow's milk because our son is very allergic to cow's milk. We normally don't just mix it up to drink (although you can) but we cook with it regularly.

There are four volumes in this series and all of them are packed with ideas for frugality and simple meals as well as a sober look at what things were like then.

There are a lot of good canning books out there but this one is pretty good because it discusses the storage mentality and how best to store each type of food and then gives step by step instructions for many different preservation methods.