CHAPTER 38 - SALVAGEABLE FOOD STORAGE
If you think some of your food is destroyed and needs to be thrown out as contaminated and not fit to eat, consider if there are any interventions you can apply that will salvage the food making it fit for consumption once again.
The insects known as weevils have been of the worst food destroyers known that plagued many of our ancestors. But science has discovered a way to salvage food thought to be inedible because of weevil invasion.
All it takes is the availability and means for freezing the food containing weevils. When the weevils are frozen and killed, they can then be sifted out of the food item easily returning the food status to edible.
You might just want to keep this process under wraps if you have picky eaters in your group – in can disgust some of those with weaker stomachs who would then have a hard time eating the food after the weevils are removed if they know there were weevils there in the first place.
Starving or not, some have more intense struggles for “mind over matter” than the average person does.
Another good piece of food salvage knowledge that many are already aware of is the fact that food containing unsafe levels of bacteria can eliminate the bacteria contamination through a boiling process.
While it is a commonly know method of purifying water in order to make it safe enough to drink, the method can be used for other food items that are able to tolerate being boiled while still retaining their nutritional properties.