Storing Salt for Survival

how to store salt long term

Prepper Salt Use #8: Removing poultry pin-feathers.
Got chickens? Rubbing the chicken with salt will help
homesteaders with the task of removing pin-feathers.

Prepper Salt Use #9: Peeling eggs.
Okay, this is just a fun use of salt. Did you know boiled eggs will
peel more easily when boiled in salt water?

Prepper Salt Use #10: Testing a bad egg.
Did you know salt is useful for testing the freshness of your
eggs? Mix two cups of water with four teaspoons salt until the
salt dissolves, then place the egg in question in the solution. A
fresh egg sinks; conversely, a bad egg floats.

Prepper Salt Use #11: Cleaning up an egg mess.
An egg dropped on the floor is a sticky problem. The idea of using
eggs to help with the mess is one passed on down the
generations. Use salt to clean up egg spills.

Prepper Salt Use #12: Pest control.
Salt is excellent pest control. Salt drives ants away, and is a cruel
death for slugs.

Learn more about how preppers get rid of bugs naturally.

Prepper Salt Use #13: Boiling water.
You can't stare at a pot of water to make it boil faster, but you
can add salt to it! Adding salt to water makes the water boil
faster, which often reduces cooking time saving valuable fuel.
Adding salt to pasta also will help reduce the gelatin starch in the
pasta. And you can never add too much salt to pasta because
pasta has a limit to salt absorption.

Prepper Salt Use #14: Dish washing.
Want to get rid of the brown gunk at the bottom of your porcelain
tea cups? Use salt to grind the stains away. The salt is abrasive
enough to clean, yet gentle on your fine China. Salt also helps
you clean a glass by scouring at the bottom. The trick is to use
ice in combination. This dish washing secret (ice and salt) will
help you rinse your coffee stained glass.

Yes, salt will also help you clean tea stains in your cups.
Pour salt to the bottom of tea cups to scrub. Real Simple
magazine offers another solution to clean your tea stained
cups (along with other insights to all natural cleaning:
"Sprinkle salt on the outside of a lemon peel; rub the
affected area till clea n."

Prepper Salt Use #15: Thawing and melting ice.
Salt will certainly help clear the icy roads. And for preppers living
in cold regions, know that salt will help dry your clothes in
Winter. Use salt in the final laundry rinse if hanging your clothes
on the line outside.

Prepper Salt Use #16: Attracting wild game.
Every living thing needs salt. Use salt not only for your livestock,
but set out salt licks for attracting wild game.

A salt lick is for use with horses, cattle, or as a hunting game
lure. The Himalayan rock salt lick, pictures right, is filled with
essential vitamins and minerals that animals both crave and need.

Prepper Salt Use #17: Varied medicinal uses.
Humans need salt to live! The sodium content of salt helps your
body function properly. Salt not only assists your muscles and
nerves, but sodium helps your body regulate blood pressure.

As well, all animals need salt. Without salt, quiet simply, the
cells in your body would die. Salt contains chloride and sodium
ions, and all living things need these components in small
quantities.

Dental treatment: Salt e ases dental problems, which is why
Dentists recommend swishing with a warm salt water
solution. Salt acts as an isotonic.

Diuretic. Salt can aid in relieving diarrhea when combined with a
simple sugar and water solution, making it a fundamental part of
a long term survival plan. However, the first option should always
be a commercially prepared drink to restore electrolytes. Salt acts
as an electrolyte and this carries charges, or messages, to
different parts of the body to tell cells what to do. Electrolytes
are the electric charge that tells your lungs to breath and your
muscles to move, and it also control your blood pressure.

Antibacterial. Salt is a topical treatment / an antibacterial
agent. It kills bacteria!

Diluted, salt works as a mild antiseptic.
Get a cut at the beach? Head to the salty waters and
let it dry naturally. The salt helps dry your wound.
Salt and a drop of water can help relieve bee stings

Oral relief. Soothes sore throats. (Grandma says to stir 1/2
teaspoon salt in an 8-ounce glass of warm water.)

Pregnancy. Salt intake during pregnancy can reduce mental
retardation at birth.

Learn more about prepping concerns during pregnan cy.

Thyroid. Salt reduces goiters.

Today Americans get more than enough sodium and salt in their
diet (thanks in part to the commercially processed foods
available), which is probably why they take salt for granted. In a
world living off the grid; however, salt becomes increasingly
important to maintain life!

Prepper Salt Use #18: Removing stains.
Cleaning up after zombie invasions is hard work! Seriously,
though, salt helps absorb the stains of blood or wine. Sprinkle,
allow to set then vacuum and apply a cold water rinse to help.
How is removing wine and blood stains a prepper use? Well,
during the Great Depression people made do with what they had,
and removing stains and repairing clothes would help prolong
their usefulness.

Salt has an almost endless supply of uses. Below are some salt
hacks...

Iodized Salt Shakers

Morton Iodized Salt

Himalayan Salt

Granulated, free-flowing iodized salt shakers

Celtic Sea Salt�

Morton Tender Quick Meat Cure

Morton Canning and Pickling Salt

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Not all salt is the same!
Anne Lange, in her book, "The Prepper's Pantry, Building and
Thriving with Food Storage," recommends preppers stock 10-lbs.
per person of sea salt (page 71). All salt is from the sea, so this
recommendation doesn't divulge how much of each kind of salt to
stock. With so many kinds of salt, it's important to know how to
use them:

Sea salt. Natural sea salt does not have iodine.
Iodized salt. Iodized salt is a dietary mineral essential for
humans. Iodine helps prevent mental retardation. Humans
need iodized salt to avoid thyroid gland problems and goiter
and to help regulate fluid balance in the body.
Pickling salt. Preppers will need pickling salt to brine.
Pickling salt has no iodine in it because iodine oxidizes the
food and darkens them.
Meat tenderizing salts. Morton Curing Salts are perfectly
formulated. The Plain Sugar Cure Mix is for dry or sweet
pickle curing of meat, game, poultry, salmon, and other fish.
The Smoke Flavored is great for large cuts of meat like bacon
and hams. Only for dry curing, not for making a pickling
brine. The Tender Quick is a fast cure product used on
meats, game, poultry, salmon, and other fish. Use as a dry
cure or a pickling cure.
Kosher salt. True Kosher salt is blessed by a rabbi, but
there is more in the koshering process. The craggy crystals of
Kosher salt make it perfect for curing meat. Kosher salt is a
chef favorite because it dissolves quickly and disperses
flavors evenly.
Himalayan salt is a mineral-rich salt. Himalayan pink salt is
a miraculous and beautiful unrefined salt that will heal you
from the inside out
Cattle Salt. Ranchers need salt for their livestock, some is
mixed in the trough, and also there are salt blocks. Salt
blocks can be used to attract wild life!
Epsom salt. Not edible, Epsom salt is a prepper's best friend.

Salt isn't a spice?
Salt is a mineral (not a spice) with such a rich history in survival.
It was something ancients killed for, traded around, craved and
valued as much as gold. Look to history and you'll find salt was
an important commodity:

The Chinese, apparently invented salt, but it was so
expensive that the people extended its use with condiments
and that is how soy sauce was born.

In ancient biblical times, people used salt as a ceremonial
offering at burial.

Egyptians evaporated seawater from the Mediterranean Sea
and used salt as a valuable part of mummification.

Romans valued salt so highly that they paid soldiers in salt;
hence the word "salary" comes from the word salt. Likewise,
the term "worth its weight in salt" was also born of this
practice.

Why sea salt is important...
Salt of all types help the body retain water, but the healthiest
salt to buy includes salt with iodine, sea salt, and Himalayan salt
with minerals. Ordinary table salt is devoid of some 80 minerals!
Sea salt is the salt with the least processing: it is simply
evaporated from the ocean and includes the goodness of nature.
Another good natural salt to consider is baking soda, sodium
bicarbonate, specifically Bob's Red Mill baking soda, which is
aluminum free and helps control alkaline levels to restore proper
pH balance.

What more can you do with salt?

If you had no toothpaste you could brush your teeth with
salt.

If you have a straw broom, you help it last longer by soaking
the bristles in hot water mixed with salt.

If you have something rusted, salt can help with that too.
Salt can help you remove rust.

How will you find salt in the wild?
Salt is an important part of your diet and you may be wondering
how you'll find salt in the wild. The answer is surprisingly simple:
you'll find salt in your food. Salt is a natural part of such foods as
celery!

Where you'll find salt in the wild:

Beans: peanuts
Veggies: beetroot, carrots, celery, chard, potatoes, spinach
Meat: Ham
Milk
Seawater (learn how to make salt from seawater)
Seafood, tuna
Mineral deposits

You'll needs salt for many reasons, so it's best to stockpile some
iodized salt and some inexpensive salt for such things as
scrubbing pots

Happy endings...
Salt is one of the things you can't afford to overlook for your
health and for your sursvival. It can become your lifeline with
bartering. Best of all, salt lasts for ever. Like all good things;
however, salt in excess is harmful.

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Storing Salt for Survival
How and why to store salt long term

Are you worth your weight in salt?
Have you ever given thought to how truly useful salt is? Salt was
something ancients killed for, traded around, and valued as much
as gold. You can purchase it today for pennies a pound and as a
prepper you should not only stock up, but store it properly.

Most people don't give a second thought to salt. They have some
in the cupboard and there it sits until dinnertime. Some people
do all they can to avoid it, but salt is vital to survival and an
important part of prepping. How much salt should you store?

You can purchase salt today for pennies a pound, and you
should. Here's why...

Importance of Storing Salt
Storing salt for the long term is vital. Salt not only balances
electrolytes that regulates your heart rate and ensures proper
cell functions, but it can treat a variety of ailments. Salt can help
when there is no doctor to treat sore throats and ease dental
issues. As well, salt can help preppers make soap, clean up
around the homestead and to preserve food. Most importantly
salt can make bland food taste better.

How much salt to store?
Pioneers packed 10-lbs. of salt per person for their six month
journey along the Oregon trail, which is equivalent of ten Morton
iodized salt containers. As a general guide, with 10-lbs. of salt
you can cure around 200 lbs. of meat.

There are many kinds of salts for survival, including...

Prepping and Survival Uses of Salt
Preppers can purchase salt today for pennies a pound, and they
should in preparation for a society off the grid.

Prepper Salt Use #1: Electrolyte balance.
Salt is important for your body in terms of water retention and
electrolyte balance. Electrolytes are in your blood, urine and body
fluids and it's the electrolytes that help with muscle contraction.
Salt also has minerals vital to digestion. When the stuff hits the
fan, you'll need salt for electrolyte balance to:

Work around the homestead. Electrolyte balance is
important to preppers around the homestead in farming for
food, hunting or defending the homestead. You need to
restore electrolytes lost through sweating.The proper
electrolyte balance can keep you from getting heat stroke!
You can use oral rehydration salts and drinks, but when the
Gatorade runs out, you can make your own electrolyte drink.
See the salt and sugar electrolyte recipe below.

Keep well hydrated during illness. Electrolytes can help
promote a quicker recovery during illness. Diarhheal
medicines may be harmful for kids, but thankfully you can
make a salt and sugar drink and skip the meds. Managing
diarrheal dehydration is easy with the simple electrolyte
recipe below.

Salt and sugar electrolyte recipe:

6 level teaspoons of sugar
1/2 level teaspoon of salt
dissolved in 4 measuring cups of purified water.

Prepper Salt Use #2: Food preservation.
Aside from your body's need for salt, the most important reason
to store salt is for food preservation.

From salt cures to pickling and preserves, salt is immensely
useful as a food preservative. We need salt to preserve food.
Salt preserves food by inhibiting growth of germs in a process of
osmosis where the salt pushes water out of the microbial cells.

Curing meats From curing salmon into gravlox to making
beef jerky, salt is the primary ingredient in curing meat and
fish. How much 200 lbs. of meat ~ 10 lbs of Kosher salt

Important: get canning salt! For pickling, use only pickling
salt because it has no additives. It's pure salt! Pure canning
and pickling salt has no additives or anti-caking ingredients
to darken pickles or cloud pickling liquid.

Right is Morton's canning and pickling salt. It's a pure
granulated salt, with no added preservatives or free-
flowing agents that you can use in cooking, canning or
pickling.

As a prepper, you'll want to keep salt close at hand in the
kitchen and not just for seasoning purposes.

Prepper Salt Use #3: Put out a fire.
As a fire extinguisher salt is invaluable with grease fires. As you
may know, water will only make a grease fire worse! Dousing salt
on a grease fire can effectively help you smother the flames.
.

See our list of fire suppression ideas for preppers.

Prepper salt use #4: Fireplace cleanup.
Salt is valuable for extinguishing a fire, but with salt you can
also clean up a fireplace. Salt helps with creosote buildup. You
see, creosote forms when warm air leaves the flue and the heavy
cool air gets at the bottom of a wood burner. When you douse
the flames with salt, your fire will burn out quickly. This means
you'll have less soot than if you let it smolder

Salt can remedy the problem. Spread a cup of table salt on the
coals or logs every week of use and it will cause the buildup to
flake off. Read more tips for cleaning the fireplace and chimney.

Prepper salt use #5: Bartering.
Salt is an easy-to-store and inexpensive bartering item in that
would serve a prepper well in a long-term survival scenario.

Make sure to transfer the salt to water tight container, such as
masons jar, food-grade buckets, Mylar bags and the like. You
don't want moisture to degrade your salt in storage or wash away.

Prepper Salt Use #6: Disinfectant for cutting boards.
Salt is a natural cleaning agent and abrasive. Rub cutting boards
with salt and a damp cloth to improve the appearance after
washing them in soap and water.

Prepper salt use #7: Cleaning cast iron pans.
Salt is one way to clean your cast iron cookware as it provides a
food-based