{"id":41976,"date":"2018-12-25T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41976"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:16:53","slug":"how-to-put-measures-together-to-weatherproof-food-and-water-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41976","title":{"rendered":"How To Put Measures Together to Weatherproof Food and Water in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/how-to-put-measures-together-to-weatherproof-food-and-water-in-winter_24122018\/\">How To Put Measures Together to Weatherproof Food and Water in Winter<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38495 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wintergarden.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wintergarden.jpg 500w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wintergarden-300x199.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/center>Over the course of the past few years and several winters past, I have written articles on the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/the-easiest-way-to-create-an-emergency-water-supply-that-lasts-all-winter_27022018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water supplies<\/a> and food during the winter months when traveling. The bottom line is that most of us are in a vehicle and\/or away from home much of the day, whether winter or summer. Winter is a little different, as it poses challenges and perils that are not necessarily addressed as easily as in the warmer months.<\/p>\n<p>In those articles, I <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/winter-survival-dont-get-caught-in-the-cold-without-this-essential-prep_10012017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stressed the importance<\/a> of a thermos\u00a0during the winter to carry (at a bare minimum) hot water. I recommend the water over coffee for several reasons. First, coffee is a diuretic, and this means that an excessive amount will cause you to lose water through urination. If you drink as much coffee as I do, it is not so much an issue there, as your body will compensate with the increased intake. Secondly and more importantly, you can do more with a thermos of hot water than you can with coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Hot water can be used for soup (think \u201cVitamin R,\u201d as we called it in the Army or Ramen), and if you are the way I am\u2026you can pack either a jar or a Tupperware container with instant coffee. The hot water is invaluable to restore your core temperature if you need to do so. One thermos is good, and two is even better. Be sure to insulate your thermos, at a bare minimum by wrapping a heavy blanket around it. I have two old sweatshirt sleeves, very thick. The wide part goes over the top and to the bottom, folded, and the other sleeve wide part over the bottom, and up to the top. Voila! Just this little measure extends the heating time\/life of the thermos by about 4-6 hours. No, really: it works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BorhVA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91%2BVXRwE98L._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Put Measures Together to Weatherproof Food and Water in Winter Over the course of the past few years and several winters past, I have written articles on the importance of water supplies and food during the winter months when traveling. The bottom line is that most of us are in a vehicle and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10760,9656,12881,6787,866,885],"class_list":["post-41976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cold-weather","tag-food-storage","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-water","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41977,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41976\/revisions\/41977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}