This is so interesting, I would never have thought about drying yogurt. I’ve been giving this whole survival strategy a lot of thought lately & here are some of my thoughts:
Dried foods definitely keep a long time, don’t cost energy to store & don’t take up as much room in storage - but what I’m concerned about is that there might be a shortage of water during the time of crisis/emergency/etc. All of these dehydrated foods would take quite a bit of water to reconstitute. If a person has an unlimited supply of water, that’s not a problem, but I’m thinking that in addition to a good variety of dried foods, I’m going to stock up on a good bit of canned foods as well - since they are canned in liquid & we won’t have to use precious water for them.
I don’t plan to store a lot of foods in the freezer for the same reason - what if the power goes out?
I’m thinking about getting some rainwater barrels to harvest our rainwater - mostly for the garden, but to use for drinking, etc if the water goes out. Does anyone have any experience with this?
My daughter has a very large plastic one she bought on line. It has a hose and valve, and she uses it to water her plants.