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Do you buy your baking soda in little tins like most people? Well, I buy mine at a warehouse club – in a large 10 pound sack. What do I do with it, you ask? Well considering the numerous health benefits of baking soda that I know of, what's there not to do?

Most people know to use baking soda to cook with and to clean with. They just don't know how powerful a healing substance it is. In fact, there have been entire medical texts written about all the different ways in which baking soda can help you keep healthy.

For instance, the Spanish flu was a deadly epidemic all over the world about a century ago. They say it killed tens of millions of people. At some point, doctors realized that there was a very simple preventive and cure that everyone could afford that they knew of – it was baking soda.

Well, the year 2012 is here finally. If you thought that there were too many doomsday forecasters out there before, just wait for what happens this year. But even for those who don't belong to Harold Camping's church, there are plenty of reasons to think about starting a long-term food supply plan.

Just the simple fact that we have a completely unreliable job market now has enough people worrying about what to do about their basic food security for the future. If they lose their job, and if food prices keep going up the way they do these days, they would like to at least seek comfort in their preparedness with a long-term food supply that they have built up. They're kind of like Christopher Walken the mad scientist, in the movie Blast from the Past.

If the idea of securing your food source seems to appeal to you, how to go about building a long-term food supply storage?