Food Storage for the Clueless by Clark L. and Kathy H. Kidd

This is one of the few books I have given away multiple times - I am currently in need of yet another copy. As the title suggests, it is a comprehensive overview of food storage - the whys, wherefores, and 'how-to's. Reading this for the first time, I finally understood food storage as a principle of frugality. Full of recipes and humorous anecdotes, it includes instructions on making fruit leather, yogurt, and sourdough (both bread and start).
One of my favorite arguments for/explanations of how to use food storage is from the first chapter of this book. It goes something like this: if you eat two cans of tuna a week, that's approximately 100 cans of tuna a year. Suppose that tuna normally costs $.75 a can. Now suppose that you find the tuna on sale for $.50 a can. If you buy a hundred cans now, you will save yourself $25 over the course of the next year - if the price of tuna stays the same. If, instead, it goes up to $1.00 a can, you've saved yourself $50 - so that's a guaranteed %50 return on your investment, and a possible %100 percent return. No other use of money is likely to get you such good results (especially in the current economic climate). Now, if you buy 200 cans, and you only eat 50, you have not saved yourself any money. So it's important to know what you really can and will eat. And don't neglect the expected shelf life. But with those things in mind, food storage suddenly becomes a no-brainer, obvious way to take care of yourself and your loved ones.
I don't generally give stars on reviews (I'm thinking about it, but it becomes so arbitrary) - however, if I were giving stars, this book would get my top rating.