Top 20 Foods Wasted
Currently, in the U.S., almost half of our food — 40 percent of what we grow — ends up in the garbage, according to an...
Category: Prepping
4 Ways How To Tell If A Dented Can Is Safe
Some dented cans of food are unsafe and should be discarded, but you may be surprised to discover that most are perfectly safe. Here’s how...
28 “Old Timer” Ways To Predict The Weather
Before we had the Fancy Doppler Radar and various other techonolgical advancements in weather forecasting, we had the “Old Timers.” These were people who could...
Survival Training Ideas: 4 Life Saving Skills That Don’t Require A Formal Class
There is so much knowledge and information in the preparedness community. I love listening to experts speak from their experiences because I never want to...
Food Storage: Knowing What You Have is More Important than Buying Something New
The other week I stopped and stared at my pantry. Looking in on all of the cans of food, bags of rice, beans and jugs...
Avoid The Lines – How to Store Fuel Long Term
A generator without gas is like a rifle without ammunition. For this piece of machinery to be of any use to you outside of a...
Has Electricity Zapped Our Self-Sufficiency?
With so many folks preparing to survive economic depression as our parents and grandparents did in the 1930s, I wonder about our “progress” since that...
Prepare for Disasters While Supplies Last
I was going to write about fitness this week. But with the flooding disasters, last week, in Colorado and New Mexico it seemed important to...
Food Storage: Where to Start
Food storage is one of the first things that people begin to consider when starting their preparedness plans. And this is obviously a smart thing...
80 Uses for Paracord: What Did I Miss?
Last week a friend of mine saw the paracord lanyard that I keep on my keychain and asked what it was for. I explained a...
71 Survival Items Under $5.00
I am always on the lookout for great deals for prepping and survival supplies. I was scouring through a few forums and ran across this...
Prepare Fresh Apples For Short And Long Term Storage
Just how do you prepare apples for short term storage and long term food storage? Is there a way to keep your apples crisp well...
Conditions for Optimal Food Storage
This will vary a bit depending on what you are storing and how you have packaged it up, but there are a few important points...
How to Build a Coracle
Once humans developed a need to travel on water in order to fish, trade and explore, cultures worldwide created lightweight boats consisting of the skin...
Quick, Simple, And Shockingly Delicious Survival Food
The worst is going to happen at some point. And at some point you’re going to have to rely on your food storage to stay...
5 Methods of Home Food Preservation
Are you interested in preserving food for later? Then you should become familiar with these five methods of home food preservation…