How to prepare your family to survive and thrive in todays uncertain world
Recently a had a conversation with a guy in Texas who is running his own little online survival preps store, Internet Prepper. Chad is a USAF vet who has been prepping for around three years, and his site sells grain mills, freeze dried and prepackaged food, and some survival odds and ends. He originally reached [...]
This is a guest post from Marie James, who writes about food preparation and preservation at The Homesteader Kitchen. She is also enthusiastic about other rural life and sustainable living topics. The other day I was watching Doomsday Preppers, where several families shared their prepping plans and practices. Each one had a somewhat different approach [...]
(Note: This is a guest post by Vic Rantala from Safe Castle.) More and more families are coming to the realization that the good old days are probably not coming back anytime soon. We are all vulnerable to economic and social conditions beyond our control, so Americans are increasingly apt to embrace crisis preparedness—a systematic [...]
Rumor has it there’s a bunch of people out there that freeze things before putting them into long term storage. The theory here is that you’re going to kill bugs and stuff that might hatch. Now there’s next to no point to doing that sort of thing for anything other than wheat or rice. Despite [...]
One thing you need to consider for your food storage efforts is the ability to process raw ingredients. One of the biggest culprits here is wheat. It’s not enough to just store wheat, but you need to have a good grain mill as well to convert it into something that’s usable. Grain Mill Types There [...]
So a while back I wrote about how we went in on a whole grass fed beef with my sister. We ended up with about 420 pounds of beef to split between us. We paid about 3.55/lb net after taking the hanging weight loss into account. Considering the amount of high quality meat we got, [...]
A reader asked me the other day about how long canned food stays good, and whether or not the ‘use by’ dates were particularly accurate. I figured the answer to that question would be interesting to more than just him… As is all too often the case, the answer is ‘longer than you are being [...]
Based on the number of questions I’ve gotten about this, you’d think that about 90% of my readership is addicted to coffee. And, well, I can’t say that I am much different. So in the best interests of all of us, I want to share with you everything I know about storing coffee for mid [...]
If you are using containers that have been previously used or have been lying around for a while, you’ll want to sanitize them. And the neat little secret is that you can use the same method to sanitize food buckets as well, so keep that in mind! Sanitizing your water containers is an important step [...]
So a reader asked me the other day about four gallon buckets, and I thought I’d take this opportunity to elaborate on how I store food, and provide some recommendations for suitable containers and whatnot. My Favorite – Four Gallon Buckets I’ve made no big secret of this, I prefer using four gallon square buckets [...]
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