Category: Food

30 Bugs You Can Eat For Survival

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 30 Bugs You Can Eat For Survival I know humans need protein to survive, I am a picky meat eater, but I do eat meat. However, the idea of eating bugs if there is anything else to eat is out of my personal comfort range. There are a lot of cultures that …

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Growing Banana Trees At Home

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Growing Banana Trees At Home When I think banana I think tropics! I was surprised to learn that you can indeed grow these awesome survival plants at home. They do thrive best in warm humid locations. But can be grown at home with appropriate care or do nicely in …

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Survive Famine

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Survive  Famine My entire life time I have seen pictures of people in third world countries who are starving on the nightly news. To the point, that for my younger years, there was some part of me that just wasn’t really believing of the situation. Seeing the images had …

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Storing Potatoes Long Term

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Storing Potatoes Long Term I know, I know, you already know how to store potatoes. Cool dark room and all. But there actually is more to it than that when you are talking a longer term! Things that I frankly had not thought of! An easy, nutritious, and very …

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Nutritional And Medicinal Value Of Garden Vegetables

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Nutritional And Medicinal Value Of Garden Vegetables A wonderful FREE PDF that we all should print off or at least bookmarked. Why? You know it’s good for you and what you like so why bother? The chart shows you vegetable nutrition, the compilation of vitamins, minerals and the medicinal benefits of garden vegetables. It is …

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150 Wartime Recipes (Updated to 200)

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 150 Wartime Recipes (Updated to 200) Almost every country has seen rationing at one time or another. The way things are going in many countries those days may be returning. Learning how to cook from scratch and with alternative or reduced amounts of ingredients can only be wise. We …

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Dandelion Recipes

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Dandelion Recipes More and more people are rediscovering the lowly dandelion as much more than an annoying weed but rather a viable sustainable food source. Even tasty if you know what to do with them! Although you could simply pull them out of the ground rinse them and start …

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5 Methods for Storing Meat Off-Grid

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 5 Methods for Storing Meat Off-Grid Making good use of meat when it is available is important in any SHTF scenario whether long or short term. It is the best source of protein we have. We can obtain protein from plants, but the amount required to not just keep …

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10 Things That Will Destroy Your Food Storage

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Some posts may contain affiliate links. 10 Things That Will Destroy Your Food Storage Even more important then beginning to start a cache of food storage is setting up a proper environment for it. You could’ve been storing a bit here and there for many years only to find it gone or unusable when a …

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DIY Dry Curing Meat

DIY Dry Curing Meat

Some posts may contain affiliate links. DIY Dry Curing Meat SHTF preppers, homesteaders, and poverty preppers are always looking for new or in this case, old ways to preserve foods especially meat. Everyone need protein intake to survive. The primary form of protein in the majority of people’s diets is meat. Today’s featured article tells …

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