Stockpile Full Meals For Emergency Situations Cooks have been making freezer meals for years. But what about canning an entire meal in a jar? Especially in an emergency situation when there isn’t a freezer or easy access to ingredients and your busy trying to keep everything around you together a meal prepped in a jar …
50 MIY Items We have become very reliant on our local supermarket and these days scratch cooking is almost considered an alterative skill. Not just for food and drink either, we rely on manufactured hygiene products, cleaning products, and household goods in general. Making these items yourself saves money, cuts down on the chemicals and …
MIY Butter With a Kitchen Mixer Warm homemade bread and a dollop of fresh made butter, there is nothing like it. When I think of making butter I see the old butter churn on the front porch and someone tasked with the tiresome job of churning and churning and churning. It may not be the …
Dry Herbs Without A Dehydrator Dry your own herbs more frugally without a dehydrator. If you should choose to be off grid or have to be off gird in a SHTF scenario you may need to do your own preserving of herbs for flavor and a healthy immune system. Any herb with a stem can …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. How Big A Garden Do You Really Need? There are so many things to consider when preparing for your garden, space, light, access to water, protecting your crop from critters etc. that sometimes we forget to ask ourselves some very basic garden questions that are as important as all …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. 10 Potent Plants That Kill Pain Fast Thousands of people in today’s world rely on pain relieving medications. Learning the foods that can naturally assist in relieving pain is not only helpful in a disaster scenario where the medication may not be available, but now in “normal” times as well. For some it …
52 Wild Plants Safe to Eat Most of us are used to eating without thought the items stocked on our grocery’s shelves and produce bins or what we ourselves have planted in our gardens. But do you know which wild plants are safe and nutritious? If you’re ever in a must forage situation do you know …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Beef Jerky Recipes Drying meat has been a simple method of preserving meat for centuries in many cultures and a staple in a prepper’s pantry. Besides who doesn’t love jerky! The link featured below gives us 20 different recipes for making it yourself. Not only is variety the spice of …
Affordable Survival Superfoods To Stockpile What affordable superfoods should you be storing? Some of the items on the list are a bit surprising. I strongly believe in storing healthy and nutritious foods. I think it’s more important than ever during a time of crisis where you would be burning more calories and under more stress lowering your immunity. …
Preserving Meat in the Wilderness The video below is a tutorial on preserving meat by jerking/dehydrating while in the wilderness. You will not always have your oven or dehydrator especially if you’re in a survival situation! Your body needs protein in normal times and even more so in a survival situation where you are burning extra calories and using more muscle …
