Survival uses for Leaves When in a survival situation everything around you if you are creative can become a survival tool. Even the leaves right off the trees and plants around you. In the Polynesian Islands cooking with leaves is a very common practice. Spinach and Taro are the most commonly used and serve both as …
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Herbal Remedy for Poison Ivy
Herbal Remedy for Poison Ivy An awesome herbal remedy for a nasty poison ivy rash! There is no immediate remedy for a poison ivy reaction not even with all the medications available today. But this natural treatment does almost the same thing as the more mainstream expensive creams recommended by doctors. It reduces the itching and helps contain the …
MIY Butter With a Kitchen Mixer
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 …
Beef Jerky Recipes
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 …
7 DIY/MIY Badass Weapons
7 DIY/MIY Badass Weapons First and foremost never use any of these ideas during “normal” times, they are intended for a long term SHTF and “there are no authorities” situations. If you pre-make them, box them up and put them away in a locked area… but know that pre-made in a bad situation could = …
MIY Rope from Plastic Bags
MIY Rope from Plastic Bags The world all ready has landfills full of disposed of plastic bags! I do recycle them as much as I can, but this is one use I had never thought of until seeing this video. I am relieved to see a good survival use for plastic bags because I always have a …
12 Homemade Spice Mixes
12 Homemade Spice Mixes Making your own spice blends is so easy and gives us the opportunity to reduce the number of additives and preservatives in our diets. I was amazed when I first began making my own spice mixes just how easy it was and how much less cost was involved! Making the traditional spice …