Here is a hypothetical situation that some of you may have thought about in the past. You are self-sufficient, either relying very little or not at all upon pre-packaged food. In point of fact, you grow your own. Living off ...
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Food Safety Protocols
The recent scare over contaminated, salmonella-containing eggs has many folks wondering if there’s any way to protect ourselves from the bacteria that can get into our foods. It seems every year there’s several mass recalls of everything ranging from fruits ...
Read More »Beyond Survival: How To Cook The Perfect Steak
The perfect steak is a simple masterpiece. With the right cut of meat and the slightest amount of cooking technique, you can have a great juicy steak that’s crisp and brown on the outside, and tender on the inside, and ...
Read More »The Next Generation of Meals-Ready-to-Eat
Part of being prepared for anything means knowing what you are preparing for. If you live in a hurricane, tornado or earthquake-prone area, although you don’t know when one will hit, you do know that when one does, power and ...
Read More »Let’s Get Ready for Fall Crops and Hunts
Labor Day is a reminder that it’s that time of year here in the South—people start getting ready to plant their fall crops and preparing for hunting season. Depending on where you live, this preparation may take place sooner or ...
Read More »Where’s the Food? The Fear of Uncertainty
As the economy continues to sink deeper, forcing more people into unemployment lines, uncertainty is driving otherwise clear thinking people into a horde mentality that poses a growing danger to society. A recent episode in Tulsa involving a federally subsidized ...
Read More »Feeding Baby
If you had to think about some of the biggest expenses a family may have, it would be those associated with infants. Okay, maybe teenagers drain the pocketbook dry, but at least you can make them get a job! So ...
Read More »How To Create A Food Storage Supply For You And Your Spouse … For As Little As $5 Per Week
People who live in America rarely consider the need for building up a food supply to offset a national crisis, such as a devastating war or a natural disaster, simply because food in the United States is so readily available ...
Read More »TVP: Tasty Vittles for People
I was looking for some good freeze-dried or dehydrated products with a long shelf life that would add both great nutritional value and some satisfying taste to my campsite recipes. I wasn’t expecting to find fillet mignon flakes, but I ...
Read More »Save Salt To Survive
When you begin planning for a life off the grid or start thinking as a survivalist, you tend to focus on the bigger, more obvious items like bottled water or dried food. However, our ancestors made it through centuries of ...
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