Is there anything better than cured meats? Salt, fat, and time are the best ingredients. Oh wait, this is a prepping article. Let’s start over… Is there anything better than curing meats? Protein will be a commodity when things go sideways. You will need the means to store meat throughout the seasons. And one of …
I’m a self-admitted chicken-acholic. I have yet to meet a recipe for chicken that I didn’t like. I could probably eat it every day – with the occasional break for a good burger. When we got a pressure cooker, the first recipe we canned up was chicken breasts. This was for two reasons. First, I …
Every time you step foot out the door, you assume risk. The more unfamiliar you are with your surroundings, the greater the risk potential. Ultimately, we are the most comfortable at home because it is a known quantity. Preparing is all about reducing the unknowns and managing the knowns. Prepping for me is all about …
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Communication is one of the most underrated skills in the preparedness world. We need communication for coordination, information, intelligence gathering, and not least of all human contact. Without a means for communication, our world shrinks to the range of our voice. I once heard that without communication, anyone outside of walking distance will become someone …
Bad things happen to good people. This is one of the many mantras of preppers. We look out for those bad things around every corner. If you are a student of the threat matrix, you rank order the catalog of bad things based on probability. Then you spend the rest of your life chipping away …
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I travel for work a fair amount. On average, I spend one week a month on the road. During the busiest times, I’ll spend 5 out of six weeks traveling the United States with the occasional trip abroad. Through my travels, I’ve walked the streets of London, sweated over a plate of hot fried chicken …
As I get older, I reflect more and more on the generations that came before me and my family. Every fall, I send my father a picture of the four tons of wood pellets I’ve loaded into the garage and the canning that we completed over the year. My grandmother was a practical woman. It …
The modern medical marvel that is antibiotics has become so natural and ingrained, it’s hard to imagine being without them. The ravages of bacterial infections that the world endured before penicillin are the stuff of ghost stories. We have started to get a taste of a world without antibiotics, as resistance has grown because of …
Many preppers focus on the big and spectacular. EMPs, maxed out bugout vehicles, enough guns and ammo to outfit a small country. Oh, let’s not forget that pallet of food. While this is admirable, the rest of us only have the means to focus on more immediate threats. With limited funds, we have to focus …
Beans, beans, the musical…. No, let’s start without the limericks. Beans and rice. Rice and beans. The world lives on beans and rice. From pauper food to high cuisine, beans are magical. They are packed with protein, inexpensive, and last forever. This makes them a cornerstone of prepping food storage. Carbohydrates store easily however proteins …
