Food and water will be one of the most basic survival needs, so it’s best to take care of them ASAP. You’ll need a food and water stockpile, renewable sources of both, plus you need to be covered in ‘bug out’ and ‘get home’ scenarios.
Every prepper knows that having a supply of water on hand is crucial for surviving any emergency situation. What they might not know it’s just how much water they and other members of their family or survival group will go through over time during a long-term survival situation. Drinking, hygiene, and cooking concerns will gobble …
Ramen noodles are one of the most polarizing packaged food options on the market. Easy to prepare, reasonably tasty and absolutely dirt cheap, this is sadly one of the staple foods of college kids across the nations or anyone who has fallen on hard financial times. However, they seemingly last forever and many hikers, campers …
You needn’t have been prepping for long to understand the importance of storing food for long- or indefinite-term survival situations. Once you are no longer able to dash down to the grocery store to plus-up on your weekly provisions, the pressure will really be on. Fortunately, mankind has been storing food for a very, very …
Surviving a major disaster is going to be perilous enough, and without the right skills and without taking the right actions, your survival is anything but guaranteed. Of course, surviving the onset of the disaster is one thing, but surviving in the aftermath is another. Any disaster that qualifies as such is going to leave …
Keeping a sizable supply of clean drinking water on hand is one of the most essential preps that you can put into place for any situation. Preppers need fresh water for drinking as well as cooking, and any of us can only go a few days at most with absolutely no water to drink. Accordingly, …
I walked into a supermarket yesterday and picked up a bag of so called ‘Trail Mix’ just to check the contents – it ran heavy to little buttons of white chocolate, with raisins and peanuts scattered through the mix between the pops of color from sugar coated candies. Seriously, if someone ate this on the …
Oatmeal is definitely a popular and nutritious food on breakfast tables across the country, and is commonly found with all kinds of regional toppings and add-ins. There is little doubt that is part of a well-rounded breakfast, but where does oatmeal fit into a survival food plan? Does it have the longevity and nutritional profile …
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Pemmican is a traditional dish prepared by native North Americans as a multi-purpose survival ration, capable of being eaten as is or incorporated into soups or other pan-fried dishes. Settlers from Europe soon made note of pemmican and its long life characteristics, with the food being capable of persisting, completely edible, for months or even …
MREs are one reliable source of food that is easy to transport, easy to prepare (if it requires any preparation at all) and generally dependable with a long shelf life. This means that they are staple inclusions and survival caches and bug-out bags for preppers. MREs are famed (or infamous) for lasting basically forever, but …
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 …
