You should learn how to properly eat an MRE or cook one with a flameless heater if you haven’t already. MREs are a great item to have in your prepper toolkit if you ever find yourself in a long-term survival or disaster situation. During natural catastrophes and calamities, grocery stores can be extremely unreliable, so…
It’s very inconvenient to be in the middle of preparing dinner or baking cookies and realize you’re missing a key ingredient. Consider whether your pantry or kitchen has reasonable options, such as an ingredient substitution, before making an unnecessary trip to the grocery store. A recipe substitution may change the flavor, color, texture, or volume…
Every year, disasters, droughts, flooding, wildfires, and wind storms disrupt hundreds of thousands of lives, and the number appears to be increasing if the recent global pandemic is included. Every disaster or pandemic has long-term consequences, such as people being deprived of basic necessities such as food and water. After all that we’ve been through…
Being self-sufficient can be a long process, but it is a goal that can be achieved if you avoid relying on companies and third parties. One of the small things you should learn to help you move closer to your self-sufficiency objective is how to make your own vegetable oil. Not to mention that it…
If you want to start prepping or have already started, you’ve already found that it can be expensive! So, where should you begin your preparations? And how can you be a budget prepper? Doing your research, taking inventory of what you already have, making a strategy, and starting a budget are all important steps in…
You may encounter some new obstacles when it comes to filling your kitchen during a quarantine, in isolation, preparing for the potential of these events, or trying to stretch the time between grocery excursions to limit the danger of viral exposure. Learning to cook owing to restaurant closures, or learning to cook without fresh veggies…
The COVID-19 epidemic is altering our perceptions of supply chains and personal food security. Where can you go to keep meals on the table when stores and online suppliers can’t maintain the basics in stock, and you don’t want to keep making (often failed) supply runs to your local grocery store? Look into the ethnic…
My grandma used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression. She’s told me about waiting in lines for cheese and bread rations, and how they could only afford one pair of shoes each year, which they wore until the bottoms were worn off. I’ve always appreciated the foresight and tenacity of…
We’ve compiled a list of specific food items to make it easier for you to find quality bulk items that are worth adding to your pantry after spending countless hours researching food storage and putting together a food storage calculator (to help individuals and families determine how much food they need in their storage), after…
To respond to that question, you must first determine what you are preparing for: In the event of a natural disaster, a week or two’s worth of supplies may be sufficient. A medical emergency, a job loss, or a pandemic; perhaps three months’ worth of supplies Whether there will be civil unrest or economic collapse…