What started as a necessity to survival eventually became something the vast majority of people rely on chemicals to do for them. While it may be a lost art, food preservation can, and should, still be accomplished at home. Many times, the best way to learn how to be better in the future is to …
Power outages are inevitable. While most grid failures are temporary, long-term outages can devastate entire regions, leaving people hungry and exposed to the elements. As such, researching and preparing alternative methods of cooking is essential for any survivalist. Read on to learn more about how to cook without electricity and ensure your family never goes …
Food is a key resource in all emergency and survival situations. Ensuring that you have ample food stores to endure a shortage, natural disaster, or apocalypse is essential to be prepared for everything. Dehydrated food is an efficient source of nutrition when faced with dire straits. So how long does dehydrated food last, and should …
Sugar isn’t one of those things that makes you immediately wonder, how fast should I consume it before it goes bad?” In fact, chances are that you simply leave it in its original container, on a shelf in your pantry. While this usually doesn’t cause any harm, learning how to store sugar correctly for the …
Strawberry season is undoubtedly one of the best perks of summer. Nowadays, however, you can find strawberries in supermarkets year-round—though they certainly don’t taste as good as the ones you go picking at your local orchard in June! So what do you do to satisfy that fresh strawberry craving in the middle of winter? Simple: …
The world we’re currently living in is full of uncertainties. Inflation is at an all-time high, gas prices are through the roof, and the American dollar is headed in the wrong direction regarding its worth. One of the best ways to overcome these financial obstacles and make sure that you and your family are cared …
With so much trouble in the news, it is no wonder that so many people are buying food for long-term storage, learning about food preservation, or even bagging up their own emergency food. These are all things that you can learn how to do yourself, like learning how to make oxygen absorbers for food storage. …
Bees have been pollinating flowers around the world since the beginning of time, and humans started beekeeping as early as 5000 BC. Over the past seven thousand plus years, beekeeping has only become easier and more efficient, meaning that even you can become a beekeeper. If you’ve found this post it means that you at …
Finding food in the wild is an important, multi-faceted wilderness lesson that you must learn for your survival and well-being. But it’s not just about fishing or hunting—taking advantage of natural resources involves extracting value from plants and trees, too. An important calorie source that some people take for granted is maple syrup. It is …
Our American experience has been run on radical levels of debt inflated currency and that is finally driving up the cost of goods and the cost of food. The government does not have an answer for how to get out of it. Long-term food storage is an answer to the problem of hunger and starvation …
There are a whole host of reasons why you might be in the market for survival food—from life preparation to wilderness survival and so much more. Whatever your need, freeze dried survival food likely has a selection that can meet it! This long lasting, easily stored, often delicious survival food option is rapidly gaining popularity …
Food is a topic that is popping up a lot lately. Well, I think you are going to see much more on food as the days go on. There are some very real challenges in worldwide food production. If I am honest they seem to be insurmountable from where I am standing. If you want …
Thanks to the war in Ukraine the world is facing serious food production consequences. Russia is the number one exporter of nitrogen fertilizers and the second-largest supplier of phosphoric and potassic fertilizers. Farmers are bracing for a very tough growing season and the head of the UN World Food Programs has said this is the worst …
Storage space is a limitation that will rear its ugly head pretty quickly when you start increasing your food supply. When you first start prepping it seems like your greatest enemy is money but storage becomes an issue for most of us very quickly and finding more space is hard. If you know how to …
Stocking up your pantry with the right survival food is tricky enough, but for those of you with gluten intolerance or celiac disease, putting together a good selection of gluten-free survival food options may seem like quite a chore. Gluten-free has been trending for a while now. The number of people who are gluten intolerant is …