Food
8 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Prepping
Prepping for exactly one disaster is how you get caught flat-footed. Rotate your stock, train for more than one scenario, and never pin your plan to a date on the calendar.
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Emergency Food Storage 101: The 10 Best Items To Get You Started!
Start with a 30-day food supply, not a five-year bunker. Rice, beans, canned meat, and vegetables cover the basics cheap. Buy an extra can each grocery run and rotate what you store.
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Urban Homesteading for Urban Preppers
Urban homesteading, suburban backyard homesteading or prepper gardening, the concept is one that comes in cycles. From Victory Gardens that helped families and communities deal with food rationing throughout World War II to the beginnings of the sustainable living movement in the early 2000’s tha...
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Yes, you can Prepare on Your Budget
Prepping cheaply but not on the cheap. Now that’s the trick, isn’t it? Let’s face it, preparing for the worst can be down right expensive. Searching through disaster/doomsday prepper supply stores, it’s difficult not to become disheartened as the costs rack up into the multiple hundreds of dollar...
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Are Plastics Unsafe for Long-Term-Food-Storage?
Take a minute, sit back and think about all those things used throughout any given day that are not made of some sort of plastic. From your the keys you type up daily reports on to the spatula used to flip your egg this morning to the insulated coffee mug on your desk to reusable […]
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How Will You Contribute To A TEOTWAWKI Colony?
Okay, so the apocalypse has befallen mankind. A global pile of doo doo has hit the fan sending us all back to the bronze – but most likely just the post-industrial – age. Through multiple missteps and more than a couple instances of dumb luck you have survived the last 8 months since the catastro...
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What Does Living Off The Grid Mean To You?
Over the past few years, the concept of disaster prepping has changed, evolved if you will. Demographics have broadened to include a diverse mix of people delving into the prepper world. Perhaps, this change was birthed by the mass shift in economic uncertainty brought on by the Great Recession o...
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DIY Root Cellar For Long Term Food Storage
Your prepper garden is all planned for next year, a full range of storable vegetable seeds ordered a month ago are sitting on a shelf in their individual packets but wait, there’s something missing. Where will you store all those fruits of your labors? The plan is to have plenty of fresh squash, ...
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The Keeper Vegetables
Food is one of those emergency essentials preppers jump to and stock up first. Along with stores of water, bins of dry or dehydrated goods and freeze-dried meals fill closets, garages or spare bedrooms making up the typical stockpile of food reserves but have many of you considered stocking away ...
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Food Storage Isn’t As Easy As You First Thought!
Long term food storage is not just about having the proper containment to keep foods safe for longer periods of time, but it is also about going through the proper processing and handling to ensure that the food that is stored will retain its viability. When it comes to dehydration and freeze dry...
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Urban Homesteader: Raising Backyard Chickens
Until I relocated to a small city in rural California I never even conceived of people raising chickens for themselves. Moving boxes into my little house that first day, I remember hearing the rustling of ruffled feathers and warbling coos of a chicken coop out of sight behind my neighbor’s hedge...
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Is there a One-Stop Shop for Emergency Food?
As preppers, we tend to set our own path, do our own thing and when it comes to our stockpile of sustenance, finding what we need rarely follows a straight route. The search for food that will last is a challenge. But be honest, we like that way, because when everything is eventually located thos...