Tag: food storage

Dehydrating eggs at home

Dehydrating eggs at home I decided to share this article for a couple of reasons. First because of the ease of storage when it comes to dehydrated eggs.  However they are not something I would recommend you just cook up and eat! Not great scrambled or over easy. But I have used them a number of …

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Accurately calculate how much food you need for SHTF

Accurately calculate how much food you need for SHTF We are given estimates on how much food we need to store per person for a SHTF event. But have you really looked at the serving size on some foods? I was looking at the serving size on a bottle of salad dressing the other day …

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One family proves Self-reliance in the city is Possible

One family proves Self-reliance in the city is Possible We don’t usually feature blogs about our bloggers but this family is news worthy on their own! The Dervaes family writes the Urban Homestead blog which we feature often. But this story isn’t about one of their individual homesteading triumphs but about their overall success at …

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Meat Cutting: Beef

Meat Cutting: Beef   As unpleasant as it may be actually killing the cow is the easy part. After that it takes some skill to make the beef cuts the very best they can be for your family. It is important that if you must take a creature’s life that you make use of the …

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Heartbroken Prepper Assisted Hurricane Victims

Heartbroken Prepper Assisted Hurricane Victims

Heartbroken Prepper Assisted Hurricane Victims An oldie but a goodie worth repeating! I am a sucker for a good hearted person who prevails through personal tragedy to help others. Joseph Badame, 74 of Medford New Jersey is one such person. He turned his personal heartache and his life long mission of preparing for himself and …

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Back Door Shopping Strategy: When Grocery Stores Go Empty

Back Door Shopping Strategy When Grocery Stores Go Empty We have all seen if not experienced in person the mayhem and chaos of black Friday shopping. Double that insanity for panic storm shopping and then you can take it off the chart once folks realize the emergency may keep the shelves empty for months. I …

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10 Survival Foods You Can Grow Infographic

10 Survival Foods You Can Grow Infographic

10 Survival Foods You Can Grow Infographic I like an infographic, they are always helpful without having to search through an article to find just what I want. On the internet they are often hard to read because they need to be shrunk down to an unreadable size to fit the constraints of social media sites. …

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Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse?

Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse?

Are You Ready For a Venezuelan Style Collapse? It is always said if we don’t learn from the past, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. This can be true when it isn’t your direct past. As the world watches the devastation of Venezuela after their total economic collapse, I can only hope that we …

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Some Suburban Preppers are Ready for Anything

Some Suburban Preppers are Ready for Anything

Some Suburban Preppers are Ready for Anything Rural preppers often feel they have a foot up on the suburban preppers based strictly on location. Maybe they do. But with the preppers spoken about in the featured article linked below from Chicago Magazine are ready for just about anything. They are hidden among the rest of …

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Tips For Preparing Your Parents and Other Elderly Loved Ones

Tips For Preparing Your Parents and Other Elderly Loved Ones You can’t be with those you love 24 hours a day everyday. As parents we try to teach our children how to keep themselves safe when we can’t be with them, just as our parents did us. But now many of us have aging parents …

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