If I walked up to you on the street and handed you a prepaid $500 Mastercard credit card and said it’s yours to use, but you have to use it to stock a food storage pantry, what would you buy? After you picked your jaw up off the floor because […]
Preparing Our Food and Water
Want to know how to provide your family with both food and water so that you know you will always have food to eat? This is the category for you.
The Ultimate Convenience Breakfast Food – Homemade Oatmeal Packets
I love granola for breakfast. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the recipes I gave you in the blog post “Seven Simple Food Storage Breakfasts.” When it comes time to make breakfast it’s already ready and at my fingertips. Not that it’s a problem, but the downside to […]
7 Simple Food Storage Breakfast Ideas
If you’ve read my book – A Year Without the Grocery Store or gone through my Companion Workbook, you know that I highly suggest deciding on 7 food storage breakfasts, 7 food storage lunches, and 7 food storage dinners to help plan your short-term food storage menu. Sometimes it’s hard […]
How I Put Together My Short-Term Food Storage
One of the hallmarks of preparedness is food storage. Most people find gathering long-term food storage fairly straight-forward, but short-term food storage can be a bit more confusing, so I wanted to take some time to break down how I do a short-term food storage menu. I want to give […]
Quarantine Menu Week 3 & What We’ve Been Up To
It’s hard to believe that this is our third menu for the quarantine. This week’s gone fast, but we’ve had some activity at home this week which has helped it move along faster. Compost Delivery So on Tuesday of this week, we knew we were getting a delivery of compost. […]
Quarantine Week 1 Menu & Food Storage Recipe
So many of our lives have been turned upside down. Whether you are now homeschooling your kids – since many schools have been closed. Are you eating at home on a regular basis now when normally you would have gone out to eat one or two times during the week? […]
Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI – Food Systems
While we can only live for three days without water, we can live as long as 3 weeks without food. But it would be three miserable weeks, which would ultimately end in death, if we had nothing to eat. So we need to get food systems in place NOW to feed […]
Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI – How, When, and Why to Store Water
Earlier this year, our portion of the Illinois river was seeing the longest flood that it had in almost 100 years! In the lock and dam near our house, the water was above the barrier that the boats usually go UNDER. So you have the height of most of the […]
Prepper Kit #6 – Water Treatment Kit
I’ve written about water and its importance probably more than I’ve blogged on any other single subject, and that’s because water is one of the most overlooked and necessary preps. But what about not only storing water. What about being prepared for water filtration in case you need to clean […]
Food Storage Through Fermentation – Milk Kefir
I can hear some of you now, “Okay, so I get the general gist of fermentation, but I’ve never heard of kefir! What is it? Why would I want to eat it?” I totally follow you. Before I was introduced to kefir about 12 years ago, I had no idea what […]
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