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Prepper Food Is The Best Investment For A Lifetime

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Is Stockpiling Prepper Food A Good Idea?

Prepper Food

When I was a little boy, and we ran out of peanut butter, my mother would send me downstairs to get another jar off the shelf.

Usually, there would be two more jars behind that one.

My mother, just like her mother before her, always had months of food on hand at any given moment.

I grew up assuming this was normal, yet as a young adult, I didn’t shop this way.

After buying “BIG”, I might have two weeks of food on hand, but never three jars of peanut butter, eight cans of pork and beans or ten loaves of frozen bread.

I once asked my grandmother why she always had so much food in the house, and her answer was, “Just In Case.” [Read more…]

How To Build A Root Cellar – A Backup Backyard Refrigerator

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The Ultimate Guide On How To Build A Root Cellar In Your Backyard

How To Build A Root Cellar

Building a backyard root cellar is not a new trick. In fact, it’s one of the oldest survival tricks in the book.

But is utilizing the earth for food refrigeration still necessary?

In America, who needs to store their food underground in a root cellar when we have highly modernized food storage devices?

Shouldn’t our $3,000+ stainless refrigerators and enormous chest freezers take care of all our food preservation needs?

So who cares about this ancient food storage technology?

I do, and you should too.

So today we’re going to cover the following “How To Build A Root Cellar” topics in detail:

  • Why Root Cellar Technology Still Matters
  • How Underground Food Storage Works
  • 5 Dangerous Root Cellar Enemies
  • Two Main Types Of Root Cellars
  • How To Build A Root Cellar / Root Cellar Plans
  • What You Should Store In Your Root Cellar
  • Designing The Interior Storage Of Your Root Cellar
  • Root Cellar Food Organization
  • How To Camouflage Your Food Supply
  • Maintaining Your Root Cellar Food Supply

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Desiccant – The Ultimate Survival Tool To Combat Moisture

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How To Use Desiccant For Survival and Preparedness – Plus The Best Desiccants To Buy

Desiccants and Silica Gel

In order to properly prepare for future emergencies, you must be willing to make significant investments.

Investments in dollars to amass supplies. But also an investment in time research the right life-saving supplies.

We do this to protect ourselves and our families from an unknowable future. But these critical emergency tools and supplies will likely sit around for months (or years) before they actually get put to use.

And honestly, we all should hope and pray the day we actually need these supplies will NEVER come. No one in their right mind hopes for a real disaster to strike!

But if it does, you want to ensure you’re keeping your supplies in the best condition possible. You don’t want your investments to spoil, rust or decay.

One of the best ways to protect your survival investment is to keep them away from water, moisture, and humidity.

That’s why you need desiccants.

So today in this article we will be covering in detail the following topics:

  • What’s A Desiccant Anyways?
  • Items You Should Protect Using Desiccants
  • Common Desiccants & Makeshift Desiccants
  • Desiccant Safety
  • Best Desiccants For Survival and Preparedness
  • Difference Between Oxygen Absorbers and Desiccants

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Best MRE Meals For Emergency Preparedness and Survival

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An MRE meals guide for long-term survival and food storage.

MRE Meals

After water and shelter, food is one of the most fundamental long-term survival necessities.

Food is fuel that keeps your body running like an engine.

It sustains you and keeps you energized. It’s a survival necessity from the day you’re born until your final breath – no exceptions.

Sure, it’s true you can survive weeks without actually eating something. But going even a single day without eating has a discernible effect your energy levels.

And after two days, your cognitive abilities to think clearly will begin to suffer. And we all know, in a real emergency, a clear mind and ample energy are critical for successful survival.

That’s why it is so damned important to keep a stockpile of emergency survival food!

Heck, it may even end up being the best investment you ever make.

Now, ideally, you’ll want stockpile something lightweight, calorie dense, and nutritious. And, most important of all, it must be NON-perishable food.

Lots of non-perishables do not taste very good. In fact, lots of nonperishable survival food tastes like crap.

Foods with extreme shelf lives are usually full of preservatives. Let’s just say these foods don’t make for a great gourmet dining experience.

But, there are some survival rations that DO taste fairly good. Some might even say they taste exceptional (especially relative to other nonperishable foods).

One of the best, nutritious, longest lasting, tastiest survival foods, are MRE meals. [Read more…]

Hardtack Recipe – The Survival Bread That Lasts A Lifetime

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How To A Make Hardtack Recipe To Store Survival Bread At Home

Hardtack Recipe - Survival Bread Close Up

Maybe you already know what hardtack is and you’re searching for the best step by step survival hardtack recipe? A hardtack recipe that will last many decades!

Or maybe you’ve just recently heard the term “hardtack” and want to learn more about this incredible survival bread.

Either way, this article’s got you covered. Today we’re going to discuss hardtack and show you how to make hardtack at home (plus a few bonus survival foods as well!):

  • What Is Hardtack – Brief History
  • Hardtack Recipe (ingredient list)
  • How To Make Hardtack At Home
  • Pemmican – Hardtack’s Meat Alternative
  • Bonus – ANZAC Biscuits Recipe

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Food Dehydrator – How To Find The Best One For You

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Food DehydratorDehydrated food is one of the best survival snacks you should get your hands on.

Dehydrating food is an ancient technique that’s still widely used around the world. And owning a food dehydrator makes it insanely easy to add these snacks to your survival food supply over time.

Drying your own food is an important and worthwhile survival skill to master.

It gives you the ability to turn fresh foods into long-lasting survival snacks at an extremely low cost.

Because we all know, buying large amounts of beef jerky, dried fruits and fish from the store takes a small fortune. It’s much better and easier on the budget to dry your own foods using a food dehydrator.

Plus, your food drying options are almost limitless. You can literally dehydrate anything: fruits, veggies, meats, fish, you name it. [Read more…]

Legacy Emergency Food – An Honest Survival Food Review

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Legacy Emergency Food Review

Dinner time was making me nervous.

I was trying to keep my expectations in check as the family and I gathered around the table.

No, the evening’s dish wasn’t hot dogs and baloney (I know the kids would eat that stuff).

It was a menu I choose and one I wasn’t sure the kids would like.

I was mentally prepared to make “something else” for everyone if things went south. [Read more…]

How to Make Pemmican Recipe – 50 Plus Year Survival Super Food

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A Simple, Easy To Follow Step By Step Pemmican Recipe

How to make Pemmican

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For Native Americans, developing the process of how to make pemmican was all about survival.

They created some of the most useful survival skills ever devised. Fortunately, much of their survival knowledge is still known today.

One such survival resource, invented by the Cree Native American Tribe, is what we call Pemmican. The word Pemmican stems from the Cree word for “fat” or “grease.”

Pemmican is one of the best survival foods you can make. It’s considered by many preparedness experts to be a survival super-food.

Why? Because it lasts for years, even decades, without spoiling. Pemmican is jam packed with proteins and good-fats to provide long-lasting energy. It’s easy to make. It’s made out of almost any meat. And on top of all that, it tastes pretty damn good, too.

Pemmican is a perfect survival snack to stash in your bug out bags, survival kits and survival food storage. Any serious survival food cache without an ample supply of pemmican is lacking. [Read more…]

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