Prepare, Adapt & Overcome
Finding The Best Food Dehydrators For Snacks and Survival
Dehydrated food is one of the best snacks, period.
Dehydrating food is an ancient technique.
One 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 skill to master.
It gives you the ability to turn fresh foods into long-lasting survival snacks at an extremely low cost. [Read more…]
Can Storage Racks For The Disorganized Pantry
When it comes to storing survival food, things can get cluttered fast.
Stacking cans of food on the ground or makeshift shelves makes for a disorganized mess.
Not only does it look terrible and take up lots of space, but it also compromises your survival food supplies.
Good organization is key to preparedness and survival!
How can you expect to make it through a widespread emergency if you can’t quickly find your supplies because it’s so mixed up? [Read more…]
This is Skilled Survival’s Mountain House Review
A few weeks back I received a couple of survival food pouches from Mountain House.
They wanted to hear what we had to say about their freeze-dried meals for survival.
So far, I’ve conducted thorough reviews of both Valley Food Storage‘s and Legacy Food Storage‘s survival food.
I was excited to put another survival food company to the test.
Now, full disclosure, I’ve used Mountain House products in the past.
In my younger years (before kids), my wife and I spent many days and nights backpacking in the remote wilderness. [Read more…]
Legacy Emergency Food Review – Is It Worth A Serious Investment?
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.
No matter what the packaging tries to sell (with its professional “perfect” meal photos), freeze dried food can’t hold a candle to a home-cooked meal. [Read more…]
A Simple, Easy To Follow Step By Step Pemmican Recipe
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 at home. [Read more…]
Rice is boring. Rice is just a filler, right? A basic grain with barely any flavor.
White unseasoned rice is nearly tasteless – (rice cakes – need I say more?)…
But today I’m going to convince you rice is one of the most amazing (nearly perfect) long-term storage foods.
When first building your food storage supply, you must decide what you’re going to store in bulk and how you’re going to store it.
The truth of the matter is building a long-term food supply is hard.
For one, most foods spoil quickly. Even foods stuffed full of preservatives will eventually spoil. [Read more…]
Start Your Emergency Food Storage System Using Long-Term Survival Food
Emergency food storage is easy.
Just get a large chest freezer and stuff it full of loaves of bread, meats, cheeses, veggies and you’re all set, right?
Not so fast…
Unless you’ve invested in some very elaborate backup power systems, your freezer is a terrible emergency food storage solution.
Because when the power goes out, your freezer food’s shelf life is on a countdown.
That’s why today we will cover the following emergency food stockpile topics: [Read more…]
Canned Food Shelf Life – Is It Really Safe One Day
And Then Bad The Next?
Are you getting ready to throw out that can of green beans just because it’s a week past its “best by” date? [Read more…]
Skilled Survival’s Valley Food Storage ReviewIsn’t that what our great-grandparents did after the great depression?
Yes, what they experienced changed them forever. [Read more…]
Are you dreaming of packed pantries and bountiful basements, but currently housed in a small living space?
You don’t have to let your dwelling ruin your passion for preparedness!
Try these unique food storage ideas on for size: [Read more…]