How to Dry Can Beans and Rice for 20+ Years Shelf Life
Beans and rice, a significant staple in a prepper’s pantry…or, should be. And, if the 2020 pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that we can never be too prepared for shortages of any kind. Prepping or pandemic aside though, I just happen to love having beans and rice...
How To Dehydrate Milk For Long Term Storage
When we started on our preparedness journey, I tried to be practical. In the beginning I made a list of things I used everyday. Literally from the time I woke up: water, meds, t.p, coffee, toothpaste, toothbrush and so on and that is what I started storing. You know,...
Makin’ Bacon: How to Dry Cure Pork Belly
Vegetarians fear bacon. It’s the “gateway meat”. The temptation heightens with the mere aroma of this sizzling strip tease. Only the most hardcore herbivores can withstand the maddening scent in the olfactory receptors! Here's how to dry cure pork belly to make bacon....
20 Foods That Can Last 20 Years
We live in an unpredictable world where anything can happen. Typically disasters strike with no warning, which can leave you stranded without the ability to make contact with the outside world. Emergency rescuers will arrive within a couple of days, but during that...
Canning Mistakes Even The Most Advanced Homesteaders Make
For most homesteaders, canning is just one of the essential skills to fully utilize your resources for the long term. When done correctly, this method of food preservation can extend the shelf life of food and other perishables by up to one to five years. In fact, it...
Canned Hamburger Meat – Recipe From The Lost Super Foods Book
I was amazed at how fast and easy this recipe is to do: Canned Hamburger Meat. It is also very satisfying to see my shelves fill up with long time storage meat that I canned. For this one here I did 4 ½ Lbs. of beef at my small home in Ohio. The recipe is for 3 Lbs....
Cheap Recipes To Keep You Well Fed In The Next Crisis
Food security is the basis of survival and forward planning is the name of the game. Preserving food in times of plenty is a wise move: this means that you always have a variety of ingredients to hand. Having or hiring a patch of land to grow fruit, vegetables and...
The Lost SuperFoods: Book Review
I’ve been hearing a lot about The Lost SuperFoods lately, so I decided to buy it and see if this is the food preservation guide I’ve been looking for all this time. As a major blackout is a real threat in our technology addicted society this kind of knowledge is...
8 Dangerous Mistakes To Avoid When Storing Your Food
You may think that there’s not more to food storage than storing your food away, wherever you can find the space. Or perhaps you are accustomed to storing your food according to how you were taught growing up. The reality is that there are certain “Do’s” and “Don’ts”...
10 Recipes From “The Great Depression” To Survive The Next One
During the Great Depression Era (1929 - 1939), the world suffered from a massive economic recession in the industry as the stock market crashed. Because of this, people lost jobs and were left with no money. Consequently, they were unable to buy food which caused its...
