What Foods Can You Bury Underground For Winter?
Are you familiar with the term "starving spring"? How about "the hungry gap"? Well, these were two terms that represented the struggles of the average person, pre-convenience foods, to store enough food to sustain themselves and their families. Winter would come to an...
15 Reasons To Add 4lb Of Lard To Your SHTF Stockpile
My grandmother rendered lard for her family once a year when the hogs were butchered. She used that lard for cooking, baking, frying, household use, and she made the best piecrust you’ve ever tasted with it. For many generations lard was used in the same ways, but...
24 Best Foods To Stockpile
The classic prepper way to build up a long-term food source is to stockpile bulk staples like rice, pasta and dried beans. This is cost-effective and works well, but it can leave you facing a pretty boring diet. That’s not good for morale, and while well-chosen...
How to Build a 44-Day Stockpile for Only $2.40 a Day
The average meal for two in a typical NYC restaurant is $102.60. I wondered how much food I could buy with that same amount of money to add to my stockpile. Here’s how I bought and stored 44 days’ worth of food containing 2,400 calories a day. I added 100,000 calories...
How to Make Emergency Survival Bread
Ahh, bread. There’s a reason that we, and by “we” I mean almost the entirety of the human race, have been consuming bread in one form or another for centuries. It takes some of the most basic ingredients with generally long shelf lives and turns it into something not...
