Category: Emergency Preparedness

How To Make A Cool Wood Burning Pocket Stove

How To Make A Cool Wood Burning Pocket Stove There are a million and one uses for small tin containers, and one of the most useful can be to fashion a miniature and self-contained wood stove. This trick works best with a rectangular Altoids tin, but you can also use things like shoe polish containers …

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How to Make Ezekiel Bread With Minimal Resources

How to Make Ezekiel Bread With Minimal Resources Ezekiel bread comes from the bible, and recipes have been used for centuries to provide a simple and efficient source of nutrition. It is especially useful during a survival situation because it involves minimal time and resources to prepare. Let’s take a look at a basic recipe …

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Your Bug Out Location Checklist

Your Bug Out Location Checklist When it comes to buying a survival retreat or bug out location, location really is the key. Here are some of the top considerations that you need to keep in mind when looking for the ultimate bug out property.

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How To Defend Your Bug Out Location

How To Defend Your Bug Out Location The biggest obstacle when it comes to defending a piece of ground is resources, in particular trained personnel, weapons and ammunition. You can have an arsenal at hand, but you as one person can only fire one weapon at a time, so if you have limited personnel then …

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Keep Food and Water Safe After a Disaster or Emergency

Keep Food and Water Safe After a Disaster or Emergency Food may not be safe to eat during and after an emergency. Safe water for drinking, cooking, and personal hygiene includes bottled, boiled, or treated water. Your state, local, or tribal health department can make specific recommendations for boiling or treating water in your area. Let’s …

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Oatmeal: Ultimate Survival Food?

Oatmeal: Ultimate Survival Food? With all the new, high-tech survival food that’s out there today, it’s easy to forget that there are healthy, long-lasting survival foods that have been around for years. In fact, you might have some of them in your pantry right now. Is oatmeal the ultimate survival food?

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11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last A Lifetime

11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last A Lifetime Did you know that with proper storage techniques, you can have a lifetime supply of certain foods?  Certain foods can stand the test of time, and continue being a lifeline to the families that stored it.  Knowing which foods last indefinitely and how to store them …

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5 Labeling Lies Big Food Tells You

5 Labeling Lies Big Food Tells You We all like to know what we are buying. A can of tomato sauce should be made of nutrient-filled tomatoes and herbs, right? Well, sadly, shopping for healthy foods is not as simple as it should be.  Here are 5 of the biggest food labeling lies I have …

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6 Steps For Car Survival

6 Steps For Car Survival Being swept up into the chaos or potentially violent encounter that transpires over the course of a few seconds can lead to serious injury or death.  It is important to try and avoid being in that situation to begin with, but there are also steps that you can take in …

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Getting Water From Moss and Other Thick Grasses

Getting Water From Moss and Other Thick Grasses Water, especially in moist wilderness areas, is very easy to obtain if you know where to look.  Much of this water is normally free from bacteria and other organisms that would otherwise pose a health risk as well.  Let’s take a look at some interesting places where …

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