Food Items That Should Not be Canned for Long-Term Storage Canning is a time-honored and incredibly practical way to store numerous types of food. It is also an integral component of any long-term SHTF preparation strategy. However, there are certain foods that should be kept out of canning recipes in order to avoid rancidity, spoilage …
Quick Guide to Storing Eggs and Milk Milk and eggs can be frozen, canned and dehydrated to extend their shelf life. However, there are some important things to consider as you use each of these methods. Let’s look at the benefits as well as drawbacks of storing these perishable items for future use.
Prepper Skill – Pickling Eggs Pickling eggs is simple, easy, and requires nothing more than a canning jar and a stock pot. If properly canned eggs can be shelf stable for 1-2 years without refridgeration and is an amazing skill to have to any prepper. It’s a great way to add to your …
Common Desert Plants and Trees Produce Excellent Foods There are a number of cacti and trees in the desert southwest that provide an assortment of edible, and sometimes tasty foods. You can enjoy fruit buds, seeds and starchy components of certain trees simply by knowing where to get and how to prepare them. Let’s take …
How to make Butter in a Jar! Homemade butter How to make butter. Homemade butter recipe. How to make butter in a jar using with whipping cream also known as heavy cream…great science experiment as well as a good skill to learn and teach!
Build a Compact and Productive Potato Tower Maximizing space and minimizing resources are key concepts to survival gardening, and making a potato tower will help you to achieve both goals. Not only is more resource-friendly, but they are easier to grow and maintain than preparing soil and tending to the land. Best of all, it …
What You Need to Know About Sugar Withdrawal America’s addiction to sugar has reached epidemic proportions years ago, but we still don’t quite appreciate the extent of the problem. Some estimates reveal that the average American consumes almost 200 pounds of refined sugar per year, but that doesn’t include all the sugar derivatives that are …
How To Make Easy Homemade Wine If you’ve ever wanted to make wine but thought it was too complicated, then you need to watch this! I’m going to show you how I made a batch of easy homemade wine… And… When I say easy… I mean EASY. I even give you a look at the …
Bushcraft Survival Skills, Cattail on the Cob and Cattail Pollen Wild Food. The cattail is one of the most important and most common wild foods that also boast a variety of uses at different times of the year. Cattails (aka bulrushes) can be used to make mats, baskets, and the cigar-shaped head can even be …
Cooking Your Fish in Mud Mud baking is a time-honored, yet almost forgotten way to prepare food in the wild. One of the greatest advantages to using this method is that you don’t need a grill, plate, skewer or any other cooking implement to prepare a fish. All you need is a bed of hot …
