Category: Prepping Skills

Unexpected Uses For Tea Bags

Unexpected Uses For Tea Bags Tea bags have a surprisingly-useful number of practical applications that everyone should know about. This is in addition to the health benefits associated with drinking tea that can also be very useful in a survival situation. Let’s take a look at how you can take advantage of fresh as well …

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How To Store Meat For Years Without Refrigeration

How To Store Meat For Years Without Refrigeration From the time people roamed the earth as hunter-gatherers, their very survival might have depended on preserving meat — their main source of protein — to tide them over in times of scarcity.  Let’s take a look at all the different ways to approach this subject.

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8 Smart Ways To Teach Kids About Survival And Prepping

8 Smart Ways To Teach Kids About Survival And Prepping Prepping is essential to all individuals, particularly young children. Your kid’s innocence makes them particularly susceptible in becoming victims of disasters of all sorts. Ultimately, they’ll depend on you for guidance and support to better equip them in surviving any catastrophe. Preparing your kids for …

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How To Make A Simple And Effective Catfish Pipe Trap

How To Make A Simple And Effective Catfish Pipe Trap There are a number of commercially-available catfish traps on the market today, and many of them are quite effective. However, they can be expensive and some can become easily damaged. Let’s take a look at how you can improvise and make some simple but effective …

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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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8 Edible Bugs That Could Help You Survive

8 Edible Bugs That Could Help You Survive In many parts of the world, eating bugs is commonplace. Insects are actually the most abundant protein source on the planet, and many of them boast dense concentrations of en-vogue nutrients like omega 3’s that we buy at fancy grocery stores. If 2 billion people can invite …

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Egg Storage And The Myth of Refrigeration

Egg Storage And The Myth of Refrigeration Keeping eggs in refrigerators is a very common practice in the United States, but it is not shared by many other countries around the world. The general perception is that eggs that are not kept cold can make us sick, and while this is partly true, the reasons …

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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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Tiny Wood Stove Made From A Propane Tank

   This little wood stove was made from an old propane tank.

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