Hardtack has been used for centuries as a simple to make, durable and nutritious food source. In the American Civil War for instance, for either side, hardtack was a staple food for your average soldier, particularly when deployed into battle. It originally was used to feed sailors traveling from Europe to what was then the…
Check Out This Awesome Auto-Setting Survival Fishing Rig
Catching fish in a survival situation can mean the difference between eating or not and if the situation is dire enough, between life and death. Fish are some of the most prevalent and easy to catch live food sources imaginable, they literally exist in just about every place on earth there is water, but if…
[VIDEO] Learn The Right Way To Can Your Tomatoes
Tomatoes are great! You can do so much with them. Where would spaghetti be without a great tomato sauce? What about the historic bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich? When you have tomato plants you tend to get a lot of tomatoes and unless you give them away to friends and family there are always those that go to waste.…
[VIDEO] New To Canning? Check Out The Basics For Survival Food Here
As preppers and homesteaders, we all know how important it is to have a well-stocked pantry. Canning is a very important part of the process if you want to have food long after its expiration date! With that in mind, we really wanted to share this slick video about canning. It is for those of…
[VIDEO] Economic Collapse? 5 Items You Forgot To Stockpile
The single toughest task for any survivalist is knowing what to store for a survival situation – be it SHTF, the more likely short-term or a longer-term survival situation. All of us could collectively brainstorm what to include in an equipment, materials or supplies stockpile and the one thing that would be assured is that…
Learn How To Turn A Basic Cardboard Box Into A Oven
Being able to improvise in a survival situation or SHTF moment is on critical skill you must have to make it through whatever crisis you are going through. One challenge just about every person in a survival situation will face is being able to cook food. Not only does a hot meal do a lot…
Make These Simple 72 Hour Food Supply Kits
Having a food supply or survivors kit available for you and your family is a great idea. Unless you are an ultimate prepper, with nerves of steel, the first twenty four hours after a disaster will throw an average person off their game. You may not be thinking clearly, just knowing that the family needs…
The Must-Know Basics of Foraging for Food
Knowing your surroundings in a survival environment or SHTF moment is not just important for safety reasons. Understanding what is around you, specifically the fauna that surrounds you will give you a food source that is available just about all year long and virtually everwhere. Even if you are in an urban environment, there are…
Prevent Pantry Bugs From Destroying Your Stored Food With These Simple Tips
Bugs in our food! We hate it and we need to prevent it but how can we do that in a way that will not cost us an arm and a leg? We have all had those terrible moments when, as proud preppers – storing our food(s) for a rainy day – we become the…
[VIDEO] Awesome MREs In Mason Jars For Food Storage
Obsessive Prepper takes us into her well thought-out world of quart sized mason jars, large buckets, and MRE’s! She’s thinking about the future, which any good prepper will do, and the foods her family will eat should they need to bug-out at the last minute. O.P. has even considered the amount of water she will…
Awesome Fishing Tips & Techniques For Survival
Fish are a great source of protein, calories and multiple vitamins and minerals and readily available in almost every setting (the desert being one where they may not be exactly plentiful.) Catching fish, however, can be a completely different story. You need to understand the types of fish you are trying to catch, what they…
Short and Long-Term Survival Food: What you Should Know
You never know when a survival situation will arise – with major storms, like hurricane Katrina, you may have a few days to prepare or evacuate. But most often, the norm for warnings is a few hours or even minutes. With most SHTF moments, though, a warning comes as chaos is breaking out and because…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Catch Game In The Wild With This Wood Trap
If you are facing a survival situation, finding food is a pretty major priority and one way of doing that is to trap wild game. Game is a great source of vitamins and protein as well as calories, which you will need in abundance in any survival situation because of the physical labor it takes…
5 Homesteading Tips For Harvesting The BEST Tomatoes
When homesteading, your first goal is to produce. But once you’ve had some time to get a good production line going, you probably want to ensure the production plentiful but that it also tastes good. After all, what’s the good of growing your own vegetables if the ones at the store taste better? Some of the…
Survival Fishing Techniques And Tips You Need To Know
Fishing is the easiest, most low energy way to get access to survival food external to prepared food you may have brought with you. With few exceptions, fish are abundant in just about every setting (even some urban settings) and they are an easy to catch in most circumstances – provided you either have the…
Growing Beans? 3 Tips To Improve Your Results
Whether they be kidney beans, navy beans, gravy bean or green beans – beans are great. And they are fairly easy to grow. That is always helpful for any prepper or homesteader. Usually the hardest part of growing beans is keeping the crows away from your garden! Still, there are always ways to improve the…
Non Perishable Survival Foods You Need to Stock Up On
You can pretty much guess that they are worried about something whenever government officials start warning that everyone should have a survival kit that can last a person several days if not weeks in the event of a disaster. The US government, on several web sites recommends a food supply that can last anywhere from…
[VIDEO] Learn How To Build Out Your Own Bushcraft Fishing Kit
Whether you are facing a survival situation, camping or even just have a few moments on your hands, fishing provides both a distraction and a possible food source. In fact, in a survival situation, fishing is the easiest way to secure yourself with some much needed protein. That only works, however, if you are prepared, but…
See How To Make Bread In A Can
Warm, delicious bread is good at any time but for a survivalist – someone who find himself out in the wilderness – it can mean the difference between going hungry one night to have a fully belly by morning. When supplies run low, when the hunt hasn’t been particularly good, making bread is a great…
Learn How To Dehydrate Butter Substitutes For Storage
One of the most acute challenges of any survival situation is losing the “creature comforts” we have grown accustomed to and often take for granted. Unfortunately, many of these comforts are not easily preserved or replicated, unless you have a lot of land, livestock, or have done a lot of prepping in advance. Butter is…