Whether you need it for help around the kitchen or for tin foil hats, aluminum foil is going to be one of the most useful resources you can stock up on for the coming SHTF situations. Check out just a few ways this tool can be used with the tips below.

1. Tin foil can be used in making a funnel or frying pan especially during survival situations. For those people who love outdoor activity and they forgot to bring their cooking tools, tin foil can be a great help to create a flat pan between two branches.
2. Tin foil can be used to fix or repair your loose batteries. Once you notice that your flashlight is not working properly, it simply means that there is a battery problem. There is also a great chance that the springs lose tension. In order for you to fix this, all you need to do is to get a tin foil. Fold it until it is thick enough to completely fill the loose.
3. Tin foil is proven and tested effective in protection your fruit trees. It is a fact that plants are considered as the ultimate source of food especially when tragedy strikes, so it is very important to guard them. Just simply put a tin foil in the fruit trees to fright away the birds. The tin foil will reflect the light of the sun that makes the birds stay away from the fruit tree.
4. Tin foil can be used for signaling. All you need to do is to place a tin foil in branches of trees or you can simply hold it.
5. Tin foil can be used to catch fish. Fish love shiny objects. You can place a square piece on a hook along with line attached to a short branch.
6. Along with using tin foil to make a cup you can also you use it to collect rain water or dew by simply letting it sit out in the rain or in a humid place for a few hours.
7. Electronics can be protected by using tin foil to create a faraday cage in case of a possible EMP.
8. Radio reception can be improved by placing a ball of tin foil at the end of a radio. This is very helpful in case you are in a bug out situation and deep into the woods where radio reception is very low.

One of the aspects of aluminum/tin foil that makes it so useful is the fact that it is so moldable and can be used to form almost any shape.

This means that if you have nothing else, you should be able to go a long way with just tin foil to make up most of your pots and pans.

Another great use that many experts recommend is wrapping your SHTF electrical radios and other equipment in tin foil to protect them from a possible EMP.

Tin foil can also be used to make AAA batteries fit in an AA slot. By wrapping both ends of the battery with foil, you can carry the current into the device, even if the battery size is incorrect.

Check out some more useful aspects of tin foil by reading the original article at Smart Prepper Gear.