You’ve laid out several fishing trap baskets, some spring-loaded tip-up lines, and have been sitting on the side of the river all day. Finally, paydirt! You’ve caught a fish, and now you’re ready for dinner! But how to cook it? There are an infinite number of tips on how to catch game, find edible plants…
(VIDEO) Hardtack Can be a Life Saving Survival Food When You’re Bugging Out and You Can Make it Ahead of Time!
Hardtack is the food of the settlers. It was the go-to supper for the sailors who first made landfall in this country. It was utilized by the first pilgrims in order to make it through the long winters. Hardtack was in every saddlebag of the settlers who moved out west. Needless to say, hardtack was…
5 Survival Recipes That Came From the Pioneers Who Lived on the Oregon Trail
While we might occasionally reduce the Oregon Trail to our own experience playing the computer game as children – like remembering how annoyed we got every time we broke an axle on our wagon, when we killed too many bison to carry, or when everyone in our party died of cholera – it’s important to…
(VIDEO) This Prepper Shows Us How to Make Poisonous Black Bean That’s Actually Safe to Eat…
In Japan, there is a tradition of making sushi known as Fugu from highly toxic pufferfish. The chefs need to be so careful that they are individually licensed after three or more years of training in the art, and one slip up can mean a neurological shutdown from tetrodotoxin. While the practice is celebrated for…
The Art of Learning How to Cook in a Dutch Oven
As survivalists and preppers, we know it is important to have an alternate lifestyle and ways to do things that are far from conventional. If and when the grid goes down you may be able to use that crank generator for a while but, sooner or later even that will need to be shut down…
4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Save Your Life When the Grid Goes Down
If you think about it, it’s incredible how many uses you can glean from a single tree. For example, a pine tree has a ton of natural resources that you can use, and if you are bugging out and need to survive, a pine tree is your best bet. Plus, if you were to get…
10 Tips to Creating the Ultimate Survival Kitchen
Long-term survival, whether bugging in or bugging out, is going to hinge heavily on your ability to store an adequate amount of food and water to make it through the rough times of not having a grid to rely on. In those circumstances, other people who have failed to prepare are going to be a…
Delicious Jerky Marinade Recipes You Need to Try NOW
Storing plenty of food is a necessary process for the active prepper and one that no one should take lightly. While it may be a first thought for many to stock up on tons of rice and beans, as well as a few tons of canned foods and twenty years worth of MREs, many people…
(VIDEO) It Turns Out Dandelion Makes Excellent Survival Food. Learn How to Use it to Make Yourself a Tasty Meal!
A dandelion is an attractive flower. It’s bright, yellow and pretty, but so many consider it a weed and want to destroy it with little thought. What many do not realize is that nearly every part of a dandelion is eatable! What’s more, it is filled with all sorts of vitamins! If you prepare a…
Forget Boring Rice and Beans, With This Recipe You Can Make Some Delicious Chocolate Chia Survival Bars
Stocking up on plenty of high-quality, long-term survival foods is the most cited thing every prepper and survivalist says you should do. When SHTF, the first thing all the stores are going to run out of is food. It has been observed a million times, every time a storm is supposed to hit an area…
(VIDEO) You’ll Never Guess What the Secret Ingredient is to Preserving Strawberries From This 18th Century Recipe
If you’re always on the hunt for new ways to preserve foods and stockpile them for when SHTF, then you’ll enjoy learning about this lost method of preserving strawberries. Why is it lost? Well, keep reading to find out. There’s no doubt about it, strawberries are delicious and may be hard to come by when…
4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Save Your Life When SHTF
It’s crazy to think that when SHTF and you’re in the wilderness, a pine tree can keep you alive. From just a pine tree you can create shelter, repair things, and even eat. That’s not all, either! The fact of the matter is, a pine tree has an incredible amount of natural resources that are…
(VIDEO) Learn How to Make Some Delicious Acorn Coffee While Bugging Out!
When bugging out, there are a lot of things we have to consider. Survival, of course, is number one, but we should never forget the little things we need on a daily basis to get our motors running. Depending on how long we will be without basic conveniences after the SHTF, we could very quickly…
Learn How to Make Hardtack, Survival Food That Has Been Around Since the Time time of Egyptian Pharaohs!
Hardtack has been around in one form or another as far back as when the Egyptian pyramids were being constructed. They’ve been a staple food to prevent starvation for voyagers through the ages, as they lasted for years when prepared properly and could be paired with any other food to stretch rations. Christopher Columbus had…
(VIDEO) How to Make Pemmican, the Ultimate Survival Food
The three macronutrients which everybody needs on a daily basis for optimum health are carbohydrates, protein, and fat. For this reason, trail mix, or gorp, is a very popular hiking and survival food because it has all of these nutrients in spades. But before there was trail mix, there was pemmican, a nutrient-dense blend that…
(VIDEO) When SHTF, Learn How You Can Go About Living off Wild Food in the Jungle
The jungle is a pretty dangerous place full of uncomfortable and wet conditions, poisonous creatures, and very unpleasant insects. On top of surviving from those threats, you must also contend with the task of providing yourself with a steady source of calories to make it out of the jungle in one piece. Your body must…
4 Mind-Boggling Ways a Pine Tree Can Save Your Life
It’s pretty incredible that while you’re bugging out in the wilderness, a pine tree can keep you alive for days. Not only that, but when SHTF and you find yourself without food or shelter, a pine tree can be used for food, shelter, and much, much more. Who would have thought that within a pine…
(VIDEO) When SHTF, Here’s the Food That’ll Keep You From Starving
One of the most pressing matters that will be on everyone’s mind when SHTF is food. More specifically: what food is still safe to eat? Many people know how to decontaminate water for drinking, but very few people these days know how to acquire safe food without the aid of a supermarket. That’s why when…
The Top 10 Survival Foods You Need to Stockpile NOW Will Surprise You…
One of the most important things you should consider in your bug out/emergency preparedness supplies is an ample supply of quality foods that will get you through a good amount of time without having to go to the grocery store. You never know when a power outage or natural disaster is going to strike and…
Just How Important Are Antioxidants for a Prepper? Learn All About Their Essential Nutritional Benefits
You hear about the importance of antioxidants day in and day out, coming from the mouths of celebrities, doctors, the news and just about every food trendy person you know. These life-saving compounds are apparently only found in certain foods, and if you eat enough of them, you’ll be guaranteed to be immortal. Okay, that…