Archive for ' January,2010 '

Posted:January 27, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Emergency Kit + Information = Survival

I thought I had checked out every survival and emergency website out there, but last week I was pleasantly surprised by the discovery of Survival-Goods.  The website is not only well organized with a variety of emergency survival kits [...]

Posted:January 26, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Ask TheSurvivalMom: What skills should a prepper learn?

Yesterday, this email popped up in my in-box. I started reading your site along with a few others, and find myself agreeing with much that you and your fellow preppers write about.   I was wondering [...]

Posted:January 26, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Check this out! The Stove-Tec Rocket Stove

Erich, over at Tactical Intelligence, has put together a great video demonstrating a small but powerful stove.  One of the basic principles of preparedness is thinking in terms of layers and back-ups.  A stove like this, [...]

Posted:January 25, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

An Everyday Story of Preparedness

One of my readers, Debbie, sent me an email this morning telling me about her own story of preparedness.  Debbie has been a reader since this blog launched last June, and she keeps me informed of [...]

Posted:January 21, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

TheSurvivalMom in the news, again

Okay, this is getting embarrassing, but if you’ve ever wondered what my food storage looks like, or what my dogs look like, or what I look like, here’s your chance. The Fox News affiliate here in Phoenix [...]

Posted:January 21, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

A reader’s question: Food storage for a gluten-free diet

One of my readers, Becky B., asks, Thanks for the great article.  I have a question I’ve been really eager to have answered.  I have a 10 year old son with autism on a gluten free [...]

Posted:January 21, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Snow Happens, or What Everybody Should Know About Snow Storm Survival

For a few of us in the Sun Belt, winter weather might mean gray skies and colder days, but many of you are digging through snow drifts even as I write!  Blogger Tom Martin over at American [...]

Posted:January 19, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: A Prepper Friend is Priceless

“Are you a prepper?”  A good friend of mine asked this question today of a casual acquaintance, someone she had just met.  This woman had mentioned raising her own chickens, and nowadays, the only logical follow-up question to [...]

Posted:January 18, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Food Storage Advice from Walton Feed

Sooner or later, the food storage path leads to Walton Feed.  This Idaho company is the granddaddy of long-term food storage products and has been in business for 54 years.  Their vast array of products are packaged [...]

Posted:January 17, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

A Closer Look at Freeze Dried Foods

I first began my food storage with a mother-of-all-shopping-trips to a local grocery store.  They were having one of those ten-for-ten sales (10 items for $10), and we did a pretty fair job of stocking up [...]