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Food Safe Plastics by the Number Posted:November 30, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Food Safe Plastics by the Number

Here’s a page to print out and keep in your Survival Mom reference binder.  Which types of plastic containers are safe for food storage and which aren’t?  It’s a common question, and rather than answer individual [...]

Beyond the LDS Food Storage Calculator Posted:November 30, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Beyond the LDS Food Storage Calculator

If you haven’t discovered the online LDS Food Storage Calculator, you might want to check it out here.  Plug in the number of people in your family, and you’ll find out  how much dried milk, oats, [...]

How Secure Are You, Really, When Anybody Can Track You Down? Posted:November 29, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

How Secure Are You, Really, When Anybody Can Track You Down?

Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Last week I freaked out my newsletter subscribers with a list of websites that share massive amounts of your personal information with, well, anybody [...]

28 Baby Steps for Any Prepper Posted:November 26, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

28 Baby Steps for Any Prepper

Make an evacuation plan for your home, hold a family meeting, and conduct a drill. Learn how to use a solar oven. Take a First Aid or CPR class. Take a basic firearm class or an [...]

Food Storage Defined in 8 Little Words Posted:November 24, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Food Storage Defined in 8 Little Words

Grocery shopping for the future at today’s prices. That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?  What does the future hold?  Unemployment?  Inflation?  Terrorist attacks?  Not to be a doom and gloomer, but the truth is, [...]

Prepare for the Unthinkable with Doomer Lit Posted:November 24, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Prepare for the Unthinkable with Doomer Lit

Think about it.  What would it be like to get out of a city on fire, on foot?   How would you cope with a sick child and stores empty of all medications?  Imagine driving toward your [...]

Survival Skills: Try This Quick, Easy Way to Make Jerky Posted:November 22, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Skills: Try This Quick, Easy Way to Make Jerky

Guest post by Leon Pantenburg of Survival Common Sense. Jerky is the original high energy survival/snack food, and maybe you’re thinking about making your own. Here’s some expert advice about a quick, easy method that uses [...]

6 Quick ways to increase your survival education Posted:November 20, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

6 Quick ways to increase your survival education

If you’re like me, you barely have an extra minute to spare when it comes time to do some research or just reading for enjoyment.  Some days are so crazy around here that I barely have [...]

A Prepping Essential: The Grab-n-Go Binder Posted:November 20, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

A Prepping Essential: The Grab-n-Go Binder

In panic situations, which happen around my house quite often, actually, people lose their wits. The extra adrenaline produced by the human body during times of intense stress, causes confusion and can even cause some of [...]

About That Glenn Beck Show… Posted:November 20, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

About That Glenn Beck Show…

I feel like I just got home from the best party ever.  Huge doses of adrenaline keept me awake and excited until last night when I crashed.  Hard. Here’s where my Glenn Beck story begins… On [...]