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8 Compelling Reasons to Store Food Posted:November 20, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

8 Compelling Reasons to Store Food

Food storage is a form of insurance.  You buy it now in case you need it in the future. It’s great to have a stocked pantry and stored food for those times when all you need [...]

Let’s Play Survivalist Multiple Choice! Posted:November 13, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Let’s Play Survivalist Multiple Choice!

I was talking with someone this week about all the different sorts and varieties of people in the survival/preparedness community.  I kept coming up with new sub-groups he had never heard of, and thought it might [...]

Rudy’s Four Preparedness Rules of Thumb Posted:November 10, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Rudy’s Four Preparedness Rules of Thumb

Guest post by Rudy Kearney who blogs at Preparing Your Family. I have four rules of thumb that I live by.  They’re pretty straight forward, and I certainly didn’t make them up myself.  But I use [...]

Oats, the Queen of Breakfasts Posted:November 09, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Oats, the Queen of Breakfasts

My kids aren’t too picky about what they eat for breakfast.  Just this morning my 9 year-old son was eating a package of saimin soup, dry.  Yeah, it’s not my cup of tea, either.  Daughter ate [...]

Survival Shopping at Costco Posted:November 09, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Shopping at Costco

I’m sure you all have figured out by now that I’m a huge fan of survival “literature”.  I own just about every survival manual out there and love watching all the hard-core survivalist videos on YouTube.  [...]

Lead in NYC Water, or Why a Berkey Water Filter Isn’t Just For Survivalists Posted:November 05, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Lead in NYC Water, or Why a Berkey Water Filter Isn’t Just For Survivalists

New York City means three things to me:  Ground Zero, the Statue of Liberty, and great food, so when I read today’s NYC headline, “Tap Water Shows Elevated Lead Levels,” my eyebrows raised.  Aren’t  large urban [...]

A scary scenario: The One-Hour Meltdown Posted:November 05, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

A scary scenario: The One-Hour Meltdown

Every once in a while I read something that stops me in my tracks and slaps me up the side of my head, as my dad would say.  Earlier this year it was the book Patriots by [...]

10 Unusual Foods You Should Have in Your Pantry Posted:November 04, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

10 Unusual Foods You Should Have in Your Pantry

Shortening powder – This product is a sure-fire way of having shortening on hand for all your baking without having to worry about it going rancid.  Even more important, you can sprinkle some in a hot [...]

The Baby Steps #5: Develop a Mindset Posted:November 04, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

The Baby Steps #5: Develop a Mindset

Guest post by Rudy Kearney, Preparing Your Family Preparedness is a mindset.  You have to realize that getting prepared isn’t a one-time thing.  It’s a fundamental shift to the way that you think and the way [...]

Posted:November 03, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: What’s the Worst Piece of Survival Advice You’ve Ever Read?

I so wanted Wiggy sleeping bags for everyone in my family.  James Wesley Rawles raved about them on his blog and in his books, but my husband’s construction business was on a downhill slide, and money [...]