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Your Survival Garden: Time to Start Thinking About Calories

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In good times there are tons of reasons to garden.  It saves money, gets you closer to your food supply, teaches you valuable skills and gives you some independence.  In bad times there is only one real reason to garden—to grow food so you can ... Read More

4 Simple but Clever Ways to Keep Cooking Oil Fresh Longer

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How do you feel about eating boiled food for every meal?  If you're not storing oil, that's what you may end up eating every day, meal after meal.  Quite a nightmare!  Oil is tricky to store long-term, however, and I've noticed that some food storage ... Read More

Life Happens: How to Prep Again When You’ve Lost Everything

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I remember the night so clearly. It was the end of an emotionally exhausting day. My husband and I were lying in bed, holding hands, feeling like it was the only thing we had to hold on to. He sighed and said, “The life that I am living doesn’t seem ... Read More

5 Steps to Creating a Culture of Self-Reliance in Your Family

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We have all known people who save everything. My grandmother is one of them. If there are four green beans left in the pot, she puts them in the freezer. I remember one specific visit with her, 27 years ago, where she asked me to get her a bowl of ... Read More

Dehydrated Dinners: 21 Tips for getting started

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Freeze dried and dehydrated main dishes, such as those made by Mountain House, are on many a prepper's To Buy list.  However, for some families, the extra expense or unwanted additives place these commercially produced meals off limits.  With a ... Read More

Sea Salt – An Indispensable Commodity for Uncertain Times

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When we think about setting aside emergency supplies, most of us would agree that preserved food and purified water are the essentials and everything else is secondary to these. Some might even choose to incorporate things like a manual grain mill, a ... Read More

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Don’t Forget the Fats!

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 By John A. Heatherly, Author of The Survival Template  photo by spentrails Many, when storing food for times of need in the future, stock up on wheat, flour, rice, corn, sugar, etc ..., and they do it for good reason.  All of these, when stored ... Read More

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