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Effective Food Storage Practices

Your family will be able to save more money and secure your future better if you have one thing: food storage. Implementing food storage practices will help your family a great deal; this is mostly why a lot of housewives do this diligently.

Why? In these trying times, families are very concerned about getting the most out of their dollars. And food comprises a major part of the daily budget.…

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How To Freeze Dry Your Food

If you are interested in saving food for the future, you should consider freeze drying food for your food storage. This is a great way of preserving foods.

The process of freeze drying is a method used for preserving perishable goods such as food, certain chemicals and even documents, in order to make them light weight, transportable and usable after an extended period of time. Freeze drying as…

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Emergency food supply-disaster preparedness

Disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and wars bring about a lot of devastation. An emergency food supply is required as soon as these disasters occur in order to save lives. People undergo a lot of stress after a disaster due to the hullabaloos and sleepless nights during the calamities.

When you are capable of owning an emergency food supply, it is extremely advantageous. This is…

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Factors affecting Freeze Dried Food shelf life

There are four critical factors that determine the shelf life of your long term food storage items. If you are looking to start a food storage program for your family, or you already have one, then you must know these four factors in order to obtain the maximum shelf life possible.

The four things are as follows. The storage area temperature, the food’s moisture content, the storage container…

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Acai Berry - Freeze Dried

Acai Berry – Freeze Dried

An indigenous product of the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, acai berries are known as super foods for their nutritional contents. They are packed with essential nutrients like antioxidants, proteins, fiber, essential fatty acids and carbohydrates. These elements are highly beneficial for the overall health of the body and if included in the regular diet one can keep a number of diseases at bay.

A…

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Building An Emergency Preparedness Kit

In order to be fully prepared if disaster strikes, you need to set aside a collection of supplies to grab and take at a moment’s notice. There are definitely certain items that you should choose to include in this pack.

When you are faced with a natural disaster or dire situation, you may need to get out of your home quickly. In order to be completely prepared for these types of situations, you…

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Planning Menus for Camping

Before you set off on your great outdoor adventure, ask yourself, what’s good to eat? There are many considerations before selecting a menu for you and your camping buddies, such as the number of people , number of meals that need to be cooked, location and available facilities.

The easiest types of food to bring are in cans, such as beans and soups. Not much preparation is needed, just heating.…

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Prepping for a Hurricane

With this hurricane season starting out strong, we considered it a fitting time to talk a bit about hurricane preparedness. If you live in an area that could potentially be hit by tropical storms, you need to learn to prepare yourself before a hurricane hits.

When you first hear word about a hurricane, you need to know:

– What hazards are associated with the hurricane?

– What do these hazards…

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Why Diversify Your Long Term Food Supplies

With natural disasters happening with a higher frequency and with greater force that we have seen in decades it only makes sense that basic provisions be on hand. For companies and households alike Earthquake Kits, Storm Shelters, and backup supplies are common. But what is not so common is the trend of people purchasing Military Meals Ready to Eat as part of their provisions. This trend seems…

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Finding The Best Survival Knife

An effective bushcraft knife is probably by far the most critical item of your survival equipment and one of a few essentials that all survivors should have with them.

Finding the top survival knife for you is more than showing your individuality – your life may hinge upon the right choice. If you have ever spent time in the outdoors, you realize you cannot survive without a quality knife. For…

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Why Have a Survival Garden?

Everyone has to buy food but you can benefit both monetarily and health wise from growing your own either in a garden or in containers indoors. For just a few dollars, you’ll be able to save hundreds or perhaps thousands. Don’t be dissuaded if you’ve never done it. Nature can take care of most of it for you. After all, things have been growing without our help for a long time. Some sites are…

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Earthquake Protection During and After the Event

Natural disasters are almost entirely unpredictable. There are a number of ways, however, that an earthquake may be anticipated. Fault lines, geology, and weather patterns are a few examples.

Most folks aren’t ready for these situations when they happen. We talk about making our home earthquake safe or setting aside an emergency storage of food and supplies, but it doesn’t happen in time.

Most of…

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Basic Emergency Preparedness Items

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security suggests three things that you should do to keep yourselves and your family prepared:

Get one or more emergency preparedness kits Make a family emergency plan Be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur in your area and their appropriate responses.

Everyone should have some basic preparedness supplies on hand in order to…

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Your Best Friends' Survival During a Disaster

Your Best Friends’ Survival During a Disaster

Often overlooked during our disaster survival planning are the needs of our pets. As anyone with a pet knows, they become an important part of our family. That is why we need to have their survival needs met when the time comes. Quality dry dog food is an important component of this. When you are looking for high quality dog foods, and in particular dry dog foods, you need to be really diligent…

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Preparing your MRE

Originally, meals ready to eat (MRE) were designed as military rations by the U.S. army to feed their soldiers in operation and on the field. However, more and more, they have been adopted by civilians as a great food resource for emergency disaster situations. For a trained soldier, preparing and eating from an MRE pouch might be a no-brainer, but for the ordinary person, it might prove to be…

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Should Your Emergency Cruise Checklist Include a Passport?

2010 was a bad year for cruises. From an engine room fire that crippled the Carnival Splendor and left passengers with no power and not enough food to the severe storm that kept the Carnival Inspiration from arriving in port on time, stories of bad weather and near disaster have become unsettlingly common.

If you apply with normal processing, it takes the US Department of State about 6 weeks to…

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Where do I Build My Survival Shelter

On the day that I went out into the woods to create a shelter I had a simple plan. I would create a lean-to style shelter with a raised bed and an area for a fire. Simple enough.

After walking the woods trying to find a suitable spot, I found a rather large log that was laying on the ground. With a little work, this would provide a good base on which to build my raised bed. I set to work creating…

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