Survival Skills: Solar Cooking
Have you ever cooked something with sunshine? If not, here’s your chance to learn a thing or two about it. If so, here’s your chance to share what you know. Starting this month, we will be doing...
View ArticleHow to Prepare Better: Five Pieces of Preparedness Advice from Disaster...
When preparing for a future event—whether it’s retirement, a trip to Disneyland, or a disaster situation—it helps to get advice from people who have already been there, done that. Specifically, it’s...
View ArticleBoil the Perfect Egg with a Sunshade: A Solar Cooking Experiment
A few months ago, I posted about solar ovens as a useful survival cooking method. You can read that post here. At the time, I wanted to try to make my own solar oven and cook with it, but I didn’t...
View ArticleStuff You Need When Disaster Strikes: A Complete Emergency Survival Kit...
A good emergency supply kit involves much more than matches and first aid supplies. For this reason, when you’re putting together your kit, it can be helpful to consult with emergency preparedness...
View ArticleWhat to Do When You’re Lost in the Wilderness
If, after reading the title to this post, you are thinking to yourself that you will never be lost in the wilderness because you are neither a boy scout nor an outdoor adventurer, you may want to...
View ArticleSurvival Basics: How to Build a Fire
Growing up I used to spend a part of every summer camping in the mountains of Idaho with my family. There were two constants of these trips: we were always far from civilization and it always fell to...
View ArticleSurvival in Your Pocket: Make a Survival Kit out of a Mint Container
Emergency supply kits come in all shapes and sizes—some could fill a garage, and some fit in a water bottle. Some, as you’ll see in today’s post, can fit inside a compact mint container. Most...
View ArticleSurvival Cooking: An Overview
Emergency situations often include a loss of power. That means that unless you have a backup generator with plenty of fuel, you aren’t going to be able to turn on the stove or throw your food in the...
View ArticleStoring Fuel for Emergencies
Fuel is a frequently overlooked aspect of emergency preparedness, but it’s also a crucial one. Fuel keeps life running, from generators to cars to household appliances. It cooks food. It heats houses....
View ArticlePreparing the Family for 2014: Five Essentials for the Inevitable Emergency
By Phil Cox, CEO, Legacy Food Storage From food shortages and natural disasters to political unrest and economic uncertainty, the world is not a predictable place. A National Geographic Channel survey...
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