As virtually no one likely remembers, on March 22, I decided to try the mineral oil method of preserving eggs. I read about this method, and, frankly, despite my hope, I was pretty skeptical that it would work. Before I tried this, my main method of storing eggs was freezing, and it wasn’t working for [...]
Tag archive: Food Storage
As most preppers know, the single most important thing to have in the case of a crisis is water. Humans can survive without water for about three days and without food for about three weeks. We all know these basic facts. What we can’t really quantify is how much damage it does to our bodies [...]
Yesterday I decided that I would bite the bullet and make Seitan, or what some people like to call “wheat meat” or “gluten meat.” For those who haven’t read about it or eaten it themselves, Seitan is the product of wheat gluten and a liquid, and the resulting food product you get after cooking it [...]
After reading an article from one of my favorite survival blogs today, I started thinking of how common it is in the prepper community to talk about the threat of an EMP, or about power outages caused by storms, but how few actually mention the threat of cyber-terrorism. When people think of cyber-terrorism, my observation [...]
Today my husband and I drove out to the country to pay for a wheat order I had made. I was lucky enough recently to find a food co-op in our general area that was buying in bulk from a feed store a thousand miles or so away, so we got a really good deal [...]
I finally have recovered from the nasty cold I had last week – or at least as much as I am going to while it’s still winter, and enough anyway to start working again on my family’s preparedness. It’s a never-ending project, of course, but an important one.
After almost a year of bouncing around from [...]
One of the things I love about having food stored is that my family never has to run out of milk. And if you have children, you know that sometimes, when they want milk, they really want milk. Luckily, since I started storing food, I don’t have to deal with this anymore. Whenever we use [...]
