Survival Food

Review of the Zip Tie Chicken Dome

Geodesic Zip Tie Chicken Dome

  I have the best-tasting eggs ever. I get them from my own chickens; I know exactly what goes into them, and have no fear ...
Taste test of the Valley Food long term storage food

Valley Food Storage Taste Test

  I've never seen so many commercial food storage options before. The market is full of processed, packaged food that is reconstituted just by adding ...
DIY South African biltong recipe and taste test

Traditional South African Biltong

      South African biltong is a simple dry-cured meat that makes an excellent tool in your food preservation toolbox. Unlike jerky, which is ...
Tips for getting the most out of your beef

More Beef for the Money

Retail beef prices are up about 16% over February 2014, when they were already high. In times like these, getting the most out of your meat ...
Dehydrated meal pack taste test

Dehydrated Meal Packs

A friend of mine is a big shooter, and he has to pack his meals around the competition circuit, so he's always on the lookout ...
three year old hard tack taste test

Cookin’ Up Some Three-Year-Old Hard Tack

Hard tack is simply a bland, dry bread with the consistency of a brick. It is not particularly appetizing on its own; its virtue is in that ...
Taste testing beans after being stored for 15 years

Y2K Beans Taste Test: Recipe for Disaster

Let me just get this out of the way: The beans turned out fine. The recipe is not itself a disaster; it is for a disaster. ...
Easy tasty bread recipe when you're on the run

Making Camp Bread

Quick, Easy Bread for Camping, Hiking, or Bugging Out Whether you're hiking, mountaineering, or bugging out, this is a superior DIY trail food because of ...

Sausage Balls Are Rich and Travel Well

Sausage Balls for Backpacking and Bugouts Knowing how to prepare delicious foods gives you a triple benefit -- nutrition, good morale, and independence. The influence ...
Surviving Norovirus

Surviving Norovirus in Austere Conditions

Preventing and Treating Norovirus Norovirus ("stomach flu") is one of the most infectious viruses around. It takes fewer than 20 virus particles to infect someone, ...
7 Survival Cache Containers

7 Survival Cache Containers

Survival Cache Containment This is part 2 of the Survival Cache series. Part 1 covered the suggested packing list for a survival cache. Read Part ...
Hardtack and Gravy Recipe

Hardtack and Gravy

Kick up the Hardtack With Rich Gravy Hardtack is one of those awesome survival foods that never seem to go bad. It has everything you ...
jerky recipe

Simple Jerky Recipe

Jerky for Doomsday Drying meat is an easy way to preserve it for survival or emergency use. Jerky is a generic term for salted and ...
DIY meat canning

Easy DIY Meat Canning

How to Keep Canning Simple Canning your own food is a great way to build up your emergency food supply, and it doesn't have to ...
Top Ten Items To Stockpile Right Now

10 Items to Stockpile Right Now

Ten Items to Stockpile for Natural or Political Disasters Even if you don't fear economic meltdown, war, or tyranny, nature doesn't care who's in control ...
DIY Survival Food for the trail or bugout bag

DIY Survival Food

Make your own survival food for the trail or the bugout bag Commercial survival food -- like MREs and [amazon_link id="B000M806WW" target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]freeze-dried ...
Simple Hardtack Recipe

Hardtack — A Great Survival Food Stock

Hardtack is nutritious, delicious, and stores easily You’ve all heard of hardtack. It’s a great survival food, because it is very nutritious and tasty, and ...

Emergency Food in Your Garden

Most of us have a garden in order to have delicious fresh produce, not to live off of its production. However, if you're already gardening, ...

Do It Yourself Canned Beef and Broth

The richest beef broth is the one you make yourself, and it makes the most savory soups and sauces you ever tasted. And since you're ...

Emergency Food Stock Management

Dry goods in sealed buckets Now that you have an emergency food stock, you need to maintain it. Emergency food supply management is simple, and ...

Build Your Emergency Food Supply in Six Months

Canned tuna and salmon should be a part of your emergency food stock Survivalists and grandparents tend to measure wealth differently than the Gameboy generation. ...

Filtered Water Bottle for Emergencies and Every Day Use

A water bottle with a built-in filter is ideal for survival situations, and an essential part of your emergency preparedness plan. Watch the video for ...

Jack Mackerel – A Great Food Stock

High in protein and the currently popular Omega-3 fatty acids, wild caught in deep waters, and with a very short list of ingredients, canned Jack ...

Super Salmon Comparison Test

Chicken of the Sea Canned wild caught salmon is a premium emergency or everyday food. Price, quality, and taste vary, however, and if you're going ...

Survival Plan 6 – Emergency Water Supply

There is a single, all-important, overarching concept you need to grasp in order to execute any effective survival plan: you need a continuous, safe, plentiful ...

Survival Plan 5 – Livestock for Emergencies

There's only so much you can actually do now to prepare for meltdown. Raising livestock for food is a whole new way of life, and ...