National Preparedness Month Ideas – Add A New Method Of Food Preservation
In this article, I list several methods of food preservation for National Preparedness Month ideas to boost our preparedness and fill gaps.
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In this article, I list several methods of food preservation for National Preparedness Month ideas to boost our preparedness and fill gaps.
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In this article, I cover four reasons why I’m not a big fan of can rotation systems for our prepper pantries and why a simpler and more traditional method may be better.
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We need to protect, store, and rotate our meat investments.
In this article, we’re going to look at managing your bulk meat purchase. Post-purchase – post bulk meat buying. What do we do after filling our freezer with half a cow or any other fresh meat to ensure nothing gets wasted?
This post IS NOT a how-to on buying half a cow, how to do it, or anything other than how to manage it after you have made the purchase.
With the troubles of our supply chain and skyrocketing food prices, many preppers are taking the head-on approach when it comes to meat. They’re buying half a cow or splitting a pig with someone. Or maybe they’re buying a whole cow, quarter, or even a sixteenth of a cow from a farmer. Buying fresh meat is just smart. It fills your freezer and offers an instant form of food security that preppers understand well.
But what do you do after you’ve bought half a cow? Or any bulk meat that’s being stored in a freezer?
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Saving Freezer Meat –
In this article, I’m going to cover how I plan to save our freezer meat in the event of a power outage using two scenarios – A short-term (A few days to a couple of weeks) and a Full-out grid down SHTF situation. This is going to be fun!
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A short review video showing off my latest sprouting batch using a set of my favorite mason jar sprouting lids.
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Storing wheat berries for long-term food storage. In this video/post, I’m going to show you how I store wheat berries in Mylar bags and five-gallon pails.
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In less than 20 minutes, I put together a meal in our garage. That’s right, I went off-grid style again, using a camp stove to make a sloppy joe mix with ground beef, Manwich, and home-canned mushrooms. Of course, I also made a video as well. 🙂
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This is my complete and honest review of the AquaDrum Water Purification System. The AquaDrum™ Water Purification System is a 55-gallon drum water filter with a Micro-USB rechargeable 5-volt manual hand-pump and a backup hand pump.
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An article on how to rehydrate dried mushrooms? Absolutely, because dehydrating vegetables is a fantastic method of preserving for long-term food storage and your prepper pantry. If we’re going to dehydrate it, we need to know how to re-hydrate it.
Let’s rehydrate dried mushrooms. I’m cooking a roast today using dehydrated mushrooms and decided to record a short video on adding the dried/dehydrated mushroom to the Crock-Pot.
By the way, rehydrating other vegetables works the same way. I just happened to be rehydrating mushrooms today.
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Today, I’m making a huge pot of Zucchini Soup with chicken in my backyard – Off-Grid cooking style. In fact, I’m hanging the Lodge 9-quart cast iron dutch oven over my backyard fire pit with a cast iron cooking/camping tripod. Watch the video.
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