Masontops Mason Jar Sprouting Lids – Review & Demo Video
A short review video showing off my latest sprouting batch using a set of my favorite mason jar sprouting lids.
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Dehydrating Green Onions – From Our Garden To The Prepper Pantry – Video
Dehydrating Green Onions – In this post, I decided to hit record as I took the last of this season’s green onions from our garden to dehydrate them for use throughout the winter months.
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Storing Wheat Berries in Buckets And Mylar Bags – Video
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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A Gift From A Prepper Buddy – Wooden Pen Holder
This is an appreciation post – a thank you for a cool gift sent by a prepper friend. I also want to show off this cool handmade wooden pen holder a little.
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Cooking From The Pantry – Off-Grid Coffee On A Weber Grill – Video
Let’s make some off-grid coffee using a french press and a charcoal grill. I’m happy to record another video for our Off-Grid Cooking From The Pantry Series – video number four. It’s only coffee, but hey, that’s a lifesaver for many of us.
Oh, and this is my best coffee. I use the french press every weekend. It’s something I look forward to, power or no power.
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Supply Chain Disruptions. All You Need To Know.
I’m going to take my trucker genius and my prepper mindset and help you understand what’s going on with our supply chain disruptions and what we need to do about it.
Everyone’s hearing about the global supply chain disruptions but few people understand exactly what that means or why it’s happening. This article will help you make sense of the supply chain shortages and what’s causing them.
In this article, I’m going to share my opinion. It’s an op-ed, not my regular type of post here on Next Step Survival but it is a survival topic. I’m not an expert but I feel like I’m just as Smaut as them folks with that label.
Expect to be enlightened!
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Cooking From The Pantry – One-Pot Sloppy Joe With Rice – Video
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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AquaDrum Water Purification System Review & Demo – Video
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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How To Rehydrate Dried Mushrooms (And Other Veggies) – Video
Includes Video – Adding Dried Mushrooms To A Roast
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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Back On Through Sometime In November: Sam’s Club Membership Under $20
UPDATE: This offer expired, changed, then reverted again and again. One year of Sam’s Club for $$28.88 $19.99/year on that same page until they take it down for good – I guess. It’s still up as of late Jan. 2022.
It really is a good deal, especially with all the shortages, price increases, and empty shelves. A bulk option is a good idea right now.
Sam’s Club Membership for Only $19.99 + Free Rotisserie Chicken & Cupcakes!
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