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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The Issue With Can Rotation Systems – Prepping
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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Managing Your Bulk Meat Purchase
How To Manage Your Meat AFTER You’ve Bought It
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 During A Power Outage – Plus My Grid-Down Plan
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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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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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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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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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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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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Kelly Kettle Trekker Review – Video
In this post and video, you’ll find an honest review of Kelly Kettle’s Trekker Stainless Steel Kettle & Kit. I go over the pros and cons and as well as address some of the comments I’ve seen on this kettle and camp stove.
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