food & water storage

Ten Steps To Preparedness For Non-Preppers – Death Preparedness Series PT. I

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Post published:January 4, 2023
Post last modified:January 8, 2023
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Reading time:31 mins read

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This ‘getting started‘ article is my Ten Steps To Preparedness for the people that aren’t interested in living, eating, and breathing the prepper lifestyle yet understand the value of being a little more prepared. Maybe you don’t even care for the label ‘prepper.’

That’s fine because I wrote this piece with you in mind.

In this article, I want to help you sharpen those skills without our recommended steps of forming a Threat Assessment, developing a Preparedness Action Plan, working on your Preparedness Mindset, or maybe even starting an entire Prepper Pantry.

Yes. You can skip a few steps and still be more prepared than most people.

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The Issue With Can Rotation Systems – Prepping

Post category:Food & Water
Post published:December 17, 2022
Post last modified:December 17, 2022
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Reading time:13 mins read

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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Saving Freezer Meat During A Power Outage – Plus My Grid-Down Plan

Post category:Food & Water Power and Energy
Post published:March 20, 2022
Post last modified:April 10, 2022
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Reading time:14 mins read

Saving Freezer Meat – How to save your freezer meat in the event of a short-term power outage or even a long-term grid-down SHTF situation.

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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Dehydrating Green Onions – From Our Garden To The Prepper Pantry – Video

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Post published:November 13, 2021
Post last modified:November 13, 2021
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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

Post category:Food & Water Prepping
Post published:November 8, 2021
Post last modified:November 8, 2021
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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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Supply Chain Disruptions. All You Need To Know.

Post category:News and Commentary
Post published:October 17, 2021
Post last modified:October 17, 2021
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Reading time:21 mins read

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

Post category:Food & Water Off-Grid Cooking From The Pantry
Post published:October 12, 2021
Post last modified:October 12, 2021
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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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AquaDrum Water Purification System Review & Demo – Video

Post category:Food & Water Gear and Gadgets Health & Sanitation
Post published:October 10, 2021
Post last modified:October 10, 2021
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Reading time:13 mins read

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

Post category:Food & Water
Post published:October 3, 2021
Post last modified:October 3, 2021
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Reading time:14 mins read

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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