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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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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In this article, Jeff B. offers spot-on advice on the leadership required for setting up a MAG (Mutual Assistance Group).
I want to welcome Jeff to Next Step Survival and thank him for being a contributing author. I’ve known Jeff for about a year and a half within a prepper group we belong to, and he has earned respect from all of us in the group.
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In this article, I’m going to cover some of the more common prepper mistakes I’ve seen over the years. By understanding mistakes made by others, we’re better armed to avoid those prepper mistakes.
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We’re going to take a few minutes to discuss how to put together a realistic preparedness action plan. In less than a ten-minute read, you’ll have a solid idea of what YOUR preparedness action plan should look like.
I even tell a couple of stories because I’m all about teachable moments mixed with a good time. 🤸♂️ That’s right – It ain’t boring!
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In this post, Prepping For Beginners, I’m going to walk you through how to start prepping for emergencies and how to start a prepper pantry. My goal is to remove any confusion and show you how easy it is to start prepping and enjoy a more prepared lifestyle without the stress and worry of more shortages in the future.
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This post covers a few simple yet powerful online privacy tools that are essential steps to slowing the privacy abuse we’ve all experienced.
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In this post, I will show you how I keep my prepper pantry inventory with a short 9-minute video. This is the food inventory system I use, and by sharing it, I hope to help you decide if it will work for you.
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In this post, I’m going to cover building a portable USB device charging kit and how that fits well into your preps.
I’ll go over the how what and why of building a device charging kit.
I also cover the cost of building your charging kit, including an itemized list of everything I put in the best charging kit I own – which I just put together this week.
I won’t get all technical and geeky on you. Honestly, while I’ve been using these kits for the last five years, I have no interest in learning anything beyond what is necessary to make the best portable charging kits while keeping the costs down. I am not an electrician and won’t pretend to understand every aspect of these devices.
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In this post, I’m going to quickly show you how to make your own DIY homemade hand sanitizer. All you need are two or three ingredients. I’ve also included a video in the form of a short Instagram post.
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