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How to Properly Store Grains Long Term

By Brody Danielson February 21, 2020 | be prepared emergency food food food storage food supply grains

How to Properly Store Grains Long Term Paleo diet gurus argue that people should not consume grains because 10,000 years is not long enough for the human digestive system to adapt. That is a rather extreme viewpoint, especially when you look at growing evidence that grains have been part of...

How much food should I store for an emergency?

By Brody Danielson February 21, 2020 | be prepared emergency food emergency preparedness food food storage freeze dried freeze dried food preparedness prepper

How much food should I store for an emergency? This is a question customers ask all the time and in light of the disasters of 2013, we’ve changed how we answer. As we mentioned last week, you’ll want to carefully determine your calorie needs as you make your emergency plan....

6 Steps to Pack an Epic Go-Bag for Every Survival Situation

By Brody Danielson February 20, 2020 | be prepared BOB emergency supplies go bag supplies survival kit survive

From a major power outage to a natural disaster, you may find yourself in an unexpected circumstance without electricity, food, water, or shelter. While you can’t predict these situations, you can make sure you’re prepared. Military and police agencies require their officers to carry a three-or five-day emergency go-bag with...

8 Ways to Cook Without Electricity

By Brody Danielson February 20, 2020 | be prepared cooking fire outdoors solar survival survival skills

8 Ways to Cook Without Electricity As a society we have become accustomed to our modern conveniences. Not only can we cook on a stovetop or oven, but we can pop a dish in the microwave and have it ready in mere seconds! So when we find ourselves in a...

How to Use and Make Natural Antiseptics

By Brody Danielson February 20, 2020 | antiseptics be prepared honey medicine natural 2 comments

How to Use and Make Natural Antiseptics If you are a Baby Boomer or older, you may fondly remember having bright red liquid lovingly applied to your skinned knees by your mom or the school nurse. Mercurochrome, generically called merbromin, was used frequently back then to clean superficial wounds. In...

Rethinking the Car Emergency Kit

By Brody Danielson February 20, 2020 | auto auto kit be prepared car car kit emergency kit emergency supplies survival

Rethinking the Car Emergency Kit In the last blog post we made brief mention of how winter storms had unexpected and significant impacts in Georgia and North Carolina this year. Many of us watched as stranded commuters waited in their cars for hours, ran out of gas and either walked...

Emergency Communication: Phonetic Alphabet and Morse code

By Brody Danielson February 20, 2020 | alphabet be prepared emergency preparedness morse code phonetic survival survival skills

Whiskey, Tango, Bravo If you’re not in the military you probably only hear people use the phonetic alphabet in movies. The phonetic alphabet may seem like useless knowledge, but it’s not - everyone concerned about being prepared in an emergency situation should know it. Technically it’s called the “International Radiotelephony...

Top 5 Modern Prepper Movies

By Brody Danielson February 19, 2020 | be prepared emergency preparedness movie movies prepper 1 comment

Top 5 Modern Prepper Movies Survival. It's on the short list of moviemakers' top topics. Whether it's post-apocalyptic, natural disaster or pandemic-related, or even the over-plagued zombie thriller, Prepper movies make for great story telling and good reminders as to why survival preparedness is key. Here's our (totally subjective!) list...

What You Need to Know About Emergency Food Preparation

By Brody Danielson February 19, 2020 | be prepared emergency preparedness freeze dried food prepper supplies survival kit

What You Need to Know About Emergency Food Preparation If you are putting together an emergency-preparedness kit, it is important to remember that you need to have more than just freeze-dried food and other food items packed away in storage. After all, the food won’t do you much good if...

12 Essentials in Your Survival Kit

By Brody Danielson February 18, 2020 | be prepared disaster preparedness emergency preparedness emergency supplies survival kit

Whether it’s an earthquake, a storm, or a flood; having a survival kit ready can get you a long way towards surviving a disaster. You’ll need solutions for food, shelter, and sanitation because you’ll never know to what extent the disaster can affect the facilities around you. So make sure...

How Many Daily Calories Will I Need?

By Brody Danielson February 18, 2020 | be prepared emergency emergency prep emergency preparedness make a plan plan survival

How Many Daily Calories Will I Need? The average American says it’s easier to do their own taxes than it is to figure out what to eat and how many calories per day they need. Whether you’re planning your emergency food strategy or you’re reviewing an existing plan, now is...

How To Create Extra Space for Food Storage - 14 Ideas To Stretch A Small Footprint

By Brody Danielson February 18, 2020 | be prepared emergency food emergency preparedness food storage food supply freeze dried freeze dried food storage

How To Create Extra Space for Food Storage If you’re living in an apartment or small house, finding the room for food storage can be a little tricky. And if you have kids, the problem compounds even more. What little space you have shrinks exponentially. But don’t give up hope!...