Category: Food / Water

We’ve all heard the “rule”- the human body can survive for roughly thirty days without food.  Our individual metabolism and body fat percentages can cause a shift of a few days in either direction, but at some point a caloric deficit will lead to the shutting down of organ systems and death.  Given that fact,…

I can hardly believe I’m halfway through this experiment already! As you might remember from last week I choose to discard the control eggs since they were not going to be used or tested, so all I have left to show are the mineral oil eggs. There isn’t much to update this week as everything…

If you’re unaware, I didn’t have a chance to do my egg experiment last week due to being out of town, so I just choose to postpone it a week. Here’s where it stands… This is the mineral oil egg (they’re the same as they’ve always been… doesn’t float, didn’t smell, yolks look fine, etc):…

The other day I mentioned that I’d run across a thread that mentioned retort canning. Since this seemed like something new, I was intrigued. After all, I’ve obviously heard of water bath canning and pressure canning, why not retort canning? So, I quickly looked it up. I found out that retort canning is the same…

Not much has changed from last week. Here’s the mineral oil egg (it didn’t float, smelled fine, tasted fine): …and here’s it cooking on the stove: This is the control egg (it floated, didn’t really smell funny at all either before or after being cracked): What should be my next experiment? I feel like Saturday’s…

Real quick, here are the results from week 5 of the experiment… This is the mineral oil egg. It didn’t float, smelled fine, looked good: This is the control egg. It floated (just like last week), the yolk is broken down, and I thought it might have smelled a bit funny but I was in…

As much as we like to live well as preppers and maybe even cook the occasional gourmet food storage meal, there’s also plenty of room for making your life as easy as possible when times are tough. In this case, it’s about food that can be eaten without much–if any–work whatsoever. This list of no-cook…

I thought I would try my hand at making “bread in 30 seconds” which is something that Steven Harris says can be done (I ran across a link to his video about it).  I figured that was easy enough so I quickly retrieved my small propane burner and gathered the ingredients to make it, which include:…

Here’s where we’re at in week 4… This is the mineral oil egg (doesn’t float and didn’t smell funny): This is the control egg: Notice anything different? Yes, it’s floating. So, I cracked it open on a plate: I know the plate is red so it’s not really easy to see but everything looks perfectly…