Category: Long-Term Food Storage
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Only $800 on Groceries Per Year for Two Adults?
You read that title correctly: This person apparently only spends roughly $67 per month on groceries; I think we spend at least $800 per month on groceries … at least it feels that way. 🙂 She spends so little by (1) only purchasing items on very deep discount when necessary and (2) reverse-meal-planning, meaning she…
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Cooking Without Power
The flicker of a dying light bulb. The hum of the refrigerator grinding to a halt. The sudden plunge into darkness confirms it – a power outage. While the inconvenience of a dark living room is easily manageable, the question of food quickly becomes a concern. Don’t worry, even without electricity, you can still create…
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Meat Preservation, No Refrigeration – Only One Ingredient
Salt. It’s salt. Here’s how to use it so meat lasts nearly forever…
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Costco Inflation Check!
Look, if I could go to Costco every week, I would. I love that place. But, my wife prefers we’re not in the poor house because I’m a “crazy” prepper, so we compromise…meaning she says I get to go once a month and that’s that. But I’ve been noticing recently, let’s say over the past…
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Dieting Sucks, But Survival Diets Will Suck More!
About a month ago, my wife convinced me that we needed to go on a diet. In part to lose weight, but also to adjust our eating habits away from processed foods and, really, all the yummy stuff. Sadly, as we age, I can tell we need to do better with taking care of ourselves…
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Long-Term Food Storage Tips and Advice
Having a deep stockpile of food can protect you if an emergency strikes. But creating a long-term food storage plan and finding places to store everything can be difficult. And if you are thinking about creating an emergency supply of food to ensure you are prepared, it can be hard to know where to start.…
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Freeze Drying Updates: 1 Year Later
I know I haven’t been posting much lately, and that includes freeze-dryer posts, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been using the Harvest Right. Rather, I’ve done two more batches of tomatoes since my last post: I started with at least twenty-five pounds of cut, chunky tomatoes as shown above and got it down to…
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Freeze-Dried Beets
Yup. You read the title right; I freeze-dried beets this week. Look, it wasn’t my first choice…or my tenth choice, but my wife though we needed some freeze-dried beets to use over the winter for our veggie smoothies. And since I didn’t have anything better to freeze-dry (the tomatoes and most other vegetables aren’t quite…
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Freeze-Dried Strawberries
I’ve been waiting for strawberries to come down in price, and while they’re not as cheap as I’d have preferred, I went ahead anyway because…who wouldn’t like some tasty strawberries during the apocalypse? So, I bought six two-pound containers of strawberries at Sam’s Club for $3.77 each: But, because I never really know how much…