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  • Why Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Are Important to Long Term Food Storage

      Many people, me included, recommend vitamin supplements in your long term preps. Then, as I often do, I got to wondering how important they really were and if they’re possibly not needed at all. So, I figured the easiest way to decide this is to compare the numbers. Therefore, I looked for an easy to…

  • Better Places to Find Last Minute Preps

    The post on Monday asked whether pet stores were a “secret” place to find last minute preps and the answer was obviously NO. Today, however, I try to point out a few places where you could actually find last minutes supplies if you really had to. Now, even though I wrote an e-book about last minute…

  • Review of Rite in the Rain All Weather Journal (by Equip 2 Endure)

    I didn’t have time to do a review this week but I thought this review of the Rite in the Rain All Weather Journal by Equip 2 Endure was a good one to consider. I keep a Rite in the Rain journal for our bug out bags and think it’s a good product. FYI, it’s a video review… [youtube…

  • The Top 50 Things to Disappear from Store Shelves during an Emergency (from Camping Survival Blog)

    Tom at CampingSurvival.com mentioned they recently wrote an article about The Top 50 Things to Disappear from Store Shelves during an Emergency and I thought it was good to share and remind you of the things that most people become desperate for because they felt no need to store them before they really needed them. Check it…

  • Are Pet Stores a “Secret” Place For Last Minute Preps?

    I was recently watching a show about Armageddon or zombie apocalypse (aren’t they really all the same?) when one of the people on the show suggested that your local pet store was a better place to find lats minute supplies–in particular food and water–than any local grocery store. I said “What!? No way.” He basically stated…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 13 Results

    We’re down to only six more eggs to go. Here’s the most recent week’s egg… As usual, the egg didn’t float and didn’t smell funny either: And here it is cooking (with the yolk still in tact): I’m not sure if you can tell from the following picture but I should note that this particular…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 6: A Few More Things

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] Thus far we’ve covered how to keep your children safe in public, at home, in…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 5: Online and Social Media

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] This is a topic I’ve had to deal with more and more lately as my…

  • Have You Seen This L’EQUIP Nutrimill Grain Mill?

    I came across this post on a Grain Grinder (includes a video) from FiveGallonIdeas.com and thought that’s a really neat way to grind wheat directly into a five gallon bucket. The post is about the L’EQUIP Nutrimill Grain Mill. Of course, it needs electricity to operate and may not always be the best way to grind…