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72 Hour Kit Series Week 2: Water for Your Emergency Kit
Welcome back to the 72 hour emergency kit series! This week we're getting water in our kits. Water for emergency kits is another topic I cover in detail in the first chapter of my book, Food Storage for Self-Sufficiency and...
8 Delicious Ways to Use Freeze Dried Vegetables
When I started buying freeze dried food, I knew I needed to take my own advice and try the food out rather than just set it on a shelf and call it food storage and hope I liked it when...
72 Hour Kit Series Week 1: Food for Your Emergency Kit
Welcome back to the 72 Hour Kit Series! If you haven't already caught the introduction, read it now so you'll know what's going on. I'll wait right here until you get back. Remember that you are building a kit for...
72 Hour Kit Series: Welcome and Personalize Your Kit
Welcome to the 72 Hour Kit series! It was recently brought to my attention that my coverage of personal emergency kits (commonly called 72 hour kits) has been pretty slack on this site. So I'm repenting, and we're going to...
How to Make Soap: Cold Process with Oatmeal
Have you been wanting to make your own soap at home but not sure how to do it? Well I'm going to walk you through soap making using the cold process. Now, the name "cold process" is a bit misleading. ...
23 (mostly beginner) Preparedness Sewing Projects
Want to try your hand at sewing? How about taking on a project that, besides honing your sewing skills, will help you be better prepared when it's finished? I've rounded up 23 great sewing projects from around the web that...
Sinfully Delicious Pumpkin Roll
I'm going to be right up front here. I have ulterior motives in publishing this recipe and detailed instructions. I have pumpkin roll for my birthday each year, but nobody in the house knows how to make it except me. ...
January 2015 Monthly Challenge: Make a List
Welcome to the monthly challenge series at Food Storage and Survival! Each month this year I'll be issuing a challenge to you. I know quite a few of you are very active in preparing, but I don't want any of...
Four Questions to Ask to Prioritize Emergency Preparedness Goals
It's a new year and that means the traditional time of making new goals for yourself. Hopefully you added a few goals to be better prepared this year. I keep an ongoing list of things I want to learn, do,...
