Want to liven up your cooking and your food storage meals? Today’s National Preparedness Month giveaway is just the thing–a four pack of Chef Tess spices! Developed by Chef Tess, these spice blends go above and beyond your average, off-the-rack, spices.  Here’s how Honeyville describes them: The Southwest Fajita turns any dish into a zesty […]

In lining up the National Preparedness Month giveaways, I was looking for products that fill a particular need, and this one is for the ladies and any of you men who happen to be attached to a lady (or have a daughter).  What are your emergency plans for, well, you know . . . that […]

A while back I posted a review of my good friend Lisa Bedford’s book, Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios.  This is a book I would recommend to anybody even the least interested in preparedness.  It is a common sense approach to preparedness written from a mom perspective, […]

Here’s a sneak peak at the new Honeyville Food Products store opening in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday, September 24th.  The address is 1850 S. 389 W. Suite 500 in Salt Lake–in the shopping center just north of Home Depot and west of Costco.  Drive to the far west side of the shopping center–the […]

One area of food storage that is sometimes difficult to store a variety of is vegetables.  There are only so many veggies that come in cans, and those cans from the stores have a pretty limited shelf life.  Frozen goods aren’t much use if the power is out for an extended period of time.  So […]

Hopefully you’re enjoying the National Preparedness Month giveaways here at Food Storage and Survival.  Today we have a couple of products sponsored by Ready Reserve Foods.  First is a #10 can of Apple Cinnamon Granola.  I personally adore granola for a breakfast cereal.  It is so much more filling than most other processed type cereals.  […]

One of the most basic needs we have in many emergency situations is clean water. Water to drink, cook with, and clean with. It is hard to imagine life without clean water coming out of our tap, but it really wouldn’t take much to disrupt or contaminate a water supply. A quality water filter is […]

550 Paracord is a fantastically versatile and amazingly strong cord that consists of an outer sheath surrounding seven smaller inner cords.  This cord can be used for lashing, stringing up a survival shelter, snares, and of course paracord bracelets.  This is some tough cord–the 550 in the name refers to the minimum breaking point of […]