Imagine with me that there’s an approaching disaster or maybe one has just struck and you rush to the store to buy necessities for your family so you can shelter in place for a while, and what should you discover when you get there? No toilet paper. Not one roll in the entire store! Sound […]
The Best Use for Extra Cherry Tomatoes! How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes
Every garden, I plant a cherry tomato plant. Or two, just in case one dies. Later in the summer they start producing those little red balls of juicy goodness. Oh, my. Cherry tomatoes right off the vine are SO yummy and sweet! One of the rewards of gardening, for sure. But after a week or […]
How to Filet a Fish
Do you like fish? We do. We like fishing and eating what we catch. Most times we are just fishing for lake or river trout, which we don’t filet, but sometimes we get fish that are bigger or hard scaled, and those are perfect for fileting! This filet method works great on a variety of […]
14 Non-Electronic Ways to Keep the Kids Entertained on the Family Road Trip
Summer travel time is coming! I love traveling with my family, but we’re cheap/frugal/poor, so we don’t usually fly anywhere, we just go places within driving distance. We do road trips more often than anything, and we’ve been doing them for a LOT of years. When I first wrote this, we also didn’t have a […]
Solavore Sport TR-86 Reflector Review: Baking a Cake in a Solar Oven
Solavore has upgraded the reflectors that come with their solar oven/reflector package, so when they asked if I’d test them out of course I had to give the new reflectors a test. Last time I shared a review of the Solavore Sport solar oven, I shared all the ins and outs of the setup and […]
21 Cute and Easy DIY Garden Markers
It’s gardening time! Have you ever planted your garden and then not remembered what was growing where? Me, too. Every year I make a garden map, but then somehow it gets displaced and I end up wondering what I have growing where until it sprouts. Enter garden markers. These can be simple or complex, plain […]
2 Minute Preparedness Tip: Date Your Supplies
Dating your food and other rotatable preparedness supplies like batteries or cleaners, helps keep things fresh and usable in your storage. Here’s how I do it. First, I use a Sharpie to mark the date or circle the expiration date on food items when I bring them home from the store so I can easily […]
Top 7 Reasons I Carry a Mini MultiTool
When you think of every day carry items, it is common to think of things you may need in a big emergency. But when I decided to participate in this post round up with my other preparedness blogger friends, I knew exactly what my favorite every day carry item was. Because I actually carry it […]
Surprisingly Simple 5 Step Guide for Creating the Perfect “Throw Together” Soup
Leftover soup, throw together soup, clean out the fridge soup. Whatever you call it, this soup is a staple at our house for finishing off the leftovers and stretching our meal budget. After many years of creating these fresh soups from leftovers, I am ready to share with you the secrets that will turn your […]
22 Survival and Preparedness Movies Your Kids Can Watch
This list is part of my eBook, Prepared Kids: A Parent’s Guide to Raising the Next Generation of Self-Reliant, Responsible Adults! Looking for preparedness movies you can watch with your kids? Do such things exist? Yes, yes they do. While many movies in the preparedness/survival genre aren’t appropriate for little viewers (ie. rated R), I’ve […]
