Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup On the Survival Grill
After taste-testing numerous brands from across the country, here is the number one pick in soup mixes for a quick emergency meal.
Author: Wyatt Johnson
Applesauce Spice Freezer Storage Bread
Here’s another “grab it and go” bread loaf, which is easy to make with cinnamon sugar muffin mixes and can be stored in the freezer for emergency use.
Chocolate Marble Ready To Go Bread
Start with two easy muffin mixes and soon you can stash this Chocolate Marble Loaf in the freezer. Grab it and go for snacking on the road, or for an instant morale boost after the power goes out.
Quick Carrot Spice Muffins on the Survival Grill
A simple recipe for fast, wholesome muffins can be cooked from a mix on the survival grill.
Pantry PB&J Muffins on the Survival Grill
Peanut butter and jelly makes these grill baked honey bran muffins kid friendly. You don’t even need a bowl, since they mix right in the bag.
Nesco FD-75PR Dehydrator Review
Drying has been a common method for extending the storage life of food for ages. It is still used at the industrial level to make camping, backpacking and long term storage type meals and ingredients. Many different store bought snacks, such as jerky and fruit rolls are the product of dehydrating food. Home dehydrators have certainly been around for a while, but the more affordable models have, in my experience, often left a...
Book Review: Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive by: Les Stroud Summary: Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive has a good selection of different ideas and options for meeting your basic needs in a variety of survival situations.
Podcast – Survival and Emergency Preparedness Gift Ideas
This is the companion podcast to our article Preparedness and Survival Gifts – Holiday Shopping Ideas 2012. We discuss fourteen different gift ideas under $100 for the person who is interested in preparedness, survival or a similar hobby.
Our Fragile Infrastructure
Verne Kopytoff’s article on The Importance of Disaster Plans highlights the reactive nature of people and business to disaster preparedness. One Florida hospital decided to start making plans for the likely disasters in their area: “In 2004 we had what we called the hurricane trifecta—Charlie, Francis, and Jeanne,” says Robert Goodman, disaster recovery coordinator for Florida Hospital. “The hurricanes got our management’s attention.” The take home message should be that it took not one or...