When the power goes out, cooking becomes a concern, as soon as dinner time rolls around. Frosted Flakes will work for breakfast, a sandwich makes an acceptable lunch, but when you try Honey Nut Cheerios and Caesar Salad as a dinner combo, expect some odd sideways glances. What would really come in handy is a cooking unit that could not only take care of the meat that is slowly thawing out in the freezer,...
One concern that often gets overlooked during planning, but quickly becomes apparent during emergency situations is dealing with household toilets that do not work. This could be due to a shortage of water, so flushing is not possible. Or, there could also be a disruption of the sewer system, so that the flushes do not have anywhere to go…but up. Either way, it is a good idea to have an option available that does not...
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...
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.
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review Build the Perfect Survival Kit by: John D. Mccann Summary: Build the Perfect Survival Kit is focused on how to build your own custom survival kits to fit your specific needs in a variety of situations.
Wanting a good knife in your pocket is nothing new. Archaeologists have found evidence that the earliest people not only had stone knives, but also were working to improve them. Ancient people on multiple continents would heat treat the stone in a fire before flaking it so that it was easier to produce better quality edges. Even the idea of the folding knife is nothing new, with Iron Age examples being found that date...
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit by: Creek Stewart Summary: Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit is an in depth guide to building a customized kit in case your family needs to leave home due to a disaster.
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness by: Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez Summary: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness sets out a generic plan for dealing with disasters, based on the concept that all of these events share many of the same basic challenges.
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by: Stephen Flynn Summary: The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation takes a look at our nation’s old and sometimes crumbling infrastructure as a source of potential disaster.
RealisticPreparedness.com Book Review Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care by: American Medical Association Summary: The American Medical Association Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care is a well thought out, basic guide of first aid and an alphabetical reference for a wide variety of common medical conditions.