Butter in Your Food Storage One evening at church one of the ladies mentioned that you could bottle butter and store it for 3 year. I hadn’t seen so many women interested in a comment about preserving food in a long tim. I received the instructions from her and have been bottling butter for my food storage ever since. Items you need: 12 – 8 oz. jelly jars, lids, and rings (clean and sanitize bottle prior to bottling butter)5–¼ pounds butter or margarine (5 pounds + 1 stick)1 cookie sheet (optional)1 cooling rack (optional) Getting started: Sterilize your jars and lids. Place your twelve jars on a cookie sheet. Preheat oven to 225°F. Phase One: Open up twelve sticks of butter and cut each stick into two – three tablespoons sections and one – two tablespoons section. Drop the two – three tablespoons sections in the bottom of the jar length wise. Then very carefully place the one – two tablespoons section in the middle on top. (Do this with all twelve jars.) Put your jars in the oven at 225°F for 15 to 20 minutes. Phase Two:
Meals Ready to Eat a Three-Month Supply Put your three month supply of food together with meals ready to eat. This food supply is easy to use in an emergency. Skip Down To: 6 Steps to a 3-Month supply Recipes & Grocery List Benefits of a 3-month Supply? During an crisis, you will still have an emergency food supply. 6 Steps to Building a 3-Month Supply When I set out to put together my three-month supply of meals ready to eat, it seemed overwhelming. Pick out 2 weeks of recipes. Keep a few meals ready to eat in the pantry and use them on busy hectic days. Back to Top Recipes & Grocery List Now the surprise! Set 1 is has traditional American family meal recipes. Some of the ingredients in sets 1 & 3 are perishable. We’ve come up with six recipes for each set. Now, if you want to add in a few breakfast meals, you can. One good meal a day is more than many people around the world get! You’re done! Back to Top Return To: Food Storage from Meals Ready to EatBulk Food StorageMoney Saving IdeasA Dollar a Day
Modern Survival Blog Bulk Food Storage Guidelines See how to build your One year supply of food . . . for $225 Every storage plan should include bulk food storage items. These provisions are your survival foods. Is the economic depression affecting your family? One Year Supply For 1 AdultMormon Food Storage This list is a guideline for storing the bare minimum. You get 1 cup Wheat, 1 cup Oatmeal, 1/2 cup Rice, 1/3 cup beans, 2 Tbs Oil, 1 glass Milk (2 T powdered milk), 1/3 cup honey, and 2 tsp salt per day. Breakfast: Hot oatmeal with honey & milk Lunch: Tortillas and Sprouted Wheat Dinner: Rice and Beans With that said, whole grains are still the foundation of your food storage. The chart shows how much it costs for a one-year supply for 1 adult. See Bulk Food Storage Containers to learn how to store your bulk food. NOTE: You don’t want to start using wheat when that is all you have to eat. Cost of One Year Supply for 1 Adult This chart was created in 2009. *Not all olive oil lasts this long. Wow, look at that. Adding to the Basics . . .
MacGyver, Survivalist, or Stockpiler: The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Should Know It's your word against his.. If he ain't talkin, your word pretty much wins. Also, don't try draggin him back in your house after he's dead.. The cops will be able to tell he was shot inside your house. As soon as you're involved in a shooting like this, call the cops, then a lawyer.. You are so bad ass. Seriously, you're advocating shooting a potential burglar with your "Mossy, Remy or Mr. We're not all in middle school, you know, and life is not like a Die Hard movie. I don't want to kill anyone. I am not running from my house. You can be a moral coward and subject yourself to the will of a criminal, however I will suffer no such victimization. @jodark It's not cowardly to leave and certainly not morally cowardly to leave if there is an intruder in your house. Unless you were a soldier or a police officer, you have probably not faced a life or death situation, and frankly, you are likely not equipped to fight back adequately.
Shortwave Radio - Learning The Basics What is a shortwave radio? On the technical side, a shortwave radio is a receiver that can receive radio transmission on frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz. The main characteristic of these frequencies is their ability to "propagate" for long distances, making possible such world-wide communications as international broadcasting and coordination of long-distance shipping. Why would I want/need one? The primary reasons people own and use shortwave radios are personal enjoyment and keeping up with local emergency channels. What do I need to know to use one? Shortwave listening is a hobby with thousands of participants worldwide, and all you need to know to begin is how to tune a radio. What types are available? Shortwave radios are distinguished from each other by tuning method, size, and frequency range. What accessories can I use to improve my listening enjoyment? There are several things you can get which will affect your listening enjoyment: Antennas Headphones External Speakers Listening Guides
How to Make Cheese from Powdered Milk Here’s another recipe I wanted to test out that puts to use the buckets of powdered milk I have stored. Remember if you are constantly rotating your stored food (especially the 3-month food supply) not only will you greatly reduce the chance of anything going bad, but you’ll actually be learning to use your bulk-stored food and eating what you store — some of the most important rules in food storage. To make cheese from powdered milk is an easy process (unexpected since I never had any experience making cheese before this). What You’ll Need Powdered MilkWaterCooking PotWhite Vinegar or Lemon JuiceCheesecloth or Clean Cotton T-Shirt How to Make Cheese from Powdered Milk I used a small amount of ingredients so I could test it out first before using the full recipe. 3 cups powdered milk6 cups water1/2 cup plain white vinegar In my instructions I quartered this recipe as follows: Conclusion What you should be left with is about the same amount of curds as you measured out in powdered milk.
Urban Survival – Do You have the 3 Things You Will Always Need? WTSHTF maybe you are prepared for an extended survival scenario away from civilization, but you have to get out of the city first (maybe). In a disaster situation that might not be so easy. If you have these three things in place you will greatly increase your chances. 1. Get Home Bag (GHB) Imagine for a minute that you work downtown in a large city, maybe you ride the subway or take a bus to work everyday. But I have my Bug out Bag you say! Oh really, where is it? Even if you could get to your Bug Out Bag, how much good would it do you in this environment? A Get Home Bag contains an entirely different set of tools and serves one purpose: To get you from wherever you are to your Home. How to Choose an Urban Survival Bag Your GBH should contain things that are going to get you out of the building like a prybar. Clearly a GHB is not a Bug Out Bag. Gear for your Get Home Bag: Use Sunglasses to Maintain a Tactical Advantage The Platypus Collapsible Water Bottle Dust Mask for Toxic Dust and Debris
The Survival Food Pyramid From personal experience I know, when you first get into surviving/prepping the information thrown at you can be overwhelming. The Survival Food Pyramid will get you started stocking food in a logical, simple, and economical way. Everyone who has a basement full of canned goods and a survival garden started somewhere. The Concept The top of the pyramid is for stocking the smallest amount of food for the shortest amount of time. This pyramid will keep you from spending time and money on preps that, while they may be useful overall, are pointless to you right now. Click for Large View Immediate If you are new to prepping, or you are experienced but find your supplies jump all over the map, start by stocking enough food and supplies for a 3 Day Emergency. If you have a typical local situation, such as a major snow storm or power outage, you won’t be one of the people raiding the grocery store. Extended The extended food preps simply build on the immediate preps. Long Term Perpetual *Take Note
Eddie's cheap, easy to build, turbo stove. I've burnt a lot of different fuels. Wood is excellent but almost any dry vegetable matter will work. I've also tried a number of plastics. For most people, I see the stove more as an educational tool than a practical cooking device. For third world use the turbo stove would ideally use natural convection as the fan adds expense and requires a power source. In the modern world many people, myself included, have solid fuel (wood) stoves for space heating. My stove design is fairly well suited to cooking but if you were making a space heater, incinerator or metal furnace you would probably alter the design. I also haven't been able to get a reliable flame in the charcoal phase of the burn cycle. Breakthrough - Mach four works happily on 1.4 watts – see page two.
Emergency Food Preparedness Emergency food preparedness is something we all need to do, whether it's preparing for the loss of a job or a large-scale disaster. No matter where you're at in life, it's wise to start stocking up on emergency preparedness food now. But should you really go out and buy all those expensive, freeze-dried foods? The Beauty of Whole Grain Whole grains are an essential part of emergency food preparedness, but they're also a boon for saving money, improving your health and having some of the best tasting foods out there. Buy your grains in bulk, and invest in a grain mill. Make Your Own Pasta Emergency Food Preparedness And Wonderful Beans Buy plenty of beans in a wide variety and start cooking them every week. Also don't forget lentils, some of the easy legumes out there. Learn More About Being Prepared Learn More About Frugal Cooking Return from Emergency Food Preparedness to the Home Page
How to Effectively Evacuate a Big City Without a Car by Robert Wayne Atkins How to Effectively Evacuate a Big City Without a Car Copyright © 2007,2008 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All Rights Reserved. If you live in a major metropolitan area then you may not own your own vehicle. The city's existing mass transit system will take you anywhere you need to go within the city. However, during a major disaster event some of the problems of living in a big city would be: (1) the mass transit system will probably become unreliable or simply stop, (2) deliveries of food to the restaurants and grocery stores will stop, (3) the electricity may become intermittent or stop, (4) the water and sewer systems may fail, and (5) it would only take one fire to burn the city to the ground. If you would like to read James Wesley Rawles observations about the feasibility of attempting to survive in a big city during a disaster then please click on the following link: Hunkering Down in an Urban Apartment in a Worst Case Societal Collapse. Choosing a Safe Destination Sleep on the floor.