Food Storage and Water Storage Archives

How Long Can Fresh Eggs Be Stored?

Fresh eggs are a powerhouse of nutrition. They can last a long time, but it can be quite a chore to keep track of every egg you have when it’s out of its packaging. Hence, you need to know how to properly preserve eggs since it can be just as … read more

How Much Food Do You Need Just to Survive?

Surviving a disaster is a tough game. Apart from ensuring your safety, you also need to make sure that there’s enough food for you to make it through. But how much food do you need just to survive? Are you sure you have enough? In a day, you need at … read more

How Long Does Rice Last? Shelf Life, Storage, and More Explained

People in Asia and countries in the Pacific consider rice as their staple food. It is the energy source of almost half of the world’s population, making it vital for survival. While there are different types of rice available in the market, you should know how to store it properly. … read more

7 Best Water Purification Tablets for Survival Emergency

Tiny, powerful, and also convenient to use, water purification tablets can be a literal lifesaver in an emergency or when you’re camping out in the backcountry. They offer an uncomplicated way of ensuring that the water you consume won’t become your future dilemma if you need to rely on unreliable … read more

Understanding the Food Calorie Chart for Survival Food Prepping

A calorie is the amount of energy your body receives from the food you eat – basically, the fuel you need to breathe, walk, exercise, and even sleep. A calorie is the amount of energy needed to heat 1 liter of water by 1°C. Just one calorie is enough to … read more

A Comprehensive Guide To Water Storage Containers

There is no denying that water is extremely important for humans. Whether in daily life or during emergencies, whether you’re indoor or outdoor, you need water to function properly and survive. It keeps your body hydrated, aids in flushing out wastes, regulates body temperature, and protects and aids in various bodily functions including digestion and blood circulation.

10 Helpful Tips for Living Without Electricity

Most people can’t imagine living without electricity. Cooking your food or entertaining yourself becomes harder. When we lose power for a few hours, my kids are convinced that we were transported back into the pioneer days, or that we’re in a for grid-down scenario for the long haul. Everyone can … read more

Homesteading Skills – 5 Old Time Practices You Need To Know Now

Bringing back the old ways of homesteading Homesteading is becoming more and more popular as people learn some of the homesteading skills used in the past to become more frugal, self-sufficient, and live off the land. Being more reliant on proceeds from earth, land and home are cherished principles of … read more

Survival Cache Containers: How to Keep Your Supplies Safe And Secure

Caching – keeps your food, water, weapons and supplies safe In an emergency situation, being able to leave home and have access to guaranteed supplies is very important. Having a survival cache is a survivalist’s solution to make sure that you have supplies available that you would not be able … read more

Water Collection Methods: How to Harvest & Use Rainwater

Rainwater is the best resource for any homestead. Rainwater harvesting, directing, and storing rainwater for use later is a great way to be self-reliant as well as preserve a precious resource. We all know that fresh water is a finite resource. The systems for preparing that water for irrigation and … read more

Homesteading Principles Could Stop A Fatal Food Crisis In Venezuela

The writer of these posts is a middle-class Venezuelan father, in a country which has the world’s highest inflation rate at more than 4000%. Venezuela is an economic collapse nightmare with extreme shortages of food, riots severe hunger, a crippled economy, crumbling infrastructure, collapsed healthcare system, and a failing government. A number of years ago, Venezuela was … read more

The Best Prepper Gear When The Modern World Turns Off

For a lot of us, we are heavily dependant on systems in place to be sure that we have our food in stores, clean tap water, grid power and other conveniences that we’ve come to take granted in our everyday lives. But what happens when we lose those things, say … read more

10 Foods And Items You Might Not Have In Your Prepper Supplies

We’ve all heard the term “beans, Band-Aids, and bullets” as the basics you should have in your prepper supplies. These focus on food (and water), first aid, and security, which are all top priorities for preppers. While those are definitely important, there are other items you might not have thought … read more

How to Extend the Shelf Life of Your Emergency Stockpile

There is no doubt that a stockpile with long shelf life items is mandatory for any long-term crisis or recession. When we’re searching for such items, we’re usually recommended freeze-dried food, MREs and canned food (among other things). However, the shelf life of these foods is greatly influenced by how … read more

The Best 72-Hour Emergency Food Kit Supply Checklist

A 72-hour food supply is one of the easiest and handiest things you can prepare. When it comes to a short emergency food supply, it is pretty simple, you just start stocking a little more of what you eat every day, and only include the items that have a lengthy … read more

How To Store Water Correctly: Two Things You Need To Be Using

IN SHORT: – First Thing: Use a bacteria killer like calcium hypochlorite (pool shock) – Second Thing: Use only food-grade, BPA-free, high-density PE containers and get a WaterBOB bathtub bladder Nothing is more important than water storage. It is the primary necessity we can’t live without for three days (after oxygen of … read more

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