Food Storage & Cooking

This is a guest post by Larry [This is an entry in our non-fiction writing contest where you could win - First Prize a 10 Person Deluxe Family Survival Kit,  Second Prize an Herb Seed Bank or Third Prize a copy of Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat.  For complete rules and list of prizes see this post.] I [...]

This is a guest post by Gayle from Gainesville Most Americans are tactical shoppers. They walk into the grocery store to pick up a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs, and on the way spot a few other things they need. So these other items go into the cart. I call this “tactical shopping” [...]

This is a guest post by Michele [This is an entry in our non-fiction writing contest where you could win a number of prizes including an 84 serving storage bucket of Wise Food Storage, 500 rounds of 9mm ammo, a NukAlert a copy of my book The Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat and a copy of my [...]

In your articles about cooking pinto beans, which I find very interesting, it was requested that anyone with a recipe using pinto beans should send them in. So I have a Pinto Bean recipe to share with you and others. It is one I found in a news paper years ago. Even our grandchildren enjoy [...]

Making your own herbal teas is very easy, exciting, and rewarding. You may choose to grow your own herbs or you may buy them. Herbs cans be very beneficial to your health but before taking herbs in any way, you should do some research on them and talk to your doctor. When you get the [...]

This is a guest post by Survivalist Woman and entry in our non-fiction writing contest – where you could win $100 cash. We all know or should know by now that hyper-inflation is coming rapidly and we need to put our food storage preparations into hyper drive.We have discussed using coupons for acquiring food storage but I want [...]

The link to this post was forwared to me by Robert Griswold of Ready Made Resources (he did not write it or ask me to post it here). #1 According to the World Bank, 44 million people around the globe have been pushed into extreme poverty since last June because of rising food prices. #2 The world [...]

This is a guest post by Jerry G Doesn’t anyone ever wonder why Europe won’t drink our milk? Or better yet, doesn’t anyone ever wonder why it’s okay for Americans to drink it when it’s banned in most European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Apparently it’s because these other countries’ governments are not into [...]

What is the all around best grinder for grains, anticipated to be mostly wheat? I’d be interested in one that had manual and electrical power options. It’d be nice if it could grind rice and corn, maybe. This would be for household use. I bake 6 loaves/week, and that requires about 5# of commercially ground [...]