Top 7 Alternative Ways to Heat Food If you’re stuck in a post-disaster situation without power to fire up the stove, you only really have 2 choices: use the alternative heating source that you’ve acquired for just such an emergency, or go without coffee and eat cold spaghetti rings. Needless to say, one option is […]
Top 5 Ways to Keep Food Cold In a Disaster
The minute that your power goes out, your freezer starts to lose its cool. How fast it will warm up depends upon how much stuff is in it and how dense the products are, but generally speaking you’ve only got about 24 hours before your food is defrosted to the point that it needs to […]
Sanitation and Hygiene In a Disaster
Oh No! The Toilet Won’t Flush! Maintaining Sanitation and Hygiene without Running Water One of the biggest sources of disease and food-borne illness is contact with human fecal matter, or, as many of you may prefer to call it, pooh. That’s right. This may not be a pretty topic, but unless the words dysentery, cholera, […]
How to Build a Survival First Aid Kit
A well-stocked first aid kit is every bit as essential to your stockpile as food and water. After all, how dumb would it be to die of infection from a little cut when a dab or two of iodine would have saved your life? The problem is that there are about a million “cures […]
Top 3 First Aid Skills You Need to Have
Learn Necessary Survival Skills from Trained Professionals When you think about survival skills, you may be thinking more along the lines of squirting blood and broken bones, but in reality you’re probably going to face more mundane issues such as heart attacks, diabetic issues, and other “normal” medical issues in real life. We’re going to […]
Top 11 Survivalist Hand Tools and Their Uses
Hand Tools That Everybody Should Have Handy Especially if you live in a condo or apartment, you probably don’t put much thought into owning tools, but should a disaster occur, you’re going to need a few of them in order to survive. Electric tools will be useless if there is no power, so always keep […]
Building Your Own Fire Starting Kit
Emergency Heat Sources to Keep You Warm in a Disaster One of the primary things that you’re going to need in a post-disaster situation is fire. You may not think much about it now but if you lose power, fire is going to be one of your best friends. You’ll need it for: – Cooking […]
Top 4 Alternate Ways of House Warming in a Disaster
How to Keep Your House Warm in a Disaster We’ve already discussed ways to start fires in order to stay warm, but if you’re in your home, you can’t exactly build an open fire. You’re going to need something to build your fire in, or another source of heat that’s safe to use inside. There […]
The Beginning Prepper’s Guide to Bug-Out Bags
Bug Out Bags, Quick-Grab Bags, Get-Home Bags, and Vehicle Bags What if something happened and you had to get out of bed and leave your home in 3 minutes or less? It may sound unrealistic but anybody who’s survived a natural disaster will tell you that it’s entirely possible. If this were to happen, wouldn’t it […]
Prepping 101 Preppers Guide – Prepping for Beginners
If you have just been bitten by the prepping bug, then our preppers guide, prepping for beginners is the perfect place to start. When we first started prepping the biggest question that we had was “where do we start?” It’s a pretty daunting task to try to prepare for everything that could possibly go wrong […]