Have you ever wanted to preserve food with some easy canning recipes? Perhaps you are a keen gardener, and you would like to save some of that fabulous produce you have worked so hard to grow. Maybe baking is your thing, and you would like to make your own jams and preserves to use with […]
Everything You Need to Know About How To Make Pemmican
Survival is a fundamental human instinct. For thousands of years, people have adapted to a changing environment: withstanding changing climates, mutating diseases, and declining food sources. With food being essential to life, it has been one of the top topics of survivalists and the most important element, along with water, you can have in your […]
Hardtack Recipe: What Every Mom Needs To Know About This Nutritional Snack
One of the most significant challenges of stockpiling and maintaining a well-supplied preparation pantry is identifying foods with a potentially long storage period. Some favorite items include canned goods, preservatives, and cured meat. These options are important because they include meats, vegetables, and fruits, which contain necessary nutrients. However, they do not include grains. Plus, […]
How To Make Your Own Yeast and Its Importance To Your Health
If you’re trying to incorporate a more natural, health-conscious diet into your life, there are many things you can make at home rather than purchasing from the store that can benefit your body. One of the easiest, healthiest things you do to change your diet is to learn how to make yeast at home. You […]
Kids in the Kitchen: Pizza Bar
How do you do a quick, easy, inexpensive, healthy lunch for a bunch of kids on the fly? A Pizza Bar! In our continuing series of Getting Our Kids in the Kitchen, we focus on teaching kids self-sufficiency skills by learning the virtues of preparing and cooking meals on their own. Not only will they […]
Get Your Kids in the Kitchen and Make Your Own Pico de Gallo
If you’re like me, you plant a TON of tomatoes and they always seem to overrun the kitchen during harvest time. None of us are big fans of tomatoes by themselves, but we absolutely LOVE Pico de Gallo and will eat it on everything from crackers to fish to tacos. Sometimes, mixing it with mashed […]
Food Storage Recipe: Hummus (even if you hate beans)
If your family is like mine, they hate beans. For some of us it’s a texture issue, for some of us it’s just the taste. That can put a real damper on your Food Storage plans if you can’t rely on a super cheap form of protein for your family. It’s hard to pass 13 […]
Bake Your Own Tortilla Chips
One of our favorite treats in the world is hummus, guacamole, pico de gallo or other health dips scooped up with some crispy tortilla chips. We found a way to make them ourselves using store-bought corn tortillas, but also want to be able to learn to make our own without relying on the processed foods […]
Food Storage Recipe: Breakfast Cookies
When I put these on the table for breakfast one morning, the boys looked at me in wonder and awe, and asked if it was really okay if they had them for breakfast. I began to doubt myself…wondering if it was going to be too easy to find ice cream as a healthy alternative, too! […]
I Hate (your) Bacon and How to Store It Long-Term
Don’t hate me. I don’t like your bacon. I don’t like anyone’s… except my grandmother’s. We can still be friends, right? You won’t be terribly offended? I really shouldn’t say hate. I should say dislike it times infinity minus one. Plus one is saved for truly heinous acts of meanness. But please don’t take it […]