Genny has a good tip on how to keep up with how much water you should drink in a day. Water is a vital part of a healthy diet. It helps you to feel full, it lubricates your joints, helps your body eliminate waste, lets you sweat to keep cool, and is generally essential […]
Category: Cooking & Food Storage
Various articles on food storage, food preparedness, cooking, and general kitchen stuff
Food Storage: Seal Mylar Bags with a Food Sealer
The holy grail of food storage is to be able to seal mylar bags with a food sealer, but its hard to get around the fact that no matter the brand, consumer vacuum sealers are not designed to work with mylar bags. The inside of Mylar bags are smooth, whereas the insides of the plastic bags […]
How to Cut Pasta the Easy Way
When making homemade pasta you have several options in forming your noodles, but while there are many ways of doing it, I want you to know the easy way to cut pasta. You can extrude it (like my play dough experiment for next week ) Run it through a dedicated pasta machineCut individual noodles […]
How to Use a Survival Still Over a Campfire
The other day we showed how to use shelf brackets to hold pots over a campfire, today we will use this technique to try to distill water over a campfire. This is probably the most important test of the survival still, because if you ever have to actually rely on the still, you may […]
Recipe: Eggroll Pizza Log
If you buy some egg rolls from the freezer section of the grocery you can spend some time with your kids letting them make single serving crisp eggroll pizza. I don’t normally eat egg rolls. I hate the ones with cabbage in them. However, these egg rolls taste pretty good. Its also something I can […]