Survival Foods For Hikers

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Survival foods are not the most important thing in most emergency situations in the wilderness. You survive weeks without eating if you have to, so it is usually more important to find shelter, water, and stay dry and uninjured. On the other hand, just knowing you can find food out there, and having something in your stomach, can do wonders for your state of mind, which CAN be crucial to your survival.

What then, do you need to know about survival foods? First forget the idea that you need to learn every last edible wild plant. I love learning about new edible plants, but very few of them provide enough calories to be worth the effort in a survival situation. What you need s to know a few basic categories of animals you can eat, and some of the most abundant and calorie-rich plants. Continue reading Survival Foods For Hikers →

Survival Food To Save You And Your Family

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What is the benefit of having survival food? Storing food brings a lot of benefits to you and your family. Produce and vegetables are something each and every one of us needs in order to live. Having food reserves should be something we all need too. Emergency food is really helpful when times are hard and food is needed. You don’t need much to have emergency food, so there should be no excuse why anybody has no emergency food.

Survival food is food especially designed to be stored, last long and be used when it is most needed. Survival food is delicious and high quality. The benefits brought by storing survival food is that it gives you an extra Continue reading Survival Food To Save You And Your Family →

The Purpose Behind Emergency Foods Or A Survival Kit

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Why would I need emergency food or a survival kit? Because of this simple fact: The world’s population rate is growing rapidly and so is the demand for food to feed this growing population. Our food demands are outgrowing our food supply resources, commercial growers just can’t keep up with this huge demand, so you do the math.

That’s not the only reason we could have a food shortage, just look at the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A perfect example of how a natural disaster can disrupt one’s ability to find basic living essentials during an emergency.

If you’re thinking this could never happen to me, think again! Continue reading The Purpose Behind Emergency Foods Or A Survival Kit →

Survival Food For Emergencies

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There will come a time when the worst thing you expect to happen, will happen. It is best to be prepared for natural calamities or sudden emergencies. The best way to prepare for such events is to purchase survival food. Survival food will help you prepare for sudden emergencies and natural disasters when you can’t purchase food anywhere. Survival food has come a long way from its days of just sour bread, crackers, and hard rice. You can get full, ready-to-eat meals when you purchase food for emergencies.

You can choose from a variety of meals when you purchase survival food in specialty stores or local supermarkets. The survival food that you purchases is sealed to avoid spoilage and it uses advanced methods to Continue reading Survival Food For Emergencies →

Why Survival Food Is Simply Smart

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Why is survival food a good idea? Survival food is food stored for when an emergency or a food shortage makes itself present. People these days are more concerned with the things going on in the world. Some people are taking advantage of this and making money with food reserves. These two reasons are why survival food is a good idea.

It is always a good idea to have survival food stored for when food is not available. If anything was to happen you always need a source of produce and vegetables to keep you and your family healthy. Without a source of food sickness and maybe death is possible. Survival food can make a difference when a disaster happens and you would be thankful you had stored food.

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Why Is Survival Food Important?

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What is the importance of survival food? It is very important to keep survival food, because no matter what happens we are always going to need food. Survival food can really save a life when it comes down to it. If a situation were food was not available makes itself present, this is when survival food comes in handy and makes a difference. Survival food can save your live.

Survival food is important because it is food that is meant for us to survive on. We humans depend on food and water and are essential for our existence. Without these elements death would come up on us, and Continue reading Why Is Survival Food Important? →

Survival Tips For Backpackers

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Why survival tips for backpackers? Certainly backpacking may never become a matter of wilderness survival for you, especially if you are careful in your planning. Still, getting lost or twisting an ankle far from any road is always a possibility. In any case, learning a few new things from time to time is a great way to make your trips safer and more interesting. With that in mind, here are a few random survival tricks and skills based on my own experience.

A Few Survival Tips To Remember

You can make snow-block shelters without tools when the conditions are right. I have made trench-shelters of 2 x 3 foot snow-blocks with no tools. I stomped rectangles in the heavily-crusted snow and lifted up the resulting blocks. Stacking them on either side of a trench in the snow, and then across the top for a roof, I was able to make a shelter in twenty minutes.

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Stay Alive Earthquake Emergency Preparation Tips

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Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters. What makes it more annihilating is the fact that there is no precise way of predicting when an earthquake may occur. The most effective tactic to minimize the effects of earthquakes in human lives is to make adequate earthquake emergency preparations.

During an earthquake, you will feel the ground shaking or rolling. If the movement of the Earth’s crust is really violent, you might even hear the ground rumbling or roaring. These earthquake characteristics may cause you to panic and eventually jeopardize your chance of survival. While strong and devastating earthquakes seldom happen, even in places located in the Earth’s ring of fire, it is imperative that you have an emergency plan so that you and your family can stay safe. Here are a few pointers to remember to keep you prepared for an earthquake. Continue reading Stay Alive Earthquake Emergency Preparation Tips →

Putting Together a Home Earthquake Kit

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If you live in an area prone to seismic activity, it’s vitally important that you have an earthquake kit in your house or in your car so that you’ll have emergency supplies if you need them. Even if you don’t live in an area that is prone to earthquakes, you might want to create a basic disaster survival kit to be used in case of tornados or other types of natural disasters.

Ideally, your earthquake kit should contain enough supplies for you and your family to survive for a period of up to three days. Beyond the basic considerations of food and water that are physically necessary for survival, you will also need a few additional items to help you make it through the aftermath of an earthquake.

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Kitchen Survival Recipe Guide

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You open the cookbook and see a recipe title or a photo that tempts your tastebuds. Then you start to read the recipe, realize the preparation is more difficult than you first thought, and put the book back on the shelf.

Sound Familiar?

Well here’s a simple guide to help get you started:

1. Abbreviations for Measuring

Tsp. = teaspoon
Tbsp. = tablespoon, which equals 3 teaspoons
C = cup.

Tip: Get a set of measuring spoons. The set will usually have 1/4 tsp., 1/3 tsp., 1/2 tsp., 1 teaspoon and 1 tablespoon.

Dry measure cups look like little saucepans and can be leveled off with a knife or other straight-edged tool. They come in sets like the measuring spoons. Liquid measuring cups have ounce marking lines so you can Continue reading Kitchen Survival Recipe Guide →