This week has been full of all kinds of activities in readiness for the Christmas holiday, but I still have to keep up on my self-sufficiency duties. I received my fabulous ground beef from Zaycon Foods this past week and decided to turn the necessity of canning it into a […]
Copyright 2013 Preparedness Pro Sausage Links–more than 300 in each box Because they are so handy to have, I thought that I’d better give you step by step instructions on how to CAN links. However, as noted in yesterday’s article, I discovered that I could […]
Tonight I time traveled back to 1923 so that I could purchase all-natural, boneless, skinless, hormone free, and never-been-frozen chicken breasts. Grant it, I got a little car sick in the DeLorean, and I had a brief run-in with Biff, but it was worth it. I only paid a whomping […]
I have always been of the prepping mindset, but recently with events happening in the world, I feel an urgency to get my house in order. We don’t have a lot of space in our house (with 5 kids) so we started putting our food storage under our house. We […]
Whether it’s a summer day or a hibernating winter one, I still enjoy this quick soup because it tastes so yummy and satisfies. It’s even more memorable when I am trying to ward off an oncoming cold. I call this Chicken Little Soup because I don’t use the traditional big noodles for this one, rather I use either Acini de Pepe or Orzo instead. Either way, it’s easy and tasty. In a pressure cooker all of the cooking is over in about 5 minutes once you bring it to a boil and set the pressure lid on it. Plus you can use all your yummy freeze-dried ingredients from your preparedness pantry!
Okay, you guys have made me feel guilty. I had no intention of writing this but feel since I have read your stories and enjoyed them so much that I should contribute something back. I hope my prepping journey is helpful to someone, it all began a while back and it started […]
I once watched my grandma wrestle a chicken into Sunday dinner without breaking a sweat or a nail. She wore an apron like a superhero cape, wielded cast iron like a medieval weapon, and had a sixth sense for when the jam hit the right jellin’ point—all without asking Google […]
The Great Depression Diet: What Grandma Ate That Kept Her Alive and Sassy(A throwback to resilience cooking—lard, vinegar pie, and how to make do without Instacart) Before there was keto, paleo, or that juice cleanse that turned your insides into a Slip ‘N Slide, there was Grandma’s Depression-Era Diet—the original […]
It’s Bulk Beef time for me again. I’ve got FRESH, hormone and anti-biotic meat coming to me over the next 3 months. I’ve canned plenty of their chicken breasts, bacon, sausage and ground beef, so nowadays I like to put some up in my freezer—especially the ground beef. However, I […]
Part 2 of 2 Here’s a helpful video I recently made that has additional information on some additional fats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4nLN-35bTo&t=26s What oils and fats should you be including in your long-term pantry? How can you include quality oils affordably? How can you best store oils and fats? Which oils and […]