Stocking Up on an Afternoon at Wal-Mart or at Amazon.com

Living in the Internet Age of Information Bombardment, it’s easy to get entranced by the idea that you’ll need the one, perfect specialty item or piece of equipment to tick off that box on your prepper checklist.  True, there is a wide world of specialty gear out there, and some of it is nothing short of amazing, and well worth the time to track it down or order it. But what about your staples and...

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Tara’s Great Grandmother’s Piccadilly Relish Recipe

Since canning season will soon be under way and all of your dedicated Pack members have been asking about recipes (Dan is working on a recipes section) I am going to share my great grandmother’s piccadilly recipe. It is a great way to use up what is left over in the garden and to make great use of your typical bumper crops. Ingredients • 1 cup of finely chopped red bell peppers – about 1...

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A Small Issue…

Hey everyone, I’m writing a quick post about the “conflict” between the Pack and the previous owner. The ex-owner reached out to Tara, after one (or some) of you said you want to re-post your old comments that were deleted along with the previous TSB content could be copyright infringements. Though I wished he had contacted me directly (Tara doesn’t have moderation rights)...

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Essential Pieces of Gear to Have In Every Emergency Survival Kit

Discussions or guides that offer recommendations about what supplies and items you should have in what quantities in to order to survive a given type of disaster are common. No two crises and climates are alike, and so this format has merit. Differing climates and situations mandate different approaches. I myself might have written more than a few paragraphs just like that. But today instead of...

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What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 3

Hello again, all of my new virtual prepping pals! I am so glad everyone is reconnecting and welcoming new members to the online survival community. This week we made a major prepping purchase – a new to us hay baler. Last year we cut the fields with a bush hog attachment to my husband’s beloved old Massey Ferguson tractor and then went the old-fashioned route and used pitchforks to load it...

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7 Hunter-Gatherer Skills You Should Practice and More

When it comes to prepping, one of the most commonly asked questions revolves around what kind of event is coming and how to make sure you are prepared for it when it comes. There are in fact such a wide range of events that could occur that it’s nearly impossible to prepare specifically for all of them. So, what’s a prepper to do? We can’t depend on technology and grocery stores because of the...

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Gypsy Pasta Salad – A Survival Meal In a Jar Recipe

This is a super simple and quick recipe that makes great use ingredients that come fresh from the garden, are inexpensive shelf-stable commodities – or even foraged from the wild. This dish might not look like the most delicious 1-pot meal you have ever seen, but just wait until you bite into it – the combined flavors over a bed of pasta are absolutely incredible. I call it a gypsy...

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How to Get a Reluctant Spouse Onboard With Prepping

Marriage takes work. We all know that, even if we aren’t married. And things are not always rosy and blissful in the best of times. For preppers, unless you lucked out and married someone equally keen on being ready for any eventuality great or small, you have probably run into friction with your spouse before over any number of things concerning the survival of the family unit. A sorry few...

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Interactive Interview With Grannie Pam

Photo courtesy of Grannie Pam Peters Many of our longest The Survivalist Blog readers requested a recipe section be added to the website. Dan thought that was a superb idea and got busy creating a new section that would provide useful survival, homesteading, and off grid cooking recipes. The recipe section request sparked an idea for another new, and I believe, one of a kind, prepper website...

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Proactive Prepper Training

For all the research, study and acquisition preppers put into their crisis survival planning, it seems to me many put off actual practice, save for a few specific skills. Sure, plenty of us will get in camping, hunting, hiking and trigger time whenever we can. Those skills are very enjoyable and certainly count as hobbies all on their own. Those of us that can afford professional training will...

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How to Bug Out in an RV

When SHTF and it becomes clear that home is no longer safe, most people plan to bug out. If you are one of the lucky ones who has the resources to buy or set up a bug out retreat in another location for just such an event, all you have to do is get there. But if your financial resources don’t include a well-stocked bug out retreat or prepper hideout to run to, it’s critical to look at other...

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What I Did To Prep This Week. Week 2: Hay Epic Fail, Historic Tomato Seed Success And Herd Expansion

Hello The Survivalist Blog community. This week on the homestead was another hot one mixed with the ill-timed brief yet, fierce storms. The wettest year on record continues in my beautiful neck of the woods. We are merely alternating between desert like conditions and flash flooding. The ever changing weather has made it especially hard to do anything, including teniding to the growing plots and...

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The Positive Effects of Legally-owned Firearms

For U.S. citizens, enduring arguments for and against guns and gun ownership are just about as commonplace as it gets. Types of guns, access to guns, capacity of guns; if there was ever a perennial topic for sparking argument it is guns and the rights concerning their ownership as affirmed in the  2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The incensed and vicious tone these arguments have taken in 2018...

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Here’s the Deal with Expiration Dates

40% of store bought food in America is thrown out unused, according to the National Resources Defense Council. That is about $218 billion of food wasted every year. About ⅕th  of this is caused by 90% of Americans throwing food out prematurely, for fear of eating it after the safety dates. Having a sound understanding of how little these dates really mean will improve your food consumption...

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The Pros and Cons Of .22 Caliber Handguns

Guns come and go. Trends and novelty keep some shooters chasing the newest, most Instagram-worthy gun of the year. A gun bought for a purpose may find itself up for adoption or sitting in the safe if that purpose goes away. Advancements in materials, design or cartridge may make others obsolete, or simply less appealing in the face of the fabulous new. But there is one class of gun that hardly any...

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45 Survival Uses for the Humble Tarp

Most people have had occasion to use a tarp at some point to keep firewood dry, temporarily patch a leaky roof, or in some cases for shelter. But when SHTF, there are a variety of survival uses for a humble tarp. We’ve listed 25 of these uses below. Temporary Shelter from sun and rain. Create a Windbreak to protect yourself from extreme wind. Make a Stretcher from your tarp to carry someone who is...

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What I Did To Prep This Week. Week 1

Hello The Survivalist Blog community. I hope you are enjoying the revamped website under Dan’s management. I am blessed to work with both Dan and this blog’s former operator, MD – and am also incredibly excited to author the What I Did To Prep This Week column for this website. Dan couldn’t have picked a better week to ask me to start the column, we had a lot going on over the weekend even...

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The Ultimate Prepper’s Checklist

“Be prepared” is a pretty broad order. Prepared for what? How prepared are we talking about, here? If you are new to prepping and readiness as a component in your lifestyle, one of your first actions will probably be to take stock and compare yourself and your stash of supplies to veteran preppers or friends. What you find may discourage you. When you find out your buddy or mentor has months and...

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Practically Tactical: Maximizing the Common Shotgun for Defense

Shotguns are perennially popular home defense firearms in the U.S. for several reasons. One reason is their easy availability, and cost effectiveness. A quality shotgun can often be had for significantly less coin than a rifle of equivalent grade.  Another reason is that many owners default to it because they already own one for hunting or other sporting purposes. And the final, perhaps most...

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How to Find and Equip Your Prepper Hideout Bug Out Location

So, you’ve been researching how to prep for a SHTF or other disaster and the experts recommend that you have a bug out location or even better a prepper hideout or retreat. But what makes a good prepper hideout or bug out location? The answer is of course different for everyone but there are some common qualities to consider for your bug out location prepper retreat that can help make it easier...

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