Preparing emergency food for your bug-out-bag? Think camping and save money!

Energy Bars for hiking, camping or your bug-out bag.  Save money, ensure the quality of your ingredients and take into account food preferences, by making your own from scratch.

I’ve been advocating that you stock up for winter by gathering food in the time of plenty for a time of scarcity.  I’ve told you not to buy emergency dehydrated food rations in order to prepare for an emergency, but to use food that you have on hand.  Prepared food rations are generally made from [...]

12 steps to Resilience for challenging times

Food is more valuable than gold in challenging times.

The last three years have seen challenging times.  Food prices have climbed in every country that doesn’t subsidize its agriculture.  There is drought over 2/3rds of all arable land in the world — and arable land makes up only 11% of the world’s land mass.  Poverty is escalating — even in North America.  In some [...]

A Dozen Ways to be more resilient on a budget

Resilience is defined as elasticity — the ability to absorb energy or an event and return to the original form when the energy is removed or the event is over. The opposite of resilience is rigidity. Rigid things break when a force is applied — energy or a collision event. Wool has resilience. Its what [...]