aptprepper, Author at Apartment Prepper

A Way to Rotate Your Canned Food: Cansolidator Review

I happily won ModernSurvivalOnline.com’s Cansolidator Giveaway a couple of weeks ago. The item is the Cansolidator “Pantry” which fits 40 cans and is available from Shelf Reliance. I’m not a paid sponsor, just reviewing the item since I have never used a food rotation item before. As you know, I am always on the hunt for an efficient way to store our supplies, since we are always so short on space in our apartment. We finally decided on a spot […]

Food Prices are Going Up

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If you are noticing the prices of your usual grocery items are creeping up, you are right. Commodity prices for such items as wheat, corn, coffee, sugar, etc. continue to increase; we will soon see even higher prices at the grocery store than we are already seeing now. At the same time, incomes are either getting slashed or staying flat, causing more pain in the pocketbook. Just look at a few of these links: Global Food Crisis Sweeps Commodity Markets; […]

What If Nothing Happens?

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As we continue building our emergency supplies, a question that comes up frequently in conversations is, “What if nothing happens?” Would this have all been a waste? Part of this question is rooted in the whole Y2K experience, where a number of people were expecting a big disaster to happen, only to wake up on January 1, 2000 with everything humming along normally, nothing to see here… move along… Then the media publicized stories about the folks who had sold […]

First Freeze Dried Food

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I have read that freeze-dried meals are a great addition to the food storage plan. Mountain House is highly recommended by several websites, so we decided to give one of their meals a try. We picked up a package of Beef Stroganoff with Noodles. Here is a photo of the contents: All you have to do is add four cups of boiling water into the package, stir and let stand for 8 to 1o minutes. Here is a picture of […]

Using Less of Everything – Hair Product Update

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A while ago I posted about trying to use less product to make our stored items last longer. We can only store a limited amount of everyday items, due to our lack of space, so our challenge is to make each item lasts as long as possible, so we don’t have to keep using up and buying more. At the same time, we can figure out inexpensive substitutes for commonly used items. Shampoo Shampoo is one item I use everyday. […]

Book Review: Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It’s Too Late

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Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It’s Too Late by Scott B. Williams is one of the first books I ever read on preparedness. I had won a copy from Scott’s website Bug-Out Survival. I was hoping to glean information on what to do in case we have to leave our home in an emergency. I was not disappointed. Bug Out: The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It’s Too Late is well-organized […]

How I Got Started

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The day before Hurricane Ike was predicted to reach Houston, I was talking to co-workers on what to expect, as this was going to be our first hurricane. We had recently moved to Houston due to a job transfer. Several people described the horrors they experienced trying to leave the city for Hurricane Rita, about getting stuck in freeways that turned into parking lots, so most people were staying put. I left work early thinking I would stop by the […]

Welcome!

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Welcome to the apartment prepper’s blog. I am new to prepping AND new to blogging. Watching the news lately I have started feeling a general sense of unease and helplessness–concerned about the state of the economy, with so many middle class Americans becoming unemployed and homeless; recent disasters such as the Haiti and Chile quakes; multiple perils such as the swine flu epidemic, tornadoes and floods have occurred “too close for comfort” To feel more secure and in control, I […]