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Taste Test: THRIVE Freeze Dried Ground Beef

December 2, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Long Term Storage Food, Product Review, Survival Cookery, Survival Food

Today I am going to review a popular Thrive freeze dried item, the ground beef. Misty Marsh over at Your Own Home Store kindly sent me a sample a while

Feast or Famine

November 30, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness, Recession, Uncategorized

After all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales activity, it seems there was a lot of optimism about people being willing to open their pocketbooks and spend their money.

Food for Thought from Selco Who Lived Through SHTF

November 27, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Survival, Survival Blogs, Urban living, Urban survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com A couple of weeks ago, I recommended the link to SHTF Survival Q&A: A First-Hand Account of Long-Term SHTF Survival. I was fascinated

Shoppers Turning into Savages over a Sale

November 25, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Family Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com It seems that every Black Friday there is some incident that leaves me wondering how people can go wild and out of control

This Home Remedy Helped Me Prevent a Cold

November 21, 2011 aptprepper Cold and Flu prevention, Emergency Preparedness, Health Risks, Home Remedies

These past few days have been very busy and stressful. Two nights ago, I was feeling run down and had a sore throat. I felt I was catching a cold. I cannot afford to catch a cold and miss work, not to mention Thanksgiving. My brother had been telling me he avoided a cold by drinking two tablespoons of Bragg’s organic apple cider vinegar in a cup of water. When I first heard about it, I told him no way I’d drink is, it would be too nasty to hold down. Well this time I was motivated to try it. I did not have Bragg’s brand apple cider vinegar, but I did have a store brand apple cider vinegar.

No Need to Run to the Store: Make your Own Yogurt

November 16, 2011 aptprepper Cooking basics, Emergency Preparedness, Self-Sufficiency, Survival Cookery

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I made yogurt in the crockpot and I am here to tell you how easy it is to make your own yogurt. What

Artisan Bread Update

November 10, 2011 aptprepper Breadmaking, Emergency Preparedness, Self-Sufficiency, Survival Cookery, Survival Food, Survival Skills

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com I posted about making homemade bread a few days ago. The recipe indicated the dough can be kept in the refrigerator and used

Breadmaking is Not So Complicated After All

November 7, 2011 aptprepper Breadmaking, Cooking basics, Emergency Preparedness, Survival Food, Survival Skills

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com It took me a while but I finally got around to trying my hand at baking bread from scratch. It’s been a goal

The Fine Line between Redundancy and Clutter

November 2, 2011 aptprepper Apartment Living, Avoiding Waste, Beginner prepping, Emergency Preparedness

“Two is one and one is none” is a survival maxim that we picked up early on when we started finding out about preparedness. The saying applies to keeping a

Prepare for a Power Outage

November 1, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Power failure, Power Outage, Power Outage supplies, Survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com As I write this post, 1.6 million people are still without electricity in the Northeast, due to an unseasonable winter storm. A fierce