You can make your own vanilla extract for a small fortune! 12 vanilla pods and some vodka. Mind you, it …
Canning Meat (Super Easy Raw Pack) : Homesteading Family
This is an excellent primer on canning meat. The lady is a great teacher (although the very last instructions about …
Everything You Want (and Need) To Know About Long-Term Canned Food Storage. (Plus 10 Signs To Look For When It’s Spoiled)
You’ve likely got a nice supply of canned goods in your pantry and food storage inventory, but how long do …
Cured egg yolk recipe. Use instead of grated cheese.
Can’t eat cheese? Miss grating an extra taste over your pasta sauce or salad? Try cured egg yolk. It’s salty …
Preserving eggs the 18th century way!
Imagine no refrigeration. How would you keep your eggs fresh? Here are some techniques you may not have considered. And …
Home Canning and Botulism
Home canning is an excellent way to preserve garden produce and share it with family and friends. But it can …
Survival pantry: Do’s, Don’ts and Must Haves
Salt: It’s a great preservative and adds years to the shelf-life of foods. Note that some of the salty canned goods …
Is roasting tomatoes the best thing to happen to sauce?
And it’s easy. Just put your fresh tomatoes in a cake or roasting pan, smother with olive oil, season with salt …
Canning at home
It’s fruit season. Now’s a great time to discover the delights of home canning, wherever you live. For a great …
How to Make and Store Simple Veggie Stock With Kitchen Scraps
This chefs over at Tasty know their onions! This is a great way to save up scraps and put them …
Canning 101: Start Here
No idea how to can? This is a great place to start if you want cheap, nutritious, controlled foodstuffs. Jamie …
25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now
One of my favorite phrases that I tell new preppers is that “your preps are your lifeline.” We must put …
Real world advice. How to start a Prepper Pantry
There are three types of prepper pantry. This is a year-round pantry that has six months to one year’s supply …
Freezing dairy items
There are many ways to preserve dairy products… some might even surprise you. Check out these seven tips and save …
Those silica gel packets? Don’t throw them out, use them everywhere!
Below are some ways to use those silica gel packets that come with everything these days. Don’t throw them out. Now you …
More handy household tips from 1900’s cigarette cards
These cards are super cool. They come from the New York Library Digital Collection and are British cigarette cards from …
Canned food: Its real shelf life and how to test it
We have all heard of the canned food that was still edible after 50, 75, or 100 years. Of course, …
Preserving those golden fields of corn
September is the beginning of harvest season, which means that sweet corn will soon start to show up at roadside …
How to keep the family safe from food-borne illnesses
By Jennifer Sheehan, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) One in six people in the United States suffers from food poisoning each year, …
Harvesting your herb garden
Handling herbs To harvest your healing herbs, wait for a hot, dry day. Harvest in the morning, soon after the …
20 Essential food items you should store in your emergency pantry
When the SHTF, even if it’s only for a short while, you’re going to need calories, a good balance of carbs, …