Tess Pennington

Tess Pennington is the author of The Prepper's Blueprint, a comprehensive guide that uses real-life scenarios to help you prepare for any disaster. Because a crisis rarely stops with a triggering event the aftermath can spiral, having the capacity to cripple our normal ways of life. The well-rounded, multi-layered approach outlined in the Blueprint helps you make sense of a wide array of preparedness concepts through easily digestible action items and supply lists.

Tess is also the author of the highly rated Prepper's Cookbook, which helps you to create a plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply and includes over 300 recipes for nutritious, delicious, life-saving meals. 

Visit her web site at ReadyNutrition.com for an extensive compilation of free information on preparedness, homesteading, and healthy living.

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America’s Tainted Water Supply: Study Warns Two-Thirds of the U.S. are Drinking Cancer Causing Chromium-6

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan isn’t the only water supply found sickening its citizens. At least 74 million Americans in 42 states drink chromium-polluted tap water, much of it likely in the cancer-causing hexavalent form.

Using Red Clover in Tinctures and Teas for Women’s Health

Ladies, this herb is a must for growing in your medicinal garden and can help with many female issues.

Are Running Shoes More Superior to Hiking Boots? Here are 3 Good Reasons Why They Are

I’ve always assumed hiking boots were necessary for proper, safe hiking, but I may have been wrong.

Many of you may be asking why I want to go to all the trouble and grow herbs and roots for natural healing. In short, I want to have lots of options at my disposal in case the hospitals are overwhelmed or there is a medicine shortage. Here are the top 20!

20 Medicinal Herbs That I Have in My Prepper Garden

Many of you may be asking why I want to go to all the trouble and grow herbs and roots for natural healing. In short, I want to have lots of options at my disposal in case the hospitals are overwhelmed or there is a medicine shortage. Here are the top 20!

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7 Reasons Why You Should Have a Medicinal Garden

Make your garden do double duty by growing food and natural medicine! These seven reasons will show you how beneficial it can be.

With a little "outside of the box" thinking, you can acquire prepper items like food, tools, shelter, first aid and weaponry for pennies on the dollar. #ReadyNutrition

Frugal Prepping: 12 Cheap Ways to Prep Like There’s No Tomorrow

With a little “outside of the box” thinking, you can acquire prepper items like food, tools, shelter, first aid and weaponry for pennies on the dollar.

20 Hurricane Survival Tips From Real-Life Scenarios

I asked some fellow preppers in the community what advice they would offer on how to better prepare for hurricanes, and the community overwhelmingly stepped up to help their fellow man. They lived through this disaster. These are their words and, in my humble opinion, this is some very solid advice to follow.

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Real Life Survival Story: How to Survive When the Grid Goes Down

This is my personal account of living through the aftermath of a hurricane and just how quickly a society can break down and descend into chaos following a disaster.

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8 Sustainable Changes You Can Make That Will Have a Positive Impact on Earth

Whether you want to believe it or not, our current way of living is not sustainable. Here are eight simple changes you can make in your life to lead a more sustainable lifestyle.

Natural First Aid: 5 Items To Put In Your Emergency Medical Kit Today

Things can go awry very quickly when a medical emergency occurs during a disaster. Having resources to turn to, skills to treat wounds, along with items you have around you can be lifesaving.

The Prepared Home: 50 Essential Items to Put in Your Ultimate Survival Medical Kit

We all have our fair share of band-aids and antibiotic ointment, but do you have medical supplies that can help with true medical emergencies? The following list is your basic medical preparations broken into sections of need to help in your organization.

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6 Lessons to Learn from the Oroville Dam Disaster

The Oroville dam disaster is a reminder of how important it is to be prepared and to be able to react at a moments notice.

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