Sanitation is an often overlooked area of preparedness, and very well could be one of the most important components to survival. Taking proper precautions and stocking up on sanitary items before an emergency occurs will help eliminate most issues regarding poor sanitation.
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.
Old Fashioned Cough Syrup
An old family recipe for cough syrup that was made each year around the cold and flu season.
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2010 was a pursuit of knowledge for me, and single handed the most important thing I walked away with. If a person can equip themselves with knowledge and expereience, then they are far greater off than many others. Thank you for reading my aritlces and I hope you will continue to find use in them. Happy New Year.
The 30-Day Preparedness Challenge
Despite efforts made by global emergency groups to have families be prepared for unforeseen disasters, a majority of the population has still not prepared for emergencies. Talking with friends and family about being prepared for a new year is a great way to awaken the need for personal preparedness efforts. Suggest to family or friends to take a 30 day preparedness challenge by making a a simple 30 day preparedness plan and create a preparedness kit to ensure their safety and well being in the event that an unforeseen disaster occurs.
What To Do When the Sanitation Hits The Fan
When a disaster creates a situation where the water sources are compromised, the lack of sanitation in the given disaster area will be a disaster in itself.
Tess’ Lucky Bean Soup Recipe
This warm and hearty bean soup is filling enough to feed an army! It’s also versatile enough for you to add other ingredients such as carrots, wheat berries, spice it up with peppers – the skies the limit with this soup recipe.
Recipes For the Bread Baking Challenged
If you’re challenged in the bread making department, these recipes can help!
Surviving the Urban Jungle
After major disasters that occur in urban areas, crime waves typically follow. Those individuals that are antagonizing the societal breakdowns are typically the citizens that are ill equipped and unprepared to survive. How can a person survive an urban disaster? Should a person bunker down or evacuate the city? The answer lies in preparedness.
Thanksgiving In a Can
Nothing says the holidays like the gathering of friends and family. And at any gathering,
food is the centerpiece for these holiday festivities. Planning to have food for the holidays, even in a short or long term emergency is something to think about. Not only does holiday foods provide nutrition, but will also carry on traditions and be a morale booster in harder times.
9 Things to Consider Before You Ever Grow a Survival Garden
Survival gardening will be labor intensive, and large amounts of energy (sweat) will be needed to make a survival garden work. In exchange for your energy and time, you will want a survival garden that will provide your family abundantly with food. Keeping certain factors into consideration before starting a survival garden will help you get the most out your garden, provide you and your family with the healthiest vegetable varieties, and help you find the easiest types of vegetables to grow.
10 Easy Survival Seeds to Grow
Those who have started their survival gardens have no doubt learned from a few garden mistakes along the way. Yet through these mistakes, gardeners have stumbled upon wisdom and grown into better gardeners. These experienced gardeners have taken certain factors into consideration before the seeds are planted, and through experience found which vegetables varieties are easier to grow.
7 Ways To Save a Buck
These days, making the family budget work is an art form in itself. There are times when it seems that no matter how much money you save, there is nothing left from your paycheck at the end of the month. Here are 7 proven ways to walk that financial tight rope and still have money left over at the end of the month.