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This food storage calculator will help you to determine how much food you need to store for a given number of people. Generally people store a smaller amount of food for children under the age of 7. I personally do not see the point as the long term goal so many times exceed 7 years of practice anyway. That being said this calculator assumes its users have (or will have) adult appetites.… Read more

During this installment of ask-a-prepper we speak with Survivor Jack, a two time "Doomsday Prepper" guest and pick his brain a little. Any reason why you began prepping? A specific event? 15 Days after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, while watching the rescue of “Miracle Girl” Darlene Etienne, I had a VISION.  I invented a new rescue tool, realized my wife & I were totally unprepared for a Major Event and I saw… Read more

What types of Long Term Food Should You Store? One goal is creating a “food under disaster” plan is deciding what it is we want to store. This can be tough to figure out even with input from family members. So we created a generic food cache inventory list for our users. The image attached  below is a blank sample  of what a generic food cache list might mimic.  Feel free to use… Read more

Food Cache Inventory List We have decided to create a food inventory list for or users to print out to aid them in cataloging a years worth of food. The sheets all use a goal of a 1 year supply. The inventory pack of printable forms can be downloaded and printed out below. Please check out our other long term food storage write ups as well. When looking at your food storage… Read more

Storing Food: How much is enough? So how big of a food cache do you need? That falls back to one of the original questions asked to all interested in long term food storage. What exactly are you preparing for? This answer directly relates to the quantity of food and and supplies in your cache and covers all supplies needed. If you fall prey to a miserable snowstorm that prevents you from… Read more

Do you concider a heat wave a natural disaster worth preparing for? Some of our readers may be in a region less prone to heat waves but for many of us who live in areas with seasonal weather changes summer is usually well welcomed as we get a chance to say goodbye to the bitter cold and dampness that often accompanies winter. But when summer is here and the daylight hours grow… Read more

In a new installment of ask-a-prepper have an opportunity to talk with Laurie, a blogger at CommonSenseHome.com to learn a little more about her and why she takes the time needed to live a more self sufficient lifestyle. How long have you been prepping for?  I was raised poor on a small dairy farm, and we always raised most of our own food and did what we could for ourselves.  Since moving… Read more

The middle class has been shrinking for 30 years and  it might as well have met its demise.  Do you make more than 27 thousand dollars a year? If so then you are literally doing better than half of the nation financially.  As per the Social Security Administration wage statistics the median is 27,520.00. Who the heck can  raise a family off of that? No one. No American Dream anyway. Take away… Read more