Category Archives: cooking

How To Open A Can Without A Can Opener

Whenever I go to the store I usually spend a few extra minutes wandering around looking for any good prepping items that I may need to stock up on, that are on sale, or perhaps that I just never thought … Continue reading

Valuable Skills For Preppers

Anyone who’s serious about Prepping should know that they need to develop knowledge and skills in critical areas.  That storing food, water, and other items is simply not enough.  You have to have the brain power to put your tools … Continue reading

Avoiding Bacterial Contamination of Food

In survival and prepping type situations, keeping food from bacterial contamination is an important consideration. This applies to food in long-term storage, as well as food in your pantry, refrigerator, or freezer. To avoid food spoilage and possible food poisoning … Continue reading

Post-SHTF Cooking Tips

Storing food and water is one of the most important aspects of emergency preparedness. We offer a number of articles on this topic here at Prep-Blog. But this prepping and survival post is about how to use stored food most … Continue reading

How to Store Eggs

When you are planning which foods to store medium-term (months) or long-term (years), eggs are problematic. Dried foods like rice and pasta will store well for a long time, almost forever, if kept cool, dry, and sealed. Most frozen foods … Continue reading

New Alcohol Stove Design for Prepping

In a previous article, I discussed using alcohol stoves for post-SHTF cooking. The advantages of an alcohol stove are several. They are compact and store easily. The fuel is relatively safe and readily available. You don’t have the smoke of … Continue reading

Methods of Home Food Preservation

This article is a quick overview of different methods of food preservation that can be used by preppers, including: boiling water canning, pressure canning, freezing, drying, vacuum bags, salting, pickling, jams and jellies. When using any method of home food … Continue reading

Survival Gardening: beans of every kind

If you are growing food for survival, you will need several different garden sources of protein. Worldwide, the top protein crops are grains (maize, rice, wheat, barley), tubers (potato, sweet potato, cassava), and legumes (beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas). The most … Continue reading

Basic Survival Recipes

Over the last week or so Thoreau has put up several articles relating to survival food storage and I’ve seen plenty of comments from our readers asking about specific survival food recipes.  I’d like to weigh in here. Now I’m … Continue reading

Make Your Own Instant Quinoa

I stumbled across this method of making an instant version of healthy quinoa grain when I was trying out my new grain mill. In order to mill quinoa into flour, you first have to wash it. Quinoa has a coating … Continue reading

Low Temperature Cooking in a Solar Oven

I’ve completed the first build of my solar oven design. I’ll go over the specs quickly, before we discuss cooking with the oven. First Build The oven is made from cardboard boxes, aluminized mylar (emergency ‘space’ blankets), cotton for insulation … Continue reading

Alcohol Stoves for post-SHTF Cooking

I’m looking into the use of small portable alcohol stoves, of the type used for camping and hiking, to cook food in any type of post-disaster scenario. First, I did quite a bit of reading online about these stoves. Then, … Continue reading