I already made a post about homemade soda a few months back, but what can I say, I really love soda. And since I vowed to never drink sodas made by giant corporations (who don't seem to care about public health), I've been making my own soda lately and trying various recipes. … [Read more...]
7 Canning Mistakes That Can Make You Sick (Or Worse)
Common sense and creativity are things you need to have a lot of when homesteading. Most often there isn't a magic formula or set of rules for you to follow. You use your brain, hone your skills, and do what you can to keep moving forward. Learning to preserve your own food by … [Read more...]
Peasant Bread: A Delicious Food That Anyone Can Make (With Pics)
If you're new to from-scratch cooking or bread-making in particular, peasant bread is a great place to start. It’s long been a cheap family staple and is an easy recipe to add to or alter to suit your tastes. Plus, it’s no-knead! While there isn’t a strict definition for … [Read more...]
18th Century Energy Drink
Isn't it amazing that there was once a time when no one had ever heard the term, "energy drink"? I myself, an admitted Monster Energy Drink addict, find the idea horrifying. But even though drinks like Monster, Red Bull, and 5 Hour Energy are fairly new, there have always been … [Read more...]
A Deep Pantry / Food Storage on a Tight Budget
The deep pantry or food storage is vital to success as a prepper or survivalist. We have all heard the harrowing tales of empty shelves and ravenous desperate hordes. Keep yourself away from the calamity and the aid trucks by storing plenty of food. The buildup of a decent … [Read more...]
9 Ways to Store Meat Without Refrigeration
In today’s world, it has become extremely important to prepare your family for disasters. Even something small like an ice storm could knock out power and close roadways for days at a time. To prepare for events like this, many people are beginning to realize the importance … [Read more...]
6 Reasons Every Homesteader Should Own a Dutch Oven
When you picture a woman cooking over the fire on her way out West, you probably picture her using a Dutch oven. Dutch ovens were popular with colonists and settlers, mountain men, westward homesteaders, and cowboys. They evoke images of simpler times, traditional living, … [Read more...]
3 Tips to Make Your Food Stockpile Last for Years
In crisis situations, you can typically survive without heat, electricity, and weapons; but you certainly cannot survive without proper sustenance. And the thing about crisis situations--they are always a surprise. Starting a stockpile will put you one step ahead of the game. … [Read more...]
25 Powerless Appliances for Your Homestead Kitchen
Kitchens are the hub of the home. They’re nearly always busy and so much of the daily chores are done there. From cleaning vegetables and eggs, to butchering, baking, and preserving, there’s tons of work happening there. To make homestead life easier, it’s important to have … [Read more...]
20 Plants You Can Turn Into Flour
In most of the world, wheat is a staple of almost everyone’s diet. Bread, pasta, cakes, cookies, cereal, and even beer all have wheat in them. Because of this, many off gridders are trying to grow their own wheat, but unfortunately, wheat can be difficult to grow depending on the … [Read more...]
How to Make Maple Syrup
I've always loved pancakes and syrup (who doesn't!?), but I never had homemade maple syrup until a few years ago when some relatives from the Northeast paid us a visit and brought along some syrup they had made. I expected it to be good, but it was even better than I had … [Read more...]
7 Best Ways to Cook Without Electricity
Picture this: a rogue comet enters the Earth’s atmosphere, interfering with all electrical waves and causing internet, heating, light, and worst of all, electric cooking to become obsolete. Equally plausible, a tree falls down during a winter storm taking your power lines with … [Read more...]
How to Make Homemade Soda: 3 Herbal Recipes
I was a Coca-Cola addict for over a decade until I realized how much the high fructose corn syrup was harming my health, so I switched to Diet Coke. A few years later, I learned about all the damage aspartame and other artificial sweeteners can do to the liver and other … [Read more...]
35 Ingredients To Keep On Hand So You Can Cook Anything From Scratch
One thing anyone can do to start homesteading no matter where they live is cooking from scratch. It can help you eat healthier, save money, and reduce your dependence on the grocery store. However, it can be hard to make homemade meals all the time, especially if you don’t know … [Read more...]
Fried Chicken from the 18th Century
If you're interested in off grid living, you should check out the Youtube channel, Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. They teach you what it was like to live in the 18th century, and especially the kinds of foods they cooked. Most people think of fried chicken as a modern food, but … [Read more...]
25 Essential Kitchen Tools for People Who Love to Cook
If you’ve wanted to cook from scratch only to see a recipe that uses a bunch of kitchen utensils you don’t own, you’re not alone! Learning to cook from scratch isn’t that hard and will save you tons of money, which is why it’s absolutely worth it to invest in a few good kitchen … [Read more...]
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