Recently, Creek Stewart sent me a copy of his latest book entitled, “The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide” to review. In this article, I thought I’d tell you a little bit about the book, what my opinion of it is and how you can win your own copy… First off, for those not familiar with Creek, [...]

I'm sure you're already familiar with cotton balls and Vaseline being an excellent tinder for starting fires. That in combination with a ferro rod (FireSteel) is typically my go-to method for starting fires in an emergency.

Homemade pancakes made from my food storage are excellent by themselves, but when you add some homemade maple syrup to them they are so good I wouldn't mind surviving the apocalypse just on those alone. ;)

About a month ago Chad Cooper, the owner of Infidel Armor, sent me some of their body armor for testing. I was finally able to get outside and test it this past week so I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts and experiences.

I'm a big fan of yogurt, especially the thicker kind like Greek yogurt. If I had to go without it during TEOTWAWKI you might as well end my world right then and there.

For you guys out there that think that canning is for a bunch of old grannies let me tell you...canning can be manly.

There are a lot of things that we as preppers need to prepare for. We focus on building our food and water storage, having multiple backups of our energy and heating needs, look to learn skills that were common in the "old days" and focus on building our security measures to protect what we've worked so hard to build up.

A few weeks ago (at the suggestion of one of my readers) I picked up a fairly new product being marketed to outdoorsmen called a "Ribz Front Pack". For those new to front packs, they are basically the opposite of a backpack in that you wear it up front.Ribz

LDSAvow.com has recently released its latest version of their fantastic book "The LDS Preparedness Manual" (now in it's 8th version!)

If we are ever forced to live through an extended grid-down situation, I think many of us would realize how much we rely/depend upon our "common" appliances like our washing machines.