Grid Down Food Tips & Tricks We need to drink, and we need to eat. There’s just no getting around those two facts. It doesn’t matter if the grid is up or down, we need nourishment to survive and thrive…… Continue Reading
Ultimate Prepper Toolbox Part 1: The Prepper Toolbox Library The Prepper toolbox is a topic that I have not seen covered by preppers. Tools are almost never discussed in the prepper community (other than here on 3BY). Even though the… Continue Reading
Nuclear Suburbia While my modus operandi has been to largely ignore the type of disaster until it actually happens, there has been concern that New York City would be a terrorist target, . . . again, with the terrorists using… Continue Reading
Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place. It’s an emergency situation, so medical care is limited. There’s only one drug on hand and you desperately need medication. But you’ve had an unpleasant response – an adverse… Continue Reading
Canned food is one of the quickest, easiest and least expensive preps that we can do. We go to the store, buy cans that will last for years, and BOOM, we have an instant prep. Right? Yes, but… there’s a… Continue Reading
Your compass don’t point true north! Sounds a little like a redneck insult, doesn’t it? Well, it’s just flat truth (with bad grammar). Try compass navigation on the assumption that the little needle’s pointing straight north and you are going… Continue Reading
Many preppers keep antibiotics in case they’re needed when professional medical care isn’t available. However, stocks will be limited; and there are good reasons not to overuse antibiotics in any case. How do you know when it’s a bacterial infection… Continue Reading
Small Prepper Success, Failure Failure is the best teacher, but sometimes it is good to celebrate the minor victories. Let’s be real for a moment. Most of us will only experience minor successes because catastrophes are not likely to happen. … Continue Reading
Write For Us: Want to have your experiences, thoughts and ideas featured here at Beans, Bullets, Bandages & You? We’d like to share them with others. (NOTE: If you just want to read a fresh article and have no interest… Continue Reading
Evicting squatters and trespassers post Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF) is a serious issue, and it’s one that 3BY regular Michael brought to my attention. He sent us a message a while back containing some interesting thoughts. I’m putting Michael’s… Continue Reading
“Stop.””Deer.” “Blocks.” Most times, Salty and I are all about coming to decisions jointly and not bossing one another about. There have been times though when one of us needed the other to instantly and efficiently take direction without questions… Continue Reading
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Salty’s Note: If you have children in your family or in your prepping group, then you already know that it is critically important both to prep for those kids… but so many youngsters today are “indoors” kids, and when they… Continue Reading
Antibiotics and Vitamins can be a very bad combinations, or very good ones. One thing is for sure, if you are taking both antibiotics and vitamins, you REALLY need to know if there are any bad interactions with your meds.… Continue Reading
Cholera. Maybe it conjures up images of 1854 London with its poor neighborhoods wracked with death and disease. Only the beer-producers seemed immune. Or perhaps you remember just a few years back, how a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti on… Continue Reading