Corn. I don’t know about where you live, but there is a lot of corn around here, any time of year. If you’re in the middle of the United States and not in a city, there’s probably a lot of corn… Continue Reading
Take a look at most prepper storage foods and you notice a few things. Lots of chili and soups. Pasta and rice everywhere you look. Nothing fresh and very little green. Oh wait, what’s that? A handful of fresh, green… Continue Reading
Keystone Meats makes canned ground beef, ready to heat and serve, and the cans have a five-year best-by date. On the surface, this seems like a great item for preppers to add to their pantry. The question is, of course,… Continue Reading
The power’s out, and there’s *no pizza delivery*! Oh, the Horror! O wait, you’re a prepper. You’ve plenty of food on hand. No need to panic. Instead, it’s time for a Prepper’s Barbecue! How much have you tried eating your… Continue Reading
It’s that time of year in my neck of the woods where neighbors might sneak bags of zucchini or tomatoes onto your porch at night. They’re easy and popular garden vegetables, so there’s often a superabundance in mid-season. They grow… Continue Reading
Beets? Are those even a real food? Well, I’ve never eaten them much either. My garden is there in part to be a prepper’s experimental test bed though, so I’m trying some things so I can share the results with… Continue Reading
When we check out the middens (trash heaps) of ancient hunter-gatherers, we don’t find mostly deer bones and bear claws. Sure, those big kills provide quite a lot of meat; but they’re also dangerous and high failure rate hunts. What do we… Continue Reading
Americans have long had a love/hate relationship with the dandelion (Taraxacum species). The early Europeans immigrants clearly liked them; they imported dandelions to plant in their yards. To say the plant was successful here would be pretty accurate. Dandelions show… Continue Reading
Your mileage may differ, but although dehydrated egg powder worked fine in other recipes where it serves as a binder or whatever, eating the stuff plain (as in, rehydrated then fried or scrambled) has always been very disappointing — definitely… Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be great, during a time of stress and upheaval, to be able to quickly prepare a welcome and familiar food from your preps? This is one way. PrepperEats is a series designed to spark ideas on how to… Continue Reading
Food preps tend to come in very shelf-stable but not terrible eater-friendly packaging: 5 gal buckets of staples, gallon tins of dehydrated this or that, powdered soups and similar delicacies. It’s great to have; but we need to think about… Continue Reading