More so there are certain dangerous events which are above our control such as earthquakes, floods, terrorist attacks, which can only be avoided through learning how to act in such situations, know at least basics of self defense and most important taking the right precautions to do everything possible to avoid this risks. There are also long term issues associated with the kind of diets we partake every day, just remember the common saying, ‘you are what you eat’.

Whether you are, just a guy who earn his hard earned cash by bare hands, white collar from top hi-tech stuffed office, farmer, teacher, pilot, or simply a wife or a husband, learning strategies on how to act in emergency situations require you to be properly equipped with the right knowledge and skills.
I’m sure that a lot of people have searched the internet for information and read various eBooks promising to provide essential necessary skills during crisis and emergency situations. There are many seen around, but the one most complete and really covering actual survival topics I ever found is The Family Survival Course eBook.

It has been written to help you survive through extremely harsh conditions through adapting simple working skills; planning in advance what to do in cases of emergency, preparing appropriately with the knowledge required as well as items, mastering right and immediate reaction to threats, and finally adapting long term skills to ensure the safety of your loved ones.

What the book is about

It is not a requirement for anyone to become an all around survival expert or hardcore prepper, in very most times what is needed is just the right and necessary skills to take you through dangerous situations. The Family Survival Course book prepares you adequately with knowledge and gives you what is really needed to help you remain strong, make right decisions through the harsh times. It has focused mainly on five essential areas for family survival, namely; food, affordable herbal medicine, water, energy and self defense. Let’s take a quick review about each of them.

Consuming the Right Food

A very crucial sector that the book takes you through is how to enhance your physical appearance through taking in the right kind of food. The twenty first century generation has come up with easily take away meals which do not take into account the beneficial sides of the customer. You must know that there are a lot of processed foods which come with excess unnecessary fats and salts.

Major illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure among others which result to early deaths are caused by intake of wrong diet. The Family Survival Course eBook to give you guidelines on how to remain healthy throughout, while at the same time considering your economic status and do not overpay for your healthy meals.

The book identifies more than forty nutritional foods where you can made different combination from them. Remember the foods are natural and thus you are promised of a healthy body, unlike what is resulted after consumption of ready-made foods. From the book steps you will learn easy ways to grow your own foods and most importantly how to store it safely for future usage.

A lot of positive reviews have been written regarding the useful methods of food storage that have been discussed. You must know the all these potential threats which can be in the places we believe are the best storage facilities. Know the various factors which can contaminate our foods leaving us without so important survival factor in time when we need them at most!

To ensure you remain healthy, the book has also gives a clue of how your daily diet should include. Healthy and simple recipes for foods such as white rice, corn meal, corn flour, non fat powdered milk, dried beans and white vinegar among others will give your family that energy to stand through tough crisis like floods, winter or just bad weather blockade, and especially hard economic times. And do not forget about savings, you do not want to spend thousands of dollars on over processed foods which will only result to poor health status for your loved family.

Fighting Illnesses Naturally

The Family Survival Course book will take you through practical steps on the cheapest way to obtain effective and easily available medicine for your ill family members. If you visited the chemist corner you are likely to find lots of drugs promising to restore back your health overnight. While that can be effective, it is important to consider the long term effects to your body.

Most drugs contain ingredients which have advance effects to your body. Going natural, treat illnesses with natural herbs and plants which come in different varieties for different occasions and live healthy life is the way to be prepared for anything. Not even talking about savings in your family budget which can be spend more effective way to your family well being.

Issue of Water

Clean water is essential for life. That is why it is crucial that we respect and protect our drinking water sources since safe drinking water is important for maintaining proper human health. The Family Survival Course book will take you through steps to make sure there is clean water available for usage to your loved ones.

A particular citizen’s government can participate in helpful projects to provide water for its population. However it is the individual’s effort to go an extra mile to ensure there is clean water so as to prevent water borne diseases such as cholera. More so the book gives practical and real life useful steps on the best way to store and clean your water.

Energy

A chance of losing your power in the event of natural or man made disaster is common to many people at this time. Imagine a case where there are intruders who have invaded your estate and at that crucial time when you require power the most, it suddenly goes off! Surely this is one area which you can take control of. The Family Survival Course guides you on simple practical steps on how to go about this.

Self Defense

Another area that has been given priority in The Family Survival Course book in order to give you that peace of mind in emergency situation is the home defense. In the event of wars, natural disasters or simple blackouts, all that people are concerned a most in first place is safety and their life, this is basic survival instincts, threaded into our life by many thousands of our ancestors genes.

Refrain yourself from cutting a life short abruptly as there are some methods given in the book to help you prepare in advance. To keep your home compound away from thugs or other intruders who may aim at harming your family, you can make various simple but very effective precautions to stop and recognize potential intruder actions.

If your home had been one of the intruders target and in the event of breakage they get no room or are detected in advance they are likely to proceed to the next homestead leaving you safe. Sounding good? A lot of various tactics are discussed in The Family Survival Course eBook.

As seen from above, The Family Survival Course book focuses on important tutorials covering all you need to learn about making it through during hard times. It is common knowledge that we are faced with all kinds of dangers; whether we are alerted about it in advance or no prior knowledge. This should not give you anxious moments at all.

Another Useful Package Available After Purchasing the Book

Going to that extra mile and purchasing this eBook does not only promise you of main contents in the book which are very crucial to help you deal with various emergencies and threats, but also the fact that the book comes with a quite useful additional materials to fulfill your survival library. They all worth to be print out and placed in your survival emergency go bag so you always have them by hand, so if in case of stressful situation you forgot something, they are always near.

One of the attractive packages is the practical Medical Emergency Survival eBook. We are always prone to emergency situations in our lives which occur in the event of carrying out our usual chores. Whether we are riding our bicycle, going shopping, taking our children to schools, and going hiking among others we are not safe from dangerous events which are not under our control. The Family Survival Course book has included this eBook with very useful information from how to take care of open wounds till dealing with intestinal parasites, along with information about really useful first aid kit.

Another good addition to your set of survival eBooks – Seasonal Survival, dealing with potential seasonal threats from flu till protecting your home at summer holidays. Learning this tactics can help you get you ready for any season and will save you much trouble by know how to be prepared!

Floods, wild fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and tough city survival are covered in another survival eBook included in this set. Survive Any Disaster deals with strategies how to survive, save your property and know the dangers of nature and man made disasters. Real plans, printable checklists to save your time, simple and proven steps to do things right when disaster strikes.

Prepare yourself psychologically in times of crisis and have clear mind are one of important things to have in your prepping baggage. You may have heard people who collapsed and passed on, lost their mind during occurrence of unexpected dangerous situations and do anything but nothing right to save himself and their family? No Stress During The Crisis dealing with psychological emergency preparedness, what are common stresses, how to overcome them, containing helpful tips and strategies how to deal with pain, thirst and dehydration, cold and heat, hunger, frustration, fatigue, sleep deprivation, isolation, insecurity, loss of self-esteem, loss of self-determination, depression, fear, anxiety, panic, hate, resentment, anger, impatience, dependence, loneliness, boredom, hopelessness. Huge list? But this can happen to anyone even without the beginning of the end of the world.

Think that self-sufficient is impossible these days? Everything need some start point, begin your journey to self-sufficient living in your own kitchen, healthy food and food consuming is one of the primary needs, that you do every day. Natural and healthy food preparation, time proven natural remedies which cost about nothing but can provide health and prosperity to our families. Homemade Food And Natural Remedies has outlined the great time proven methods and instructions on how to make healthy food to your beloved family, to ensure they remain healthy to stand through your whole life, including possible trying and hard times.

These are some of the handful bonuses that come with after purchasing The Family Survival Course eBook. As I already told before, I would recommend you to print them all out and have on some digital media, just place them in your emergency bug out bag to be sure that when disaster strikes, you have these useful info on hand.

Conclusion

Taking a step to find relevant on the internet on how well to prepare yourself for emergencies in life proves you really love your family and want to protect them from any external or internal harm. There are several books which have been on sale, whether online or offline, promising to provide you with the right kind of information on steps to take to ensure the security of your family is not compromised. Personally, till this time I have not found any book that can really provide one with an all round kind of information to keep your family safe.

The Family Survival Course Book which can be downloaded at members area, along with additional information is one which provides you real information obtained from personal experiences. In addition to this, the book provides step by step instructions on how to maintain the security level of your family. This is has been made possible through suggestion of methods which are very cheap and easily available ones so that in the long term you do not end up being cash stripped or neck deeper debts.

Methods such as use of herbal medicines prove to be one of the most efficient kinds of treatments, when compared to other drugs which may contain harmful chemicals, putting the lives of your loved ones at risk.

Homemade foods, as suggested in the available for download survival eBooks, serve a good information on not expensive and healthy foods for long term healthy living, do not play big international companies game giving them huge profits for unhealthy foods.

The book comes with instructions on how to keep your home safe from intruders by using cheap and easily available methods. It has also suggested methods to ensure there is constant homemade power throughout to ensure the compound is well lit so as to keep away thugs and you always has enough energy for your household needs.

In the event of terrorism attacks, the book has given guidelines to ensure you remain safe throughout, despite the undying efforts the government may employ to ensure you get security which may not be forthcoming at all. Suggested best weapon for self defense have been given and now all you need is to purchase the book to learn them theoretically and practically.

However, one could be well equipped with the skills and equipments but still not stand tall during SHTF situation! You ask why? Some simple mistakes made at emergency due unstable mental condition and you are out. Working methods and techniques are bundled into this info package to be safe also in this direction.

So far The Family Survival Course eBook, together with additional eBooks available at members area are the most complete REAL survival and emergency skills compilation need for real people like you, me, our families, families next door. Earthquakes, floods, terrorist attacks, “simple” flu or broken leg or snake bite at hiking trip are more real and be really prepared for it I suppose is most important then waiting for mystical zombies or aliens attack.

If you tired pick up small useful breadcrumbs in various survival forums, short and incomplete blueprints with outdated information laying around in world wide web, finally you are in right place, with just a few clicks away you have complete information for you and your family safety, a thing that is important to any man or woman concerned about safety at this unstable days.

None from us are 100% safe, no matter where you live and what are you doing in your everyday life. Although with proper skills, supplies and a bit of luck you can survive almost any disaster. Without proper knowledge on subject most likely you spend your budget on things that you really do not need, act wrong and mess up everything. Do not think that when disaster strikes you can survive on plain luck, this is totally wrong and this is how think people who die on first wave, do not be one of these! Learn, prepare and teach your family members survival skills, this is our duty, do not relay on other! Only what you really know and have matters, nothing else.

This free survival ebooks are our share to survivalist community and everyone else who care about safety and well being. This ebooks cover general topics on survival and preparedness, dealing with stress on stressful situations, your own home preparation for cost and energy effective living, tips on economical freedom and surviving economical crisis. We know that every cent count in today bad economics and decide share this survival ebooks $0 priced for our readers. Know that we can help someone find out how to be prepared for disaster is simply great feeling!

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The Basic Survival Guide ebook covers almost all important survival topics like: steps to be prepared for various disasters, completing family disaster plan and building emergency strategies, building your own disaster kits, helping disabled persons, children and your pets in emergency situations, how to deal with extreme evacuation, how to create communications with your family, friends and neighborhoods, food and food storage, first aid, medicine and other topics on your and your family survival.

This ebook contain 64 pages of useful survival tips and answer most of general survival questions.

You will be really shocked to know that up to 25% of your home energy are simply wasted! Just count what amount of money you throw away each year and what you can do with this additional financial resources. If you ever looking for guide how to build energy efficient home or looking for additional tips, this ebook is definitely for you complete guide to home energy and cost saving – How To Make Your Home Energy And Cost Efficient ebook. Going step by step you find out how to determine current costs of your home energy efficiency, how to develop proper habits to save more without limiting your actual needs.

63 pages of energy saving information, including intro to alternative energy sources.

It is time when everyone has hit by current recession wave – massive layoffs, house owners mortgage defaults, inflation rate which burn out all income adjustments and make them worthless. But if we look back, throughout our history periods of economic growth and downfalls are normal lifespan of our world order. But how it can happen, that while most of the people struggle to live another day, another make profit? Ever wonder how? Recession Survival ebook is dedicated to help learn and find hidden jewels while other people can’s see any opportunities.

31 pages ebook with tips and info how to find hidden benefits of recession.

Do you know how to deal with potential harmful situations at your home, in your car or when you traveling? Are your home prepared for potential intrusion by criminals or do you know what to do in case of disaster? And your your loved ones? Safeguarding Your Family’s Health, Wealth and Happiness ebook, like title says deals with main subjects of your and your family safety and well being, covering topics on personal safety and home protection, how to avoid identity thief, your computer security, medicine and drugs, how to avoid classic scam schemes and bad investments.

103 pages ebook with eleven chapters on important survival topics.

Being a one of the oldest hunting and warfare tool with earliest known evidence of use 50’000 years ago, bow and arrow combo are still actual recreation, sport and hunting device even today, which bring excellent trophies to your home along with providing food and protection in emergency situation. Discover American natives experience to archery hunting and art of archery itself! This unique Hunting With the Bow and Arrow ebook contains step by step guides how to make bow, arrow and other archery equipment, how to hunt with them on various game animals. A must item into your survival books collection!

140 pages with archery and archery hunting texts along with illustrations.

If you ever try to find new job, you agree that this is not quick and fast task and often most wanted jobs with good salary and excellent opportunities just go over because anyone else take them before you. How to set you apart from other people? How to land into job position you really want? While rest of the people who looking for job just apply and then just expect that job is obtained, learn complex of steps how to prepare, act in job interview and finally successfully accomplish your job hunting. Achieve your job hunting success with Quick Start Job Guide ebook! From how to complete excellent resumes till tips on how to act in time of interview. Read, learn and get your perfect job!

Ebook with 50 pages of tips and tricks about perfect job hunting.

Get rid of seven most deadliest mistakes when looking for new job! As everyone know, it’s always better learn on other people mistakes, then on your own. 7 Deadly Job Hunting Mistakes ebook contain step by step guide to common mistakes and no-no’s which most of job seekers perform at job interviews. Learn what behavior you must avoid to in any ways, be smart and act right. Do not hope on plain luck like other people, complete your plan and get on top of most wanted job applicants. This ebook is good addition to Quick Start Job Guide to complete your possible job seeking needs.

15 pages ebook with pointed tips for any job seeker.

In every day life most of the people deal with various stresses, anxiety and just mood problems. If this emotions wear you out in your today tasks, what are you doing in emergency situation when everything go to hell? Are you ready to harsh challenges which disaster can bring into your life? Fix your mood and maintain your feelings with Stress Survival Super Strategies, by focusing your internal focus alignment on positive thoughts, you will get most of your life and do not loose hope and live further. You can’t avoid stress, but you can learn how to deal with them and take it to your survival abilities arsenal with this guide.

32 pages guide with simple and easy achievable steps how to deal with stress in your life.

Have high calories and sodium count, these meals are generally designed for combat and other stress situations when more the usually calories are needed to supply body with additional energy and sodium which are lost via excessive sweating during action thus making MRE good addition to your bug out bag or emergency food storage shelf. If you have access to military surplus store check for possible menu choices, more likely you have some preferred meals so if there are possibility to make combination of what you really like, this would be really great as in emergency situation or anytime when you want to use your MRE, eating something that you do not want not anyhow make your life easier.

Before stock up with meals ready to eat for emergency purposes, anyone would like to know about MRE’s shelf life and how long you can be sure that this rations are safe to eat? In general, length of food storage, no matter what type is it, depends on storage temperature, the hotter temperature, the less time your food preserve nutrients and original taste, so lower temperature will dramatically increase your food life span. Just check for package integrity, designed to withstand battlefield abuse, even rugged MRE’s packaging can be damaged if stored improperly or teared with sharp objects. As long your packaging is sealed and stored in cool place, you are safe.

The U.S. Army Soldier System Center state that “The MRE’s shelf life is three years at 80 degrees F and six months at 100 degrees F.”. Actually as noted by multiple sources, if stored properly, MRE shelf life can be extended up to ten years or even more. To achieve optimal shelf life, storage temperature should not exceed 60 F° (16 C°) and meals should not be stored at temperatures below 30oF (-1 C°) as frozen packaging can result in broken seals and leading to to extremely fast shelf life expiration. Also you should know that storage temperature and storage time have cumulative effect – if your storehouse has wide temperature changes, this can leave serious impact on shelf life too.

Another remark about shelf life, even if MRE has reached end of the shelf life, nutrient level and calories of almost do not decrease, as shelf life is actually calculated by taste and flavor level of meal. It’s not be 100 percent safe to consume meals with ten or more years old expiration date, but in worst case scenario if I have decision to eat some rats or expired meals ready to eat, I definitely choose MRE’s. Also to make life easier and take out guessing part, in recent years, time and temperature indicators or so called TTI’s are included into each meal box. Temperature indicator consists from two circles, inner and outer, if inner circle is lighter then outer circle, your meal is safe to eat.

If you are still unsure about purchased MRE expiration date, you can try decode production date with this simple formula. For example, MRE’s box has stamped serial number like 9114A C9R2. First number in our serial encode as year, in our case this is 2009, if we do not have REALLY old package from 1999. Numbers 114 represent day of the year – April 24. Other numbers and characters has production batch number. So finally we can decode serial number as in April 24, 2009 made box.

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Nowdays, most of candles are made from paraffin, instead beeswax, although soy, tallow and other wax like substances sometimes are used for candle production. Dedicated for “survival cases” candles often are packed into metal tins and have two or more wicks if you require more heat and light for example emergency cooking. Manufacturer rated by various burn time you have plenty of different choices around so if you still think about need or not this type of survival gear in your go bag, it’s strongly suggested have at least several as reserve.

What survival candles works best and what makes “candles made for emergency” differ from “standard” ones? Basically two things, more then one wick and metal casing. There are no any special chemical composition or anything else, so if you have chance buy long lasting holiday candle for right price, this will work out too. My most preferred time to hunt after cheap candles bargains are after major holidays like Christmas, you can easily stock up your emergency candles supply paying often less then half from usual price.

If you have collection of used and not fully burned candles or better block with paraffin or wax, with metal tin, tin from pastilles would be good enough, cotton wick and a bit of patience you can build your very own survival candle. Steps how to make survival candle by yourself are very simple, in first chop your paraffin source into smallest possible peaces to speed up melting process, put it into some old tin or kettle and wait till paraffin or wax is melted into liquid form. Fill your metal tin with liquid substance, wait a bit, then stick your wicks into tin. Try place wicks in equal space from each other and do not over saturate, two or three would be quite enough for average candies tin or you are not able burn your wicks separately. As soon wicks are planted, put your survival candle into fridge or outdoor if there are cold enough. Wait some hours and here we go – our self made survival candle is ready!

Some extra fire starting tools like weatherproof matches with striker would be good additional feature of your self made emergency candle. Glue them on the tin lid inner side. After completing this simple steps you have nice and handy emergency fire, light and heat source for your car, bugout bag, boat or house.

Here are some videos of candle making process :

SURVIVAL TIPS: Candle in a Altoids tin. :

Classic survival candle from tin, some wicks and old candles. Easy step by step instructions.

Amazing Wilderness Survival Candle – DIY Video :

How to make survival candle from old canned food tin, paraffin and cardboard. Cheap, simple and effective.

DIY projects always rocks! Be safe and prepared.

Your body deserve clean water for functionality and well being every day, 24/7. It would be good idea time by time check your current water supply too. We never know, what if in past years someone has utilized dangerous chemicals or biologically active waste near your home water source? Even in “clear water” you can find wide range of dangerous substances which on long run can make serious damage to your health. Of course, if you find something wrong with your water, you can setup various choices of water filters, with a little effort, you can set up suitable filter for reasonable money, which are useful to cleaning harmful bacteria, chemical contamination, unpleasant odors and tastes from your water. But what if you camping outdoor or try what worse experience emergency situation? For camping purposes or emergency water filtration in general you have four choices of water purification – boil water, chemically process your water with iodine or chlorine, expose to UV light radiation or process your water trough water filters. If you are unsure about your water, to avoid waterborne illness better combine this methods together for more secure purification.

Water Purification by Boiling
One of the oldest methods of emergency water purification – rapidly boil your water for about 10 minutes and then filter trough some kind simple filter like cloth or paper towel to remove possible dirt. Although you still have microorganisms and bacterias in your water, they are made inactive by high temperature. If you need large amounts this can be time consuming, but in same time one of the most cheapest ways to decontaminate water.

Water purification by Chemicals
Two types of chemicals are generally used for water treatment iodine and chlorine. Due several possible contraindications when iodine is used as treatment, chlorine is most favorite choice for municipal water processing plants. For effective treatment, water should be mechanically cleared from large dirt with some kind of mechanical filter and if possible heated up till 60 Farenheit (15 C°), in this case after 30 minutes you are able drink your purified water. Unfortunately chemical treatment leave some notable change in water taste, but if you do not have other choices at emergency situation, this is definitely better then nothing. Based on chlorine Aquatabs is one of the most popular water cleaning pills on market with shelf life of 5 years this should be a must have item in any survival kit.

Water purification by UV light
Processing water with Ultra Violet light radiation sterilizes water making bacteria and micro organisms inactive without altering final taste of water, less then minute is required to disinfect amount equal liter (33.8 Ounces) of water. There are stationary UV devices for your home and portable UV purification devices like SteriPEN, well known in backpacker and other outdoor enthusiasts communities. To get most out of your UV purifier, water should be clear as possible from foreign elements and mud, so additional filtration from dirt is required.

Emergency water filters
Although emergency water filters tend to be more expensive then designed for general household use, they higher price compensate effective filtering from as most as 99.9% of various microorganisms, bacterias and other impurities which made this type of filters very handy at camping trip or disaster / crisis situation. Most of today advanced emergency water filters are based on ceramic micropore filtering design with hard to beat resource, compared to other filtering methods. Several design emergency water filters are available for sale, ones that require pumping water trough filtration system and other that use gravity to flow water trough filter. Pump based purification systems are often more compact and companies like MSR and Katadyn make wide variety of different purpose models, from individual survival filters till expedition size team water supply.

But if you are trapped outdoors without sufficient clear water supply or lost your gear including favorite water filter / water sterilization device? In such case boiling and self made emergency water filter is a way to go. Avoid drink directly to stay away from waterborne illness bacterias which can easily kick out you for a days of serious illness with high temperature, diarrhea and vomiting, but also in worst case lead to long and painful death if you are unlucky enough (rarely in not REALLY contaminated areas, but who wants to check, right?). So in first step clean your water with DIY emergency filter, then boil and more likely you are safe from possible problems with contaminated water.

Check below for some tube videos with survival water filter ideas:

Survival Water Filter From Bottle:

Simple and effective DIY survival water filter from plastic bottle, handful of grass, sand and charcoal from fireplace. Very handy for first stage filtration from muddy water. If you have really dirty water, several repeating steps or even two such filters – first for general cleaning from mud and second for more comprehensive filtration may be required. Boiling is required after this filtration stage.

Home Made Water Filter System:

How to build self made charcoal based stationary water purification system for your home or outdoor camp for less then $30. Step by step instructions.

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This cord is very good option for every survival or emergency kit as provide endless choices of end uses. Go camping and check by yourself that every outdoor trip require tens of various size tasks where rugged rope is a must in your backpack – secure and tying gear or tent, field gear repairs or even use it for fishing or hunting snares are just a few from the list. Due wide spread popularity, many multi purpose items like bracelets, belts and lanyards and even whips are made from paracord.

Survival bracelets made from 550 paracord are quite popular between backpackers, hunters, fisherman and people on duty as in case of emergency you always have at least several feet of rugged repair rope around. While a lot of different kinds of survival bracelets are sold online and at surplus stores, this is not very hard make survival bracelet from paracord that fit your needs or even style better – you can choose colors, size and knotting technique. This is also guarantee that you use good source material for your bracelet, due popularity there are also several low quality paracord choices available which are often used to make cheap “commercial bracelets”.

So, if you decide make survival bracelet for yourself or your friends, supplies needed for this job are: paracord, about 10 feet, scissors, one side release buckle, ruler and torch lighter although regular lighter work fine too. Generally for one inch of knotted survival bracelet count in about one foot of standard 550 cord, so if you plan made 10 inches long bracelet you need about 10 feet of cord.

There are two tube videos about survival bracelet instructions with step by step guide how to make one by yourself, check them out in case you need detailed how to.

River Bar style survival bracelet instructions:

The river bar style knots are a repeating V-shaped pattern weave, which can be easily adapted to a bracelet, belt or sling. If woven with different colored and contrasting cords, the final repeating pattern are highly visible between this two colors.

King Cobra Wave style survival bracelet instructions:

Also called Solomon bars, Portuguese sinnet, Cobra/King Cobra style knots are other popular choice of wave pattern often used to make survival bracelets.

This is really fun and inexpensive made your own bracelet and who know, maybe someday this several foots of rope can actually save you life in case of emergency.

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But what if you looking to store some extra long storage life food for your remote hideout, outdoor hunter house or just want some kind of untouchable last ditch food reserve? This is possible, thanks to technology developed long ago at World War 2 for stable serum storage without refrigeration – freeze drying. Freeze drying is four stage technological process with pretreatment, freezing, primary and secondary drying. After all stages are completed, final product have less then few percents of water. Sealed into vacuum bags or other hermetic storage containers, freeze dried food at good conditions, which mean just cool, dark and dry place, have at least 25 years shelf life.

Dried by this method products has less damage and almost not any shrinkage or toughening compared to other drying methods which use higher temperatures, additionally almost all nutrients, smells and flavors are leaved untouched making freeze drying method very popular for preparing long storage food. To rehydrate freeze dried product, you need only humidify meal with appropriate water amount, that’s all – your dish is ready to eat.

Today emergency food market offers various choices of freeze dried products, you can easily complete your favorite dishes in custom set or just buy packed and ready to store kit. Most popular choices of pre-made kits are 72 hour emergency food supply, one month supply kits and one year food supply along with individual dishes if you want stock up something special. Let’s review together four popular one month freeze dried food kits to compare and see what’s inside them.

60 Servings Packs Freeze Dried Food Kit by Wise Food, Entree Only, 1 Person, One Month Supply

This kit offer two servings with entries only to one adult person for one month or four adults as one week supply, individually sealed meals are packed into portable, waterproof and stack able bucket in case you want organize your long term storage food. If stored right, life span of this dried food kit can easily reach 25 years, so you have extended emergency food insurance. Total weight – 12 pounds.

60 Servings Freeze Dried Food Kit by Wise Food menu contains 8 servings of Savory Stroganoff, 8 servings of Chili Macaroni, four servings of Cheesy Lasagna, eight servings of Creamy Tomato Basil soup, 8 servings of Pasta Alfredo, eight servings of Teriyaki and Rice, eight servings of Creamy Pasta and Vegetable Rotini and same amount of Creamy Ala King and Rice. Quite enough varieties of fast “just add water” meals. If you are able mix it up with other long storage meals like rice, beans, grain, pastas and so on, your daily meals have good variety that not become dull after week of use.

Wise Food also offer some sampler kits, so you can check each meal before buying whole set or complete your custom kit from meals you really like. One suggestion in this case, aim for variety, better include some meals extra you are not fan, but still found edible as tasty but monotone diet are simply boring.

56 Servings Packs Freeze Dried Food Kit by Wise Food, Breakfast and Entree, 1 Person, One Month Supply

Another choice from Wise Foods company, this kit instead of entree meals only, offer full set of breakfast and entree. Full set contains twelve servings of Brown Sugar and Maple Multi-Grain Cereal, eight servings of Crunchy Granola and eight servings of Apple Cinnamon Cereal in kit breakfast section and four servings of Cheesy Macaroni, four servings of Savory Stroganoff, four servings of Creamy Pasta and Veg. Rotini, four servings of Teriyaki and Rice, four servings of Cheesy Lasagna, four servings of Pasta Alfredo and four servings of Hearty Tortilla Soup in main entree section. Total weight – 11 pounds.

Each of Wise Food made meals are packed into nitrogen filled, airtight Mylar pouches designed for safe long term storage. Most of oxygen are removed from food during drying process and then replaced by nitrogen to made food more stable at storage time. To rehydrate any of the meal dishes, you need only cup of water. Any temperature water will work, but hot temperature can significantly speed up rehydrate process as stated in preparation instruction. Also note that “servings” in both of reviewed kits by Wise Food mean full dish, not only components, like in other manufacturers sets.

330 Servings Freeze Dried Food ARK Kit, by Chef’s Banquet, 1 Person, One Month Supply

The ARK or “All purpose Readiness Kit” manufactured by Chef’s Banquet has almost same philosophy as previously reviewed freeze dried food sets. All servings are packed into Mylar foil pouches which are easy to open and store, each pouch has oxygen absorber and are stored into handy and stack able 6.5 gallon plastic container. If stored in dry and cool place, this kit can be stock up for 15 years. Also notable remark about this set – this freeze dried food contains no dangerous additive – mono sodium glutamate or MSG (E621) and no high fructose corn syrup which decrease storage life, but leave original taste and are real deal who even in emergency situation or everyday life want consume food with less possible additives. Each kit are made to provide one person with 2100 calories / day nutrients for whole month.

Freeze dried meals included into one ARK kit: sixty servings of Oatmeal, 30 servings of Mixed Vegetables, 60 servings of Instant Potatoes, thirty servings of Macaroni & Cheese, thirty servings of Beef Flavored Vegetable Stew, 30 servings of Cheddar Broccoli Rice, thirty servings of Chicken Vegetable Stew and 60 servings of Hearty Potato Soup.

Although this kit has decreased storage life compared to other survival food kits, less additives can be a good argument to people who think about what they eat and 15 years are still plenty of time to think about slow food rotation at backpacker camping. hunting/fishing trips or other outdoor adventures where weight is critical and this type of food is a good portable choice for your backpack.

275 Servings Freeze Dried Food Kit, by Survival Food, 1 Person, One Month Supply

With up to twenty years of storage life if stored at 60° F (16.6° C) and ten years of shelf life if stored 70° F (21.1° C), this kit provide 275 servings of freeze dried food, each of serving 1200 calories value. In weather proof plastic bucket are included 55 pouches with 5 meal servings in each pouch. This is 100% vegetarian emergency food as there are not any kind of hydrogenated oils, added mono sodium glutamate or MSG (E621) or unhealthy trans fats. Like other freeze dried food this meals must be rehydrated by water, preferably boiling, to speed up rehydration process.

275 servings kit contents: 35 servings of Barley Vegetable Soup, 50 servings of Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal, 25 servings of Cheesy Broccoli and Rice, 30 servings of Vegetable Rice, 35 servings of Creamy Potato Soup, 25 servings of Tuscan Butter Pasta, 25 servings of Italian Tomato Pasta, 50 servings of Whey Milk. Total weight – 23 pounds.

If you are vegetarian so far this is one of the choices to afford vegetarian emergency food, but take a note that 1200 calories can be not enough in cases of serious disaster situations when you are under prolonged stress and workout periods, so consider take additional same manufacturer set or look for some extra vegetarian food choices.

If you looking to build your very own safe harbor with additional food insurance, freeze dried food can be very handy to fulfill your extra long storage food cache shelf. And I bet that you agree, knowing that in any case you have food for at least month for each of your family members is one of essential key steps to survive in any man made or natural disasters.

Be prepared, stay safe!

After you find out that your old survival food kit shelf life has expired or like most of today “regular” people you do not have any kind of emergency supplies, but decide move away from “we die at first wave” crowd, one of the first thing you think about are various choices of pre-made survival kits. This is a good way to start your preparation to survive as it require only choose already composed supplies kit which you think fit your needs best. Of course you can make good emergency food and other supplies list by yourself, but this can be time consuming and require additional planing. So if you looking for quick ready “grab and go” 72 hour survival kit solution for your car, boat or bugout bag, pre-made survival kit can be a good choice to go as it’s better have some items that you not really need, then don’t have anything.

We pick five popular pre-made 72 hour survival kits and compare, what they worth and whats inside to help you choose. Price can vary as low as $13 bucks for basic set with food, water and blanket till up to 200$ for complete disaster survival kit with a lot of useful items like light sources, various emergency tools and personal protection supplies.

Quakehold! 3000 The Survival Kit, 1 Person

Cheapest from all five, this kit contains base layer of survival items like food, water and survival blanket for using it as shelter for one person. Manufacturer rated 5 years storage shelf life for food and water supplies, this kit is US Coast Guard agency approved as earthquake survival kit. Food included into Quakehold! 3000 The Survival Kit are high energy food bars with essential minerals and vitamins sealed in six individually vacuum sealed bags.

Fresh water are sealed into 4.225 fl oz water packets for quick one time access. This is a good starter kit for your custom kit as contains all basic survival supplies you may need in first and for right price.

Quakehold! 70280 Grab ‘n Go Emergency Kit, 3-Day Backpack, 2 Persons

Complete two people grab-and-go emergency supplies set with handy bag included. This 72 hours kit contains water, food (800 calories per day/per person) and basic shelter supplies as recommended by the American Red Cross plus other useful survival gear like extended First Aid kit with 33 items included, personal protection and hygiene gear – gloves, dust masks and pocket tissues, signaling device – whistle and two 12 hours chem light sticks for emergency lightning and signaling.

Almost everything you need in one portable bug out bag in case of worst case scenario. If you looking for ready kit to store at your vehicle, workplace or home this is a way to go, although I would add some additional items like not expensive LED flashlight with spare batteries, some fire starting tools and portable emergency radio just to complete this set.

Deluxe Emergency Kit-2 Person, Emergency Zone Brand, Disaster Survival Kit, 72 Hour Kit

Large enough to hold additional personal items and extra food and water supplies, this bug out bag contains almost everything you would imagine having into your survival bag, including even emergency preparedness guide with worth to read survival tips, in case you need additional information and hints. Food section of this backpack contains two 3600 calorie high energy food bars and 12 x 125 ml water pouches, food and water has 5 years shelf life and is approved by US Coast Guard agency as reliable emergency food and water source. As emergency light sources this kit have one large flashlight with two DD size batteries (included) and 2 x eight hour lasting chem light sticks, personal protection section has two N95 respirator masks and one pair of heavy work gloves. For emergency shelter and body heat saver you can use combination of two emergency blankets, two emergency ponchos and fifty feet of rope or set up lightweight tube tent included into this set.

First aid kit contain 2 antiseptic towelettes, one iodine pad, six alcohol pads for disinfection, ten cotton swabs and a lot of band aids plus other medicine supplies, 53 various first aid items in total. For actual news and emergency alerts AM/FM radio, running on two widely available AAA batteries are included. Multi tool knife would be useful for various tasks like quick field repairs, canned food opening or shelter building. Another all in one multipurpose device in this set are 5-in-1 red colored survival whistle which consist from compass, fire striker flint, signaling mirror and waterproof case for matches or other small valuable items along with lanyard for wearing it on body or fasten to your other gear.

You may find that extra water would be good addition to this kit, but take a note that water is heavy and can overweight your bag so one bottle with fifty water purification tablets can be a answer for water cleansing on the run. Just throw into this kit some additional batteries for your flashlight and radio and you have almost complete go bag to store at your vehicle or other locations.

Deluxe Emergency Kit-4 Person, Emergency Zone Brand, Disaster Survival Kit, 72 Hour Kit

It’s always better have some backup or if you looking for extended period two or even one person survival kit, this would be a choice. Designed to sustain four persons or small family for 72 hours with all needed to survive supplies like food, water, shelter, basic protection and tools this survival kit has same items set like in Deluxe Emergency Kit-2 Person reviewed above, but multiplying some of them by two, so you have 4 x 3600 calorie high energy food bars, 24 x 125 ml water pouches, four N95 respirator masks, 4 x 8 hour lasting chem light sticks, 4 emergency blankets and ponchos, two tube tents.

Survivor Emergency Kit-4 Person, Emergency Zone brand, Disaster Survival Kit, 72 Hour Kit

When things get tough it’s better have your survival supplies ready to grab and go without looking for additional stuff. Although most expensive from all 72 hour survival kits, this one is packed into two bugout bags with everything and a little bit more to make your life easier when disaster strikes. This kit was designed for 4 persons and has some notable improvements over previous sets. All items are packed into two handy go bags with still some free space for personal items you would possibly like to include to customize and complete this set. Extended lifespan food with 5 year shelf life, four coconut flavor 3600 calorie high energy food bars and 24 x 125ml water pouches, both US Coast Guard agency approved.

One 1 liter capacity Lexan water bottle and one bottle with 50 Aquamira Potable Aqua water purification tablets for additional water cleansing and supply. Standard radio is replaced by dynamo AM/FM radio and flashlight all in one device with rechargeable by hand crank, extended storage life lithium ion battery, 4 x eight hours chem lights and for even more light and using as portable heat source, six emergency candles are included.

Individually sealed four N95 respirator masks, two pairs of rugged work gloves and one deluxe first aid kit along with one basic hygiene set with dental care items like four toothbrushes, toothpaste and bathing set of washcloth, comb, ten tissues, 24 wet naps, one roll of toilet paper and shampoo for keeping your body clean and in shape even in harsh times. For sleeping and shelter you have four reflective emergency sleeping bags, two tube tents, four emergency ponchos and 50 feet of rope, enough to make your shelter comfortable enough to have some sleep and rest which is very important at stressful emergency situations.

Other supplies included into this set are all weather magnesium fire starter, multi tool knife with can opener and various blades for different purposes, 5 in 1 survival whistle with precise compass, signaling mirror, waterproof compartment, fire striker flint and whistle itself. Sewing kit with needles and thread for gear repairs, pencil and notepad set. Comprehensive 48 page preparedness guide with survival tips, various checklists are included into this 72 kit.

Have enough food and survival supplies for you and your family is a must to be sure that at even very significant disasters you have more chances to survive. Whatever you choose, know what you have in your bugout bag and if possible get some kit extra to test everything out to avoid misunderstandings when you really need all this stuff.

Be smart and prepared for anything.

Winter survival recipes are simple to follow and anyone should know them as you never know when disaster strikes, as you more likely know previous years our climate changes even in territories, where none should expect not only sub zero temperatures, but also thing like snow. Read and remember main winter survival recipes and talk about this recipes with your family, friends and co-workers, possibly that in emergency situation they remember your hints and that information save their life.

Warm winter clothes
Always wear appropriate clothes, a golden rule is that’s better to have something to put off, then having less then you need. Most of winter emergency situations happen when people thoughtlessly think about their clothing layer and when unexpected situation strike, their face that planned trip to mall which usually take five minutes outside while waring light sweater only, suddenly become into crazy winter survival within wrecked car in the middle of nowhere at 2 AM. So clothing is a must, also if you driving a car it’s a clever choice put some additional blankets or extra layer of winter clothes into your car trunk, pack it in into some box and better take this box out from your car in the spring time then die from hypothermia in winter.

Fire and warmth, avoiding hypothermia
Fire starting tools, thermos with tea or coffee in your bag, some tea candles or if possible bigger long lasting candles together with some packs of chemical heaters would make your survival task easier in case of emergency, most of them easy fit into your bag or outerwear pockets and can actually save your live in combination with moving and not letting yourself just sit down and wait for some miracle to come.

Food and water in sub zero temperatures
Have high calorie food in your bag or pockets, as soon you think that something go wrong eat it as soon as possible, you need energy for your body and mind, energy means movement and movement in winter means life. Plan your ration in case of longer emergency situation, but remember that you need good initial energy boost, so always have something like high energy bars, high calorie chocolate with nuts and so on. I suggest check your local sport equipment shop and look for energy bars with mix of high proteins, vitamins and other nutrients for extreme workout.

This is wrong to think that body dehydration can happen in hot climate only, winter with sub zero temperature require no less water then in hot summer. With breath water leave your body fast, so do not forget about good source of liquid for your water supply. If possible have additional hot or at least warm liquid like tea or coffee, it’s always better get some additional warmth. Do not rely on drinking water, melted from snow, boiling snow into water take time and additional heat source is required, it’s OK to have some portable kettle in your survival kit to cook hot food and boil water for hot beverages while longer emergencies, but in first time you need reliable water source.

Winter shelter
Basically you need something to stay behind to save you from cold winter winds and low temperature, this can be tent square, snow wall, leeside of trees or bushes, pile of brushes or combination of them all, you should know that even mild sub zero temperature in combination with wind chill out your body fast, so find your cover as soon as possible. If you are in car, you can try heat it up with candle or just use it as temporary shelter, do not forget leave small opening for ventilation, this is a must!

Basic survival kit
There are loads of different basic survival kits checklists around, main recommendations are the same. You need light, LED lights lasts long and chem lights sticks are cheap and useful for various tasks. For your information, chemical reaction in chem lights sticks are longer and expose less light in lower temperatures, same for batteries, they tend to discharge faster in sub zero, so good place for your spare power sources is closer to body or any other heat source. Good roll with paracord or other strong rope for various tasks, customized for your own needs first aid kit, knife and multi tool, portable axe and saw if you driving car and of course rugged snow spade and good quality fordable or small size spade for digging out your car or cleaning path.

Some broad recipes on winter survival. Have your phone or radio battery charged and your communication device placed near your body to save battery charge. If your even think that you may have any emergency situation on road, while traveling or hiking, immediately call your relatives and told them where you are and how they can find you. If you have choice do not go outside in extreme cold or blizzard, better stay at home, why take unneeded risk? Better wait and decrease your chances of getting into trouble. Avoid any alcohol and medicines which can affect your mind and possibility to take right decisions, everyone know and can told a story about person who die in winter while being drunk, don’t become into “one of them”.

If you are in your car, remember about exhaust and carbon monoxide, make sure that your car exhaust tube are free of trash and snow and nothing come into your car cabin, become unconscious from carbon monoxide can happen just in time of one minute, one moment you feel yourself fine, several seconds later you are unconscious, some minutes later – you are dead. Do not use your car engine for heating, make fire from roadside debris, gasoline, everything that can burn. On blizzard use rope to do any task outside your car, loosing orientation on nervous emergency situation and do not find way back to your car are not rare case.

Do not panic! Again, do not panic! Any situation with panic “sauce” always become just worse, wrong decisions are taken and easy solutions are just forgotten, so do not panic!

That’s all, main winter survival recipes are simple, just think, be calm, follow rules made by centuries of actual people, stay safe and be prepared!

Customized survival gear kit for each important location is preferred, with duplicate items you can be sure that you have backup option anytime, but invest into useful and quality stuff cost you plenty of cash, so good option for anyone who count their expenses is made modular survival gear checklist and when you are in your car, boat, plane or own foot at wilderness camping trip, all your current gear has only right items included. We can talk endless hours about quality and price / performance ratio, but in general, one thing which an fit you, other may find unsuitable, so each of us must decide by yourself, what from this various choices fit your needs.

When I choose gear for my needs, I try to find out all possible information on it, to be sure that I do not miss any important nuance, after I choose and get equipment I test them on lifelike situations in my camping / hunting / fishing trips, so I can be sure that in emergency situations I know what to do and how it works. Don’t relay just on “backyard test”, grab your gear and go outside, you have great fun outdoors and compared to many “sofa survivalists” have real experience without extreme stress when disaster strikes.

Back to our gear checklist, good first core layer of extra usable and hard to be without items is a must to start complete your survival gear bag. This is items you carry every day in your pockets or bag, this is items without them you do not go outside your house. Main rule there, KIS – keep it simple, if you make large list most likely you forgot it or found heavy and to hard to carry every day and finally when you really need something you have nothing as your gear are left in car, at your office or so on.

What items add to your core survival gear list? It’s really depends on your everyday life, but good overall choice for basic kit is nothing special, but useful items which can help you in everyday tasks, like small and portable flashlight, one that go to your keyring and do not take over place would be nice choice, LED’s are very powerful these days and consume small amount of energy and on same batteries sets lasts for years, small Swiss army style pocket knife or multi tool like Leatherman for various tasks, small packet with some medical plasters, several foots of thin rope or thin wire for quick repairs and some needles should be good addition to it. Yes, that’s simple, better carry less but have it anytime that make huge list and finally do not have anything.

To expand your selection just think in the way what you really can use and not what you just want to buy for your survival gear collection. There are various gadgets around, which promise for us a lot of different feature but for real are just same old things just wrapped into shiny wrapping, so check before if it is really what I need to accomplish my task? To help out put only right gear in your survival gear checklist there are six main groups, in which fit all needed gear.

Signaling
In emergency situation you need to be seen by evacuation or search and rescue team, paramedics or just passing plane, boat, people or car. Various signaling devices can be used, from signaling mirrors, flares, visible and infrared light strobes or electronic distress transmitters, till simple fire and smoke. Think about your possible emergency situations and get at least several different choices, some of them like signaling mirror do not make your bag to heavy but can provide good ability to be seen and attract attention in worst case scenario when quick help is required.

Personal protection
Tents, so called “Space Blankets”, rainproof ponchos and your surrounding climate zone and weather suitable clothes, always think about adding one extra layer of heating as you never know in what and in what condition (injured, wet, tired) and in what kind of emergency situation you may be involved.

Tools
There come knifes, multi tools, axes, saws and other tools required to do something like building shelter, fix your gear, listen to emergency broadcasts, cook or heat your meal, start a fire or dug out some roots and catch a fish for your dinner. Do not let your tools just lay in the bag, go to camping trips and train your skills how to use and what you can do with them, this is fastest way find out any cons and pros including receiving real life training. Tools that do no “do” anythings are dead, you do not know how it’s work and if this really work, leaving pile of tools for “later” can crash all illusions at the time when you need them.

Food and water
Without proper food and water supply your chances reduce with every hour in emergency situation. Dehydration is extremely dangerous and often lead to death, this is essential to have enough water to your body for proper functioning. Food with long storage life, high on calories and possibility to be eaten without any cooking is always preferred for short emergency periods or for disaster first period when you do not have time to make fire and make delicious edibles for your pleasure. Also think about water needed for cooking, count them in with reserve if you have dry freeze food or anything that require water to cook.

First aid
Take a note that most of first aid kits at best are made for quick preparation of injured or diseased person before future evacuation, think about it when comply your own first aid kit, do you can rely on fast evacuation? How fast search and rescue team will come to you? Hour, day, several days, week or possibly never? Depending on this think what fit your first aid kit best, customizing it depending on your own needs and personal medicine threatening.

Reusable multi purpose supplies
Wire and rope in various sizes, plastic trash and zip lock bags for waterproof storage and emergency shelter building, heavy duct type, some various sizes carabiners, waterproof plastic or aluminum containers for storage. Put in some book, preferably with useful information like survival instructions, your area edible and in medicine usable plants descriptions, anything that is worth to carry on in your bag when you are on your feet.

Whatever you have in your bag, you must know how to use it, without knowledge everything is just a “dead weight” in your bug out or go bag, so go outside, explore interesting places, enjoy your outdoor experience with friends and you not only earn know how knowledge but also have great time outdoors!

Stay safe, and be prepared!