Thanks to James over at SurvivalPunk, I found I am able to use my considerable fame here at FloridaHillbilly to request samples for review. How could I pass up my favorite snacky/health food, Larabars? I’ve written about the bars before, having tried several from the locally limited options, but when I contacted the GREAT folks […]
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I Tried Using Cast Nets for Food, Not Bait
I went to the beach this morning to try my hand at cast-netting some dinner. (Green Deane made it sound easier than I found it to be.) A cast net is a round net with a collar in the center of it, a heavy line stitched to the perimeter, and lines running from the perimeter through […]
National Preparedness Month and My First Giveaway!
Contests are CLOSED! Winners Facebook: Rachel C. Subscriber list: flcracker92 and hcampers Stick around for future contests, and in order to be entered, all you need to do is subscribe! September is National Preparedness Month This contest is inspired by James at SurvivalPunk. He’s giving away stuff all month. He’s already started, go check […]
Vacuum sealing shortcut
In one of the forums at TheSurvivalPodcast.com, I saw an entry stating you can use FoodSaver’s FreshSaver pump on a FoodSaver wide mouth or regular mouth jar sealer, with no need for the hose, and more importantly for me, no need to dig out our full-sized FoodSaver vacuum sealer. “So what”, you say?
INTRUDER ALERT! or “About last night….”
Had a bit of a scare last night. As the wife and I were laying in bed, her asleep, I was reading, I heard a slight noise at the door the opens to the back yard off of our bedroom. As I listened, it grew into a thumping sound, like someone knocking, trying to scare us.
Review: Coleman 4D CPX 6 Classic LED Lantern and CPX Rechargeable Power Cartridge
This one is for Brian over at www.thewannabehomesteader.com. Thanks for the request! (My video review at the bottom) Yesterday I mentioned dealing with the power outage, and showed a picture of my family eating with a lantern on the table.
If you don’t like the situation, change your point of view
I ran into this monstrosity in my back yard a while back.
Salt – An Over-looked long term storable and Brining 101
I gave a whole rabbit to SB a week or so ago, and he let me know a few days later that he ended up smoking it whole – something I’ve not yet tried, but wanted to do. One of the things that I was concerned with is that rabbit, being a rather lean meat (but not […]
Thrifty Food Buy and Uses for 22 August 2012
This is my only “regular” weekly post, and it revolves around stores in my area, and food that we eat. We practice “Eat what you store, store what you eat”. Since I try to eat “Paleo”, this means very little food that includes any grains, legumes, or refined sugars. This week, a little change, I […]
How to Open a Brown Coconut
I’ve covered opening green coconuts, and briefly touched on opening browns ones in the comments on the same post, but recently my friend James over at Survival Punk made coconut bars and had an adventure getting the coconut open and the meat out. Apparently, this + this = the need for this. 🙂 Doing what I can […]