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9 Hiding Spots In Your House Where Looters Always Look First

Thursday, March 14, 2024 13:36


by NICHOLAS OETKEN

When stockpiling supplies, it’s vitally important to hide as much of your stockpile as you can.
If the grid goes down, people will become desperate and once ordinary people will turn into thieves, raiders, and looters to the streets to rob and steal what they can to stay alive. They’ll target homes and stores in town first, and once those have been looted and stripped, they’ll set their sights on suburban homes next.
You may think you already have it figured out for how you can keep your stockpile a secret and hidden from any thieves or looters who may break in.

Unfortunately, thieves and looters can be a bit smarter than you may think. They’re already taking a major risk by breaking into any home, and they won’t want to leave empty-handed in exchange for taking that risk.
Furthermore, many thieves and looters will already be experienced and know exactly where to look in your home for your valuables or stockpiles.
That’s why it’s critical to be extra creative with where you hide your stockpiles and avoid hiding them in areas where looters are likely to look first.


Here are the nine hiding spots in your house that looters will always look for first:
Attics And Basements

It’s common practice for preppers to stockpile their food, water, and other supplies either in the attics or the basements of their homes.

The logic for doing so certainly makes sense. This way their stockpiles are out of the way and out of sight of any guests who come to visit. It’s important to keep your stockpiles as much of a secret as you can.
Just because your neighbors and regular guests are friendly now doesn’t mean that they won’t come knocking on your door demanding supplies later.



That being said, while stockpiling supplies in your attic or basement may be a good way to keep your preps a secret from your neighbors and guests you have over, it’s a much poorer way to keep them hidden from burglars and looters who break into your home.

That’s because most burglars are acutely aware that people will often store valuables in their basements and attics, so they are two rooms they will often go to investigate first.
Closet

A closet is perhaps the most obvious hiding spot there is. Looters will look through your entire closet, including the pockets of the clothing in your closet, looking for valuables, guns, or cash.
It’s common practice among many people to store their valuables in closets as well. If you have any valuables you’re keeping in your own closet at the moment, you would be wise to think about another location for them.

Dressers

Many thieves are acutely aware of the old trick of hiding valuables amongst shirts, socks, and underwear stored in dresser drawers. That’s why a burglar will open your dresses and pull all the clothing you have out looking for anything from cash to watches to jewelry.
Additionally, think twice about having any jewelry boxes on top of your dressers. If you have a jewelry box out in the open and a burglar comes rummaging through your house, it’s an absolute certainty that the box will disappear with them.
Mattress

The closet and dresser drawers will likely be the first two locations a burglar looks for in the bedroom. The next location they’ll look is under the bed and under the mattress. Just like how it’s common practice for people to store valuables in their closet, it’s also common practice to ‘hide’ valuables under a mattress.
Safes

A safe may seem like the ultimate place for storing precious items such as firearms or jewelry because it offers protection against both thieves and a house fire.
But a safe also makes it incredibly obvious about where your valuables are being hidden. Any small and portable safe can be easily picked up and carried out by a looter.


A heavy safe, such as a safe designed to carry rifles, will offer more protection. Most burglars will try to get in and out of your house as quickly as possible, and attempting to break into a big safe certainly isn’t going to help quicken their pace.
That being said, if a burglar happens to be experienced with safe cracking and is determined enough to try and break in, then your safe no matter how large is going to be vulnerable.

Suitcases

This is another old trick: to keep valuables ‘hidden’ in suitcases. The idea is thieves won’t think there’s anything inside your suitcases since you’re not traveling, but many thieves and burglars will be aware of this old trick just like how they’re aware of the mattress trick as well.
Storage Sheds

Burglars and looters may not just target the inside of your house; they may target other buildings on the property as well. Besides your garage, they may also break into any storage sheds or shops that you have outside.

Under the Stairs

Many homes have a spare storage space under the stairs. This is a good space to store certain items that you could do without, perhaps, but it’s not a good place to store your precious valuables.
Vases

Hiding valuables in vases is another classic trick. Most burglars who don’t care about their presence in the home being known will just knock over vases and other glass furnishings to break them and see if there’s anything inside.
If you were thinking about using any of the above locations as a hiding place for your valuables or supplies, you may want to consider getting a little more creative.

Imagine yourself as a burglar breaking into your home. Move through your home and think about the places where you would look first.
Additionally, and this may sound a bit strange, when going to the homes of your friend or family, imagine yourself as a burglar as well and where you would look in their homes.
You’ll likely come up with a few more hiding places that were not included in the above list.

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Survival foods: 5 simple, easy-to-make recipes for foods that can sustain you in emergencies

03/14/2024 // Olivia Cook // 700 Views

Tags: bannock, biltong, emergency food, goodfood, hardtack, parched corn, pemmican, preparedness, prepper, prepping, survival, survival food, trail biscuit, trench cake



When disaster strikes, it pays to know how to make foods that do not need many ingredients, are very nutritious and can last a long time when properly stored. Here are five recipes for easy-to-make survival foods you should know by heart.Hardtack

Also called hard bread, this tough biscuit is a survival food with a history going back as far as Ancient Rome.
Ingredients:

• 5 cups wheat flour
• 2 quarts water
• 3 teaspoons of salt

Combine all of these ingredients in a large mixing bowl. When the flour, salt and water have formed a dry bread dough, roll it out flat with a rolling pin or pat it out by hand. If the dough still has sticky spots, add more flour.
Make a 12-inch-thick dough sheet, cut it into three-inch squares and poke holes in both sides of each dough square. Bake these squares for 30 minutes per side at 375 F on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Keep your hardtack in a cool, dry and dark place away from pests. Once hardtack has fully dried, it can last for years if stored properly.
Pemmican

Pemmican is a very ancient forerunner to modern survival rations, known as a very weird meatball made of dried meat and rendered fat. It is filled to the brim with calories and its invention its popularity is traditionally credited to Native Americans.
Ingredients:

• 8 ounces of lard
• 8 ounces of packed powdered jerky chopped in a blender
• 8 ounces of dried fruit, ideally berries

Warm the lard in a pot to a temperature below 100 F until it turns into a soft, pasty texture. Keep stirring while it heats up. Stir your other ingredients into the softened fat until they have thoroughly combined with the lard, which usually takes about two minutes of continuous stirring.
If you have the ingredients, feel free to add small amounts of flour or other starch sources for additional carbohydrates. You can even add different spices to add some flavor.
Turn off the heat and, once the mixture is cool enough to touch, scoop it out by hand and compress it into round balls or flat cakes. Be sure to let the pemmican completely cook before you store it.
Traditionally, pemmican would usually be stored in rawhide containers. Instead of this, you can wrap up the pemmican in wax paper and keep it stored in a cool place. If kept relatively cool, pemmican can last for months. However, as the weather warms, it would be wise to eat the pemmican before the fat begins to smell rancid.
Bannock

Sometimes called skillet bread, bannock is a round, flat, unleavened bread that is associated with Scotland and northern England. Although you can adapt a bannock recipe for the oven, it is meant to be cooked in a skillet over a campfire or in a fireplace.
Ingredients:

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 ¾ cups dried fruit (e.g., cherries)
• 1 teaspoon chopped rosemary
• 1 ½ cups buttermilk or sour milk

Preheat your oven to 300 F.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine all of your dry ingredients except for the dried fruit and rosemary. Thoroughly mix them. Chop your dried fruit and rosemary into very fine pieces and set aside.
Now that you have a bowl full of dry ingredients, make a well in the center for your buttermilk. Add the buttermilk to the well and begin to slowly incorporate flour from the sides – this will allow you to control the dough consistency. Do not collapse the sides of the well. You will have leftover flour to coat your table and to use while you knead the dough.
Once the batter becomes stodgy and pasty, you can add your finely chopped dried fruit and rosemary. At this point, you are going to dump the dough out onto a floured surface. Work the dough and add flour until it becomes less sticky and the dried fruit and rosemary are fully incorporated.
At this point, you are ready to begin baking the bannock. Bake the bannock for 20 minutes until it has started to brown a bit. Remove the bannock and allow it to rest and cool. After the bannock has completely cooled, it can be sliced and served or sliced and stored.
The best storage method is to keep it whole until you need it. If you leave it uncovered, it will get very hard in a couple of days. Freezing would be the best way to keep it for a really long time. But if you don’t have that option, keep it hard and dry. (Related: 8 survival bread recipes for preppers.)
Biltong

Biltong is a traditional South African food that consists of dried and marinated meat. Whereas jerky is often smoked, biltong is cured with vinegar, salt and spices and then air-dried. Also, you can make biltong from a large variety of meat cuts.
Ingredients:

• 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of lean meat
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 3 cups plump sea salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons ground black peppercorns
• 100 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 5 cups vinegar
• 4 tablespoons of ground coriander seeds

To prepare the meat, always cut to the length of the grain, never against it. Prepare 1 cm thick slices of meat and then put those slices into the vinegar-Worcestershire sauce mix for half an hour. Store the remaining vinegar in the fridge because it will be used later in the recipe.
Crush all the spices and then mix in the salt, baking soda and sugar. Make sure that all the meat is perfectly coated with this and then layer those slices on a clean plate. Place the thickest slice at the base and the other chucks above it. Sprinkle your remaining spice mixture on top of the upper layer. Refrigerate for at least eight hours.
Take out the refrigerated chunks of meat and then soak them again in the vinegar mix for at least 15 minutes. Remove the meat slices and then rinse out the salt residue from every piece. Squeeze the moisture out of the meat pieces.
You can then dry the biltong in two different ways in the oven or in the traditional way by hanging the strips up on racks in a room with good circulation. Alternatively, the strips can be refrigerated and, if frozen, they can last for up to a year.
Trail biscuit

This is a stick-to-your-ribs food that will help stretch rations or fill bellies. The egg and lard are optional, but if you’re not using lard, substitute the baking powder for a couple of teaspoons of baking soda.
Ingredients:

• 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 egg (optional, if available)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup lard (or butter)
• 1 ½ cups milk

Preheat oven to 370 F or stoke your coals so they’re hot enough to cook on.
Combine flour, salt and baking powder (or baking soda) in a bowl, then cut the cold lard (or butter) into the flour mixture until you have pea-sized pieces. Add milk until the dough is barely sticky. Don’t overmix or your biscuits will be tough.
Drop about ¼ cup of the batter into a greased pan or Dutch oven. Cook for 20 minutes or so until the biscuits are brown. If using a Dutch oven, put the biscuits in.
There are many, many more survival foods you can make to keep you well-fed with necessary nutrients during survival situations, such as parched corn, trench cake, jerky, dried fruit, beans and rice and peasant's bread. What's important is you are aware of the kinds of foods you can make that can keep you sustained during emergencies.
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Read This Before Buying Survival Food

by FERGUS MASON
March 4, 2024


Food is a key part of prepping. Without a stockpile of food to keep you going through at least the initial stages of a crisis, your chances of survival are very low.
Unless you’re already completely self-sufficient – and not many of us are – you’ll be relying on that stockpile when the SHTF, so it needs to be large enough to keep you going. The question is, what should be in it?
Firstly, the kind of food you want in your survival stockpile depends on exactly what you’re planning to survive.
If you live in San Francisco and you’re putting together a stash to get you through the aftermath of an earthquake, your needs are very different to someone who’s preparing to survive the long-term collapse of civilization. In a crisis, any food is better than nothing – but the right food will make a big difference.
Let’s look at what you need in different scenarios.
Short Term Survival

Most residents of California’s earthquake hotspots take the state government’s advice and keep an emergency food supply at home, to keep them going for at least three days after a disaster. Personally I think everyone should do that. Even if you already have plenty of food at home it’s worth keeping a short-term stash in case there’s a natural disaster like a storm.
This sort of food supply should focus on food that’s energy-dense and doesn’t need much in the way of preparation. A storm or earthquake can leave large areas without power or water, so food that can be eaten cold and without rehydration is the best option here.
Military-style MREs are good; they can be eaten cold, straight out the packet, if necessary. They do taste a lot better if you can heat them, but it isn’t essential – and anyway, you can easily and safely heat them with a flameless ration heater. They’re also packed with energy, so they’ll keep you going for days.
Related: 4 Long-Lasting MREs You Should Make For Your Stockpile
A lot of bulk survival foods aren’t a good choice here. A bucket of survival food might promise 60 or 120 portions, but they won’t be very large portions; in my experience it’s best to half the number of servings the manufacturers promise, if you want to get anywhere near enough calories. They also need a lot of water, and you really don’t want to be eating cold rehydrated food – it’s pretty vile.
Instead of MREs, or as a supplement to them, look at canned foods like chili and stew. These taste better hot, but they’re palatable cold, too, and they don’t need any extra water. Pouches of tuna are good too. Add canned fruit, cookies, chocolate and candy. A nutritionist wouldn’t be happy, but this isn’t a long-term diet; it’s just meant to give you enough energy to push through the first few days after a disaster.
In this scenario, in an urban area, it’s not a luxury to have food that doesn’t need cooked; it’s essential. Even if you have a stove to cook on, damaged gas pipes could make it too dangerous to risk any kind of flame. Make sure you have enough food that can be eaten with zero preparation.
Medium Term Survival

So you’re all ready to survive for a few days if you get snowed in or the city falls down around you.
Next, what happens if there’s a nuclear war or a serious social breakdown?
Now you’re looking at having enough food to survive for weeks or even a few months.
Over this length of time, the sort of stuff in your short-term cache starts to show its limitations. For a start, it’s expensive. With MREs selling for $15 each and upwards, a three-month supply is a serious amount of money. Over this sort of time period the nutritional weaknesses of MREs and prepared snack foods start to show up.
We’re now looking at the classic prepping food supplies. Dried beans, rice and pasta should be the base of what you’re stockpiling. That gives you plenty of carbs and adequate protein. Add in cooking oil to supply fats. Canned meat, vegetables and fruit will add fiber, more protein and variety.
Salt and sugar contribute flavor and can also be used as preservatives. Don’t forget seasonings so you can produce varied, interesting meals – that makes a huge difference to morale. Flour will let you make your own bread and other baked goods. Don’t forget tea or coffee to keep you supplied with hot drinks.
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In the medium term water and energy for cooking are less of a problem. You’ll still want to minimize how much you use, because they’re not limitless resources, and some survival foods aren’t naturally economical – dried beans, for example. There are ways to cut fuel use, though. For example, presoak beans to reduce cooking time.
I’m going to mention dehydrated survival food again. These do better in the medium term than as short-term emergency foods, but I’m still wary of them. They taste OK when properly prepared and served hot, but all the same problems of small portions and inadequate caloric content still apply. I wouldn’t recommend making these a major part of your stockpile. Stick to dry bulk goods and cans.
Long Term Survival

If you want to be able to stay fed indefinitely, sooner or later any stockpile is going to run out. There are long-term items that can keep you going for a year or more, until your own crops and livestock take up the slack; dried goods are key here.
Beans and rice will still be the basis of your carbohydrates.
Store as much salt and sugar as you can; producing your own isn’t easy, and you want to put that off as long as possible. Your long-term supplies need to prioritize things you can’t make easily or at all; basic protein, carbs, fiber and fats are, at some point, going to have to be hunted, foraged or raised.
Buying survival food isn’t just about buying as much food as you can and storing it in your shed or basement. You need to tailor your stockpile to suit what you think the danger is – but also keep it as flexible as possible.
If you live in a disaster-prone area and want a week’s worth of prepared food, add enough dried and canned goods to last another week if the crisis lasts longer than expected.
If your priority is long-term self-sufficiency, stockpile some MREs or prepared food just in case you have to get through a period of chaos before you can start using your main supplies. Like everything else in prepping, buying the right survival food is all about planning and making the most efficient use of your resources.
Selecting the right survival food is crucial for your preparedness strategy, yet it’s equally vital to consider sustainable, long-term solutions. Despite a well-stocked pantry, your ultimate resilience lies in getting really good at being self-sufficient, particularly in food production.
For those who are serious about surviving whatever comes their way, I strongly recommend this comprehensive guide. It offers invaluable insights and practical advice for transforming your backyard into a self-sustaining homestead.
Remember, while stockpiling food serves as a temporary fix, learning how to grow your own food ensures you can keep going for the long haul.
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How to make your own LIQUID SOAP without harmful chemicals

03/19/2024 // Olivia Cook // 880 Views

Tags: chemical-free, DIY, DIY soap, green living, homesteading, how-to, liquid soap, natural ingredients, off grid, preparedness, prepper, prepping, recipes, soap making, survival, tips



Soap is an incredibly useful household item in everyday life. Soaps allow us to keep clean and prevent the spread of harmful bacteria, microbes and germs that make us sick.But have you ever purchased bath soap from big box stores, only to find out they smell weird when you sweat or totally dried your skin after using it? This is because commercial soaps contain fragrances and big soap manufacturers have tried to train us that "clean" has a smell.
The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) lists 3,059 materials that are reported as being used in fragrance compounds – and these compounds are often included in store-bought soaps. Some of these have been linked to adverse health effects including cancer, reproductive toxicity, allergies and sensitivities.
Fragrances are considered "trade secrets" so manufacturers are not required to disclose the potentially hundreds of toxic ingredients hiding behind the words "fragrance," "perfume," "essential oil blend," and/or "aroma" found in most personal care products.
That being said, the best reason to use homemade soap is that you control its ingredients. The natural ingredients you choose to incorporate in your soaps can add a healing touch to your daily skin routine.
Homemade soaps are safe and easy to make. They are cost-effective and do not pollute the environment. Additionally, you can customize your homemade soap to your liking.
Make your DIY liquid soap with just 4 ingredients

Author and home blogger Karrie Truman of HappyMoneySaver.com shares her liquid soap recipe that only requires four ingredients.
First, liquid Castile soap is popular among people wanting to live more naturally. It does not contain harsh substances that strip the skin of its natural oils and moisture. EntirelyEco CEO Loni Brown says this quality makes liquid Castile soap a good choice for people with highly sensitive skin and respiratory systems.
Castile soaps are made using coconut, palm kernel or hemp oil, and are also available in solid form. They are readily available from health food stores and online retailers. (Related: Use natural liquid Castile soap for safe and wonderful homemade shampoos.)
Second, distilled water will help dilute the concentrated Castile soap without reducing its effectiveness. The process of distillation – purifying water by boiling it and collecting the resulting steam – offers the highest removal rate for the widest range of contaminants at 99.9 percent.
Third, essential oils can be added in to customize the liquid soap's scent. Here are some good essential oils to use in your liquid soap that not only provide a natural aroma, but also fight germs.

• Lavender has a delicate, sweet smell with a calming effect
• Eucalyptus is often used to relieve nasal congestion
• Lemon has an invigorating smell that also kills pathogens
• Tea tree is known for its antibacterial properties masked by a fresh, herbaceous scent

Lastly, fractionated coconut oil (FCO) is a natural ingredient used for various household and personal care purposes. It is made by separating the different types of fats in regular coconut oil. The fractionation process renders FCO highly shelf-stable, lasting indefinitely at room temperature compared to only two years for regular coconut oil.
To make your natural liquid soap, simply combine the four ingredients in the amounts below and put in your soap dispenser of choice:

• 1 cup distilled water
• 1/4 cup unscented liquid Castile soap
• 1 tablespoon FCO
• 15 drops essential oil of your choice

It is advisable to use glass bottles to store your DIY liquid body soap because glass in impervious to essentials oil and is the perfect container for keeping DIY products fresh. Glass is also really easy to clean after using oils in the container. You only need to use water and soap to get the residual oils out.
The FCO can be replaced with other carrier oils like olive oil, grapeseed oil, jojoba oil or sweet almond oil. If you prefer your liquid soap unscented, you can choose not to add the 15 drops of essential oil.
Do not use fragrance oils for this DIY liquid soap. Fragrance oils, also called aromatic oils and flavor oils, are often blended synthetic aroma compounds or natural essential oils that are already diluted.
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