Become Survival Savvy — Dehydrate Food the Easy Way!

Yes, we all need to become survival savvy.

The word 'survival' conjures up all sorts of unpleasant images — like surviving a car crash to surviving a heart-attack. It's a conscious thought but we rarely go beyond anything more than just the thought.

Yes, some of us get a kick out of watching the Survivor TV show, but that's an altogether different ball-game.

The word 'disaster' gets demoted to the disastrous feeling of 'our home team lost the game' — that's a disaster?

Real Disasters ...

It's disaster survival in other parts of the world, like famines or mudslides, refugees seeking safe havens, which make us feel helpless to do anything.

How about contagious diseases, or volcano eruptions in Hawaii?

Or the tornadoes in Oklahoma?

Now these are disasters!

We need to pay attention to what we can do — in our own backyards.

And Speaking of Backyards ... First Experience of being Survival Savvy

My first experience of Survival Savvy after hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004, was easy, I'm sure, compared to poor souls who lost everything they own — including their lives — in mudslides, volcano eruptions, and wars. Read my brief story and see photos of how we got through the hurricanes.

When violence happens in your own backyard, you need to be survival savvy too. I can only imagine what the poor person felt like after discovering the Boston Marathon Bomber terrorist survivor hidden in his boat in his back yard. Drop the tarp and call for the police! He did the right thing.

Rising Food Prices

Food prices ARE still rising (no doubt they always will!), and we need to get prepared to save money by dehydrating foods while they're plentiful, i.e. "in season."

This brings us to Survival Savvy. And Action.

Take ACTION to save money by baking your own bread. YES, you CAN do it too. I'm proof of it! I'm no baker, but this bread is 'to die for' — click the bread link above for yummy photos and the link to get the 'mother of all breads' recipe!

Time to Get Down and Dirty

Stop Throwing Money Down the Toilet

Is It Possible To Save Money and stop throwing it down the toilet? You bet!  Save money by cutting out things that aren't absolute necessities, such as:

• Smoking, booze, soda pop ... but I'm not here to preach
• Stop eating out at fancy restaurants so much!
• Walk to the stores if they're not too far away to save gasoline!
• Turn the A/C up 1 or 2 degrees in summer — you'll get used to it and save money!
• Save money by using electric blankets on your beds in the wintertime instead of wasting money heating the WHOLE house during the night!
• Update your water-heater — new ones retain 85% of their heat!
• Save a TON of cash by drying your clothes on a rack — not in the electric/gas clothes dryer!

A Balanced Budget?

We still haven't had a balanced budget from any presidential administrations since the 90's — and yet they expect all taxpayers to stick to a budget! Sadly, most people DON'T have a budget, they spend more than they earn, and charge everything on their credit cards — and wham! It hits 'em like a ton of bricks ... hence all the bankruptcies across America.

People are not saving as much as they used to because prices are skyrocketing so they've nuttin' left over TO SAVE.

Funny thing is, you may not notice it on a day-to- day basis. When you look back to only a year ago, you'll see a price percentage rise in the double-digits – of many goods! You may also find companies are packaging product differently — i.e. same container — but it has an ounce LESS of product IN IT, but at the same price. All this in the name of stopping us from panicking and putting "two and two together." Yeah, right.

If you need help creating a balanced budget, Dave Ramsey heads the list.

You might like these ...

Home › Survival Savvy

↑ TOP OF THE PAGE