Learn to make your own delicious emergency ration bars. This recipe is perfect for hiking, camping, or as part of your survival preps.

Pemmican is a traditional food and proven to be viable in times of survival. It has an interesting history as a healthy backpacking food.

These survival recipes are nutritious, easy to make, and have a long shelf life. Hardtack, pemmican, jerky, biltong, bannock, and more.

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Hard Tack is a delicious long-lasting cracker-like flatbread!

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Here is another mix for your collection! Our family loves Mexican food: tacos, burritos, enchiladas, quesadillas--pretty much anything you wrap in a tortilla. The cost of store bought tortillas seems to keep going up--$1.67 for 10 tortillas?! Homemade tortillas are not only very easy and inexpensive to make (about $.25 for 10) they taste so much better than the store bought ones. Tortilla Mix 16 C. flour (use unbleached or add up to 1/2 whole wheat) 2 Tbsp. baking powder 2 Tbsp. salt (you can use a little less, but some salt really does make a difference in the flavor) 1/2 C-1C. shortening (I like about 3/4 C. of palm shortening (no trans fat!)) Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and stir with whisk to fully mix. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or hands. Store mix in airtight container. To Make: Place 2 C. tortilla mix in a bowl, making a well in the center. Add 1/2-3/4 C. warm water, a little at a time, mixing until you have a soft dough. Knead dough for a short time till it becomes elastic. Cover with plastic and let it rest 10-15 minutes. Form small balls, pull the dough around the bottom of the ball to make top smooth. Set aside, covered with plastic wrap. Dip dough balls in flour and roll out thinly. Cook on preheated dry griddle until top begins to bubble, Flip and cook for about 15 seconds more. To keep warm: stack between towels. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.

Survival Bread I think the true "survival bread" that will really last indefinitely is Hard Tack. (There is a place where they have some from Civil War times on display that is still edible.) You can check out my blog post on that if you like... (click here) This following recipe says it will last indefinitely. I don't know, but I'm sure it would last a long time. I think it would be a good recipe to whip up if you have a little time to prepare for a potential disaster coming your way, like a hurricane, or to throw in a backpack. Credit where credit is due, I saw this on Pinterest on this blog... (click here) ~See my comments afterward for a few suggestions before you try it.~ Survival Bread 2 cups oats 2 1/2 cups powdered milk 1 cup sugar 3 Tbsp honey 3 Tbsp water 1 pkg. lemon or orange Jell-O (3oz) "Combine oats, powdered milk and sugar. In a medium pan, mix water, Jell-O, and honey. Bring to a boil. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. (If the dough is too dry, add a small amount of water a teaspoon at a time.) Shape dough into a loaf. (About the size of a brick.) Place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Cool. Wrap in aluminum foil to store. This bread will keep indefinitely and each loaf is the daily nutrients for one adult." I mixed the wet and just heated it in the microwave. When you add the wet to dry, mix it up but then get your hands in there and knead it together. Otherwise, it will mix too dry and you will end up adding more water than necessary. I used 3-4 Tbsp. Make sure to grease the pan! As it cooled, it stuck like cement. Also, it cuts much easier before it cools. I thought the Jell-O flavor was just a tiny bit too strong. (I used lemon.) I'd use maybe 1/2 to 3/4 the amount. The recipe says to shape in a loaf like a brick, but I shaped it into 3 small loaves. Whatever you prefer. I cooked it for 20 minutes, but 15 would have been enough. It had already cooled, and my knives aren't great, so I just cut it into chunks rather than nice thin slices. Thanks for stopping by! :) Pin It

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I love chicken. But other than a mean southern fried buttermilk chicken maker (thanks to my Nana’s Recipe)… I’m not exactly very good at cooking it. I stumbled across this interesting recipe that uses a coffee can and seems pretty foolproof. I think I’m gonna use this one the next time I head out to […]

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I really like to make corn chowder, since it can be adapted to a lighter, vegetarian meal for us in the summertime. I ran across a recipe in Russ Cohen's book "Wild Plants I have Known . . .And Eaten" for a similar chowder using the male parts of the flower spike on cattails. It sounded interesting, so I made it, using my method and vegetarian ingredients. This soup is so tasty, Gillian will eat a bowl and a half without hesitation. Robert loves it, and so do I. I don't use heavy cream, and substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth. Cattail Chowder makes about 5-6 servings 4 Tbsp butter 1 medium onion, diced 4 Tbsp flour 2 C. vegetable broth 2 C. low-fat milk 2 C. potatoes, diced 1 celery rib, diced 1/2 C. sweet red pepper, diced 2 C. cattail spike pulp, stripped from the spike 5 bay laurel leaves salt and pepper 1. Sautée the onion in the butter until it is soft and translucent. 2. Add the flour and stir, cooking about 1 minute. 3. Pour in the vegetable broth and milk, and slowly bring the mixture up to a boil, stirring often. 4. Add the remaining ingredients, and reduce the chowder to a simmer. Cook 10-15 minutes, stirring often, until the potatoes are tender. Remove the bay laurel leaves to serve.

Pemmican is one of our favorite survival foods because it is lightweight, easy to make, and high in nutritional value. Check out our pemmican recipe here!

For centuries, pemmican was the ultimate survival food. But is there any reason we would want to eat it today? Yes! And here's the recipe.

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