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Get your kids outdoors and make plantain crispies for a quick, nutritious snack

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A healthy snack may be as close as the nearest weedy lot. Here is how to use plantain, a free, common edible plant to make a quick and easy treat.

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Cutlery Reviews

Review: The L.T. Wright GNS may be your best bushcraft knife choice

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The L.T. Wright GNS bushcrafter promises to be a contender in that elusive, almost-mythical best all-around knife category.

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Hunt|Fish|Camp

Survival fishing: How to make a trotline from paracord

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Time is precious during an emergency. If you can make a fish trap or run a trot line, these can gather food, even while you’re doing something else.

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Making Fire

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Best survival firemaking method | Use cotton balls, Vaseline and ferro rod

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Here is my go-to fire making method for survival situations and how to use it. My number one choice is a combination of cotton balls infused with petroleum jelly and ignited with a ferro rod.

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Emergency Shelter

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Video: Gear you don’t need – dump the Mylar blankets from your survival kit

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Do you carry a Mylar blanket as an emergency shelter item? If so, here’s why you should get rid of it.

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Survival Gear

Jim Green boots help preserve your feet and endangered African animals

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This South African boot was designed by wildlife Rangers for combat with poachers of endangered African animals. The boots might work well for you.

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Survival Skills

What to look for in hot weather hiking boots

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Choosing your hot weather boot is as important as picking heavily-insulated footwear for winter wear. Here are some things to look for in hot weather footwear.

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VIDEOS | TIPS & HOW TO's

Video: Make a tasty, healthy tea with common ‘weeds’
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Summer is here, and if you’re doing anything outside you need to stay hydrated. Try weed (or herb) tea. Drinking lots of water isn’t enough – you also need electrolytes. This video shows a simple tea recipe that supplies vitamins and minerals and uses common weeds

Review: The L.T. Wright GNS may be your best bushcraft knife choice
 600 343 Survival Common Sense Blog | Emergency Preparedness

The L.T. Wright GNS bushcrafter promises to be a contender in that elusive, almost-mythical best all-around knife category.

Dutch oven cooking is an efficient way to cook food for large groups of people.
Video: How to make sauerkraut chocolate cake with storage foods
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Sauerkraut is a super food for preppers and survival and off-grid types, and here is one way to integrate it into your diet. With a delicious chocolate cake.

Leon Pantenburg writes a survival skills blog with tips and techniques to help typical folks survive an unexpected urban or wilderness emergency, using their common sense and emergency preparedness training. Topics include survival knives, survival clothing and camp cooking, making a fire, emergency shelter, hunting and fishing, competent survival skills and survival gear reviews.