By Lizzie Bennett Survival in extreme situations often depends on an individuals ability to respond to the threat they are faced with. The stress response in humans has for decades been referred to as the ‘fight or flight’ response. Now if you have a couple…
By Lizzie Bennett Note: Originally published March 18, 2016 Nobody knows why having a cold makes a person feel totally crap..it just does. I have a cold right now, but nobody believes me. Sniff. Colds affect everyone differently. In my case I wake up feeling…
By Lizzie Bennett This week has seen the veggies stocked by UK supermarkets and even specialist green grocery shops dwindle. It has also provided some valuable lessons for those of us with a prepper mindset. Bad weather in across Europe has hit hard leaving European…
By Lizzie Bennett Yep you read that right. Scientists have created the first human-pig chimera. Chimera is a fancy name for hybrid – the embryo concerned has both human and pig DNA. Why you might ask, what’s the point? Well, scientists are hoping to create…
By Lizzie Bennett These small batteries don’t even have to be broken, chewed or damaged in any way to cause a terrible death from internal bleeding. We all have one…a junk drawer. The place we shove things that we will want again, but we’re not…
By Lizzie Bennett We hear a great deal about the prepper mindset, the will to survive. Well I have discovered during the last couple of weeks that having a prepper mindset may not be enough to get me through a major crisis. A…
By Lizzie Bennett Are you predator or prey? If you spend any amount of time around animals you will notice that they are creatures that maximise every opportunity to get a meal or gain the upper hand in most situations. Even domestic pets follow…
By Lizzie Bennett The reasons we turn to preparedness as a way of life are so variable it’s impossible to cover all of them. Some have a personal crisis (me), others have a bad feeling about the way the world is going, some have been…
By Lizzie Bennett Every winter we are bombarded by information about the cold and how to protect ourselves from it and from health issues associated with it. Wrap up warm, keep one room heated to a minimum 18*C, avoid hypothermia, eat and drink warm food,…
By Lizzie Bennett Some Life-Saving Advice About Mylar Emergency Blankets: And 28 Alternative Uses for Them As it’s getting colder it’s a good time to revisit the uses of mylar blankets in survival situations…and to warn people that these things can kill you if you…
By Lizzie Bennett I wrote a few days ago about vehicle preparedness in winter. I want to follow on from that today with things you should be thinking of if you find yourself caught outside in freezing weather. People find themselves caught outside in freezing…
By Lizzie Bennett Okay, so you have a three-year food supply, bagged, wrapped, canned and stored. You have rotated your stock, and stored what you will actually eat. You have it covered right? Well maybe, maybe not. Do you know how many calories are in…
By Lizzie Bennett Although all vegetables are good for us some are more nutrient dense than others. As a general guide the more vibrant the colour the more packed with minerals and vitamins a vegetable is. Dark green ‘curly’ cabbage trumps light green every time….
By Lizzie Bennett Do a search for images of malnutrition on any search engine and you will most likely come up with pictures of wide-eyed, big-bellied babies from some part of the developing world. Rarely will you see a child from California, Sydney or London…
By Lizzie Bennett Every so often something happens that really can change lives. A low-tech fix that works and works consistently. In a world where people often go to bed hungry and can’t even consider medical treatment because of the cost such a fix would…
By Lizzie Bennett Everywhere you look there are plastic carrier bags. They lurk up corners, under hedges, stuck in trees and in my case in a bag up a corner in the garage. Since the UK introduced a 5p charge for plastic carrier bags there…
By Lizzie Bennett Regardless of what you think the future may throw at you there are some things that will put you in good stead whatever happens. A crisis will fall into one of five categories: Personal Local Widespread National International Global Each one of…
By Lizzie Bennett If you want a versatile, strong plant that has a huge amount of uses look no further than bamboo. Much Maligned But A Perfect Prepper Plant: 15 Reasons Why You Should Grow Bamboo Bamboo is a grass that most people assume can…
By Lizzie Bennett 30 Uses For The Items In Your ‘Crap Drawer’ Every household has one…a crap drawer, or cupboard where lurks an odd collection of bits and bobs that have no permanent home. As fast as you make your mind up to clear it…
By Lizzie Bennett A new study which looks at bee colony deaths has shown for the first time that even pesticides marked as safe for use around bees are implicated in the die-offs of bee colonies. Researchers at The University of Maryland applied a different…
