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 weather for a variety of […]
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 the rice you have stored? […]
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. There’s no order of merit […]
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 in those images, yet increasingly […]
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 be life-changing. In view of […]
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 are nowhere near as many […]
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 them is important if you […]
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 only grow in warmer climates […]
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 out your resolve goes when […]
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 criteria to the latest study. […]