While many survival skills are often framed within the context of the great outdoors, there are also certain important survival skills that can be applicable within an urban environment. Living in the city may come with many comforts and luxuries, but these can easily disappear during a survival situation.
Article by Natural News, republished with permission from Naturalnews.com
When SHTF, it’s important to have a comprehensive set of survival skills you can rely on. Here are five essential urban prepping tips every prepper should follow. (h/t to UrbanSurvivalSite.com)
Learn first aid
Applying first aid in an emergency is not as simple as putting on a bandage. From knowing how to clean and suture minor wounds to administering CPR, learning the fundamentals of first aid can go a long way in helping you be prepared for anything. Time is of the essence during a medical emergency, and instinctively knowing what to do when someone is injured may mean the difference between life and death. Take the time to learn the basics on how to treat minor cuts and burns and work your way up to learning how to fashion splints for fractures and broken bones. Enrolling in first aid classes can help you learn medical emergency assessment and how to perform a number of relevant first aid applications.
Stock up on essential supplies
A fully stocked survival food pantry is a must-have for any prepper in case of food emergencies. But survival stockpiling requires a little more strategy than simply picking whatever food options you fancy at your grocery store. It’s important to have plenty of shelf-stable food options that are packed with beneficial nutrients to help fuel your body and keep you energized. Some long-lasting food options that belong in your survival pantry include honey, powdered milk, instant coffee, dried beans, nuts and seeds. Don’t forget to round out your survival stockpile with oats, whole grains, complex carbs and freeze-dried fruits and vegetables.
Grow your own survival garden
Now that you have your own survival stockpile, it’s time to take it to the next level with an urban survival garden. Growing your very own survival garden can help provide you with a sustainable source of fresh fruits and vegetables to further supplement your food supply. Root crops, such as potatoes, red beets, carrots and turnips, make excellent candidates for your survival garden. Not only are they packed with important nutrients but they are also reasonably easy to grow.
Learn how to find and purify water
Having reliable access to clean, drinking water is a must for any prepper in case SHTF. Even if you are able to get running water from the tap, this may not be immediately safe to drink. Before drinking from any water source you can access, be sure to boil, filter or purify the water first, preferably a combination of the three. Boiling the water can effectively eliminate germs while water filters or water purification tablets can help remove chemical contaminants. You can even build your own water filtration system with some charcoal, rocks, grass and sand. (Related: Prepping basics: Essential tips on how to prepare for a long-term water supply disruption.)
Learn how to start a fire
Starting a fire is one of the most basic survival skills every prepper should learn. During a power outage, a simple fire can help provide heat and light, allow you to cook food and boil water, as well as signal for help if you’re in need of a rescue. While you can start a fire with regular matches or lighters, you can also get a few sparks going with some flint and steel or a simple lens.
Stock up on important survival and preparedness items
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3 Non-Fearmongering Reasons Survival Food Should Be Purchased Immediately
Things are getting bad for millions of Americans, but there is still time to turn things around. Whether that means saving the country or just saving one’s family, Americans are still able to take actions that will improve their personal situations while hoping the nation itself can be improved in the near future.
“I’m generally an optimistic person so I get very annoyed by fearmongering,” said Jason Nelson, co-founder of Prepper All-Naturals. “Most Americans are neither stupid nor blind. They don’t need to be told that disaster may be around the corner. Either they see it or they don’t.”
Nelson has seen truly bad situations. As a combat disabled veteran who served across the Middle East, he knows that as bad as many Americans think things are today, they can get worse. That’s what drives him to not only try to make things better for his fellow Americans but also to prepare them in case everything goes south.
It’s easy to point at multiple threats facing Americans and declare them as “existential,” but there are actually common sense reasons for Americans to be stocking up high quality survival food. In times of such turmoil, it behooves Americans who have the resources to prepare for what may be coming.
Here are three reasons now is the best time to start (or continue) stocking up on survival food, including the 25-year shelf-life Ribeye, NY Strip, Tenderloin, or Sirloin sold by Prepper All-Naturals.
Survival Food Is Not Getting Cheaper
Freeze drying food is time-consuming and expensive. Beef, for example, must be cooked, frozen, and then freeze dried for over 24-hours in order to retain flavor and nutritional qualities. Unlike dehydrated beef or jerky, freeze dried beef does not suffer from a massive drop in quality.
Across the board, food prices are rising. This is especially true in the survival food industry because the food must be taken from fresh to freeze dried BEFORE it can be packaged and sold. Prices have been skyrocketing for meat products to the point that a few survival food providers have stopped offering beef and chicken.
Today, companies are doing what they can to keep their prices affordable but that may not be an option if food price hikes continue to outpace inflation… which is already bad enough. They buying power of the U.S. Dollar will almost certainly not get as much food in the future as it can today.
Supplies Are Dropping
Survival foods that were in stock at all times just last year are being listed as out-of-stock more and more. Even giants like Amazon and Costco are struggling to keep survival foods shipping or stocked on the shelves.
“We anticipated the demand spike last year which is why we started overproducing,” Nelson said. “It’s easy to stay ahead of the game when you only sell one product type and it happens to have a 25-year shelf life.”
The biggest challenge for many survival companies is that freeze drying has a finite production scale. The process cannot be sped up and unless there are open freeze dryers, it’s not effective to hire more people when demand is so high. In other words, production is forced to remain steady even when so many people are starting to buy survival food as they are today.
Quality Matters
There’s a common theme among many new preppers. Podcaster Joe Rogan said it best when he noted a couple of years ago that he had stockpiled tons of beans and rice buckets and he’ll be happy with that and nothing else if necessary.
Experienced preppers, especially anyone who has lived off low-quality food for extended periods of time, know that there’s a huge difference between good and bad survival food. The psychological effects of eating poor quality foods repetitively often hit much faster than people expect. Then, there’s the health concerns; protein in particular needs to be the best it can be for sustained periods of “survival mode” because poor quality meats or meat alternatives can cause cascading medical issues.
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Whatever event or events prompt the need to eat survival food, chances are high that over extended periods people will simply opt to eat less of their food because they won’t have the appetite to eat what’s necessary to retain strength. Low quality food can be both emotionally and physically draining.
Today, the “premium” survival food companies are running out of supplies faster than their budget competitors. This is natural because some foods such as the infamous “beef crumbles” offered by many survival stores become less appetizing the more they’re eaten.
“We had a customer tell us she had tried a few versions of ‘beef crumbles’ and they all tasted and felt like meat flavored porridge,” Nelson said. “Now she’s subscribed to receive both Ribeye and NY Strip monthly and she often uses it in her regular cooking.”
When survival food is good enough to eat during normal conditions, it’s definitely good enough to eat if things go south.
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