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9 Disaster Preparedness Lessons Learned In Hawaii

9 Disaster Preparedness Lessons Learned In Hawaii When you think about Hawaii, do you think about preparedness and survival? Tropical drinks and sandy beaches, sure, but Volcano stoves and survival blankets – probably not. Hawaii is a place in which you need to be prepared. Hurricanes, while they don’t happen often, are often devastating when […]

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Cooking after the Apocalypse: How Many Portable Stoves Does a Survivor Need?

Cooking after the Apocalypse: How Many Portable Stoves Does a Survivor Need?

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Spam VS Ham: 6 Shelf-Stable Meats to Consider

When you think shelf-stable, do you immediately think of shelf-stable meat? Me neither. I mean, sure, my pantry is full of the usual zombie-fighting foods – canned milk and corn, yeah, but meat has been an issue we’ve been debating around the ol’ Prephappy offices lately. Do we stock up on canned meat or just […]

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9 Sneaky Gifts for Non-Prepper Cooks

As a prepper, I want to give my head-in-the sand loved ones the security I find in being prepared. But I’ve tried this before, and it just didn’t work out so great. What I found out, and you may have discovered for yourself, is that my non-prepper loved ones think I’m nuts. And my thoughtful prepper gifts were most likely re-gifted to someone at their workplace as a going away gift. Note to self: “no prepper gifts to non-preppers.”

So now, I’ve gotten sneaky about it and started fitting the prep to the person. If you’re looking for the right gifts for your non-prepper loved ones, try this: recall a problem that your loved one has expressed during the past year, and solve that problem with a prep. Once you start doing this, you’ll might find that it gets easier to give prepper gifts to non-preppers. It won’t solve all their problems, but let’s face it, neither will the hand-crank radio you gave them last year, now forgotten in a closet.

Today, I’m sharing with you my list of gifts for non-preppers cooks. We all like food, right?

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Preparing the Unprepared: 5 Ways To Help Your Loved Ones

Many of us have loved ones who are rigidly unprepared. To us, they seem to have their heads in the sand and anytime you share with them what you are doing and where you are with your preps, they roll their eyes (figuratively, if not literally) and bury their heads even deeper. Outside of an honest, straightforward conversation on the topic, what can a prepared person do for those he or she loves?

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