De-Cluttering for DIYers, Homesteaders, Artists, Preppers, etc.

...l you want to discover your canned good are all expired, or that your camp stove doesn’t work. Don’t let your emergency supplies gather dust in bins. Instead, integrate them with your daily life. Stock Up Keep a stocked, rotating pantry full of dried goods for day to day cooking and expand the quantities so that you have enough for an emergency. (Personally, I think that, at minimum, any sensible household should be able to hole up for a week with...

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SurviveLA Food Review: Mary Jane’s Farm Organic Buttery Herb Pasta

...boiling water, reseal the bag and wait for ten minutes. I used a Pepsi can stove to boil the water, incidentally. It cooked well, with only a couple of the elbow noodles escaping hydrating and ending as crunchy surprises on my fork. The pouch claims that it holds 1.5 servings: a Mary Jane’s Organics eccentricity. I scarfed the whole thing down without difficulty and I’m a girl. I think Mary Jane intends us to buy more than one dish and share them...

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Make an Aluminum Can Lamp

...even cut. Precision isn’t necessary for this project (unlike the Pepsi can stove) so you can also do this step with a pair of scissors. 4. Punch out a 1/4 inch hole in the bottom of the can for the wick. 5. Cut a 1/2 inch by 3 inch piece of cotton from an old shirt for the wick. 6. Cut out a 2 inch by 1 1/2 inch piece of aluminum and use it to wrap up the wick tightly. 7. Fill the can with the window with lamp oil. Insert the aluminum wrapped wick...

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How to Hard Boil an Egg

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4x-nzwztJ0 Eric of Garden Fork, a.k.a. “East Coast Eric” tests two methods of making hard boiled eggs in this video: Instant Pot vs. a steamer basket on a regular old stove top. Watch the video to find out which method works best....

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Counterintelligence

...o when the cats figured out they could jump on the counter adjacent to the stove. From there they must have spotted the other counter and a week later made the dinner party assault on cheese summit. Perhaps someone will come up with a cat jump rating similar to the climbing grades used by mountaineers? In a parallel cognitive leap, the cats also figured out how to explore the cabinets and remove lids from Tupperware containers. Looks like we’re go...

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