Inexpensive DIY Tin Can Lighting and Cooking

by suburban | Feb 4, 2014 | Cooking, Light, Preparedness, Prepping, Stoves

As a life prep­per and sur­vival expert in the high desert there are cer­tain things that I cen­ter on when it comes to my fam­i­lies safe­ty, com­fort and sur­vival. The con­cen­tra­tion for todays arti­cle is on DIY light. Con­trary to pop­u­lar myth the high desert... Read more

Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

by suburban | Sep 1, 2010 | Bug In, Cooking, Energy, Gear, Light, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Shelter, Stoves, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Urban Survival, Weather

Well, the end of August is com­ing, and the weath­er is start­ing to change a bit; evenings are get­ting cool­er, and days are start­ing to get a bit short­er.  This to me is a clear sign of a few things.  One, some of my Bug Out Bag con­tents need to be... Read more

DIY — Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

by suburban | Aug 17, 2010 | Bug In, Bug Out, But Out Bag, Cooking, DIY, Preparedness, Stoves, Urban Survival

Instructa­bles .com has instruc­tions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc…  I am prob­a­bly going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hik­ing stove in my Bug Out... Read more

DIY — Alternative Method of Baking / Cooking — The Cardboard Box Oven

by suburban | Jul 30, 2010 | Cooking, Stoves

I am always look­ing for alter­na­tive meth­ods of cook­ing if the grid goes down, the gas stops flow­ing to my stove, or the SHTF in gen­er­al.  I came across this card­board box oven post and thought I would share it. Here is the post:... Read more

DIY — Make a Simple Cardboard Box Solar Oven

by suburban | Jul 13, 2010 | Cooking, Improvised Gear, Stoves

The sun is arguably one of the human­i­ty’s most impor­tant tool for sur­vival. It gives off prac­ti­cal­ly unlim­it­ed amounts of light that is used by plants to gen­er­ate ener­gy and ani­mals for heat. It can be used to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty with solar pan­els,... Read more

DIY — Build a Barrel Smoker for your Bug Out Location

by suburban | Jul 8, 2010 | DIY, Food, Homesteading, Stoves

Hope­ful­ly by the end of this you will be able to build your own BBQ smok­er out of some bar­rels.  I believe this smok­er is called an off­set drum smok­er.  With it you can smoke meats and foods.  It uses char­coal and fruit wood as fuel/smoke. How... Read more