The New Free Suburban Survival Blog Classifieds Online!

by suburban | Aug 31, 2010 | General, Personal

Well, every­one, in an attempt to make it eas­i­er for you to find what you are look­ing for, The Sub­ur­ban Sur­vival Blog has launched our own Sur­vival Clas­si­fieds sec­tion where you can post what it is you are look­ing to sell, and where those of you (us) are... Read more

Why I Write About Cooking and Food

by suburban | Aug 24, 2010 | Cooking, Food, General

I, like many oth­ers in our coun­try, are VERY accus­tomed to just get­ting in the car, going to the gro­cery store and pick­ing up our food for the week.  Hon­est­ly, I grew up this way.  While many of my friends and their fam­i­lies ran farms, I was a... Read more

I Tried Making Butter, and It Was A Disaster

by suburban | Aug 20, 2010 | Cooking, Food

Well, I tried mak­ing some home­made but­ter.  And, maybe dis­as­ter was the wrong word… Appar­ent­ly, my biggest mis­take was using heavy cream that was “ultra pas­teur­ized.”  It turned out like flat whipped cream sludge.  It prob­a­bly could... 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

Smoked Turkey Update, Turkey Is Smoked and Resting Before Dinner

by suburban | Aug 13, 2010 | Cooking, DIY, Food, Personal

Well, the Smoked Turkey exper­i­ment is almost done.  We are ful­ly smoked, and the pic­ture to the left is the turkey as I unplugged the smok­er.  I took the tem­per­a­ture, and it seemed good to me by stick­ing the ther­mome­ter in the thigh of... Read more