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The Survival Mom - Helping moms worry less & enjoy life! The Survival Mom Home Free! Prepper Printables & Videos Ask The Survival Mom List of Lists 31 Survival Books General Preparedness Lists Community 52 Week Savings Club on Facebook Preppers with Challenges Facebook Group Skinny Survival Moms on Facebook Texas Survival Moms on Facebook We Are Survival Moms! on Facebook About As Seen On… Comment policy Get to Know Lisa Important Stipulations and Fine Print Privacy Policy Start Here The Blog Survival Mom Store Podcasts Videos Skill of the Month Books & Webinars Free! Send me free survival and prepper updates! I consent to receive information about special offers by email. Organize Your Emergency Evacuation in 5 Simple Steps It was Day 3 of the flooding following Hurricane Harvey that I finally told my kids, "Get your emergency kits ready to go by the back door. We may have to leave if the flooding gets any closer." Day by day, hour by hour, floodwaters had crept closer to our neighborhood. One ... Read More 3 Ways to Preserve Eggs & Milk for Long-term Storage UPDATED 12/9/19 We have an abundance of milk and eggs on our farm due to our milk cow and a flock of laying hens. Production slows down a bit in the winter, but in the summertime, we run two fridges just to keep up with it all! I'm desperate to turn my second fridge ... Read More DIY Spice Mixes I felt intimidated at the thought of making my own DIY spice mixes at first. The little packets you can buy at the store made it so easy, and they made my dinners taste good. Then, there was the night I was making fajitas and realized I did not have a fajita seasoning packet in ... Read More Fast & Healthy Meals in a Jar Winter is a time that I usually spend organizing and cleaning stuff since I can’t spend a whole lot of time outdoors without turning into a human popsicle! So one of my winter projects is usually to go through my root cellar and my food storage, rotate stuff, check quantities, ... Read More 7 Reasons to Buy Old Cookbooks I keep my eye out for old cookbooks when I go to thrift stores or garage sales. They are part of the books we keep on hand for reference material and for other reasons too. And by “old,” I mean cookbooks from the early 1980s or earlier. 7 Reasons to buy old cookbooks 1. ... Read More Could You Stomach These Great Depression Meals? With all the talk about food storage and growing our own food, I did a little digging around to find out what some people ate during America's Great Depression of the 1930's. What were the most popular Great Depression meals of that era? Surprisingly, a few of these were made by ... Read More Planning an Edible Landscape Make the most out of your yard by creating an edible landscape. Every March, I am consumed with spring fever and can barely wait to get outdoors and turn my winter laden yard into a fairy tale garden. This year, I decided to start the long but productive process of ... Read More 4 Must-Have Mini Emergency Kits For Your Purse Life is full of emergencies. Some are big, like earthquakes and hurricanes. Some are smaller and occur in our everyday lives. Here are a few mini-kit ideas you can fit in a Ziploc bag! If your mini kit is really mini, you can use a metal Altoids tin or a metal eyeglass case like ... Read More 37 Hygiene Items to Add to Your Survival Supplies If you've ever been camping for more than 2 or 3 days, you know what it's like to start feeling icky and grimy and in desperate need of a hot shower and clean clothes. Well, imagine yourself living through an extreme crisis like a Hurricane Harvey sized flood or a long-term power ... Read More Last-Chance Apocalypse Shopping: Walgreens Picture this. The S has hit the fan in a big way. You're fairly well prepped but have the chance to get to ONE store to buy anything at all that might help you survive in the coming weeks/months. What if that ONE store is: Sally Beauty? Walgreens? Tractor Supply? The ... Read More See all my Most Popular articles here... The truth about disinfectants: Q&A with an expert February 5, 2020 by The Survival Mom 11 Comments I'd be lying if I said I wasn't keeping track of news coming out of China. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus has caused the Chinese government to shut down some of their largest cities, most popular tourist attractions, and as of today's ... Read More Tackle Your Toughest Prepping Problems! (video) January 31, 2020 by The Survival Mom Leave a Comment I love getting emails from my readers and asking questions on Facebook because it gives me insights into what your most pressing concerns are. Over the past couple of weeks as my DO IT NOW 2020 challenge progressed, I began hearing comments like ... Read More Join my new 5-day Challenge, DO IT NOW 2020 January 24, 2020 by The Survival Mom 1 Comment Are you ready to take action and get your year off on the right prepping foot? Are you tired of just THINKING about what needs to be done to prep your home, your family, and yourself? I have just the antidote for all that! My new 5-day ... Read More Organize Your Emergency Evacuation in 5 Simple Steps January 12, 2020 (UPDATED: January 13, 2020 ) by The Survival Mom 15 Comments It was Day 3 of the flooding following Hurricane Harvey that I finally told my kids, "Get your emergency kits ready to go by the back door. We may have to leave if the flooding gets any closer." Day by day, hour by hour, floodwaters had crept ... Read More 13 Survival Must-Haves You May Not Have Thought Of January 5, 2020 by The Survival Mom 116 Comments I've read dozens, and I mean dozens, of lists telling me everything I need to have with me to survive. Usually there are no surprises. This list of 13 survival must-haves has some genius suggestions for items your emergency kit might be ... Read More 13 Food Storage New Year’s Resolutions January 3, 2020 (UPDATED: January 4, 2020 ) by The Survival Mom 10 Comments This new year, most people are setting goals for health, fitness, money, or organization. However, you may not have thought of adding a resolution about your food storage. Here is a list of 13 Food Storage New Year's resolutions to help you improve ... Read More Could You Survive TEOTWAWKI in Your State? Here are the 5 Best and Worst States for Survival December 30, 2019 (UPDATED: January 1, 2020 ) by The Survival Mom 106 Comments Have you ever wondered how your current home location ranks in terms of survive-ability in case of a major catastrophe? When you consider the possibility of The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) how survival-friendly is your location? Did ... Read More What’s Bugging You? Dealing With Parasites in Humans December 27, 2019 (UPDATED: November 26, 2019 ) by Mary Blandford 27 Comments Many different types of parasites can affect us in the aftermath of a man-made or natural disaster. If we have a scenario of a large scale disaster or the grid goes down, we will encounter things, yucky things, that we normally wouldn't, including ... Read More Last Minute Holiday Gifts for the Prepper Dad December 23, 2019 (UPDATED: November 14, 2019 ) by Bethanne Kim 10 Comments Men! They can be so hard to buy for. My own husband is possibly the worst. This year I bought him a beautiful menorah and, wouldn't you know, he just happened to open that particular Amazon box -- after I had spent weeks wondering what I should get ... Read More Clever Gifts For Your Non-Prepper Loved Ones December 19, 2019 (UPDATED: November 14, 2019 ) by Anita Morrill 1 Comment You love your non-prepper family members, but they think you're nuts. Until you show them your Life Straw or cool Swedish Survival knife, and they say, "Hey, that's a good idea!" With graduation and wedding season around the corner, ... Read More Click Here to Visit My Blog For More Most Popular Articles!!! At Home Food & Healthy Living Extras Preparedness Survival Tips Copyright © 2020 · The Survival Mom · Built on the Genesis Framework · Web Design...