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I think there is a lot of misunderstanding of what cotton fabric can do, heavily influenced by silly claims from manufacturers of 'technical' cotton (Ventile etc) and treatments. At best, all you'll get is good beading off of water. Even with Ventile, it will wet through and feel damp, although...

This just brought this to my mind

Just back from Lidl. I had a look and I was gutted to see that there is no more mackerel in olive oil (there was none, nor was there a place for it on the shelves, i.e. no longer offered). But they still had mackerel in sunflower oil, so I grabbed a whole box of 20 -I use them a lot on hikes and...

Use normal fabsil, as it has UV protection too, better for tents. Gold is for jackets etc I think, and much pricier. And yes, Fabsil is awesome for that, it will make the water bead off, but it still does not become impermeable, which is what you want as it will remain breathable. Make sure...

Yip. Instead of laughing at, and then -when something goes wrong- blaming preppers for hoarding, and claiming it's their fault for not seeing any bog roll on the shelves, they should only blame themselves for not keeping any (as well as anything else), and realise preppers actually did them a...

Oh dear... now, that's a movie I don't want to watch again o_O

Some, possibly. The very very very rich ones (I am talking multi-million prepping) who can afford to prep much more than others, or maybe the 'newbie' 'romantic' ones who think they will do better than most. Both these categories can be a bit delusional about how they will make it through to...

The big canner will use a bit more energy for sure, though the energy is also -to some extent- proportional to how much is inside it, as the most energy is used to bring it all up to temperature and then it just ticks over. That said, I would love to have a smaller one, as I know what you mean...

Really, REALLY good tents. We have the one we use and one spare for when the old one gives up, which doesn't look like any time soon given how it's from 2014 and still going strong! It has seen some serious storms, by far the strongest bell tent I've ever had, very well-made piece of kit.

The All American is a WMD, that's why :D Unfortunately, it's also not the kind of thing you can stick in your bag back from a trip to the states. Look up Lovejars if you decide to get another canner at some point. The lady who runs it commissioned her own run of canners, it's similar to the...

This is more of an 'unlimited canned goods' question, but is anyone else using one of these? The photo is almost 'live', I am just canning now. We have a lot of excess stuff occasionally, and we also bulk-buy when interesting things are on offer. And a red deer shot in warmer weather means...

Flatbread is then your best bet, and it can be made very well. There is 'flatbread' and there is flatbread, more resembling the pittas you'd get with a Greek souvlaki rather than the boring 'pittas' you get in Tesco. For greek pittas, you are looking at roughly 600gr flour, 300gr water, 15gr...

Buy; Jars of sauerkraut Kielbasa torunska Double cream Hot paprika Slice the sausage, dump it in a pot along with the sauerkraut and cream, add paprika to taste, let it stew. That's a traditional Czech / Slovak xmas soup, albeit the kielbasa is not 100% authentic but close enough. My wife is...

Lidl do some pretty decent canned stuff, we are big fans of the greek / mediterranean section, the wife loves the okra cans and I will eat just about anything! They also do 'salsiccia', which is italian sausages, you'll find those in the meats sections, try the fennel ones. Actually, for all the...

There are definitely a million shades of grey in between and indeed the lighter ones are more probable. That said, the ultimate attack would not be drones, missiles, bombs, invading hordes, zombies and whatnot. The ultimate attack on our society would be switching off power and communications...

We make beer and the bottles often end up left for weeks after drinking, resulting in some pretty hard-to-remove dried yeast residues near the bottom. That stuff is hard to remove. Warm water with dish soap, leave it to soak for a bit, empty it, stick some sharp sand in it along with a bit of...

Yip. Just look at decent modern MREs, and try to replicate them. All stuff that tastes good, including candy, 'juice' drink, various stickies and many guilty pleasures, and all food can all be eaten cold. For a 72h kit, it makes little sense to stock anything other than that kind of thing. In...

Lentils... they cook in ca. 20-30' max, and they are great for you. They also keep for years vac-packed. Fuel-wise, I get you. But, if one is a bit more rural or if they have access to a garden, then you want to have one of these babies: a rocket stove. Just a few sticks will give you lots...

+1 from me for the olive oil! We are blessed with 200 olive trees in Greece, which make the oil for the whole extended family, and we always have a couple of cans sent over every year. Extra virgin olive oil is probably the best you can get in terms of oils, but even sunflower oil is decent...

Planned obsolescence. You are not just onto something; you nailed it.