Category Archives: Health & Safety

MyPyramid.gov – United States Department of Agriculture – Home

MyPyramid.gov – Lots of information, activities and resources about the food pyramid.

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Survival & primitive skills book list

Wildwood Survival – Book List – Survival & Primitive Skills.  Books about survival, living in the wilds, shelters, hunting, plants for food/medicine, animals for food, flint knapping, tanning, boats & canoes and more.

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Make a survival kit out of an Altoids tin

Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin | Field & Stream.  This one has great photos!  Very helpful.

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Assembling a survival kit for children in a plastic water bottle

Pocket Survival Kit Build Children’s Responsibility.

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Put together a 72-hour survival kit in an Altoids tin

BEST.

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Organize your family’s essential information in case of an emergency

Technophilia: Organize your family’s essential information in case of an emergency.  This article is a good starting point for gathering all your important info in one place.

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Make your own 10-day survival pack to store in your car

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25.  I would bet you’ve got a lot of the items on this list in your house already thus making this a worthwhile (and potentially free) project.

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Find out the details of all those chemicals in the food we buy

Ingredients — What’s in the stuff we buy? – Ever wonder what all those long, hard-to-pronounce ingredients are that are found in our food?  Well, wonder no longer.  This site breaks it all down for you.  Finally I know what Xanthan Gum is.

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