Take a Survival Test-Run

One of the best ways to test your survival skills is to spend some time outdoors, without electricity, running water, and flushable toilets.  This is not to say that every disruptive event will require you to live outdoors, but rather that such an event will require you to cope without modern conveniences.  As preppers, our hope is that such an event will be short-term in nature, but, as the saying goes, “hope for the best and prepare for the worst”.

About a year ago I was discussing this topic with Phil Cox, the CEO of Buy Emergency Foods.  For those of you that don’t know, BEF, as they are called, has been a sponsor of this website from the early days and is, what I like to call, a friend of Backdoor Survival.  At the time, we were chatting about their new line of cook-in-pouch meals, branded Bannock Foods.

We were talking about camping and how campers were embracing freeze dried foods and meal pouches in much the same way the backpackers have chosen FD meal pouches for years.  That got me thinking about camping and prepping and how one can beget the other.  To me, that makes perfect sense.  What better way to learn to prep and have a bit of fun at the same time?

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