Dental Floss - A Survival Tool?

Dental floss can be an extremely cheap and useful survival tool to have on hand. Small enough to keep in your pocket or handbag all of the time. Survival tool to always have on you in an emergency.

You can use it for these alternative uses and more:

Sewing - Use the floss like regular thread to mend clothes, outdoor equipment, and backpacks, or to sew on buttons.

As a clothes line - Double up on the string and use it as a clothes line when you are camping

 

D.I.Y. fishing rod - Are you stranded in the middle of nowhere and feel hungry? Tie the dental floss to a stick to make a fishing rod or to replace a broken line on your rod.

Fish or animal net - Knot the floss in a criss-cross pattern to make a net which can be used to scoop fish out of water or catch animals. Hold the "net" or attach it to a sturdy branch. You can also make a snare with nylon string.

Climbing plants support - Climbing plants, beans, and other vegetables often need to be supported. Tie them to a structure with a bit of floss. Great for use with a trellis.

 

Wind break - Use it to hang a blanket or tarp to make a wind break or temporary shelter.

 

Rope - Don't have actual rope on hand? Use this dental floss to tie things down or secure things. 

 

Shoelaces - This is an excellent quick-fix for shoe laces in a hurry! 

 

This is just a short list of what you could use dental floss for in an emergency situation. I am sure that you could come up with some other awesome ideas. 

Food Storage Recipe - Peanut Butter & Granola Wraps

Peanut Butter & Granola Wraps

•1 cup peanut butter

•1 cup granola

• ¼ peanuts (chopped)

•2 tablespoons honey

•1/2 cup dried cherries

•4 ten inch tortillas

In bowl, combine peanut butter, granola, chopped peanuts, and honey and mix well. Stir in dried cherries. Spread tortillas with peanut butter mixture. Roll up tortillas and cut in half.

dutch oven cooking

dutch oven 

Dutch Oven cooking is the best! Easily done when camping over a fire.

Cooking off the grid, part 1: Building a solar cooker :: The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing.

Cooking off the grid, part 1: Building a solar cooker :: The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. 

I like the looks of this one. Will have to make one like this.

A Beginners Guide to Home Canning & Food Preserving: Recipes, Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Chutneys, Relishes Plus More

A Beginners Guide to Home Canning & Food Preserving: Recipes, Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Chutneys, Relishes Plus More... (Simple Living) was free when I wrote this.

It is an undeniable pleasure for the modern individual to look at the work accomplished by his or her own hands with a sense of pride and ownership. While humans will no longer generally starve to death if we don’t preserve food at home (as we once would have done) we still enjoy the self-reliance that doing so brings.

A Beginners Guide to Home Canning & Food Preserving is for anyone wanting to learn the art of Home Canning. The book cover such topics as:

History of Food Preservation
Definitions of Various Food Preservation Methods
Food Safety and Safety Precautions
Sourcing Tools, Equipment and Food
Altitude Adjustments
Water Bath Canning Details & Pressure Canning Details
Recipes Including Jams, Jellies, Butters, Chutneys, Relishes, Pickles and Meat Fish and Poultry

If you are an old hand at food preserving and canning you may even find a new recipe included in book.

Although the canning process is the most labor intensive procedure, all methods promote a sense of pride, accomplishment, and self-reliance. There’s nothing like opening the pantry or freezer door on a frigid winter’s day, where the snow - already up to the window sills - is coming down so hard you can’t see your mailbox, and finding row upon row of neatly labeled produce and meats and remembering once again that if the world ended outside your door, your family would still eat well.