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Bug Out Bag Essentials: Top Items to Ensure Your Survival

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Bug Out Bag Kit: Your Ultimate Guide to Emergency Preparedness

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12 Unique Rechargeable LED Flashlights Ideas

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How to Preserve Your Favorite Fruits

Have you ever been in the middle of eating a piece of fruit and suddenly notice it has mold growing on it? Not only is that gross, it could make you sick. 

Mold can grow inside the soft flesh of fruit where you can’t see it until you’ve taken a few bites. Generally, mold will spread faster on soft fruits than on hard ones because it more easily penetrates into softer flesh.

While some people might not be affected by eating a small amount of mold, others can have issues. People might experience symptoms like allergic reactions and/or respiratory problems, nausea, vomiting, gas, and diarrhea. 

Watch out for mold 

Folks who should be particularly cautious when it comes to moldy fruit are the elderly and immunosuppressed.

Even if not in either of those groups, folks with sensitive stomachs should also be especially careful. And, of course, those with mold allergies need to keep a close eye on their fruit before they eat it.

Some molds are classified as mycotoxins, which are sometimes found in apples and grape juice, as well as on grains, nuts, and celery.

There are people who can easily handle a small amount of mold on fruit without having any issues. But even their health could be negatively affected by long-term exposure to mold.  

If you discover moldy pieces of fruit inside a container, throw them out, as well as any pieces of fruit touching them. Closely examine the other pieces before deciding to eat them.  

Your preemptive strike 

Let’s take a look at some ways to keep your fruit from going bad. Each of these takes a little effort, but it’s time well spent. And is certainly preferable to falling ill.

First I want to mention a preventative. Building up your gut microbiome could help you fend off the ill effects of eating mold, should you happen to accidentally do it.

And the way to shore up your gut is by eating fermented foods. Such as yogurt, kimchi, and sauerkraut.

Another strategy for helping healthy bacteria grow naturally in your gut is by drinking pomegranate juice.

13 tips for food freshness

Now for those tips to help you keep your fruit safe to eat:

• Buy only as much fruit as you plan to eat before your next grocery store run. In other words, don’t give it time to go bad.

• Rinse berries in warm water. Then place them in a bowl with water and 1/4 cup of vinegar. Let them soak for 10 minutes before rinsing with water and drying on a paper towel or cutting board. Store in an airtight container in the fridge, where they should be good for up to 3 weeks.

• Separate bananas from the bunch and wrap each individual stem in plastic wrap. This will slow down the spread of ethylene gas. If your bananas do become too ripe to eat, store them in the freezer and use in smoothies. 

• Tomatoes shouldn’t be refrigerated. Doing so will negatively affect their texture and flavor. Leave them on the counter and place them stem side down. 

• If you’re heading out on a day trip, soak apple slices in a salt and water mixture before placing them in an airtight plastic bag or other container. This helps prevent browning.

• Instead of cutting a lemon in half if you only need a little of its juice, consider puncturing it with a skewer and squeezing out what you need. Then place it in an airtight baggie in your fridge.

• I’m sure you’ve noticed that avocados turn brown quickly when cut open. That’s due to their enzymes that produce a brown pigment when exposed to oxygen. Squirt them with lemon or lime juice after cutting them open, and store them with chunks of onion.

Because fruits and vegetables often go together, here are a few tips for keeping veggies fresh:

• Place asparagus upright in a cup of water with the cut edges submerged. Put the cup in the fridge with a plastic bag over the tops of the asparagus.

• Keep your carrots soaking in water, sealed with plastic wrap, and stored in the refrigerator. Another option is wrapping them in bubble wrap before refrigerating them.

• Place leftover leaves of lettuce in a bowl with a paper towel on top, then seal with plastic wrap to prevent leaves from turning brown and wilt-y Some people like to sprinkle a small amount of salt on their lettuce leaves to remove more moisture.

• A mesh material will help onions stay fresh because it allows enough air to seep in. You can even use new pantyhose for this, tying a knot between each bulb.

• Potatoes have a pretty good shelf life without much help, but eventually sprouts will show up. One of the best ways to keep them fresh is by storing them with apples. They love the ethylene gas from apples.

• Ethylene gas is good for potato freshness, but not so much for celery freshness. Wrap celery in aluminum foil, which will allow gas ethylene to escape.

Fresh fruits and vegetables not only taste better than food that’s been sitting around a while, they’re also better for you. I hope you’ll use some of the tips above to keep your food fresh. And feel free to add some of your own ideas in the comments section below.

Top 15 Must Have Prepper Vehicle Supplies: Ensure Survival

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[VIDEO] Power, Food & Emergency First Aid All in Your Trunk?

Eric J. gives a review on the most-comprehensive Emergency Car Kit on the market. The Patriot Power All-in-1 Emergency Car Kit … a 95-piece Car Kit packed full of critical survival tools, that you can pull out at a moment’s notice. Just open your trunk!  

The Inside Scoop 🎬:

• Eric J.  from Florida provides a review on the NEW Patriot Power All-In-1 Emergency Car Kit.
• The Kit comes in 3, clearly-labeled, zippered cases: power, food and safety … 3 unique car safety kits in 1. 
• The jump box included in the power kit can be used as a power bank for USB charging or for jump-starting vehicles. Eric jumpstarted his F250 2004 diesel 6.0 with two dead batteries.
• The emergency safety kit includes items such as ponchos, first aid kit, hand warmers, emergency blanket, road warning light, gloves, flashlight, tools kit, reflective triangle, glow sticks, and a wire brush set for battery maintenance. 
• The emergency food kit contains vacuum-sealed lemon-flavored food bars and water pouches, which Eric and his wife Michelle sampled. 

Transcript  🎞️: 

“Hey everyone, welcome back. Today’s video is sponsored by 4patriots.com. They sent me this kit and they wanted me to check it out on an honest review. Thank you 4patriots.com for sending this free to me. 

So, let’s check out the Patriot Power All-In-1 Emergency Car Kit. So in this kit you have three different zipper cases here. Each one has a different purpose. The emergency safety kit, the emergency food kit and another emergency kit – doesn’t have a name on it. Let me show you why.

 Okay, we’re going to look at each one of these individually. And I could tell you that in this one here, I’ve already used the components in this one. Okay. 

So, right here we have the four Patriots jump box with the included cables… can be used as a power bank for USB charging your phones or a jump start here like I’m going to do now to start my truck. Now this is a diesel and 6.0, 2004 Diesel. And I do have two batteries in here. Now, this one was replaced not too long ago. The reason that it’s dead is because of this one. This is not the same battery, and it is dead inside. Now make sure this is fully charged for you to use it. And basically, you could take this positive right on here, take this negative right on here a little bit right on the bad battery because these are in parallel. So that battery over there is okay, but when you have a dead one hooked and parallel, this is draining that one. Now, what we’re going to do is hold the power button until you see the lights come on like this indicates a full charge and we’re going to hold jump start and then you’ll see the green light. We’re ready to jump start. now I’m going to turn the key. See what happens. I can even hear ready. There you go, start it right up and if it’ll start a 60 diesel it’ll start the average passenger vehicle.

This unit right here I gotta tell you if it will start an F250 2004 diesel 6.0 with two dead batteries, okay, it will start pretty much anything. And on top of this, you also have two 5 volt 3 amp output USB outputs. So, you can charge your phone on this. You can use it as a battery bank. You can plug in 12 volt 6 amp output, and it’s in my room or uh on the table there, there’s a wall charger as well. 

In this kit you have, this is funny, you have an air compressor. There’s actually a couple different items in here. An air compressor, okay. I have not used the air compressor, and you know, I haven’t had to use it yet, but this air compressor has a battery in it in itself. You see that? And this will inflate more than just your tire if you have a flat tire. It comes with this here, you would basically screw this on like this. And then you can attach it to your tire, and there you go. Alright. It’s running. It’s fully charged you can set your PSI on here. And if you wanted to just use this for let’s say a raft or a basketball there’s a charger for that. But in here you can see there’s a bag here for a needle for a basketball, for different inflation, you know for a raft, for a uh a balloon or or whatever. It’s multi-purpose. It’s more than just for tires. And this charges via USB-C here, and it looks like it also has a USB output as a battery bank as well.

Now, the emergency safety kit and the emergency food kit. So, let’s go with the emergency safety kit first. Let me show you what we have. Emergency ponchos in the event that you’re in the rain or your, you know, on the side of the road you need a poncho. We have a first-aid kit in here. Always good to have a first aid kit. There’s some safety pins in here. There’s some tape, there’s some Band-Aids, forceps right here, And we have tape, you know, bandage tape. So, a little emergency first-aid kit. Okay, these are air activated hand warmers. This is an emergency blanket. If you unfold this blanket, if you had to if you were freezing in your car or outside, you can put this blanket around you and it’s going to trap as much body heat as possible. This is 75% alcohol wipes. A USB rechargeable road warning light. This will potentially save your life if your vehicle is stranded or you are pulled over on the side of road, or you’re on the side of a mountain somewhere, or you know, out in the snow. I mean, this has multiple patterns it looks like. It can be used this way on the you know flat it could be used standing up, if you want to do that, okay. Some gloves. They got the silicone here. They may be for warmth, but man you can grab anything in the snow, or wherever. That’s very, very, rubberized sticky. Who doesn’t need a flashlight? It blinks, okay. It’s quite bright. Look, small, wide, small okay. A small tools kit. Aow it’s got sockets here. So that was a 12 millimeter, eight millimeter okay. Metric with a little screw handle here okay. And some screw bits. You never know when you’re going to need a screwdriver. This is an a reflective triangle. So this goes like this okay. And you have an emergency triangle. And this way it’s reflective this between this and the little uh battery powered road flare. You can get visibility so that you don’t get struck by a vehicle. We also have emergency glow sticks. Snap! Here you go, look at that. A glow stick. The last thing in this kit is the three piece wire brush set. Y’all know, man. I mean, battery terminals get corroded. all it takes is corrosion on a battery terminal in your battery. When you’re at a gas station 400 plus miles from home to find out that you’re not making good connection. And instead of asking or using your jump start here, you can use your hopefully your little kit here, to loosen the battery terminal and use the the brush here, clean off terminal and get a good connection. So wire brush always good to have. 

Alright, so the third one and Michelle wanted to sit down now and check this out, right Michelle? So this is the emergency food kit. Okay, so this is one pack of emergency food bars. These are lemon flavored. Now, these are vacuum sealed. And a bunch of water pouches, emergency drinking water, honey, split one of those open and put it here. We’re gonna try one of these because I know it’s just water. Try it real quick. Let’s see. You know, if you had to survive. What does that water taste like? Wow. Wow. It tastes like regular water. Yeah! I mean you could drink this out of a pouch because you’re not going to have a cup with you. 

Alright, well that about wraps it up for this video. And thank you to my beautiful wife for being a part of my video once again, whether it be a cameraman or a woman or help me eat a food bar and check this stuff out. You know, you never know when you’re going to be in a disaster or an emergency situation where you need stuff like this. The honest truth is you can go to a lot of places and get stuff like this. It’s not a secret, but 4Patriots made it very convenient to have everything covered in a convenient car carrier like this with just about everything you would need. I appreciate 4patriots.com for sending me this to check out. Brand new from them and that’s pretty much it.”