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Off-Grid.net

Off-grid brings you news, knowledge, discussion, and classifieds from the off-grid world. What seems like a tiny niche is growing in popularity as people seek a life outside of the city. Off-gridders must find ways to produce their own energy, food, water, shelter, and other necessities. Connect with people who live off the beaten path or begin the search for your own property on this site.

Build It Solar

Dedicated to do-it-yourself renewable energy projects, Build It Solar provides hundreds of ideas and plans for any kind of home energy endeavor. New to renewable energy? Start with the "Half Plan" that uses a variety of energy saving projects to cut your energy usage in half. New to solar? Look for the do-it-yourself site survey to understand your property's solar potential. Not limited to solar, Build It Solar also includes tons of projects for wind power and biofuels.

Earth2Tech

Energy self reliance is a big topic for environmental, political, and individual reasons. Earth2Tech posts news about technological developments that can affect us on personal and societal levels. Stay on top of the news about electric cars, the smart grid, the bloom box fuel cell, solar power applications, and LED lightbulbs.

Wisebread

Wisebread is well-known for its advice on real personal finance. It's a community of bloggers who write about frugal living, lifehacks, careers, and other financial wisdom. Being smart with your money isn't supposed to inhibit you: rather, Wisebread's advice helps people worry less about money, allowing you to focus on the really important things in life. They also feature an active forum where you can ask questions and interact with other people who are trying to live within their means.

Instructables

Do you want to know how to build a vertical garden? How about your own solar panel array? Maybe you're looking for ways to reuse a linen closet full of old pillowcases. Instructables is a community based site that allows anyone to post a how-to project complete with photos and instructions. The result: a lifetime's supply of projects that can help you save money, recycle, or simply satisfy your appetite for making stuff.

Survival Spot

Disasters are a reality that shouldn't be ignored. That's the reason Survival Spot was created - to share information about a variety of survival and preparedness topics. Topics cover many aspects of survival, including gardening, food storage, health, and self defense. Also read about getting by in the wilderness and reviews of essential gadgets and gear. Like any other type of self reliance, preparedness is something to get into gradually and this blog can give you ideas on where to start.

Self-Reliance-Exchange

Written by a group of self reliant people, Self Reliance Exchange is quickly building an enormous database that covers a huge range of categories on self reliant practices and philosophies. Anyone interested in self reliance will find something useful to take away from this blog - recipes from scratch, emergency preparedness, and personal finance are great categories to start looking into here.

Simple Self Reliance

This writer explores the concept of self reliance and how self reliance fits in this modern society. How far can you realistically go down the path of self reliance? How can you stay on track with your priorities? He also writes on the grandaddy of self reliance, Henry David Thoreau. We can't wait to see how this blog unfolds!

American Preppers Network

For information and news from the world of emergency preparation, American Preppers Network is a great resource. Learn about food storage, what to expect during a natural disaster, and about other survival techniques. You can also connect with other preppers in your region and all over the world in the forum and through the numerous links to other prepping blogs on the web.

Cooking

Cooking at home with your family or friends is a simple yet powerful way to become more self reliant. Preparing your own meals with simple, healthy ingredients and cooking from scratch is less expensive than eating out and you control what goes in each dish. If you're cooking on a budget or just looking for some healthy, easy recipes, the resources here will point you in the right direction.

The recipes we found will save you money or encourage a more sustainable and simple way of eating. Look for simple yet delicious recipes that use few inexpensive ingredients.

There are also many vegetarian recipes - not because we're vegetarians, but because you can harvest the ingredients directly from your garden (or will inspire your future garden!). Other recipes make use of dry, canned, or bulk items that can be kept in food storage.

Other recipes will replace food items that you would normally buy, such as bread, peanut butter, tortillas, and even fun snacks like microwaved popcorn. Did you know that you can cook these foods from scratch, and that it's incredibly simple to do so?

Finally, there are many recipe ideas for the frugal-minded cook. Slow cooker recipes are excellent for dressing up less expensive cuts of meat and also save time. Soup recipes also enable you to use up a variety of ingredients you might have lying around in the crisper.

Don't forget one of the greatest benefits of cooking from scratch: the sense of accomplishment you get from cooking a meal from beginning to end.

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10 Tips To Reduce Your Food Waste
A few weeks ago, after serving up some sobering statistics about food waste in America, the Lantern put out a call for your best tips on how to avoid refrigerator rot. Nearly 200 of you responded, with some big suggestions (move to a place within walking distance of a grocery store) and small ones (grow your own herbs). Here are 10 key lessons that emerged from your letters and comments.......
Delicious Spinach Feta Omelette - Homestead Letters
I love simple, wholesome, healthy things to eat. This spinach feta omelette covers all of those bases. Plus, if you have chickens and grow spinach, the main ingredients are already covered.
Out Of Baking Powder? Make Your Own! - Globe and Mail
How raw can you get when cooking from scratch? Did you know that you can make your own substitute for things like baking powder, vanilla extract, stock for soups, cake flour, and buttermilk? The benefit of super-scratch cooking is that you really have control over what you're making and in many cases you can save money and produce a better ingredient. More people are doing it and are generously posting their recipes online. Where to find recipes to cook from super-scratch? Our Cooking category is one great place to start!
Hunger in America Jumps 46% - Rawstory.com
A study by the nation's largest food bank operator shows that Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46% in the past 3 years. 1 in 8 people received food aid in 2009. The recession is cited as the culprit behind people's tough choices: food or mortgage? It's more important than ever for people to supplement their diets with healthy home grown fruits and vegetables. Buying simple, raw ingredients is another great way of stretching the food dollar.
Cook From Scratch - A Blueprint for Self Reliance - Mar 11, 2010
by Lauren Hawley I can cook them.. can I also grow them? Becoming more self reliant is a matter of personal choice and where you begin depends on your circumstances, finances, and skills. Unfortunately that leaves the door wide open to an overwhelming number of possible actions that can stop people....
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Vegetable Broth - Viggies Veggies
Want to learn how you can make your own delicious vegetable broth? Read this article on producing vegetable broths from the leftover veggie scraps.
Cheap and Easy Recipes, Pulled BBQ Pork - Generation X Finance
Want to feed a lot of people with a delicious pulled pork recipe? This site provides that recipe for a total cost of less then twenty dollars.
Tips to Combat Cooking Burnout - Deal Seeking Mom
"I don't feel like cooking tonight... let's go out." Sound familiar? While cooking at home is the best way to save money on food, the routine gets monotonous. The Deal Seeking Mom offers several tips that will help you spend a little less time in the kitchen while still providing healthy meals for your family.
Homemade Flour Tortillas
Current project - Created on 02/11/2010 by Colorado Aaron
I found a recipe for homemade tortillas from this Om Nom Nomnivore's homemade tortillas . I know, I know, tortillas are pretty inexpensive at the grocery store. But I thought it would be interesting....
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Fresh Cucumber and Sesame Salad
Current project - Created on 02/09/2010 by Lauren
It’s the middle of winter and the ground is covered in snow. But I can’t help thinking about a cold noodle soup called Nangmyeon (nang-myun) that I ate during the humid summer in South Korea. The....
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Ready Nutrition: Do It Yourself Condiments
Making your own ketchup, mayonaise, and mustard is not only a great homesteading skill - you don't consume harmful chemicals and preservatives, and the homemade stuff is just superior. Here are recipes for relish, mustard, ketchup, and mayonaise that you can make entirely from scratch.
Meal Planning: $45 (now $70) Emergency Menu to Feed a Family of 6 - Hillbilly Housewife
Can you really feed a family of 6 with $70 for one week? Yes. The Hillbilly Housewife provides you with a detailed plan of nutritious meals, a complete shopping list, an outline of the daily work you need to do to prepare the meals, and links to all of the recipes in the plan. This is an incredibly helpful resource for anyone who wants to save money on food and be efficient with time and calories.
Hillbilly Housewife: 5 Cheap Ways to Eat Black Beans
The black bean! It's inexpensive, is a great food storage item (dried or canned) and is packed with nutrition. Here are five recipes using black beans to help you make the most of this wonder-food: Bean soup, bean salad, taco beans, and burritos are all great and frugal ways to eat.
Homestead Hearth: Sourdough Starter, Demystified
While we have plenty of links to sourdough starter recipes, this one on the Homestead Hearth forum will answer any questions you may have about making your own sourdough starter. It takes you through the entire process of making sourdough from a simple flour and water mixture and explains how to use it in baking.
Do It Yourself Microwave Popcorn
Current project - Created on 02/04/2010 by Lauren
Sometimes you just want a crunchy snack. The problem is that most crunchy snacks are full of fat, sugar, salt, and chemicals, making the opportunity cost pretty high. I stumbled upon this idea from....
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