A Year Without the Grocery Store: A Step by Step Guide to Acquiring, Organizing, and Cooking Food Storage by Karen Morris

Author:Karen Morris [Morris, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
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Published: 2018-01-30T06:00:00+00:00

Seventy-Two-Hour Kit

A second type of kit that is helpful to have is a seventy-two-hour kit or a Bug Out Bag. Each Bug Out Bag should be equipped with seventy-two hours worth of food. The purpose of the kit is to get you through the first seventy-two hours of a crisis. Instead of packing three days’ worth of food into each person’s bag, it made more sense for us to keep all the food together in one container. We keep our food in a short tote in case we need to leave in the event of an emergency. If we do have to leave, at least wherever we go, we will be bringing three days of food for us.

This is one time that we spend more on convenience foods. Oatmeal packets are our breakfast for all three days. We do two packets per person since most of my kids would feel incredibly hungry with only one. For lunch, we have one day of Mac and Cheese, to which I’ll add a can of chicken and two days of tuna fish, crackers, and freeze-dried fruits. For dinners, we have three different dried soup mixes that just need water.

For your family, choose three breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. You could have the same thing every breakfast, lunch, or dinner just for simplicity sake. Set these items aside. A tote would be most ideal, but even if you start with them in secured grocery bags and know where they are, you’ll be ahead of the game. Include paper products, plates, bowls, spoons, knives, forks, and napkins or paper towels. Don’t forget you’ll need water. Plan for one gallon per person, per day for drinking, cooking, and hygiene purposes. Also don’t forget to put at least one can opener in your kit.

Simple Options for Breakfast

Oatmeal

Grits

Cold cereal

Granola Bars

Boxed Pastries

Freeze dried hash browns

Hot chocolate

Instant Coffee or regular coffee if you have a French press

Tang or orange drink equivalent.

Simple Lunch or Dinner Options

Crackers and meat (potted deviled ham, turkey, or chicken or canned tuna fish or salmon)

Macaroni and Cheese

Spam and beans

Beans and Rice

Canned Soups

Sandwiches

Spaghetti

Boxed Dinners such as Tuna Helper

Canned Pasta

Soup and Rice

Salmon Patties

Tuna Patties

Other items helpful to be in your Bug Out Bag are

Clothes:

One to two changes of clothes,

Hygiene baggie a quart size baggie containing:

Soap

Travel shampoo

Travel deodorant

Wash cloth

Comb

Hair bands (for ladies)

Feminine products (for ladies)

Travel size package of hand wipes

Mini Kleenex

Toothbrush

Travel size toothpaste

Baby powder

Lotion, floss

Travel Q-tips

First Aid kit

Travel Help:

Headlamp

Knife

Leatherman

Cigarette lighter

Waterproof matches

Work Gloves

Two-person tent

Two bandanas

For Kids

Something fun to do

A “lovie” or stuffed animal Power Outage Kits

Our seventy-two-hour food tote doubles as our food for a power outage. The difference is that we have a very large (twenty-seven gallon) tote set aside simply as a power outage kit for everything outside of the kitchen. We have another twenty-seven-gallon tote with all the items we use to cook when the power is out if we are staying home.

Since our food kit is the same, I’m going to list off the items in our cooking kit:

Single burner butane stove

Butane canisters

Matches

Eggbeaters

Hand crank mini food processor

Can

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