Have you ever wanted to or intended to get prepared for an emergency or start gathering food storage but you didn’t know how or where to start? Me too.
Thanks to my sister-in-law Leslie, now I know how and where. In fact, I have started and I am getting somewhere with it. Leslie introduced me to a great website called Foodstoragemadeeasy.NET (not dot com).
It, for me, has been the missing link between thinking about it and ACTUALLY doing something about it.
This weekend I followed the recommendations of the site and put an emergency plan together for our family. Included in the emergency plan was putting together 72 hour food kits. I actually did that. Can you believe it? I did it. It really wasn’t hard. The site tells you exactly what and how much of each thing to put in each kit. I did make some substitutions because some of the foods it recommends, I would rather not eat, so I just substituted something similar.
We (each family member) have our own individual kits as we have different needs. Each kit is contained in it’s own new Jansport backback which I bought at VF for 4 bucks. They have cheap backpacks there.
It wasn’t real hard to do. We already had about half of the recommended foods in the pantry. The stuff we didn’t have I just put on the shopping list and we bought it this weekend.
It took a couple of days and a little effort but it’s totally done now. It was easy to keep track of what I had and what I needed thanks to the checklist I printed from the website.
The emergency preparedness also includes other vital information you would need if you ever needed to evacuate. It recommends you make a binder with copies all your important documents (it tells you which ones to put in there).
Anyway, you should not only look at this site, but follow it’s recommendations because if an emergency situation ever arrived, I would not share my resources with you. Sorry, but they are for my family and we only have enough for us. “It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor (blog friends).” It does not say I have to share what I have prepared. Get your own and do it like…right away.
13 comments:
FYI, a good tip someone told me: every general conference, between saturday sessions (or whatever), go through your backpacks and eat the expiring food, write a list of what you need to buy, and replenish it. That way it is updated every six months. Doesn't it feel good to be prepared?
dude - you bought the backpacks for $4. way to be matchy matchy! :) i used to have 72 hours kits. then one day we were trying to update them and they were all taken apart. hence - i need to do them again. thanks for the tips and the website. i think the every 6 months gen conf idea is a good one too.
Good Job! I just put one together myself. I worried and worried about it but finally I put it together and it was pretty easy, I wish I had just did it instead of fussing of it.
Also the general conference rotation is a good idea. Especially since the kids will think it is cool.
Annie made some a while back that are all vacuum-sealed and all that. My contribution was a box of ammo and a .357, because KEEPING your emergency kit in an emergency is just as important as having it.
Thanks for the website. I really need to get on that. We will survive for 24 hours with the stuff we have currently. Our back up plan is to use our bikes to ride to someone else's house who does have food.
If you won't give me your 72 kits in an emergency, I'll steal them... Oh, I guess that goes along with Dan's comment.
ps I got your message last night at work; you made my day.
i never called you back to find out about your 72 hr preparedness plan...thanks for blogging it... now we never have to actually TALK anymore.
i miss you. maybe i should blog so you know how i'm doing. haha
You're welcome. I am glad that you found the website so helpful and are doing it.
very cool, i am just starting to get back into that myself.
Thanks for the link. I am trying to stay on track with that as our ward works on 72 hour kits but I was telling my hubby that I am not a person who can have a lot of choices but just needs someone to say "buy this exact size and brand of water or cracker and it won't expire for 9 months. Then change it out."
I am loving the printable checklist idea. And the sweet price of those backpacks!
Sounds like a great website! We have some kits all ready made, but I haven't updated them in a LONG time and they are in buckets, which I thought would be a good idea (waterproof & a portable seat), but they are a little heavy and akward. We've been planning on redoing them and getting the girls all set up- so thanks for the reminder and motivation :)
What is VF??? In 4 more days my 72 hour kit will consist of 1 can of tuna and water :)
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