Emergency Plans and Disaster Kits

As you may have noticed, we took a LONG time to get Baby Step 7 out to you but we have a good reason! I got completely distracted with emergency preparedness. Over the past few weeks I had the chance to relax and do a lot of thinking/pondering about my food storage and emergency plan. [...]

Making Our 72 Hour Kit Video

Hopefully you have already watched the “How to Make a 72 Hour Kit” video on our Getting Started page. While I was creating that video my children ended up waking up from their naps and started causing me some trouble. I looked through the outtakes as I was trying to piece together the [...]

Emergency Preparedness - What are you waiting for?

With hurricane Gustav hitting the coast, emergency preparedness is a hot topic today. Even if not directly affected by the hurricane, we are all reminded of how important it is to have an emergency plan in place. You never know when your area will be the one that is hit with a disaster.

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Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Problem
While preparing the blog post “How to Make a 72 Hour Kit” I pulled out my own kits to take some pictures. I realized the date on them was July 2006 so I decided I better rotate the food out since the recommendation is typically to rotate it every 6 months to a [...]

How to Make a 72 Hour Kit

72 Hour Kit Instructions
Step 1 – Make sure you have saved 1 milk jug and 3 2-liter bottles per person. Wash them all out with soap and let dry.
Step 2 – Multiply the number of kits you want by the items listed in the shopping list and purchase the food items from Walmart or your [...]