Emergency Preparedness (year's supply of food, 72 hour kit)

Various Sources ^ | 9/15/2001

[Utah Girl]

Sorry this has taken me so long to get back to you. I'm not married and haven't ever had children, so I am clueless in this area. I went and searched on the Internet, and the information there is rather sparse too. What I found was to store 20 pounds of powdered milk per infant per MONTH. Make sure the powdered milk is drypacked with nitrogen, it will store indefinitely that way.

As for formula and diapers, I'd just average out what you think your baby would drink per day, per week, per month, etc. I have heard a guideline of 8 diapers per day, which would fill your whole basement for a year's supply of diapers. I'd probably put some cloth diapers (24), with plastic pants, diaper pins, and diaper rash ointment in storage, along with a diaper pail. Our ancestors used cloth diapers, in a disaster, we can too. Good luck!

[NC_Libertarian]

self flag for a later read

[Carolina]

Preparedness Bump!!

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Also - do NOT use plastic containers for water that have contained milk. The lactic acid in the milk works into the plastic, and no matter how hard you try you will not be able to clean the plastic sufficiently to store water more than about two to three days before bacteria starts to set in.

[Utah Girl]

Exactly. Plus the plastic milk containers are now made to start detiorating, they leak after awhile too.

[CathyRyan]

I know if there is trouble everyone will end up at my house sooooo...I bought ONE can of Spam for the idiot that makes the first crack about having to eat Spam.

[packrat01]

whut kinda critter is them thar Viennas? how do yu skin 'em?

[packrat01]

beginners should stay away from hanguns. use the money you'd save and buy more ammo for the 12ga. and the .22

[Snow Bunny]

Preparedness Bump!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Good one, Uncle Bill! Back to the top......

[Jefferson Adams]

While I'm not a Mormon, I've LONG appreciated your stand on preparedness. In fact, pre-Y2K, many Mormon churches opened up their canning facilities for non-church-members to purchase their food and do their own canning. I did it on 3 separate occasions - it was fun, and as a result I still have a buncha big cans of dried food :)

Thanks for the post, UG!

[Utah Girl]

You are welcome! The canneries are still open for anyone to use, regardless of religion. The cannery in my area is doing salsa and bumbleberry jam in October and November. Yum. I'm glad to see the salsa, it is much easier to make there instead of the big mess at home.

[Jefferson Adams]

And the Spam. What can I say... It was on sale. I'd rather eat pig snot.

Isn't that what SPAM is???

Seriously, consider mixing SPAM, MREs, etc. with rice. Makes for a not-so-bad meal, and rice is CHEAP!

[Jefferson Adams]

If you know how many guns and how much ammo you have then, you don't have enough.

Agreed :)

[Jefferson Adams]

A friend of mine almost has me talked into buying a gun.

Well, let me give you another little nudge...

:) No time like the present! And it's even fun learning to shoot - just ask my wife, who has turned into a shooting fanatic in just a few month's time. I have a hard time reloading enough for her to shoot < g >

[Jefferson Adams]

Now it seems y2k may well have been Our Lord's way of getting us ready for an event none of us could anticipate.

That's actually what I've been thinking since about November, 1999. I sort of felt that the heat was off for Y2K (and I'm a computer professional), and that the prep was really for something else.

[SuziQ]

Thanks for the info. We've been thinking about this for a few weeks. We had the kids ( 11 & 13) help us prepare a couple of 'bug out' boxes, along with a case of bottled water, in case we need to leave the house and be on the road for a couple of days. We were thinking in terms of a nuke set off in a large city close to us and needing to get away from any fallout. Kind of freaked the kids out right at first, but we tried to make it matter of fact and talked about it a lot, so they're ok with it.

But it makes sense to have food on hand anyway, if only because of the possibility of natural disasters (blizzard, tornado, hurricane, earthquake) when you wouldn't be able to get to a grocery store.

[Utah Girl]

I'm always glad to hear of people preparing. Did you see post #88? That is a good list of what to put in a 72 hour kit. Mine is sitting in my front hall closet in a duffle bag.

[Utah Girl]

BTTT