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Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Kathleen — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:55:25 -0000

Jodi and Julie, I posted a year ago, thank you for the wonderful ideas kit menu suggestions. I thought I'd share the latest:
We made our 72 hour kits in Sept of 2011 as part of our homeschool unit on Emergency Preparedness. My 5 kids and I had great fun planning, shopping, and making the kits. Though we did determine that the food suggested was simply NOT enough to sustain our 14 year old boys for more than a few hours let alone 72! and the milk jugs could only fit two days worth of food, we adapted and made 48 hour kits. We made two for each of the family members and tucked them away on the bottom cabinet shelf. My plan was to use them each September on our annual beach camping trip. and then to remake them but we only made it to July 2012. WE NEEDED THEM! An unexpected summer storm with unusually high winds took out the power in our area....for days and days. The first two days I used up everything I could in the frig so it wouldnt go bad and cooked on the camp stove. Then I remembered our 48 hour emergency kits. The next day I made a big deal about using them; it was a moral booster.....until we opened them...and found them full of tiny sweet ants. After getting over the shock and the "ick" factor we discovered that most of the food was fine because it was individually wrapped. All survived the ant invasion except the hard candies. The wrappers were completely empty except for a few ants still inside eating the last of the butterscotches!! We laughed, took pictures and ate our oatmeal breakfast. I've sinced restocked and remade our kits. I got rid of the milk jugs though and used recycled square icecream buckets. They still have handles for carrying but seal tighter than the duct tape wrapped milk jugs. I'm very thankful we had the kits available since we were without power 4 1/2 days but I am also thankful because now my kids are on board when it comes to Emergency Preparedness!

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Jodi and Julie — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:49:37 -0000

They are right next to the bags or in the bags if you have room would be fine

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

angie — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:03:42 -0000

Are you putting the milk jug into the bug out bags?

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Jodi and Julie — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:03:26 -0000

Here's a pdf with the contents http://foodstoragemadeeasy....
Enjoy!

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Kathleen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:10:42 -0000

I love the idea to pack it all into an easy carry jug!
I am thinking of doing a homeschool mini-unit on emergency preparedness and I thought it would be fun to end the unit by having the kids make their own 72 hour emergency food kit. Then....test them and USE the kits as their "exam".
Could you please list the "menu" (breakfast, lunch, dinner) for the 72 hours using what is in the kit?
Thanks

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Karen Young — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:18:11 -0000

I'm the same as Kimberly. It makes it so much easier to remember when to re-do our kit. We open ours up every General Conference and the kids LOVE it. They gobble it up within 2 days. I'm sure in an emergency though we could make it last 3 days... I hope. :)

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Kimberly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:16:41 -0000

I change my 72 hr. kits every General Conference. That way all the food is still good to use and don't go to waste. My kids use this food to snack on during conference sessions. We even use the mini lasagna/spaghetti meals to eat for lunch. The rest of the food gets used in school lunches. My kids get really excited when we open our 72 hr. kits.

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Jodi — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:54:48 -0000

Thanks for letting us know Jen. I had put the link in wrong (oops). It should be fixed now.

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

jen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:47:02 -0000

I can't seem to get the link to the printable shopping list to work. Any suggestions?

Re: Updating My 72 Hour Kits

Rebecca — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:29:05 -0000

I use the October general conference as a reminder to rotate my 72-hour kits. I have also been adding a new kit every year until I have enough for every family member old enough to carry one. Mine are in backpacks and are kinda heavy due to the water and juice in them.