72 hr. kit supply list

Here is the list of our 72 hour kits that my parents gave us.

Day 1
Breakfast

• Cereal (the mini-sized boxes kids love)
• Gossner's milk (they come in all kinds of flavors and are made for food storage, it's not powdered either... actual milk that you can drink without adding any water)
• Fruit cup (the tiniest pull-tab can you can find)

Snack

• Nuts
  

Lunch

• Cheese crackers (or you could get any type of crackers but just a single serving size or three crackers you put in a small zip lock bag)
  
• Beef jerky (just a single serving size package)
  
• Trail mix (single serving sizes... ours was a small package)
  
• Dried fruit (single serving size package)
• Juice box
  

Snack

• Granola bar
• Raisins
  

Dinner

• Peanut butter (one of those "on-the-go" Jiffy packages)
• Crackers (three crackers or three packs like you'd have in a restaurant)
• Applesauce
• Power bar
• Gossner's milk

Snack

• Pudding (just a snack pack)
  

Day 2
Breakfast

• Cereal
• Gossner's milk
• Applesauce
  

Snack

• Fruit snacks

Lunch

• Peanut butter
• Crackers (three packs)
  
• Nuts
• Fruit cup
• Juice box
  

Snack

• Pretzels
• Raisins
  

Dinner

• Spam (or tuna if you want... one of those individual serving size packages)
• Crackers (three packs)
  
• Olives (single serving size pull-tab can)
• Trail mix
• Gossner's milk

Snack

• Pudding
  

Day 3
Breakfast

• Cereal
• Gossner's milk
• Fruit cup
  

Snack

• Pretzels
  

Lunch

• Spam or tuna
• Crackers (three packs)
• Beef jerky
• Applesauce
• Juice box
  

Snack

• Fruit snacks
• Raisins
  

Dinner

• Peanut butter
• Crackers (three packs)
• Dried fruit
• Nuts
• Gossner's milk
  

Snack

• Pudding
  

All the meals and snacks were stuffed into a large ziplock bag for each day. Then we had a label with the meal plan for that day in the bag so you could see what to eat for each meal. There was also enough plastic spoons and knives needed for the day's meals.

In addition to the meals, each backpack also has:

• Flashlight (you will need some extra batteries)
• Two bottles of water
• Emergency blanket
• Emergency sleeping bag
  
• Trash bag (the big black kind)
• Wipes

You might also want to "customize" each bag with some money (in small bills), notebook or coloring book and crayons, change of clothes (I will only do this for the kids probably), small toy, and any toiletries you want (for me, contact solution and contact storage case, tampons/pads, medicine, etc).

I know this is OVERWHELMING! Trust me. I would NEVER have gotten around to doing this in such an organized and simple way had it not been for my parents giving us these as Christmas gifts. When they talk about this at church, sweat immediately beads up and I start panicking because it sounds so simple but it costs money, time, and brainpower to get this put together, especially one for each family member. But I am so glad we have them. Now let's just pray the "big one" doesn't strike while we are at home because we will be crushed under our unreinforced 102 year old concrete block home. Or now that I think about it, at work because who knows if my 20+ year old building will stand up and I don't have a 72 hr. kit there or in my car. Hmmm... on further thought, let's just pray the "big one" never happens.