An Emergency Survival Kit usually is not sufficient to get people through weeks of a survival crisis, but it can extend the normal stores of food and water for the duration of most emergencies.

Here is what your Emergency Survival Kit should at a minimum contain.

What Should Be in Emergency Kit:

1. Indoor Propane Heater

2. Lantern

3. NOAA Radio & Flashlight

My preferences of an emergency radio are:
• digital station finder
• crank & battery power source
• FM/AM/NOAA
• battery life indicator

4. Battery Bank/ Phone Charger

Smart phones and handheld devices take a big battery to charge. Battery banks are a quick and efficient way to charge these devices.You’ll need about 10,000mAh to fully charge two smart phones.

5. Cooking Stove

You’re going to need a way to cook without electricity and some easy meals that can be cooked using only one cooking pot. The first day without power is fun. You get to eat the ice cream before it melts in your freezer and have cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (before the milk goes bad).

The next couple days you eat through the soup, crackers, bread, and snacks in the house. About day 4 of no electricity, that’s where people start to panic because they haven’t prepared.

6. Matches

These are to light the cooking stove and the propane heater if the igniter were to fail.

7. Batteries

These are back up for the radio and the heater. For my kit I need 6 AA batteries and 4 D-cell batteries for the heater.

8. Food

Some examples of easy meals are oatmeal, soup, tuna on crackers, peanut butter on pancakes, chili, pork & beans, and pasta box meals.Below are emergency meals that last 30 years, unlike typical boxed and canned food that goes bad after 5 years.

9. Water

Storing water should be rotated by adding fresh water routinely.

10. Hygiene Supplies

Where to Store Emergency Kit

You’ll want to keep your kit in a place where the temperature doesn’t fluctuate too much. The battery life is said to diminish with every 15 degree increase or decrease.

1. coat closest by the entry door.

2. in your off grid room

3. basement (stacked on totes or on a shelf to prevent water damage)

4. under a coffee table

Adding glow-in-the-dark duct tape or paint can make your emergency kit easier to find in the dark.

Power Outage Kit Dimensions

• 16 inches tall
• 22 inches across
• 16 inches wide

It is important to remember that this is not a long-term survival kit or a bug-out kit.

The Emergency Survival Kit is for extending your normal survival preparation efforts if they are geared towards a typical survival situation for a few days or even a week or more.

To learn more about building your Emergency Survival Kit, check out Preppers Survive.

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