72 hour kit- The Next Step

I've been getting ready for our ward preparedness fair and have gotten a little distracted from the 72-hour kits we were working on. Here's your next step: Plan and purchase your food and water. This is a highly individual step so I am listing links to several menus and articles. Remember to keep it relatively light and easy to prepare. Also, keep in mind the utensils and supplies you will need to prepare your food and include them. And one more thing, you might have to eat the stufff! Last year as I rotated our kits it occured to me that they were so full of sugar and processed foods that I'm pretty sure we'd have all been sick by the time we hit day two. So keep a balance between ease and good nutrition. Oh, and be careful with the gum. That mint is strong stuff and will quickly make everything around it taste like mint. (There's a reason mac & cheese doesn't come in "Mint".) One last idea... I recently discovered that you can buy milk that doesn't need to be refrigerated and is packaged like a juice box. If your kids are milk-dependent like mine, you can find it near the canned milk in the "ingredients" isle.

http://preparedness.families.com/blog/three-days-worth-of-food-for-your-72-hour-kit

http://safelygatheredin.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-72-hour-kit-journeywarning-my.html

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/2008/06/13/how-to-make-a-72-hour-kit/

http://beprepared.com/article.asp_Q_ai_E_44_A_c2a_E_mt_A_name_E_72-Hour%20Food%20Planning