I have just started working on putting together a 72 hour preparedness kit.  I am starting with the food.  I will need fourty-five (5 family memebers times three meals a day times three days) breakfast, lunches, and dinners (plus snacks).  I went back and forth debating between packaging the food in family size servings or individual size servings.  Ultimately I decided to go with individual size servings.  If for any reason we would have to split up we would be able to do so easily, at least as far as food in concerned.  Today Iput together our breakfast packages.  I decided just to stick with oatmeal.  It's simple, nurishing, and stores well.  I took fifteen sandwich baggies and labled each one with a one year expiration date.  I filled each one with this recipe from TheFamilyHomestead.com:

1/2 c. dry oatmeal
1/2 c. (scant) lightly ground oatmeal
1 T. dry milk powder
1 1/2 T. sucanat
1/8 t. salt
dash of cinnamon

I then took my fifteen indivual oatmeal baggies and put them into a gallon sized ziplock bag with a label inside with the recipe (so that I can be sure to make more as I use them within the expiration date) and cooking instructions. 

I did the same thing with five baggies of a Creamy Veggie Rice Mix (recipe from Hillbilly housewife) which will make one complete meal.

Now I just have to put together five more meals (twenty five more baggies) and throw in a box of granola bars, a bag of pretzels, a can of nuts, and 15 gallons of water, and my 72 hour emergency preparedness kits food section will be complete.  I was surprised and thrilled at how easy it was to whip up the baggies of food.  The only thing  limiting me from finished all of it today is the lack of ingedients in my house (I did this spare of the moment).  I will keep posting as I add more to my kit. 

Happy Trails!

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