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Make Being Prepared For Summertime Disasters Fun #PrepWithPower #CollectiveBias #Shop

June 30, 2014 by Momstart 3 Comments

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Most of the time when you think of an emergency kit you think of life or death essentials like medical supplies, emergency food rations, and water. Lots and lots of water. An emergency kit not only need survival items but also fun items for the kids. If the power goes out, you will want to keep the kids calm and their minds on something other than the fact that the power is out.

I have this video of the kids when they were babies, we lost power and we were all sleeping in the living room on a blanket. I wanted us all in the same room in case they needed something, plus they didn’t want to go to sleep with the power out. I showed them the video not too long ago and it freaked both of them out. It was a night-cam vision camera so the video was green and they were so freaked out seeing themselves green. But to me, I’m so grateful our camera had batteries and that I have this video of them sleeping in the dark so peacefully. So I would say the number one item for any emergency kit is Duracell batteries of all shapes and sizes.

Now, I went to Walmart to purchase a summertime disaster kit that includes things for the kids. Walmart is amazing because they have those wonderful everyday low prices including Duracell batteries.

I purchased Duracell Quantum batteries:

And the Uno Attack game. Our family loves playing this game

We also love to snack during family nights and by turning a summertime disaster into a family night will calm everyone’s nerves. And you can’t have a family night without food like Cheetos.

A really good flashlight needs to be included. But having one for each person makes a game of flashlight tag the best game in the world.

The final thing I want to put in our family summertime disaster emergency kit is a few more games for their LeapPad and Vtech V-readers.

Now I feel we’re ready for any type of summer disaster.

Our final kit included:

Duracell Batteries of all shapes and sizes
Vtech Reader, LeapPad & LeapPad 2 with games
Screwdriver
Water
Cheatos
Uno Attack
Operation
Flash Lights

Here is a video showing you guys what we put in our kit:

Gluten Free Emergency Food

December 20, 2011 by Momstart 3 Comments

Two posts in one day about emergency supplies and food options and you might think I’m a crazy person that thinks the world is coming to an end. Well rest assured I’m not worried about the end times. I am a little more worried about possible winter storms and not having electricity for a week or two. When I was pregnant with Zoe we had a huge wind storm, it rained before the wind storm so the ground was really wet. Trees came down left and right and we lived in the middle of a forest it was terribly frightening. At the end of the storm the weather turned really cold. We were cold and without power for seven days. We didn’t have much of an emergency kit at that time. I ate lots of peanut butter and beef jerky, I actually got tired of peanut butter but didn’t have anything else to eat. It didn’t help to go into town because everyone was without power and waiting in line to get gas at a gas station that happened to have power took over an hour. Sigh! So I like to remind people to be prepared.

Now what if you have special dietary needs? You still need to eat right? I have friends that have to eat gluten free and friends that choose to eat gluten free. So when I say that BuyEmergencyFoods.com had gluten free options I wanted to list a few of those options here. At Buy Emergency Foods you can find Gluten Free Oatmeal with Brown Sugar, Gluten Free Corn Chowder and Gluten Free Cheesy Potato Soup. When you’re looking for emergency food for your survival kit BuyEmergencyFoods includes options for those with special needs.

How Hungry Would You Be To Eat Freeze Dried Meat?

December 20, 2011 by Momstart 4 Comments

My husband and I are always talking about our emergency kit and what it needs to have in it. You’re supposed to have a backpack ready to go with everything you need to survive for three days and be able to run with it for three miles or something like that. I heard it on the radio a while back. Well, we’re not that prepared, not in the slightest but we do have an emergency kit with a few things in it like battery packs and flashlights, blankets and some food but not enough. So about a month ago we were talking about getting some more food and on the shelf in front of me at the grocery store was the largest container of Freeze Dried meat and onions and milk I had ever seen. It was in my opinion disgusting but what if? What if that’s all we had to eat? I sometimes wonder how long it would take me to get myself to eat that stuff.

Since we’re on-line looking at options and it’s the winter season an all I thought I’d share a website that has a few more appealing freeze dried options. PrepareWise has long term storage options for food and a cool calculator so you can determine how much food you would need along with some product options you can buy directly from them. Prepare Wise also has some basic survival kits that include bandages, toothpaste and other things you need besides food.

So before you lose electricity for a week or face some other natural disaster check out PrepareWise.com.