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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GOODS

EPGOODS is a Division of MILBURN

440 East 100 North

Spanish Fork, Utah 84660-1812

(801) 798-9095

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General

A collection of resources, tips and ideas to increase efficiency and education in relation to preparedness and survival skills is listed here.

Family Food Storage has some helpful information.

Food Storage Ideas.

This site list other sites that are very helpful under Links & Resources.

Simply Living Smart, this site has lessons and information as well as items for sale.

Provident Living

The following link for the LDS Church gives some information on family finances and food storage as well as other good information to help us in our lives.

Here is some information from the LDS Church's web site about the pandemic. We need to be as prepared for this as we can. Once we are shut up in our homes waiting it out, the Church won't be able to do much, if anything, to help us until it blows over.

Recipes

Try this site for some recipes.

72 Hour Kit (Bug-out Kit or E-vac Kit)

We feel it is best if you put your own 72 Hour Kit together. You can use a backpack, duffel bag or gym bag. When putting together your 72 Hour Kit, put in items that you will need and will use. This includes at least one complete change of clothes, including comfortable shoes. Remember to check the items in your Kit at least every six months, as children grow (so do most adults) their clothes shrink. Usually a 5-year old child's clothing will not fit a 14 year old. Just like food, rotate clothing. Remember formula and enough wet ones and diapers for babies. As for food, put in items that will be eaten. Chocolate candy bars are good, but think of the melted mess it could be in the summer. Granola bars would be better. Be sure to rotate the food every 6 to 12 months. One way could be to have an outing and except for water, only use what is in the bag. This will give you an idea of what to and not to have in it in case of a real emergency.

All kits should have a good flashlight with extra batteries and bulbs. Again, rotate the batteries. Four things that an adult should have in their kits are a portable battery operated (solar or hand crank) radio, good First Aid kit, some cash (at least $20.00 to $50.00, part of which should be change or a phone card (don't let it expire) for phone calls) and a CD or Jump Drive with copies of important papers and photographs on it. If you need papers or photographs copied, we can do that for you for a fee. Contact us for more details.

Don't forget to put any needed medication in your kit if you have to use your kit. Try to keep you vehicle fairly full of gas. Half tank should get you a hundred or more miles away, where you should not get price gouged or have to wait in long lines if you can even get gas in an emergency around where you may live.

Using Dehydrated and Freeze Dried Foods

Today we live in a fast paced world and expect things to be done quickly and get impatient if they aren't. Often times what is to be had for a meal is planed as the person preparing it thinks of it at mealtime. Using dehydrated and freeze dried foods calls for advance planning, in some cases planning the day before. With before hand though you can have a delicious and nourishing meal. But you don't like dehydrated food. You may never know how much dehydrated food you eat when you eat out. Probably most all the mash potatoes you eat. Many quick breakfast cereals, and check the ingredients on the next can of tomato or other juice you drink. Made from concentrate. OK, so you eat them, but they cost more. Do they? How many servings do you get from a can of wet pack? What does it cost per serving? How long will it keep before it spoils? Now how many servings can you get from a can of dehydrated food? What is the cost per serving? How long will it keep before it spoils? In most every case, dehydrated food is cheaper and keeps longer. Initial cost is higher, but overall savings is better.

Many people buy dehydrated and freeze dried food for emergency use. This is good, but what is better is to buy it and use it before an emergency. Then you know how to use it before the emergency. There are many good cookbooks to explain how to use the items for those delicious and nourishing meals. Like wet pack items, rotate them as well in storage, and the best way is to use them along with other food items.

What kind of emergencies could come up for you to use the food storage you have? Many people have thought they had a secure job, only to go to work and find they have been laid off or their employer closes the doors for some reason. Maybe in bad weather power is off for several days. What about crop failure of some fruits or vegetables? The list can go on. How long would you and your family be able to eat if you couldn't buy more food for a while?

Many people have a couple thousand pounds of wheat, which when stored properly, can be stored for over twenty years. It is also fairly cheap. But do many of them ever use any of it? No, they are saving it for an emergency. OK, the emergency comes along, how do they use it? Well, first they realize they need to grind some of the wheat. OK, they have an electric wheat grinder. Woops. No power and no hand crank to grind the wheat. OK, they have a hand grinder, but all they have is wheat to eat. Yes, besides wheat flour for bread, biscuits, pancakes and other things that wheat can be used for; and a body not use to a lot of wheat will let you know it needs more than wheat. Yes, it is good to store wheat and other stables such as beans, sugar, oats, pastas, potatoes, milk and others, but we need to have a variety of other foods as well. And don't forget the spices. Rice alone is very bland, but add cinnamon and sugar and the taste is greatly improved.

So when storing food, store the basics then add other foods and spices for a variety. Then rotate all your storage by using it in times of non-emergencies so you will know how to use it in an emergency. When adding other foods to your storage, store the foods you like and get a couple good dehydrated food cookbooks and try out different recipes. You may find yourself loving food you though you might hate. Health wise, they may even be better for you as well.

Give us a call or send us an Email to learn more about dehydrated and freeze dried foods, 72 Hour Kits and related items.

Updated 02/18/08