Survival Prepping on a Budget: Make a Plan

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Not being familiar with how survival prepping should be handled can lead you to make mistakes with the items that you should have on hand for you and your family.

If you think that prepping means making sure you have enough supplies to make it in the event of a crisis that disrupts the ordinary way of life, you’d be right. But that doesn’t mean that you run out to the huge food store warehouse and start throwing cans of tuna in the cart.

Not knowing for sure what you need to get is a fast way to end up short on supplies, not to mention it’s a way to waste the money you have. Having a successful survival method means that you have to plan it.

You can’t run to the store and just haphazardly buy whatever looks like it’ll keep for a while. You need to have a checklist of what you should get. This checklist should always start with the items that you must have first.

What Do You Need First?

Not every item for prepping is needed right away. You always want to start with the most important things first. These will be items that your survival will depend on.

Usually what this means is that you plan to buy the basics.

Water

You should start with a basic food and water supply, since you can’t survive without either of these for very long. If that makes you nervous, just remember that you can start short-term with the plan to build toward a long-term supply. So your first step would be to aim to stock up with a three-day supply of food and water. You’ll need to do this for every member of your family – including your pets.

For your water supply, you’ll want to look for ones labeled emergency water pouches or survival water pouches. These come in packets for easy storage and you can get them in a 3-day supply. That’s your first goal. Keep your plan focused on setting aside supplies for 72 hours, then move on from there.

Food

Once you have your water supply set aside, then you’ll want to move to your food supply. Just like with the water, you’ll want to make sure that you have a three-day supply of food on hand.

Figure this for each person. What you’ll want to look for are the emergency food bars that offer around 400 calories a bar and come in different food flavors.

Sustain and Survive,

Dominique