THE WELL PREPARED ISLAND
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Week-In-A-Box One Week,
One Person, No Cooking
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Items |
Package |
Description |
Each Day, Use Up |
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Starches ö Choose the following to total 21 |
3 items |
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15-20 oz |
Baked beans, black, kidney, lima, etc |
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15-20 oz |
Corn |
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15-20 oz |
Peas |
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15-20 oz |
Soups with noodles or pasta ö chicken noodle, etc |
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15-20 oz |
Mixed vegetables |
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15-20 oz |
Potatoes ö white or sweet, or yams |
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15-20 oz |
Pumpkin |
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21 |
Total |
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Vegetables ö Choose the following to total 11 |
1 item every day, |
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14-16 oz |
Green beans |
2 items on 4 days. |
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14-16 oz |
Tomatoes ö plain, Mexican, Cajun, Italian |
(2 cans mushrooms |
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14-16 oz |
Onions (DONāT drink the juice ö too salty!) |
count as 1 item; 3 cans |
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14-16 oz |
Carrots |
bamboo shoots count |
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14-16 oz |
Zucchini in tomato sauce |
as 1 item) |
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14-16 oz |
Beets |
If you use them, you can |
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14-16 oz |
Asparagus |
spread them out over |
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14-16 oz |
Leafy greens (collard, spinach, kale) |
several days. |
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2 (4 oz) |
Mushrooms |
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14-16 oz |
Sauerkraut |
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8 oz |
Water chestnuts |
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16 oz |
Bean sprouts |
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3(8 oz) |
Bamboo shoots |
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11 |
Total |
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Fruits ö Choose the following to total 3 |
1 item on 3 days a week. |
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15 oz |
Fruit cocktail |
(3 cans of grapefruit or |
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15 oz |
Pears |
3 cans of mandarin |
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15 oz |
Peaches |
oranges count as 1 item) |
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16 oz |
Plums |
If you use them, you |
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3 (16 oz) |
Grapefruit |
can spread them out |
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3 (12 oz) |
Mandarin Oranges |
over several days. |
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20 oz |
Pineapple |
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3 |
Total |
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Proteins ö Choose the following to total 42 ounces |
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Turkey or Chicken |
Eat 5 to 6 ounces a day, |
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Tuna |
or 10 to 12 ounces every |
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Ham (NOT Spam) |
other day |
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Beef |
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42 oz |
Total |
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Milk ö Choose the following to total 7 |
1 item |
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2 (12 oz) |
Evaporated milk |
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Qt envās |
Dry milk in 1-quart envelopes |
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7 |
Total |
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Include all of the following |
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1 |
1-lb bag |
Granola ö eat dry or with milk |
2 ounces |
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you decide |
Chocolate squares, peppermints, hard candies |
what cheers you |
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2 |
rolls |
Toilet paper (remove centers and flatten rolls) |
what you need |
Easily fits in a large cardboard apple box from the store, weighs about 50 lbs.
This table can get you started on emergency preparedness. Itās easy, portable, and versatile. This will feed you during a long electrical outage or an emergency evacuation.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) suggests that everyone have 72 hoursā worth of emergency supplies on hand at a minimum. One box (filled according to the table) will support two people for that time. Youāll also need a gallon of water per person per day.
One person can live on this for a week without having to cook anything. (Naturally, it will taste better if you can heat the food.) Everything should be eaten, including the liquids, so youāll get a full 2000 calories per day. If each person in the household has at least one box, youāll be able to stretch the food out for more than a week.
We suggest more than one box per person.
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