update bug out bag DIY Homemade MRE emergency meals hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepperit's
that time of year when you should update your bug out bag 72 hour kit emergency supplies what
I'm updating on mine today is the DIY MREs the meals that I prepare and I package together that
are ready to eat I can have them all in there a whole package for a whole day of foods that
you tear open they're ready to eat you don't have to do any kind of cooking or Preparation
at all in my homemade DIY MREs that go into my bug out bag 72 hour emergency kit I want to have
approximately 2 000 calories because I consider it for an entire day when you buy a commercial
MRE it's usually designed for one meal they maybe have 1100 calories but I wanted to have
each pouch be for one day then I have three days worth of food to go in my bug out bag and I can
pull one bag out for each day and I have enough food breakfast lunch dinner and snacks that can
last for that day these are something that I I put together regularly I buy all of the food to expire
approximately the same time I try to find foods that have a year to a year and a half on them and
I know that they can live together in the pouch and I can rotate homemade DIY emergency meals all
at once then maybe in six months when I updated for winter or spring or summer or when a year
has come around I can take those out I can put those Foods in my pantry and eat them and then
I can put together new pouches of food and that's what I'm doing today I'm putting together some new
pouches of food well I'm just going to explain it all again but I realized I had made a video
about how I put together these packages about two years ago and I thought I would just go ahead and
put portions of that video in here to explain to you how I did it because I'm doing the same thing
again I started with Hormel compleats these are ready to eat they're very good I've done reviews
on these before about how how tasty they are and they're completely cooked if you can heat them
in the microwave that's great but if you can't they're completely cooked you only need to peel
it open and eat it and guess what they're really tasty and the package is very sturdy they're going
to be fine packed up in an MRE type meal then I chose two kinds of granola and cereal bars because
they're foods that I like to eat choose foods that you like to eat to put together in your kit I have
some that are fruit and cereal and I have some that are sweet and salty with nuts then I also
have some individual packs of applesauce finding grab and go packets of fruit can be harder but
the little applesauce pouches are pretty sturdy they're versatile and my family likes them so
they're a good choice for my grab-and-go meals I also chose some bags of yogurt trail mix when
you're putting together your DIY homemade MRE bug out bag meals you want to pay attention into how
many calories are in each package get out your calculator and read the nutritional facts this
packet of yogurt trail mix has six servings of 130 calories you multiply the six times 130 how many
calories are in the entire packet you also want to pay attention to the total sodium because they
can be very high in some of your pre-packaged meals so the entrees have quite a bit but the
other choices that I made don't you also want to pay attention to the protein grams to make
sure you're getting an adequate amount these are the foods that I chose for my homemade DIY
MRE grab-and-go meals you can choose foods that you enjoy eating I'm going to seal my meals up
in a gallon Ziploc bag into each bag I'm going to include two paper towels and a little set of
silverware these utensils are ones that I've saved from when I've had to go meals take out
meals and some of them are already pre-packaged but you can just take a set wrap a napkin around
them and it's ready to go into your bag the Hormel compleats that I chose are roast beef
turkey and chicken they have some that don't have meat in them but I wanted the protein of
meat and that's why I chose these the completes that I chose range and calorie count from 220
to 290. granola Clif energy bars that I chose have 130 or 160 calories the applesauce has 50 calories
the yogurt trail mix has 780 calories this is how I'm going to assemble my bags into a gallon
Ziploc bag I'm going to place two paper towels a set of utensils two Hormel compleats meals
two cups of applesauce to each of the two types of granola Clif energy bars
and one bag of Trail Mix this could last for breakfast lunch dinner it could be for a complete
day for one person in an emergency or if you're just away from home and you need one meal you
could split this with another person this can meet your needs in several ways if you needed this for
breakfast lunch and dinner you have a complete set of calories and nutrition for an entire day
or if you're away from home caught off guard you can share this with another person and you each
have a full complete meal I'm just using a Ziploc bag I sealed some of these before with a FoodSaver
vacuum and I when I went to use them later on I realized that it actually punctured some of
the seal on Hormel Compleat and the different kind of meal pouches so I don't recommend vacuum
sealing homemade DIY emergency meals anymore make sure you're getting a variety of foods to
have on hand whether it's emergency meals to have in your bug out bag in your get home bag grab and
go meals 72 hour kits in your pantry foods that you would be able to provide meals for your family
for several weeks and then also get the long-term food storage things like rice beans oatmeal dried
foods foods that can live in your long-term food storage for up to 30 years then if you have an
emergency you need to grab a go right now you have food choices if you're stuck at home someone is
sick the power goes out or you run out of money before you run out a month you have Foods in your
pantry that you can make a meal and then in a long drawn-out emergency type situation you're
still going to have your rice your beans your dried stockpile of long-term food storage that
can continue to feed and nourish your family look at all the people in the east coast that are being
hit by hurricanes right now and they're being required to evacuate don't you bet a lot of them
wish they had these bug out bag meals already in their bug out bag ready to go and evacuate
and I bet a lot of people did but there's so many people who are just not prepared one of the things
I read in the news that there's all kinds of new families that have evacuated that are immediately
contacting food pantries because they don't have anything to eat wouldn't that be terrible
that you evacuated with your family to get to safety and now you don't know where your next
meal is coming from well if you put some of these together then you'll know you can even put them in
your pantry and if you need a grab-and-go meal just to go out for the day or you're in a hurry
you don't have time to make lunch grab one and take it with you but keep some of these assembled
and put together with your bug out bag and your emergency gear and you won't have that immediate
problem if you take care of your basic needs with your bug out bag you don't need to worry
worry about where am I gonna sleep what am I going to do how am I going to get there where am I going
to go and how am I going to feed myself and my children you have those basic plans and supplies
with you which allows you to figure out what to do next instead you can figure out where can I
go for safety do I have my most important family members with me and did I grab my emergency gear
and then you're going to be far better off than if you make no plan at all and we want to make
each day to be the best that we can that's why we're Preppers we're preparing for things to go
wrong because they just do in everybody's life so the more things we think about and the better we
prepare the better off we're going to be so put together some of these homemade DIY MREs put them
together with your emergency survival gear in your bug out bag and then make sure you have a
plan in place that you know you could leave if you had to and then you'll have an idea how to
gather your family together how to go to where your emergency meeting place is then you'll be
far better off in an emergency because you made a plan and you can Implement your plan if you
need to if you have other ideas of items that you like to include in an MRE leave it in the comments
below always choose foods that you like and you're willing to eat that's what you should have with
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