In-Depth Preparedness Checklist for Your Home
Home Preparedness Checklist
To help you get started or finished, print out this list and check off everything you already have. Then, use a highlighter marker and highlight everything you believe is a basic necessity for your family. Shop for basic things first checking off as you go. Use another color, and highlight what you would like to have on hand beyond your basic list, get those things next.
Last of all, get everything else. Consider the volume of what you prepare based upon the length of time you are projecting for possible disruptions to normal services & products. Prepare don't panic. Move forward in faith. Remember chance favors the prepared mind!
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Cash (Small bills you can pay in exact change)
___ Small Bills (1's, 5's, 10's, 20's)
___ Coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters)
--- Silver coins (for purchase and bartering if the current monetary system fails)
Kitchen
Beans:
___ Great Northern
___ Kidney beans
___ Lentils
___ Navy
___ Pinto
___ Red beans
Seeds for Sprouting: (essential for vitamins)
___ Alfalfa, mung, radish, sprouting peas, lentils, etc.
Rice and Grains:
___ Barley
___ Boxed cereals (6 month shelf life)
___ Corn (popcorn and field corn)
___ Flour (Wheat, white and other varieties, 9-12 month shelf life)
___ Instant hot cereals (oatmeal, cream of wheat, malt-o-meal, etc.)
___ Oatmeal (1 year shelf life in original container)
___ Rice (brown, white, or combination)
___ Bay leaves (Bay Leaves are great for keeping bugs out of flour and
cereal so you might want to get an extra large bottle!)
Cooking Agents
___ Cooking Oil (extra virgin olive oil stores best)
___ Baking powder
___ Baking soda
___ Shortening (like Crisco)
___ Yeast (in a pinch you can use sourdough)
___ Salt (Iodized)
___ Rock salt
___ Sea salt
___ Sugar (Sweeteners)
___ Brown sugar
___ Corn syrup
___ Powdered sugar
___ White sugar
Pasta:
___ Macaroni
___ Shells
___ Spaghetti (with jars of heat-up sauce)
Dairy Products:
___ Powdered Milk & Buttermilk
___ Milk (canned evaporated)
___ Parmesan cheese
___ Powdered butter/margarine is available (like Butter Busters)
___ Cheese powder (Stuff in the boxes of prepared Macaroni and Cheese.)
___ Powdered eggs
Dehydrated or Canned Food:
___ Meat
___ Chicken
___ Beef in a can
___ Beef jerky
___ Corned beef & Corned Roast Beef
___ Chili con carne
___ Salmon
___ Turkey
___ Tuna
___ Canned chicken/beef stock or gravy
Vegetables:
___ Beets
___ Broccoli
___ Cabbage
___ Carrots
___ Celery
___ Creamed or whole kernel corn
___ Green beans
___ Instant mashed potatoes (Idaho's in a can will store indefinitely)
___ Canned mushrooms
___ Peas
___ Soup and stew blends
___ Spinach
___ Cream of Mushroom, broccoli, etc.
___ Soup starter
___ Variety of canned soups (Chicken Noodle, Tomato, Vegetable, etc.)
Fruits:
___ Apples
___ Applesauce
___ Apricots
___ Bananas
___ Canned and bottled fruit juices
___ Flavored apples