Level 1: Month Four

Provident Living Plan: Month Four
Level 1: Clothing

Assignment:

Gather clothing for each member of your family to place in your 72-hour kit

Items to include:

• Pants (can cut off into shorts if needed)
• Shirt
• Sweatshirt
• Undergarments
• Socks
• Shoes (if possible--if you don't include shoes make sure to put a reminder note on your kit to grab shoes as you go.)
• Poncho
• Hat
• Gloves

If you have young children, you may want to include items like: diapers and comfort items (blanket, doll, etc.)

Level 3: Month Three

Provident Living Plan: Month Three
Level 3: Stock Up

Assignment:

Rice, Brown Sugar, Flour, Yeast, Salt

As we discussed in Month Two, there are lots of options for long-term food storage. If you are doing freeze-dried, you can try and convert this assignment or just stock up a little bit this month.

Level 2: Month Three

Provident Living Plan Month Three
Level 2: Breakfast Items

Assignment:

Gather pantry-friendly breakfast items (three months worth).

Consider your families needs and likes/dislikes. Breakfast items are an easy place to start.

Here are some examples of breakfast foods you can buy in bulk and inexpensively:

• Dry Pancake Mix
• Syrup
• Cereal
• Muffin Mix
• Granola/Breakfast Bars
• Oatmeal
• Powdered Milk
• Tang or Powdered Juice Mix
• Dried Fruit

Level 1: Month Three

Provident Living Plan Month Three
Level 1: Food

Assignment:

Gather food (three days worth) for each family member.

You can decide if you want to pack individual meals for each person or meals you can provide as a family. If you choose to pack soup or chili that needs to be cooked or requires hot water, make sure to include a way to cook it (like a small survival stove).  You may also choose MRE's instead.

Think about your families needs and likes/dislikes. 

Here are some 72-hour Kit Meal Planning ideas and helpers:

• http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/2009/05/18/more-72-hour-kit-food-ideas/
• http://preparedldsfamily.blogspot.com/2009/03/72-hour-kits-food-packs.html
• http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/08/emergency-survival-72-hour-kits.html
• http://www.livewiseindustries.com/FoodStorage/MREs

Level 3: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 2: Educate Yourself!

Assignment:

Educate yourself on long-term food storage and determine the types of foods you want to eat. Calculate how much food you need per person in your family.

Educate yourself on long term food storage and determine the types of foods you want to eat. There are so many options, especially in Utah. Do you want to stock freeze-dried items, grains and legumes? A combination?

How much will you need?  

According to FoodStorageMadeEasy.net, "there are basically two schools of thought on long term food storage. One recommends a 2300 calorie diet with 300 lbs of grains and 75 lbs of powdered milk (this was the original recommendation given to members of the LDS church back in 1978). A more recent recommendation has been to increase the calories to 2400, raise the grains to 400 lbs, and lower powdered milk to just 16 lbs (this is based off of a research study done in 1979)."

There are several online tools to help you calculate this for your family.
LDS.org
FoodStorageMadeEasy.net
LivewiseIndustries.com
BePrepared.com

Level 2: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 2: Meal Planning

Assignment:

Make a list of foods/meals you eat regularly and determine how much you would go through in three months time. From that list, pick 14 pantry friendly meals.

Write it down!

What are your popular family meals? What ingredients do you need for those meals? Are they pantry friendly ingredients? Could they be pantry friendly ingredients?

Take it one step further. From that list, pick 14 pantry friendly meals. These can be the meals you work towards keeping in stock, times six. (14 meals x 6 = 3 months of meals)

Want some forms to help you keep track?  Try this site over here. Or this one over here.

Level 1: Month Two

March Provident Living Plan
Level 1: Important Papers

Assignment:

Gather copies of your important documents, both digital copies and electronic.

Don't forget your important documents! Take time now to gather and protect your documents.

The originals of most should be kept in a safety deposit box.  You can scan documents onto a computer and create digital files. You can store the electronic copies of the documents on a remote computer or securely in the cloud. 

Make paper copies and keep them in a sealed, waterproof bag in your emergency kit so they are with you.

Documents to consider are:

• Home Inventory
• Insurance Policies - house, life, car, property, boat, ... Check that your policy covers you for disasters and that the limits are adequate since the last time you reviewed it.
• Wills - make sure you review and update your will occasionally too
• Property Deeds - to prove you own the house and land
• Titles to vehicles
• Tax Returns - first 2 pages of state and federal returns from the past 3 years
• Contracts - business you are doing or having done
• Stocks and Bonds
• Bank Account Numbers
• Credit Card Numbers and company phone numbers
• Driver's Licenses
• Social Security card
• Health Insurance Cards
• Prescriptions - medicines and eyeglasses
• Immunization records
• Phone Numbers - relatives, employer, insurance agent, doctor, pastor, financial advisor, repair contractor
• Birth certificates
• Marriage certificates
• Passports