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 – 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 – chicken noodle, etc |
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15-20 oz |
Mixed vegetables |
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15-20 oz |
Potatoes – white or sweet, or yams |
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15-20 oz |
Pumpkin |
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21 |
Total |
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Vegetables – 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 – plain, Mexican, Cajun, Italian |
(2 cans mushrooms |
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14-16 oz |
Onions (DON’T drink the juice – 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 – 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 – 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 – Choose the following to total 7 |
1 item |
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2 (12 oz) |
Evaporated milk |
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Qt env’s |
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 – 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. It’s easy, portable, and versatile. This will feed you during a long electrical outage or an emergency evacuation, and it may help you through the Y2K panic.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) suggests that everyone have 72 hours’ worth of emergency supplies on hand at a minimum. One box (filled according to the table) will support two people for that time. You’ll 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 you’ll get a full 2000 calories per day. If each person in the household has at least one box, you’ll be able to stretch the food out for more than a week.
We suggest more than one box per person, for Y2k, but please do at least this much.
We wish you the best!!