Beside your prayers and Faith, you might need these suggestions.

Cooking and Cooking Supplies

❏ Camping Stove

❏ Extra fuel supply for stove (and matches!)

❏ Thick aluminum foil

❏ Complete dinner ware for whole family (plates, knives, forks, etc..)

❏ Minimum 2 pots with lids

❏ whistling kettle for boiling water

❏ Various utensils: 2 large spoons, spatula, tongs, knives, long necked forks

❏ Paper towels, oven mitts, paper towels

❏ A couple frying pans

❏ Paper plates for at least 2 weeks

❏ Portable water filter and some water purification tablets

❏ Cooking oil (make sure this doesn’t get rancid)

Tools and things

❏ Axe, shovel, hand saw

❏ Broom with dust-pan

❏ Hammer, some nails, pry-bar, screw-drivers

❏ 2 adjustable wrenches (one big, one small)

❏ Heavy gardening gloves

❏ Vice grips baby! (I love vice grips) and pliers (needle-nose and others)

❏ 100 feet of 1/4″ rope (1/2″ is good too – or both is better!)

❏ Duct tape (obviously  

❏ Pen, pencil, pad (of paper)

❏ Camping lantern with extra fuel

❏ Cards, games, entertainment

Survival Gear

❏ Water: Important! one gallon per day per person

❏ First Aid kit with guide

❏ Food: Light weight, high nutrient content

❏ Manual can-opener

❏ Portable Radio: with extra batteries or get one that is crank powered

❏ Flashlights: have one per person with extra batteries or mechanically powered

❏ Medications (3 month’s supply)

❏ Fire-extinguisher

❏ Timepiece (watch and/or alarm clock)

❏ Don’t forget to provide food for your pets!

❏ Blankets! space blankets, sleeping bags, ground cloth, etc.. Must stay warm  

❏ Himalean rock salt (lots of minerals in it) and your vitamins (rotate these every 3 months)

❏ Tent and/or shelter cover

❏ Candles, waterproof matches, fire starter

❏ Heavy-duty knife