Christmas The Preparedness Way

Christmas is an excellent time to help others start or add to their food storage and emergency preparedness.  Giving preparedness items to family and friends is like giving them a helping hand in case of an emergency.  There are so many different items you can give along with a wide range of prices.  

Under $20 Gifts

• Preparedness cookbooks (100 Day Pantry, The Essential Food Storage Cookbook, Dinner It's In The Bag, I Dare You To Eat It, The Amazing Wheat Book, Preparedness Principles, Food Storage In A Nutshell, many more HERE)
• #10 Cans of Food from the LDS Cannery, Honeyville Grain, and Emergency Essentials
• Heavy Duty swing-away can opener (there is no use in having cans without a can opener)
• High calorie food bars to keep in 72-hour and car kits.
• MRE's- meals ready to eat (Emergency Essentials)
• Seed sprouting kits and sprouting seeds
• Small first aid kits
• Gamma lids- they twist off of 4-6 gallon buckets to make long-term storage easy to use 

•  Flashlights, emergency candles, light sticks, lanterns

• Car kit items- shovels that fold, rope, tools, gloves, tarps, Mylar blankets, wool blankets
• Portable toilets or manual washing machine (plunger)
• 5-7 gallon water containers 
• Butane stove and butane canisters

$21-$80 Gifts

• Hand Grain Mill
• Pre-made 72-hour kits or car kits
• Backpacks
• Sleeping Bags
• Solar or hand crank radios
• Privacy tents (for portable toilets and showers)
• FoodSaver with jar attachments (counter top FoodSaver sold at Honeyville and other retailers)
• #10 cans of freeze dried fruits and veggies
• Wonder Clean Washer (a 15quart manual washing machine sold at Emergency Essentials)
• 15, 30, and 55 gallon water barrels
• Water purifiers
• Water bath canners
• Dehydrators
• Small tents
• Cases of food from the LDS Cannery, Honeyville Grain, Emergency Essentials)

Gifts Over $80

• Pressure Canners
• Volcano Stoves
• Tents
• Higher End food dehydrators
• Wheat grinders (Nutrimill is my favorite)
• Bosch Mixer
• Generators, Solar back up power packs, Goal Zero generators
• Solar Ovens (Global Sun Oven)
• Berkey Water Purifier

As you start checking off your Christmas list this year make sure to include some sort of preparedness gift for your family and friends!!