Survival Items to Keep In Your Car

As with any emergency or survival kit, you can't be prepared for everything, but you can be prepared for many things.

Below is a nice list of equipment that should serve you well in a wide variety of potential situations:

Extra pair of shoes, good walking, hiking, running shoes

1 - Medium backpack or soft zipper case (to keep your emergency gear in)

1 - Jumper cables

1 - Basic First Aid Kit

1 - Quality Rain Poncho

1 - Fleece Blanket

1 -quality multi-tool

1 - Duct Tape Roll

6 - 8" Cable Ties

3 - 24" Bungee Cords

1 - Road Safety Triangle Reflector

1 - Lighter

- Extra Batteries for Flashlight

Granola or Energy Bars (furthest date out you can find)

- Bottles of Water (take these out prior to winter)

1 - LED Headlamp Flashlight (this goes in vehicle)

1 - Survival Knife (this goes inside the vehicle)

A small camping stove and sterno packs

A few MREs and survival food

Instant coffee

You can add anything else that you think you might need that will fit in pack. I also have a solar powered cell phone charger and radio in my kit.

Pack everything but the LED headlamp and survival knife in your backpack. Store the pack in your trunk.

 

 

Food Storage Recipe - Creamy Santa Fe Chicken

A Yummy Mexican meal. Super easy to make and tasty.

NEED:

1 pound chicken tenders 

1 tablespoon olive oil 

2 cup frozen corn

 2 cups salsa verde

  1 cup sour cream 

1 teaspoon salt 

1 teaspoon pepper 

 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

 Add the olive oil to a skillet and heat over medium. 

 Season the chicken with salt and pepper.

 Add the chicken tenders and brown 1-2 minutes per side.

 Add the corn and cook an additional few minutes.  

Transfer the chicken and corn to a 9”x9” baking dish. 

 Pour the salsa verde over the chicken and bake for approximately 30 minutes. 

Remove from oven and stir in the sour cream. 

 Serve immediately over rice or in tortillas.

(28) EMERGENCY HEAT and Light for 72 DAYS

 

 

(28) EMERGENCY HEAT and Light for 72 DAYS | Crisco candles | SHTF - YouTube

 

This is a very useful video that shows how to make an emergency heat/light to use in an emergency. Having some Crisco on hand can turn out to be a life-saver. 

Easy to make and keep on hand. 

 

30+ Creative and Doable Alternative Housing Ideas

 

 

30+ Creative and Doable Alternative Housing Ideas - Epic Gardening 

Fun ideas to make neat houses. Live in something that no one else has. My favorite one would be a treehouse. Be up above everything. Hopefully safer up where people couldn't reach you and maybe hide it to where they couldn't even see it.

 

 

Food Storage Recipe - Yummy Cinnamon Crisps

Yummy quick treat!

NEED

1/2 cup cinnamon sugar

4-6 6" flour tortillas

 1/2 stick butter

 Coat the tortillas on both sides with butter. 

You can use a brush to apply butter to one side, then flip and brush the other side .

 Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture over the buttered side.

 

 Flip the tortillas and sprinkle the other side.

 

 Bake at 375 degrees for few minutes. 

 

Keep an eye on them and remove once they’re done. They can crisp up quickly! 

 

 Let the crisps cool completely, then break them into cracker-sized pieces. 

 

Serve on their own or they are really good with vanilla ice cream .