Once you have the contents of your 72 Hour Kits planned out or ready to go, you will need to store everything in something. There are a few things to keep in mind for this.
A backpack, tote bag, oversized insulated lunch cooler, picnic bag, plastic shopping bag, overnight or weekend bag, small suitcase on wheels...each of these would work to keep your food in. The container will at least need to be big enough to hold the food (there are other contents that can be added that we will explore later). It will need to be sturdy enough to handle some fast or rough movement since it will need to be portable. While the plastic shopping bags may be large enough, they will probably not be sturdy enough to with-hold lots of handling. They will work in a pinch or if there are no other container options though. Right now we have ours in fabric shopping bags, which are holding us over until we have oversized zippered lunch coolers for all of us.
Make sure that you have enough containers. We prefer to keep our kits divided out for each person rather than keeping all of the food in one kit. The reasoning behind this is incase any of us are separated (which we pray would never happen) at least we will have our own kits. Also, if something should happen to one or more of the kits (like getting lost or damaged), at least the others would hopefully be in edible condition.
Another tip is to have all of the kits in the same color and style of bags. This makes it easier for the eye to grab in emergency and to pick out of a crowded area.
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