Newbie Prepper: 10 Steps to Get You Started - Step 1

are you new to the world of prepping and just not sure where to begin join us and let's get started hi i'm kyleen and i'm jonathan and we are the provident preppers as you may be aware september is national preparedness month in honor of this we are creating a series of videos especially geared for those who are just getting started i have been concerned with the number of our viewers who are new to the world of prepping and need a little bit of handholding to know exactly where to start this is the first in a series of ten videos designed to break this down and make it easy self-reliance and emergency preparedness doesn't have to be overwhelming let us help you through the process and as you have questions connect with us through the comments section and we will get you through it remember these are designed to be steps to be worked through at your own pace some of them may take only a few days while others may take weeks or even months the goal is to be better prepared today than you were yesterday so join us and let's work on step number one for those of you just getting started this is for you this is the first in a series of 10 videos that we have created to help you start prepping let's go the first thing before you do anything else we would like you to conduct a risk assessment to help you do this you really want to go to the provident prepper prepper risk assessment what threat should you be prepared to survive just an overview we live in earthquake country so for us earthquake preparation is a really big deal but in this you're going to review natural disasters extreme weather man-made events financial crisis and outbreaks and things that are specific to your location and you're going to consider the resources that you have to help you out with your risks the reason why this is such an important part of your first step is because by determining the risk it enables you to design a plan that is specially tailored to meet your specific needs because no one preps the same there's not one blanket plan for everybody and after you've designed that plan then you can implement that plan and make progress for us wildfire is a serious risk this photo was taken right outside my front door the only way you're going to get this done is by completing your homework in a timely manner your first homework assignment is going to be to acquire a one-week supply of clean drinking water for your family or for yourself now that's 14 gallons per person you will hear some people say one gallon per person per day however realistically that is not enough water we've tried to do it and quite frankly i need two gallons of water just to be able to make things work you can do this the easy way you can go to costco or some store and just purchase bottled water if you purchase it at costco it's 295 for this package which is about five gallons of water you need three of those and you've got your wheat covered the first thing we did when we moved our kids to college was we bought them bottled water and put it under their bed because that's how important this step is now i have a friend who stores water in used two liter bottles she cleans them and fills them up and just keeps them under the bed that's a great way to make sure that you have water stored for emergencies if you visit the provident prepper we've written a post entitled how to store water for emergency preparedness and in there we go through all the different containers and the treatment methods and exactly what you need to know to be able to store water safely for emergencies we talked about how you can purchase the water bottles all ready to go or if money is an issue just repurpose plastic jugs and fill them with water your other homework assignment is to acquire a two-week supply of shelf-stable foods this is a picture of sam's bed at college before we even made the bed it's got food and water underneath and notice that we put the bed on risers to make sure that there was enough room to accommodate the things that we need to put under there basically what we're looking for is shelf stable foods canned goods packaged foods bottled beverages things that don't require refrigeration or freezing to be good there are so many different ways that you can go about this but one way is just to develop a two-week menu plan of the recipes that your family enjoys that only take shelf stable ingredients that might mean that you need to use powdered milk instead of fresh milk or substitute ingredients that way but it's really important that all of the ingredients are shelf stable in the event of a power outage or some other thing that takes away your ability to refrigerate or use a freezer so plan that two week menu make sure you include breakfast lunch dinner and of course treats treats treats nobody needs treats now talking about treats remember comfort foods if you are using your two-week supply of emergency food there are going to be some emotional issues going on and comfort foods really can just help us get through those now i have had some viewers that say i need to toughen up and just deal with it and you know once the treats are gone then i probably will why are you laughing john that sounds familiar from somewhere oh that's me now that case of twix that you just saw if you just used that same amount of money that was spent on that twix you could actually have a basic supply for an entire family so let's talk about the budget way of accomplishing this with just survival basics such as beans and rice pinto beans are one of the cheapest survival foods that you can get a serving has 100 calories each and in that bag you have 103 servings for less than six dollars black beans if you notice are almost twice as much as pinto beans but they're still relatively very inexpensive this four pound bag has 52 servings again at 100 calories each now by far white rice is one of the very least expensive survival foods that you can get this 20 pound bag has 200 servings at 160 calories each so at 8 48 that is some pretty cheap food it's not the healthiest thing that you can buy but quite frankly it will provide you with the calories that you need and keep your tummy full during hard times another really inexpensive option that you might want to consider dry spaghetti is very cheap and if you get an inexpensive variety of pasta sauce it's only a bucket can we produced a video on oats and how incredibly inexpensive it is i can have oatmeal for breakfast every single morning for an entire year for less than twenty dollars so if you don't have much money really think about using oats and i will leave a link in the description of this video to that video and post for you another option that is very inexpensive is a complete pancake mix where you just add water and then you can add syrup or peanut butter or something else to it if you have the resources to make it a little bit nicer in our post on long-term food storage there is a chunky soup plan and this plan is just where you purchase rice because remember it's incredibly cheap and then you buy cans of chunky soup if you shop right and buy them when they're on sale you can get them for about a dollar a piece and there's a huge variety of chunky soups or regresso soups anything like that and you cook the rice and then you dump the soup over it and it will create a meal very inexpensive way to have some emergency food so let's get started as you recall the first thing you're going to do is a risk assessment this is going to be followed by obtaining a one-week supply of drinking water and then a two-week supply of food shelf-stable food right we want to make sure that this can just hang out without any electricity and be there when you need it that post is broken down into 10 prep steps each one of those looks something like this it will introduce the topic it will provide you with a reading assignment and it will provide you with an action plan these action plans give you a basis for getting started you don't have to follow this exactly or even at all if you don't want to but it's there to help guide your thinking and to get you started and get things on paper so when you click on the link like here the risk evaluation action plan link it's going to take you to a page that will have a pdf and you can click on it bring up that pdf and print it out and then it'll actually kind of walk you through the different steps and it does a really good job of kind of stimulating your thought process and holding your hand and then you're going to want to put that in some kind of a binder so that you can reference it and so that you can monitor your progress each of these prep steps is going to have a homework assignment now these are not going to be on a strict schedule this is going to be happening according to your schedule and obviously you want to get through them but you also need to take it at a pace that's reasonable for you and so for step one your homework is the one-week supply of drinking water and a two-week supply of shelf-stable foods and watch for step number two coming soon in addition to visiting the post newbie prepper 10 simple steps to get started on youtube we have a really cool video prepper risk assessment and there's also an accompanying post that goes with it but it will kind of stimulate your thought process as you're looking at what types of risks you might want to prepare for and there's another video on best long-term treatment methods for storing water in a 55-gallon barrel it also might be of great interest to you check them out there you have it step one please share this video and let's see how many of our friends and family we can help on the path to prepare this this month and now for the question of the day what steps are you taking to become better prepared today than you were yesterday comment below and thanks for being part of the solution you

Channel: The Provident Prepper

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Keywords: Newbie Prepper, Novice Prepper, Beginner Prepper, Start Prepping, SHTF, TEOTWAWKI, Prepper, Food Storage, Water Storage, Risk Assessment, Step 1 to Prepping, How to Start Prepping

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Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020