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Last week, I talked about how I built my 30-pound bug out bag. If an unexpected disaster strikes, I can grab my bag and head out the door in less than a minute, and I'll have 3 days worth of food and supplies with me.
However, one thing that new preppers tend to forget is that few people bug out alone. If you're bugging out, you probably have one or more people with you, such as a spouse and kids. If they don't have their own bug out bags, then your food and supplies won't last three days—it might not even last one day.
That's why it's wise to build a separate bug out bag for each family member. For this article, I'm going to share what I put in my 8-year-old son's bug out bag.
Putting his bag together was quite a challenge. I didn't want it to be too heavy. He only weighs 90 pounds, and since experts recommended having a bug out bag that's no more than 15% of one's bodyweight, that limited me to about 13.5 pounds.
With a bag that light, there was no way I could include everything he would need to survive on his own for three days. But of course, I don't plan on letting him end up on his own. This bag is so he can carry extra supplies that won't fit in my bug out bag.
In the end, his bag ended up weighing 13.6 pounds. I'm confident he could carry that a pretty good distance, but this summer we're going to spend time hiking with our bags so we can get in better shape.
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Anyway, here's what I put in my kid's bug out bag:
Clothes
Note: His clothes are inside a dry sack.
First Aid Kit
- Antiseptic wipes – 6
- Burn gel packets (2)
- Celox (2 packets)
- Children's TylenolÂ
- Gauze pads (2)
- Hydrocortisone
- Large Band-Aids (2)
- Loperamide (12 tablets)
- Pepto Bismol (12 tablets)
- Potassium iodide (14 tablets)
- Regular Band-Aids (6)
Food
- Fiber tablets (18 = 2 for each meal)
- Gatorade packets (3 x 130 = 390 calories)
- Goldfish packets (3 x 130 calories = 390 calories)
- Peanut butter go cups (6 x 122 calories = 732 calories)
- Raisins (3 x 90 calories = 270 calories)
- Snack bars (3 x 90 calories = 270 calories)
- SOS Food Lab Rations (3690 calories)
- Sunflower seeds (140 calories)
- Trail mix (3 x 240 = 720 calories)
- Tuna creations (3 x 80 calories = 240 calories)
Total calories: 6842 (2280 per day)
Hydration Kit
Light / Electronics
Physical Comfort
Toiletries
- Camp soap
- Deodorant
- Hand sanitizer
- Toilet paper tablets (16)
- Toothbrush and toothpaste
- Tush wipes (6)
- Wet wipes
Miscellaneous
- Chapstick
- Compass
- Fresnel lens
- Insect repellent
- Pen and pencil
- Playing cards
- Rite-in-rain notepad
- Runners light (clipped to outside of bag)
- Signal mirror
- Sunblock
- Trash Bags (4)
- Whistle
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