Master Prepping List
List of supplies for preppers and survivalists
Prepper Supplies Checklist
Your guide to emergency preparedness begins with a list. We pulled together an ultimate prepper’s list of supplies below.
Master List of Prepping Supplies
If you’re new to prepping, you need a place to start ~ that’s
where our master list of prepping supplies can help you. If you’re
an experienced prepper, you may like to evaluate the supplies
you currently have available and consier ideas on items you may
potentially lack. The checklist below can help you measure
progress toward your preparedness goals.
Another excellent resource is the Prepper Supplies Checklist, a
simple guide to emergency preparedness, by Nettie David,
pictured right. It’s a short read, and more like a workbook, but
within this guide you will find:
- an easy to follow preparedness plan
- lists of survival supplies
- photos, illustrations, and short stories
- formulas for calculating supply needs
- a prioritized list of emergency preparedness categories
- simple strategies for setting preparedness goals
- checklists for each prepper category
- bug out bag and power outage kit ideas
- an easy system for tracking progress and
- a prepper calendar
Following is a prepper’s supplies checklist:
- Alcohol (and rubbing alcohol)
- Antibiotics – Natural and fish antibiotics
- Antibacterials
- Antiseptics – Neosporin (or polysporin if you are allergic)
- Ammunition.
- Aspirin or aspirin alternatives
- Axe / hatchet and sharpener for wood chopping. Pulaski axe.
- Big Berkey water filter
- Blankets – mylar blankets , fleece and wool blankets
- Bleach
- Boots (hiking, work boots)
- Bouillon cubes
- Borax
- burn barrel
- Bucket Openers.
- Buckets of Emergency Food (beans, corn, cereal, oats, pasta,
popcorn, powdered milk, rice, sugar, spices and wheat) - Bugout bag
- Bugout bike
- Burn barrel
- Cable ties
- Canteen or water bladder
- Canned foods
- Canning lids
- Carbon monixide detector
- Camp stove
- Camp solar shower
- Camp Suds
- Charcoal (activated charcoal and charcoal briquettes)
- Compass and maps
- Composting toilet
- Communications (cell phone, weather Radio, CB, HAM radio,
two wave radio, walkie talkies) - Candles (emergency candles) and candlemaking supplies
- Canned food – meats, fruits, vegetables, soups, stews,
stocks - Can Openers – multiples for redundancy
- Carts – hauling food, water, wood, and equipment
- Chemical suit
- Chewing gum. Chew on this: Gum could help save your life in
a survival situation and we’ll show you how, so don’t over
look this inexpensive part of your preps! - Cigarettes – for tinder and bartering
- Citrus – prevent scurvy malnutrition.
- Cordage – paracord
- Colloidal silver
- Coffee packaged for long term food storage
- Coffee filters
- Copper
- Dehydrator
- Duct tape
- Dental aid – dental medic kit, dental wax, braces kit
- Dental hygiene supplies – dental floss, toothbrushes,
toothpaste, mouthwash (which is an antiseptic!) - Disinfectants (chlorine bleach, Steramine tablets)
- Drink mixes, powdered milk, and other emergency drinks
- Essential Oils. When medicines are not available, preppers
will be turning to wisdom of the centuries with tinctures and
essential oils. - Electrolytes – Pedialyte, Saltstick Electrolyte Capsules
- Emergency radio
- Epsom Salt
- Ferro rod
- Flashlights – LED, hand crank, and solar
- Flu pandemic mask
- Firearms (guns and ammunition)
- Fire extinguishers
- Fire starters – BIC lighter, matches, ferro rod, Zippo
- Fresnel lens
- Freeze dried foods – Augason Farms, Honeyville Farms,
Mountain House, Legacy Foods, bucket of potatoes. - Fishing gear – fishing pole and reel, fishing line, lures,
swivels, sinkers, tackle box - First Aid supplies – bandages, butterfly bandages, finger
cots, finger splints, smelling salts, (see also Medic Bag) - Fuel – kerosene, propane, white gas (see also charcoal)
- Gas Mask – Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) gas mask
- Gardening tools – rake, hoe, planters (see also shovel and
spade) - Generator
- Grains
- Grain mill
- Hammer and nails
- Heirloom, non-GMO Survival Seeds.
- Home defense tools – barbed wire
- Homestead supplies – chicken wire (aka poultry netting) and
garden staples, - Hunting – alternate gear including, BB gun, crossbow, snare
wire, slingshot, pellet gun - Hygiene (dental)
- Hygiene (personal) ~ shampoo, soap, toothpaste
- Hygiene (other)– diapers (paper and cloth); sanitary napkins,
tampons or cup; adult diapers, wipes - Hydrogen peroxide
- Immunity Boosters – Vitamins
- Knives (fixed blade knives)
- Knives (folding knives )
- Lanterns ~ solar, gas, hand crank, oil lamps
- Laundry ~ off grid washing machine, centrifugal dryer,
washboards, clothes pins and washing line - Lighter BIC lighter or Zippo
- Pandemic Personal Protective Equipment – chemical and
splash resistant, disposable clothing, booties pandemic
mask, goggles, nitrile gloves, gauntlet gloves - Plastic bags ~ hazardous waste bags, garbage bags, ziplock
bags, - Protein bars, energy bars, cereal bars, granola bars
- Manual kitchen tools – butter churn, cheesecloth, cheese
wax, manual egg beater, manual knife sharpener, juice
press, corn husker, heavy duty apple /potato peeler, pea
sheller. - Mason jars
- Medicines (allergy, aspirin, aspirin alternative, activated
charcoal, cold medicine etc. ) - Medics bag and first responder supplies
- Powdered milk
- Pressure cooker – for home canning
- Prescription medications (minimum six-month supply)
- Rain barrels
- Rice and beans (see also buckets of food)
- Respirator – Niosh certified (e.g., N100 or N95)
- Salt
- Saw, plus saw horses, clamp
- Screwdriver and screws
- Seed vault (non-GMO, heirloom seeds)
- Sewing Kit – sewing notions (needles, thread, sewing awl),
patterns, treadle-powered sewing machine - Soaps – Zote laundry soap
- Solar chargers – cell phone solar batteries
- Shoe repair –inserts, laces (or thin paracord), rubber heels
savers and soles. Shoe Goo - Shovel and spade
- Silver and colloidal silver
- Spices
- SuperGlue
- Survival Guide – (we recommend Mykel Hawke’s Survival
Guide) - Steramine tablets
- Tarps (green or camouflaged, not blue)
- Tea
- Tent, car camper recreational vehicle, temporary shelter or
bugout location - Toilet paper
- Thermometer, no touch (infrared) or disposable, digital and
analog - Vaseline
- Vinegar
- Vehicle essentials – jumper cables, fluids, tire repair kit, tire
chains, tow straps - WD-40 – a good all-around lubricant
- Wood, seasoned.
- WaterBob ~ bathtub water liner
- Water purification ~ tablets
- Water filtration system ~ gravity fed water filters, like a
Berkey or a Lifestraw - Water Storage. If you have kids, you’ll want a 260-gallon
water tank that will ensure a family of four has water for
three months. - Yeast
- Zeer pot or alternate refrigeration
Happy endings…
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