Seven-Day Food Kit

So I finished upgrading the Seven-Day Food Kit for our cars. I have one for each of our three vehicles. It’s a High Sierra wheeled duffel bag that also can be hoisted as a backpack in a pinch. Since it now weighs north of sixty pounds, I won’t be doing that too often — but it’s possible.

This kit supplements the other survival gear in our cars, which I’ll detail later.

One item I eliminated from the prior iteration of this kit was the bleach. I’d included a sealed container of liquid bleach and an eyedropper as a cheap and effective method for water-purification. However, I failed to realize that bleach fumes corrode things, like cans of food. After a year in our cars, I opened the kits to see bleached fabric and corroded cans (although the food inside is still fine). I’m thinking of buying some of the PolarPure treatment while it’s still available as a replacement. I left the eyedropper in the kit.
I took the opportunity to seriously upgrade the amount of food. This will now feed one active person in COMFORT for seven days, or a couple folks with some mild rationing.
There are five compartments, with contents as follows:
Right pocket
Eyedropper (to purify water with bleach)
(Formula: clear water: 3 drops per liter or quart; cloudy water: 5 drops)  
16 oz. rubbing alcohol
1 roll toilet paper
Cookware kit with small cup
1 set knife/fork/spoon, 1 set knife/fork
Fold-A-Stove w/12 cooking tabs; 24 extra cooking tabs
8 survival candles, matches, magnesium firestarter
Can opener

Left pocket
4 rolls toilet paper
1 roll Kirkland paper towels (80 sheets)

Center pocket
Del Monte variety pack: 12 4-oz tins mixed fruit; 12 of diced peaches
5 bowls Trader Joe’s Annie Chun’s brand Udon Soup
8 bowls Cup-A-Noodles Chicken flavor
16 packages Top Ramen noodles, Chicken flavor
3 tubes Pringles Light potato chips (the Ritz and saltines got stale; these are sealed and good for two years)
2 cans Progresso Soup (Traditional and Light Chicken Noodle)

Bottom mesh pocket
Blue bath towel, 2 white bar towels, 4 gallon Ziplock bags

Bottom pocket  
2 cans SPAM
12 cans Chicken of the Sea albacore tuna
12 cans Kirkland chicken
2 cans Progresso Soup (Light Beef and Traditional Minestrone)
6 cans Sunny Select Mini-ravioli
6 cans Sunny Select Ravioli
6 cans Sunny Select Spaghetti & Meatballs
8 cans S&W corn
5 cans S&W green peas
4 cans S&W green beans

I would have had 12 cans of Costco’s Kirkland roast beef instead of the ravioli and spaghetti, but Costco’s discontinued it. I found the ravioli and spaghetti cans on sale at Lucky (Sunny Select is their “house” brand) for $1 each. I tried the spaghetti today; it’s not quite so tasty as, say, Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee brand, but it’s close enough and a lot cheaper.