The Prepared Household Starter Kit — Emergency Binder + Foraging Field Guide
$47.00
Two downloads. One afternoon. Everything your household needs to be genuinely prepared — not just stocked. The Family Emergency Binder organizes your contacts, medical records, finances, insurance, and evacuation plan into one ready-to-grab reference. The Mid-America Seasonal Foraging Field Guide builds the food-from-the-land skills that matter when supply chains fail. Together they cover both sides of preparedness: what you’ve documented and what you can do. Save $7 versus buying separately.
Description
Gear is the least important part of being prepared.
Most people start with gear — bags, cans, water jugs — and stop there. That’s not preparedness. That’s shopping. Real preparedness is two things: knowing what to do, and having what you need documented so your family can function without you in the room.
The Prepared Household Starter Kit covers both.
What’s Included
The Family Emergency Binder — Retail $37
Your household’s single source of truth in a crisis. Eleven sections covering everything that matters the moment something goes wrong:
- Emergency contacts including an out-of-state communication hub
- Medical profiles, medications, and allergy alerts for every household member
- Insurance policies with agent contacts, policy numbers, and claims lines
- Financial accounts, banking information, and cash reserve guidance
- Important documents inventory — 15 document types tracked with location and copy status
- Three-tiered evacuation plan with rally points, routes, and destination contacts
- Family communications protocol with a cut-out laminated wallet card
- Utilities, home systems, and contractor contacts
- 72-hour kit checklist with expiry tracking
- Annual review log to keep it current
Print it, fill it in, put it in a binder with tabbed dividers. Every adult in your household knows where it is.
The Mid-America Seasonal Foraging Field Guide — Retail $17
24 edible wild plants and mushrooms across the Ozarks, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma — organized by season, illustrated with photographs, and written specifically for this region. Spring through winter, each plant profile includes identification, look-alike warnings, preparation, preservation, and a tested recipe.
- Spring: morel mushrooms, wild garlic and ramps, dandelion, chickweed, wild violet, lamb’s quarters, serviceberry
- Summer: elderberry, blackberry, pawpaw, wild bergamot, purslane, wood sorrel
- Fall: wild persimmon, black walnut, hickory nut, rose hips, sumac, hawthorn berry, hen of the woods
- Winter: Jerusalem artichoke, cattail, pine needle tea, witch hazel
- Seasonal harvest chart, preservation methods reference, and regional field guide recommendations
Why These Two Together
A binder without skills is just paperwork. Skills without documentation are just hobbies.
The binder handles the organizational side of preparedness — the thing nobody does until they need it and then desperately wishes they had. The foraging guide handles the skills side — specifically the one that matters most when you can’t get to a store: knowing what the land around you can provide.
Between them they represent the two most neglected areas in household preparedness. Most people have some gear. Almost nobody has their insurance policy, out-of-state contact, and evacuation route written down in the same place. And very few people can walk out their back door in October and find food.
One afternoon changes both of those things.
What You Get
- Family Emergency Binder — printable Word document (fully editable) + PDF
- Mid-America Seasonal Foraging Field Guide — illustrated PDF, 24 plant profiles
- Instant download — both files available immediately after purchase
- Print as many copies as you need for personal household use
Both products are part of the Foundations of Personal Preparedness program at Survival Technician. The full course at survivaltechnician.com goes deeper on every topic covered here.
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