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Maintaining a Meal and Hygiene Schedule When Bugging Out or Stealth Camping

Ric Black

August 5, 2015

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It’s important to maintain a schedule when bugging out, stealth camping or bugging in and regulating your diet, hygiene and hydration along with moderate exercise (walking 1 mile a day) will help you maintain your health and prevent dehydration and stagnation in your meals by planning a 30-day schedule of meals and snacks.

Not only does having a 90-day plan of action help you with food and water purchases but guarantees you know at all times your food and water inventory per person. It will be tempting to divert from a set meal plan but in times of turmoil, duress and questionable safety knowing and following a routine will help regulate not only your metabolism but you anxiety and stressors.

Meal Planning per Person

I have enclosed a well-balanced 30-day planned meal regime including a 3-meal plan per day, a hygiene and snack schedule. Snacks are important between meals to stave off hunger pangs but to provide added energy throughout your day.

Water and Hydration per Person

Maintaining your body’s hydration needs is important besides the liquids contained in meals during the day the intake of five – 16.9 ounce bottles of water is recommended for minimum daily consumption. The intake of fluids where you require 1-gallon per day is suggested for any outside activity and during the first 3-4 months of a manmade or natural disaster venturing outside making undo noise, noticeable activity or driving around where it could place you and your family in danger is not something I would engage in.

The reason suggest using 16.9 ounce bottled water bottles is they are plentiful in every Wal-mart in 35-bottle cases for $3.50 each or 4-1/4 cases or 150 bottles per person every 30-days; 12-3/4 cases for 90 days.

Hygiene

Maintaining your body, hair, mouth and feet are an essential part of an everyday routine and will help with fatigue and illness defeating infections and disease you may encounter from raw sewage, decaying flesh of animals and other humans and contaminated air.

Sanitation

Let’s face it as unpleasant as it may sound we urinate several times a day and evacuate with some sort of regularity also and maintaining methods of relieving yourself are an issue you will definitely be faced with. A bottle system for urination that can be emptied and rinsed daily is a recommendation. For evacuating your bowels a portable potty system can be had from Wal-mart or any building supply center. Maintain a set of 13-gallon plastic bags, large box of kitty litter adding ½ cup after each usage and removing and sealing the bag and disposing of it away from you habitat 100-feet minimum.

Just How Much is enough?

Keeping a 90-day food, water, hygiene and sanitation supplies per person should be your primary concern in attaining supplies.

I know you’re wondering the cost of this 30-day plan about $100 per person times 3-months or $300 per person.

Storage

A 90-day supply for one person will be a lot of supplies 500 pounds of water, 150 pounds of food, and 25 pounds of hygiene and sanitation supplies. This will easily fit into the truck of a standard automobile. A cargo van or covered bed pickup truck will carry 90-day supply allowing for sleeping accommodations for 2 adults. Families with children should attempt to bug-in due to the dangers of being on the road and frequent actions and needs of small children.

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