Starter card · USA
How to start prepping: your starter card
Five first steps and an emergency kit checklist on one Letter page. Enter how many of you there are and the amounts are filled in. Free, no account.
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Five first steps
- Water: set aside bottled drinking water for everyone at home.
- Food: store food that keeps for a long time.
- Light and radio: a flashlight and a battery radio, with extra batteries.
- First aid and medicine: a first aid kit and the medications you need.
- Emergency plan: agree who calls who and where you meet up.
Checklist · based on Ready.gov
Source
The checklist is based on the Build A Kit list from Ready.gov (FEMA), with the amounts it gives. Check there for the latest version. PrepperApp is not a government service.
Checked on November 4, 2026.
Next
Keep track in the PrepperApp
- The starter card is free: here, with no account.
- In the PrepperApp you add your water and food to your supplies, with their expiration dates, and see how many days they last.
- You share your supplies and your emergency plan with your household, offline on your phone too.