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HOUSTON – Now is the time to make sure you have emergency supplies in case you lose power during the incoming winter storm,<\/a> but we know times are tight for many households. We\u2019ve put together a shopping list to build an emergency kit for a family of four for under $100.<\/p>\n Winter storm watch: Emergency essentials <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n As FOX 26 meteorologist John Dawson always says, we need five essentials in a power outage:\u00a0<\/p>\n Food\u00a0Water\u00a0LightPower source to charge cell phonesFirst aid kit <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Real Simple magazine offers a shopping list for healthy foods<\/a> to keep you feeling good through stress: First, buy non-perishables:\u00a0 peanut butter, crackers, nuts, trail mix, granola, dried fruit, canned tuna, salmon, chicken or turkey, canned veggies, canned beans, condensed milk.<\/p>\n You can also buy some perishables that will last a few days if they have to sit out at room temperature:\u00a0 apples, citrus fruit, avocado, tomatoes, cucumbers, bread, and tortillas.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n You\u2019ll need one gallon of water per person per day.\u00a0 The cost of a gallon jug of water is about the same as buying it in smaller bottles, so you can choose what works best for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can find small kits with a few flashlights, small lanterns, and batteries for about $10\u2013$12.<\/p>\n If you already have a cell phone charger in your car, you\u2019re ahead of the game.\u00a0 Or you can buy a charger for as low as $6 and plug into your car\u2019s battery to recharge cell phones.<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what we bought:<\/p>\n $75 on food and water\u00a0$10 box of small lights with batteries$6 car cell phone charger\u00a0$7 first aid kit <\/p>\n We spent a rota of $98 plus tax for the essentials to help a family of four get through a power outage for up to three days.\u00a0<\/p>\n Click here for the latest on Houston’s winter storm watch.<\/a> <\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article is from Real Simple magazine, FOX 26 meteorologist John Dawson, and our shopping test at Walmart.<\/p>\n Sullivan’s Smart Sense<\/a>Consumer<\/a>News<\/a>Houston<\/a>Galveston<\/a>The Woodlands<\/a>Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Now is the time to make sure you have emergency supplies in case you lose power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2409,7216,12597,56,58,57,7054,223,1726,25649,12042,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-133912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-consumer","9":"tag-galveston","10":"tag-galveston-county","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-montgomery-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-series","17":"tag-smart-sense","18":"tag-the-woodlands","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}