90 Days, No Power: The Survival Food Guide (PDF)

When the lights go out, dinner doesn't have to.

Storms, ice, heat waves, a blown transformer down the road. Most outages last hours or days. Some last weeks. This guide makes sure you know exactly what to eat first, what to throw out, and how to make real, filling meals with a can opener, a bowl and a spoon.

What's inside the expanded edition

• 90 no-cook recipes, one for every day: taco bowls, sesame-peanut ramen, coconut curry chickpeas, Thanksgiving in a bowl, birthday cake jars and more. Every one has a full-color photo.
• The 90-day menu: every breakfast, lunch, dinner and treat for 90 days, already planned.
• The 48-hour head start: what to do when an outage is in the forecast, plus the 20-minute store run.
• The outage clock: the hour-by-hour plan for your fridge and freezer, plus the USDA keep-or-toss chart.
• The 90-day pantry: shopping lists with real prices, built a little at a time, and the water plan.
• Kids, babies, older adults and pets: what each one needs, plus 9 recipes kids build themselves.
• When the power comes back: what to check, what to toss and how to reset.
• Bonus: Lights-Out Living: light, phones and power, staying cool and warm, toilets and washing with no running water, around the house, and family nights in the dark.
• Bonus: The Blackout Binder: 10 printables, from the family outage plan to Lights-Out Bingo.

Three files in one download

A dark phone edition made to read with the lights out, a print edition (US Letter) for your kitchen binder, and the Blackout Binder printables on their own.

Instant PDF download. Nothing ships. No foraging and no freeze-dried buckets: just normal grocery-store food, put together the right way.

Food-safety rules follow USDA, FDA, CDC, EPA, Ready.gov and Red Cross guidance. General information, not medical advice.