Hi. I'm new here, so if this is in the wrong forum, please forgive me (and feel free to move to the appropriate one).

I am interested in putting together a survival kit. Hurricane Katrina showed us the necessity of being, well, overprepared. 72 hours is minimum; more likely, especially given where I live, it's going to be a bit longer than that to get help. I live in Utah, so it should be very well prepared, but people are people.

I have some kit, but that was "from the life before". I became disabled in 2003, and have been ever since. If I am to put together a new kit, I don't know how to do it. I can only make, at max, $1477 a month (it's a bit longer story than that, I'll explain more if needed). And I just got turned down for food stamps. So, I have to do anything I do on the cheap. And I have food allergies as well, so MRE's probably aren't going to work. So, with that budget, and the knowledge of and earthquake, what can I do and in what order should I do it? Thanks.