Saddlebag Supplies
General Store
★ Prepared. Practical. Ready coast to coast. ★
Tell us your duration, your crew, and your budget, and we'll write up your shopping list for outages, storms, and wildfire season.
We make the list. The retailers ship the goods.
How the store works
From Greenhorn to Homestead. Your duration decides which shelves your list comes from.
At the Counter, set your household size, give people roles, and pick Shoestring, Trail-Tested, or Top Shelf.
A clean list with a checkbox, quantity, your pick, an estimated price, and a shop link for every item. Print it, tick it off, and buy from the retailer, not from us.
Saddlebag Supplies doesn't sell or ship any of the gear on these shelves. Every shop button opens that product's page at an outside retailer, and you buy from them. Some links are affiliate links. Read the disclosures.
Shop by duration
Prepping is a long ride, and nobody starts as a Trail Boss. Find the duration that fits where you are on the trail today, shop that duration's shelves, finish its milestones, then move up.
Duration 1 · 72 hours
Just saddling up
Starting from zero, or close to it. Ride out three days without running water, electricity, or a working store.
Duration 2 · 2 weeks
Building the home herd
Your 72-hour kit is packed. Now stretch it to two weeks at home: more water, a real pantry, and a backup way to cook.
Duration 3 · 1 to 3 months
Riding farther out
Longer-term food storage, backup power for the essentials, comms beyond the cell network, and a tested bug-out plan.
Duration 4 · Several months
Leading the outfit
Several months of advanced readiness, and leading your family or group through it: real comms, a security plan, and bigger water and power.
Duration 5 · Indefinite
Living off the land
Indefinite self-sufficiency: growing and preserving your own food, your own water and off-grid power, and the land and skills to keep it all going.
Five quick questions. Your answers stay in your browser: nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
About the store
Saddlebag Supplies makes simple, printable buy lists for regular households: what to buy, how many, roughly what it costs, and why it earns a spot in the bag.
No fear-selling and no $900 gadgets. Start with the basics a beginner needs to ride out three days without running water, electricity, or a working store, then move up the trail at your own pace.
Covers water, food, warmth, light, first aid, tools, comms, hygiene, and documents.
Everyday stores, real brands and prices, and three quality levels (or your own picks) so you can start where you are.
The same basics work coast to coast, with notes for winter storm country, the hurricane coast, wildfire country, heat country, tornado alley, and earthquake zones.
Pick your role
Each person starts with the same one-person base kit for their duration. Then give some of them a role. Role gear stacks on top of the base kit, so a household of four might be one Ramrod, one Cookie, and two riders with no role at all.
The shelves
Prices and products change. The live shelves are where updated picks and shopping links are kept. We make the list. The retailers ship the goods.
Every item in the Starter, Trail-Ready, and Fully Loaded kits, with the brand we priced, quantities, prices at three quality levels, and the store that carries each pick. Starter from about $154.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026
Lists for the longer durations are in the works. No picks or prices yet.
