You know how it happens: You’re strolling casually through the grocery aisles when suddenly a horrible stench fills the air and you realize that your diaper bag is still sitting on the living room floor.  What do you do?

Or you’ve just driven thirty minutes across town to run a set of coordinated errands only to have your little one erupt in sobs of hunger.  But she just ate!  You have no food, no spoons and now the choice to buy grub on the go or drive all the way back  home.  

We’ve had to buy baby food or toddler snacks, disposables, wipes and even a pair of pants once to deal with the short term emergencies created by our forgetfulness.  While these events were funny and even a bit adventurous, we finally realized that we needed a more proactive solution. 

Now we’ve equipped each of our cars with an emergency kit that will save us from buying diapers or foods that we’d rather not purchase on the go.  We simply filled a container with a freezer bag full of wet wipes, a few disposables (although if you have enough diapers you could certainly use cloth), some plastic bags for our son’s dirty cloth diapers, an extra outfit or two, and small containers full of crackers, dried fruit, and other edibles.  

Now we save money, limit our purchases of disposable products, and are able to feel confident as we head out into the world–even if we leave the diaper bag behind!

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