The following is the list of supplies I would need for my family to travel west. I am assuming that our parents would want to go with us so that equals eight adults. I think we would need two wagons!!

Flour - 1,200 pounds
Corn Meal - 160 pounds
Bacon - 400 pounds
Sugar - 320 pounds
Coffee - 80 pounds
Dried Fruit - 120 pounds
Salt - 40 pounds
Saleratus - 4 pounds
Tea - 16 pounds
Rice - 40 pounds
Beans - 120 pounds

That's 2, 500 pounds of food. A wagon normally held 2,000 pounds, so we would definitely need two wagons. Even then, with the rest of our supplies (bedding, clothing, cooking supplies etc.) some of us would probably have to walk most of the way to save the horses or oxen.