Preparedness for when

Confuzzled

2tonsils wrote: »

Just a suggestion (and this is good for most of you as well ) you could stock up now on powdered protein. Its cheap compared to most meat and fish and protein sources, it keeps really well and is good quality consistently. The last I bought was in 2.5 kg sacks and cost me about twenty pounds each from myprotein.com.

thanks for this, i had a look and the site is on topcashback so that's an added bonus!

also i'd like to thank you for your input, being able to hear from someone that is going through what i expect is coming makes it easier for me to get things straight in my own head and focus on the task at hand better. bless you and your family and friends, i wish the best for you all in these incredibly trying times

D&DD

I seem to remember they cleaned the chimney on the Victorian farm with a sprig of holly and a precariously balanced ladder:rotfl: do not try this at home though!

I only went out the garden to see what needed doing and spent all afternoon out there in the end.
Dug up a whole tray of potatoes from volunteers left from last years Arran victorys really pleased.
Potted on my winter veg and planted some out so the gardens nearly prepped for the winter
The Xmas potatoes are going mental and are now fully earthed up,I've got some corn salad,winter purslane,mustard,mizuno and a winter
Salad mix growing for salady stuff and kales,turnips,spinaches plus the parsnips will be ready along with the measly few carrots that actually decided to grow so looking good so far..cue snowfall and howling wind and rain:rotfl:

2tonsils

Confuzzled wrote: »

thanks for this, i had a look and the site is on topcashback so that's an added bonus!

also i'd like to thank you for your input, being able to hear from someone that is going through what i expect is coming makes it easier for me to get things straight in my own head and focus on the task at hand better. bless you and your family and friends, i wish the best for you all in these incredibly trying times

Thanks for that......most of you are preparing for when the SHTF....we are already knee deep in it :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

cod3 wrote: »

I am scratching my head here at what disastrous scenario would lead to a vegetarian in Britain feeling the need to eat meat to survive. :think:

If you're in a position where you have no income with which to select the food of your choice, then you don't have the luxury of being fussy. I know when I was 19 and was living alone on £5 a week for all food, bills and travel expenses for 4 months due to an unemployment benefit mistake which meant they were paying my ex instead of me (plus having no cooking skills), I quickly learned that principles mean little if you're starving. I wasn't about to throw the food a lad I had started seeing's Mum had offered me out of the goodness of her heart just because it hadn't occurred to her that I might be vegetarian. I was hungry.

2tonsils

Confuzzled wrote: »

thanks for this, i had a look and the site is on topcashback so that's an added bonus!

also i'd like to thank you for your input, being able to hear from someone that is going through what i expect is coming makes it easier for me to get things straight in my own head and focus on the task at hand better. bless you and your family and friends, i wish the best for you all in these incredibly trying times

Thanks for that......most of you are preparing for when the SHTF....we are already knee deep in it :rotfl::eek::eek:

GreyQueen

jeanniefaethecarse wrote: »

We were £40 last year for the sweep for one long chimney, and he's only one of a couple in the area, so your quote looks pretty fair. HTH

ETA
Greyqueen I remember getting dressed in my bed, and I'm only 45! I'd forgotten that until you mentioned it!!!!

I've had to do it myself. Got hypothermia in a Scottish bedsit as a penniless student in the 1980s. Pal rescued me and took me to her flat nearby. She told me afterwards I'd scared the heck out of her; once I started to warm up I was alternative flushed and ashen and shaking like a leaf. I was a healthy 19 y.o. but that bedsit was baltic.

cod3

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If you're in a position where you have no income with which to select the food of your choice, then you don't have the luxury of being fussy. I know when I was 19 and was living alone on £5 a week for all food, bills and travel expenses for 4 months due to an unemployment benefit mistake which meant they were paying my ex instead of me (plus having no cooking skills)/, I quickly learned that principles mean little if you're starving. I wasn't about to throw the food a lad I had started seeing's Mum had offered me out of the goodness of her heart just because it hadn't occurred to her that I might be vegetarian. I was hungry.

I have been vegetarian for 37 years, not because I am fussy, but for moral reasons. This thread is about preparing for disasters.

My question was simply, what scenario are we talking about here that I might feel the need to eat meat as I can't honestly think of one? And where do we draw the line when it comes to morality when there is a catastrophic event? Is cannibalism off the menu? Or is that just being fussy too?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

cod3 wrote: »

I have been vegetarian for 37 years, not because I am fussy, but for moral reasons. This thread is about preparing for disasters.

My question was simply, what scenario are we talking about here that I might feel the need to eat meat as I can't honestly think of one? And where do we draw the line when it comes to morality when there is a catastrophic event? Is cannibalism off the menu? Or is that just being fussy too?

Not having the money to pick and choose what you consume.

Choosing what you eat is being fussy. Choosing to not eat something for moral reasons is being fussy. Choosing to not eat something for religious reasons is being fussy.

When there are genuinely catastrophic events, cannibalism does happen. Survival is the ultimate instinct and I, for one, am not shocked that it happens - it happened during the holocaust, it happens with plane crashes, it happens during famines.


I have explained that there was a situation where I had no choice but to eat the meat based products I had been given. I had no other access to food, no garden, nowhere to steal food from, no money to buy any. My choice was eat or starve. So I ate, as the consequences of starving, of not having money to buy food that fitted in with my personal preferences, would have been disastrous.

So that's a situation where a vegetarian could conceivably be faced with having to eat meat.

westcoastscot

D&#8517 wrote: »

I seem to remember they cleaned the chimney on the Victorian farm with a sprig of holly and a precariously balanced ladder:rotfl: do not try this at home though!

I mind seeing that - did they not say that in reality they would have pulled a chicken down the chimney???????

cod3

Think I will just have to keep my fingers crossed then that nobody nukes the Quorn factory in England lol

Jojo's post #1023 is interesting though as it flags up a very important asset to have in one's emergency kit - friends and family. My neighbours and I are always swapping and cadging food off each other and if push came to shove, we would look after each other. So prepare for the worst by looking out for your neighbours and family.