Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, for goodness sake. How useless does a parent need to be at feeding their children, before the kids are taken into care?

I saw an advert this week saying that one in seven children don't get any breakfast. Why aren't the parents getting up to make them something?

I do think in this country a lot of the issues are around not having the skills to cook and stretch basic ingredients in the way housewives of say the 40's and 50's did. But the backpack thing was in the US in some areas where families can end up with literally zero income. With little welfare to fall back on there are literally people with hardly any food over there. The land of the free eh .

I agree about the breakfast thing, I am always up before the children (and OH). Occasionally the kids don't want a breakfast-especially my teenage son. But I try in that case to give them something to eat on the way/at break time. Both the schools sell breakfast items at morning break so sometime DS will ask for a £1 for a bacon butty there as he reckons he can't face food until after 10 lol.

Toast, basic cereals, porridge, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs. All are cheap and easy to make so in this country with benefits to fall back on as well a breakfast for every child should be within reach of ev1.

Ali x

Hard_Up_Hester

I never had breakfast before school, my mum would no more have made breakfast than she'd have taken flight.
There was also no food in the house that I could make breakfast from, I could have had a fag and a cup of black coffee as she did but I didn't ever fancy that for breakfast!

Possession

I have a friend who runs a backpack scheme in 1 town in the US. They do special weekend backpacks because they know that some children won't eat if they don't eat at school. Very sad isn't it.

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At my school, school dinners weren't a meal, they were a punishment.

VJsmum

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I never had breakfast before school, my mum would no more have made breakfast than she'd have taken flight.
There was also no food in the house that I could make breakfast from, I could have had a fag and a cup of black coffee as she did but I didn't ever fancy that for breakfast!

That is sad

My mum wouldn't let us leave the house without breakfast. I have passed that on to my kids - tragic when mums can't even bring themselves to do that for their kids. We generally had porridge in the winter, with golden syrup and the top of the milk if you were first up.
I can't make porridge like my mum did, i wonder if it was the aluminium pan she made it in.:eek:

grandma247

Thanks for your last post Alibobsy. I did not say anything because It would have turned into a rant.

This is an extract from an email today, It was from someone asking for ideas to help her friend.

"We’re having a tough time now, too, with the boss unable to meet payroll since June. We’ve received less than half of our usual income, which was already way below that lovely poverty line. I hate that my friend is even worse off so I’m very grateful for your ideas."

This is a reality right now in America and I suspect it is here too but people are ashamed and keep quiet about it. How many people have taken wage cuts one way or another just so they keep their job?

rachbc

fuddle wrote: »

Yeah I like that. My ongoing lap blanket I think for my first one it will be rounds. I crochet to relax and knitting is a challenge to me so I think for something so big, expensive and investment I should stick to what I know.

I've seen so many drops patterns on ravelry, had heard of them but figured they were overseas so out of my reach. I never looked into them closely. Thank you!

Right as an Wilko's and The Range £1.75 'wool' DK 4mm hooker can you help me choose something that will work for blankets?

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/yarncomparisonchart.php

I will have to wait till Friday payday for a ball but very excited Mar you naughty naughty Scot you

The group b a similar to double knit weight - I use Lima for blankets with a 4.5 hook, group c are similar to aran weight. My mum uses karisma for blankets - its not the softest wool ever but comes in lovely colours and is cosy and warm and good value -it was just over £1 a ball in the big sale they have annually.

westcoastscot

It is becoming more and more an issue here - people are "sanctioned", which basically means having their benefits stopped for a period of time with no means of appeal. It's disgusting!
It isn't those few people who abuse the system either, as they know how to play the system - it's the disabled and ill who struggle to make sense of the system, especially in small places like ours where the fortnightly trip to the jobcentre is a 75 mile round trip - its a dreadful day for lots of folks - they refund your bus fair but what do you do for the 5 hours between buses? especially in winter?
Add to this the folks who've taken a pay cut, or a cut in hours which means they don't meet the hours criteria for tax credits so they lose those too.
It's happening folks, and these are decent people who deserve better

siegemode

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

What a weird coincidence, we were sat on a beach at silverdale watching the sunset yesterday, was gorgeous. Need to get the photos downloaded as my Dad want to see them as he and his old best mate used to cycle as teens from Salford (what a trek can you imagine teens of today going that far)to camp at silverdale. Dads mate had a bit of a thing for the daughter of the local station master and he used to see her when they were there. So after the first time the SM used to arrange for them to stick their tents etc on the train in Manchester and he would take it off and hold it for them whilst they cycled up.

Dads friend ended up down under and it was only through Facebook they recently got back in touch. When they came over for a visit they both said how weird it was that they felt like it had only been a few weeks not decades and they felt like best mates again which I thought was lovely.

Ali x

We were at Arnside on Thursday We took FIL for lunch at the Chippy (best f and c that we've discovered in a long time) An hour trip in the car from Bolton, how long would it take to cycle I wonder. It was a Birthday trip out during our visit and we stopped off at the Reebok so he could see the recently erected bronze of Nat Lofthouse. Have you tried the chippy at Arnside ?

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

FUDDLE life's much too short to worry about things that only 'might' happen, I only am really concerned if it is going to happen and I know about it. I lived with the Nuclear Threat all my life, I remember the polio epidemic and the panic that went with it, I lived through the problems and power cuts in the 70s and the 90s slump when all the houses were in negative equity because the prices had become ludicrously high, through the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the strikes and power cuts in the 70s, the slump in the 90s, the millenium bug scare, and nowadays, and all I can remember is getting on with life as best we were able under the circumstances prevailing from day to day. Yes, there were shortages of some things, yes we had to do jobs while the electricity was on, yes there was the negative equity problem in the 90s but life had to go on and be made as normal as it was possible to make it. Whatever happens will probably happen gradually and there will be time to become accustomed to the rolling changes as they happen, we humans are made of tough and reslilent stuff you know, you too little one, it will be a toughie, but we'll get through, never you worry, Love Lyn xxx.

Maybe this is what makes such a good prepper. With real experiences and memories rather than stories to spur us onwards.

siegemode

Well I have finally caught up !!!!
Have had a summer of brown envelopes and 3 sets of forms to complete for OH. I have been able to concentrate on little else other than looking after OH and worrying about the outcome. Thankfully only waiting for the decision on one now. I had totally gone into siegemode and am finding it difficult to settle down now.
Whist we were up in Bolton managed a foray into Home B@rg@in's and picked up a couple of micro towels for £1.09 and some JW mw rice 49p and some tinned spuds and 4 more tins of corned beef and a tub of smash for 99p. Next I popped into @sda and found some pillar candles in the reduced bit 6 for £2.50 and stocked up on more tealights too. I think now we are heading into the Autumn and cooler weather I'm thinking power cuts and prepping.
I've been keeping an eye on all the news etc on both the msm and alternative media. I know what will be will be and theres not much I can do about it, but it's all rather worrying none the less.
Can't believe Tokyo got the Olympics !!