Preparedness for when

bluebag

I think quite often we expect TPTB to act in our best interest. Sometimes they do.

But it may be prudent to assume we are on our own.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

ETA, that Guardian article - never thought about adding cans of chili con carne to the preps. Cheers, Lionel Shriver. And as to how much an average household can stockpile; did she but know, lol.

GQ, there are a lot of tasty tinned meals at Sainsburys. I am very fond of their tinned Chicken Korma. I add a tablespoon of HP Sauce, to make it slightly spicier.

I buy stuff like that, as being chesty, I can't do with frying onions. For the same reason, these tinned meals are ideal for SHTF meals, as the smell doesn't invite hungry neighbours over.

Perplexed_Pineapple

I keep a few tins of ready made chilli con carne and curry and similar but not much in the scheme of things. Keeping with the wise precept of store what you use and use what you store we don't really use this stuff day-to-day, we cook these things from scratch nearly all the time (making good use of YS mince etc obviously ). Have been reading some of the weekend press about the incoming financial crises, there are some real loony doomsayers out there writing in the broadsheets I tell you :rotfl:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

ETA; Bob, I'd never use a mangle on anything I intended to eat, unless it was important to slide it into a pita-bread first.

Not even home made lasagne sheets?

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Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

You would struggle to get enough calories to survive if you ate nothing but rabbit

Actually, what rabbit meat lacks is certain vitamins and minerals.

That's why it's vital, if living long term on a diet of rabbit, to have vegetable matter (eg. Dandelion or Nettle leaves) with the rabbit meat.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

never thought about adding cans of chilli con carne to the preps.

Eating lots of it wouldn't be such a good idea, if the emergency is a nuclear incident, and you and your loved ones have to spend a week, cooped up together in an improvised inner refuge. _pale_

bluebag

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Eating lots of it wouldn't be such a good idea, if the emergency is a nuclear incident, and you and your loved ones have to spend a week, cooped up together in an improvised inner refuge. _pale_

Not to mention what it would do to you TP store!!!

bluebag

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

I keep a few tins of ready made chilli con carne and curry and similar but not much in the scheme of things. Keeping with the wise precept of store what you use and use what you store we don't really use this stuff day-to-day, we cook these things from scratch nearly all the time (making good use of YS mince etc obviously ). Have been reading some of the weekend press about the incoming financial crises, there are some real loony doomsayers out there writing in the broadsheets I tell you :rotfl:

They are selling papers not reporting the news. The news is what you get when it's too late.

The comment is what they don't know they think they know about what may or may not happen at some time maybe never in the future, usually based on what has happened in the past.

Otherwise known as a guess.

jk0

I just came across this, which you guys might find interesting:

http://www.michaeljournal.org/nwo1.htm

Cheapskate

Jk0, that article is both illuminating and terrifying! :eek:

I am now in the process of adding to my minute cash stash at home, or converting it, GQ-stylee, into food stores, preptastic equipment, etc.

The grauniad article is interesting, too, not as rarified as usual, think they're getting writers in who actually know "stuff", finally!

A xo