Preparedness for when

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When I say ressurect the wool trade I don't just mean farming sheep. I can see a real use for spinners, weavers and dressmakers along with the farmers and using the fleeces for cloth rather than insulation and burning, and felters too, and using the felt for clothing to keep you warm and make house shoes and maybe reopening tanneries for leather. I know things will be difficult and manufactured items will be very expensive but if we can make use of british products it will make jobs for british people and make us a little more self sufficient as a nation than we are currently. If the price of fuel spirals as it must with a lessening supply that is harder to access then imported goods will be as expensive if not more expensive than goods produced here anyway. We'll all have to do with less and make sure we look after and maintain what we are able to have. Make do and mend eh?

craigywv

Karmacat wrote: »

This is a 90 day food calculator from a British prepping site - I think its wildly wrong in some ways (720 tea bags for 1 person for 3 months? Don't they use them more than once :eek:) but it gives you a starting point to think about supplies. Oh, and I'm vegetarian too, so a lot of the list about tuna etc is useless to me. Still, same point, its a start to think about stuff.
http://www.p2snetwork.co.uk/psclite.html

THANKS FOR THAT, IT SEEMS A BIT MUCH 18 TUBES OF TOOTHPASTE FOR 3 OF US FOR 3 MONTHS sorry caps lock on. also 54 wet wipes!!!!! have a few I could tick off but nothing like that list we would need over 2000 tea bags lol quite excessive but thanks anyway

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Reading about the levels of bacteria reported in the water already, and it's pretty cold now, makes me wonder what the heck will brew up when it gets warmer, if the land is still awash, or substantially sodden.

I keep seeing advice on the telly not to bathe in it or cook with it. Who'd have thunk it? :eek:
There go my plans for sewage soup with fecal dumplings followed by a luxurious septic tank soak

craigywv

oooooooooooooh that sounds tasty pineapple

grandma247

Anything made with cereals such as pastas,flours,oats possibly. Even rice because SM's will try it on.
Butter,dried milk,eggs, cheese and meats will probably all go up.
Vegetables and fruit too.
39 toilet rolls for 3 for three months? not enough for us. We use a lot less than we used to but I reckon on 2x18 will last us just over a month. Not sure exactly.

grandma247

Oh my goodness those figures are so way off. 9 bottles of bleach?

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I'd agree that pasta and rice are useful staples to have in store, I'd add in tinned meat and fish, tinned ready cooked pulses, baked beans, mushy peas, tomatoes, all will make the basis of a nutritious one pot meal. I'm never without split red lentils they are so very versatile and quick to cook so fuel saving. Flour, strong bread flour and plain flour with some baking powder will give you at the very least flatbreads. Dried milk keeps for years, instant mash fills you up, cuppasoups store in a small space and are very welcome if it's cold. Tinned veg and fruit, instant food can be eaten cold in extremity. Muesli,easy to eat and very sustaining, porridge oats can be used sweet, savoury in baking or as porridge useful to have. Tea Bags, herbs and spices, sauces, ketchups, pickles, chutneys, jams and marmalade cheer up bland food. Cordials and fruit juices keep a very long time, alcohol, sugar will keep forever and along with sweets and chocolate are a real morale boost when things are difficult. It makes sense to store what you have room for and as importantly what you will actually eat, a bargain is not a bargain if you have to throw it away is it?

paidinchickens

My cats are driving me crazy. They have an appointment at the vets at 1.50pm for their yearly injections and I've had to keep them in all day :eek:

I never used to give injections to moggies but we have a higher likely hood of diseases coming to the house because of fostering.

Does anyone know of any courses to do injections as I know someone does the dogs at the dog rescue and they are not a vet.

PiC x

craigywv

Lynn, that's a great advice on stuff to prep, I have most of it my sugar mountain has dwindled a bit over winter with baking a lot of sweet items so have seen 5 kg bags in sm shall get some of those. flour ,I have a quarter of a chest freezer full of the stuff also yeast which deffo does freeze well as my last batch came out of freezer last week and all my bread has risen successfully. pasta is next on my list as we do eat a good amount of it. that and growing what we can I hope to ride the storm out as I cant afford the price hikes too much xxx

craigywv

on another thought can I heat up as in boil in small pot powdered milk for over cereal and to make milky coffee/hot choc thanks x