Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

seigemode, I bought my Kelly Kettle directly from the company and had it drop-shipped to my parents' place as I'm out all day. It went very smoothly and the query I had before placing my order was answered very promptly and pleasantly via email. I would recommend them.

I'm re-reading Last Light atm and it isn't a comfortable subect and I agree it's better to have stuff set in the UK as it's more realistic to us in our crowded and urbanised country. If you want something set here and also believable, may I recommend Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove?

The premise is that the government of England has done something so unspeakably awful that the country is permanantly embargo'd and periodically bombed by the international community. The Scots and the Welsh have sealed their borders with England and aren't being treated the same way. They aren't letting the English cross to safety, either.

The Westminister parliament is [STRIKE]drinking margaritas[/STRIKE] whoops, governing in exile from the Bahamas. And it's very good indeed as Everyman, aka Fen Morris, mild-mannered former schoolteacher, sets out for London to rescue his kidnapped wife Moira and the other womenfolk of their small town from the thugs who have abducted them. But Moira isn't any stereotypical damsel in distress and the chief thug is rather more than just a violent brute....... you'll like it.

Trust me. I'm an pseudonymous stranger on the interwebs, what could possibly go wrong...........:rotfl:

kboss2010

Frugalsod wrote: »

I vaguely remember that the FBI regard more than a weeks supply of food at home as suspect. Though who knows what they will deem to be an illegal level? .

How does that work for the hoarding mentalists on "Extreme Couponing"? They have a lifetime supply of many long-life food and non-food items!

GreyQueen

They have a special watch list for such people. And probably a shopping list of what they plan to take from them, when the SHTF.

D&DD

Ooh very interesting posts re the foodstores/hoarding,blimey they'd have kittens if they came here..I have rejigged a lot of mine partly because I ran out of space (!) so I have it spread throughout the entire house..literally.


Most of it is hidden away from sight and some is hidden even better


I also store in a variety of ways that others wouldn't know how to use/what to do with items to make them edible eg dehydrated pasta sauces.


I think if anyone was to 'raid' here they'd be a bit miffed as most of my foodstorage is ingredients rather than complete easy to make meals IYKWIM,I have both but they'd have to undertake a very long search to find the rest!


The David Moody trilogy (dog blood) is set in the uk and its a bit like 28 days later with a rage virus rather than zombies but his writing is very descriptive regarding the state of the Uk after the virus takes hold,
David Crossleys Dies the Fire is also a very good read
Death of Grass is set here also.
I'll hunt out some more for a list as I also enjoy UK fiction I have so many free ones on my Kindle I'll have a look through them as I'm sure theres a few on there including Children Of Men set in the UK.


Just had my sis in law and family over twas lovely to see them all so we've had a busy but really fun day.


Its so warm here the garden is going nuts *sorry Mar* The salad I cut was lovely as it's a spicy mix.We have 20 apricots so hoping some will get to full size so I can use them for jam (my fave) or dehydrate them for cakes etc.


My kamikaze cukes are now looking like they want to flower on the kitchen windowsill..I may have to pot them into their final tomato pots and just stand them in the greenhouse during the day and in the kitchen at night..only trouble is even a puff of cold wind between the two (a 5 feet gap in total) and they'll keel over!!


Getting my dehydrator down tomorrow for a good old session as I got loads of knocked down strawbs yesterday yay and bananas.


Off to do the watering in the greenhouse hope everyone is enjoying brighter weather even our more Northerly peeps XX

D&DD

oops it was There Falls No Shadow by David Crossley


The book '48 by James Herbert is pretty good too but then I love anything by him so I'm biased..
Its an alternative ending to WW2


My niece was wandering around while she was here looking at my bombsite of a bedroom and when I commented on how messy it was she replied its okay Auntie because if there was a nuclear war you could use all these things and they would be useful lol..she's autistic too and the same age as DS3 but at least she's got her head screwed on right eh???


Got a good deal on some beef in Sainsburys last night and was wondering wether to be brave a try out some homemade jerky,anyone tried it yet???

GreyQueen

Me daffodils have perked up and are looking very chirpy in a jamjar. It's a square jamjar, wouldn't want you to think I wuz common or something. Five pence! And I have a chocolate cake for £1.25 and teacakes and pancakes at 8p a pkt. Oh happy day of YS bargaineering.

All this and leftovers for supper........nomnomnom.

Frugalsod

thriftwizard wrote: »

Nuatha, I think it's still limited to 10 of quite a number of things. So I can order 10 cases of champagne, but only 10 loaves of bread, or tins of beans.

Mind you, with all that champagne inside me, I wouldn't care if I ran out of baked beans...

That is weird. Last time I took delivery of an online order I had 96 instant noodles in there with 7 packs of flour. It was not that big an order just over £100 or so and I have not had to do an order in 5 months since. I still have loads left so could last another couple of months before I need to do another. Though I do think that Aldi have a more in the packs and they are cheaper so will use them instead next time.

I did have a look at the UK preppers site and it did make me think that bugging in was the best option. I am fairly well sorted on that score, though shall look at improving it over the next year. So I will probably treat my "bug out kit" more as camping kit and enjoy some camping holidays instead.

themarsbargirl

D&DD i've made hm jerky before! lovely! so much better than shop stuff-totally differbt flavour and texture. wouldn't like to guarentee how long it keeps for as i alwys ate it allat once!

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

Nuatha, I think it's still limited to 10 of quite a number of things. So I can order 10 cases of champagne, but only 10 loaves of bread, or tins of beans.

Mind you, with all that champagne inside me, I wouldn't care if I ran out of baked beans...

That's got me tempted to try and break it.
Though I've just realised why they may have item limits - when I used to work in the trade, shops had huge warehouses with many lines being delivered weekly at best. Now supermarkets rely purely on the shelf stock and daily deliveries. Any order more than 24 hours ahead should be able to cope regardless of the quantities (however that assumes some intelligence in the system.

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

All the more reason to use cash for everything

As long as its not tied to a membership card, eg Costco or wholesalers.

D&#8517 wrote: »

I also store in a variety of ways that others wouldn't know how to use/what to do with items to make them edible eg dehydrated pasta sauces.

If you don't mind I may pick your brains on this.

I think if anyone was to 'raid' here they'd be a bit miffed as most of my foodstorage is ingredients rather than complete easy to make meals IYKWIM,I have both but they'd have to undertake a very long search to find the rest!

I tend to carry lots of ingredients and far fewer ready meal type things. (Though do have a stash of FB pies)
I remember Sophie Grigson saying her kids complained there was no food in the house - just ingredients. So we aren't the only ones.

Si_Clist

Does anybody else here grind their own flour?