Preparedness for when

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I'm fighting the urge, to make a near the knuckle, "cheesy" joke.

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You used to get cans of cheese (about the same size as a small can of baked beans), in the British Army 24 Hour Ration Packs.

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There was a stall in the precinct this morning, selling memberships to Costco.

At first I thought the individual membership (£25 per year) would be handy for us preppers, given how much we tend to spend.

Then it occurred to me, in a SHTF situation, TPTB would know who had recently bought a large quantity of food stores.

mardatha

I think milk would be the biggest problem. I've got a few tins of the dried stuff, it keeps for ages I think.

Butterfly_Brain

we could easily get through until monday and beyond.

if it was longer term i could use watered down evaporated milk for coffee or little pots off coffee creamer that i buy in b and m which is not bad.

the men in my life would miss cereal, but i would just make pancakes using dried milk to make them...........not so noticeable when they are made like that, if you look at a packet of batter mix all it is is flour baking powder and dried milk so no difference at all, there is also a way to make cheese and yoghurt from dried milk so all is not lost.

i always have at least 30 eggs in the house, because we use a lot of them so i would like to get a few hens, then at least we would always have eggs.

we have a sack of potatoes in the shed and we are growing some plus plenty of fruit and veg growing in the garden, freezers are full and so are the cupboards.

thriftwizard

I could probably feed our entire street until Monday! Yes, there'd be homemade bread, but I'm quite good at it now so any dissenters would just have to eat some of my oatcake mountain instead. Fresh fruit might run out fairly swiftly but there's plenty in the freezer, and lots of jam & other preserves.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

There was a stall in the precinct this morning, selling memberships to Costco.

At first I thought the individual membership (£25 per year) would be handy for us preppers, given how much we tend to spend.

Then it occurred to me, in a SHTF situation, TPTB would know who had recently bought a large quantity of food stores.

I think that they would have bigger problems than us. For a start looting by those caught out by shortages will be an immense problem and very widespread. The thin blue line would be non existent as the police would have exactly the same problems, their families would be starving as well, so you might find significant police numbers doing the some looting as well.

Preppers would be keeping their heads down and would be no problem at all. They want to keep off the authorities radar so would not be looting, probably not out at all trying to keep their home and their own supplies safe. The last thing that you might want is to bout and getting stopped on suspicion which would warrant a police visit at such a situation. At that point you will be exposed as having a significant amount of food. The same would apply to profiteering from any such crisis. You make yourself a target.

The only real issue is if you are purchasing things that could be deemed iffy like gallons of hydrogen peroxide and other items that could make an explosive device of some kind. Though most people will not be and so would not be worthy of further investigation. It all really depends on how fast the situation catches people out.

jk0

Frugalsod wrote: »

The only real issue is if you are purchasing things that could be deemed iffy like gallons of hydrogen peroxide

Tell them you've got really bad ear wax.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Tell them you've got really bad ear wax.

The other option is to say you want to be like barbie and need to peroxide regularly. Somehow I do not think that it would be believed with me.

Butterfly_Brain

just been pottering in the greenhouse for a bit and found a huge fat slug in there _pale_ shudder, he got a-salted and is now a shriveled blob. dh needs to get the gravel down in there asap for me i have sprinkled salt all around the bases of the staging so hopefully the nasty little beasties won't get at my baby seedlings.

bread would not be an issue here because i make my own bread and soda bread is a doddle so i don't actually buy it, i can also make flatbread which we all love and other bready things especially d and dd's apple braid :drool: bye the way thank you for that recipe hunny x