Preparedness for when

Sunshine4

Havent been on much over the weekend, been very tired and have slept the weekend away.
Have been up since 5am and reading the posts from the weekend, I have now made a list of what I have and a list of what I would like to get.

The first on my list to get is a dehydrator followed by a ghillie kettle.

We are building our food storage weekly and its looking better each week.
We have put some shelving racks in the spare room and have the food in there out of the way so noone sees it.

My sister and other family members dont know we do this,as they would laugh and say we are nuts and if the SHTF they will be at the door with all they families wanting us to help them.
Its just they go out every week 2-3 for lunch and then shopping and buy a load of rubbish, I dont thing between them they would have a few days worth of food, they dont cook much and cant believe we make our own bread,soup,biscuits and cakes.They think only poor people do that.:rotfl:

I dont mind helping anyone there is a couple of elderly people up the road we will help.
OH is going up in the loft today as we have forgotten what is up there, and want to see what we have before we buy anything.

We also call they entries

VJsmum

thriftwizard wrote: »

I lacto-ferment veg too, usually as a Kimchi, and store it in glass jars, which are pretty much inert as long as the food isn't touching the lid. It doesn't keep indefinitely so it's more of a short-term solution to a temporary shortage, but by gosh, it's tasty!

Do you have a recipe for Kimchi? Since going to Korea I have developed quite a taste for it.

I may have said this much earlier in the thread, but we had a SHTF scenario many years ago when I still lived with mum and dad. We were woken at 2 in the morning by police sirens and loud hailers going round the streets saying that we were about to be flooded :eek: Mum and dad (well now only dad ) lives less than a mile from the sea and the sea water was about to come inland. There was nothing we could do - no-one at that point was being evacuated - we were just told to go upstairs taking what we could. Mum and dad decided that there was no time to do anything and we'd just take our chances - or rather the furniture would. I will never forget looking out of the window and seeing the sea - in the dark - come rushing up the road. THeir house is opposite a large field and the water just came rolling in. Fortunately our house is on a slight rise and it came right up to the front step - and stopped! :eek: Houses 2 doors down from us (literally) had water in but we didn't. It was like looking out across a lake.

Again fortunately, it was just after christmas so we had a full storecupboard as we couldn't get out for several days. The electric went off but the gas stayed on so we had heating from gas fires (all we had anyway then) and we could cook. It was quite nice actually, reading by candlelight (I got a bit desperate for something to read eventually and started on mum's Agatha Christie's. I still like an Agatha Christie now! ) with the radio on.

The following year it happened again! I remember me and dad banking up snow at the gate to try and stop the water - obviously the first wave knocked it flat :rotfl: And again, the water stopped at the door! Though we had sandbags that year. After that, they built a sea wall and mum always made sure she had a store cupboard!

craigywv

well folks shtf countdown has started 2 more weeks till oh made redundant! feeling nervous scared excited all at once, we are clearing any debt we have with his payout and will still be fine for approx 9 mths (yes i have worked our living monies out till then). Christmas is sorted just a scooter for son to get and about 3 pairs of p.j for relatives.Oh glad he leaving as it was an exhausting job he would come home at night like a coalman! stinking!He is doing a course on spraying in 3 weeks with a guaranteed job at the end of it as it seems a big shortage of sprayers over here.still nervous though. If push comes to shove i shall go out to work again so its no big deal as i am planning on it for after christmas. we are a lot more fortunate than some of the men he working with some of those guys have huge morgages, caravans cars on hire purchase 3 kids the list goes on ,. I count my blessings. stock cupboard, freezers, toiletries and medicine cupboards filled and would prob suffice for a long long while. My sil works in asia supermarket so we well catered for in lentils and rice, sauces etc, and sis has loads of chickens so eggs in abundance. Clearing a good lot in ebay getting half decent prices and still binbags of the stuff to go!Was given a nearly new gas cooker last month so plumber coming to link it up to gas bottle outside so will use less energy going to get 2 gas bottles 1 spare.Getting good harvest from my garden glut of blackcurants and raspberries this year and scallions all frozen, mums apple trees heaving so will be doing a lot of crumbles and cakes . dont know why im rambling on think im having a bit of a panicky moment worrying about the redundancy lol we will get by i know we will i have been preparing for this sort of thing for months now one way or another, ok rant over away to pick apples lol have a great day lovely and sunny here but its cold take care all xxxxxxxxx

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CRAIGYWV - you are an example to us all. Those who mock should just take in your last post and assimilate the contents before pouring scorn on us for looking ahead and making contingency plans. I wish you and yours well for the future, I'm certain that you will maintain your standard of life because you have the skills and mindset to do so. From what your have said you also have the common sense and drive to work for a future if necessity forces you to. More strength to your collective arms, you should give lessons, not just in preparedness but common sense too, Good Luck in all you do, Cheers Lyn x.

annie123

twiz21 wrote: »

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wondercollie wrote: »

OK, Walking Dead over. Blood, guts, prisons, gore.

The guys loved it.

:(:( Bu*mer, hubby and I will have to wait then.

ginnyknit

craigywv, you should be proud of yourself, well done with the forward planning. Sums up what we are all doing on the thread and why. We are all here if you need a good rant or anything at all. Shows how resilient you are that you got into action rather than sitting there thinking about it :T

craigywv

ginnyknit wrote: »

craigywv, you should be proud of yourself, well done with the forward planning. Sums up what we are all doing on the thread and why. We are all here if you need a good rant or anything at all. Shows how resilient you are that you got into action rather than sitting there thinking about it :T

thank-you i am humbled by your reply xxx:o

craigywv

thank-you i was not on to get praised but afraid and i am again humbled by your reply .You are a great bunch of people on here i take my hat off to you all!this post was for MRS LURCHER WALKER XX

D&DD

hummingfridge wrote: »

I'm also thinking about getting a dehydrator as we don't have much freezer space. I am currently drying out a pack of button mushrooms on the kitchen counter as per a suggestion in the 'We'll Eat Again' book.

I'm also currently fascinated by the recipes in 'Domestic Cookery' by Elizabeth Lea (free on Kindle). This is an 18th century American Quaker cookbook, I think. She even includes a recipe to help stop cholera (hot ashes and cider).

HF did you see wartime farm this week Ruth was drying her foraged medicinal herbs,laid out singly on chicken wire in an airy dark shed.I love the really old cookbooks my mum has an 'invalids cookbook' with tons of old remedys in it I keep trying to [STRIKE]pinch[/STRIKE] borrow it

Mar I suppose its all about taste with the dehydrator some people love the consistency others hate it.Once you have your new diet worked out let me know and I'll have a look see if the sort of stuff you'll be using will be worth getting one or not,you may find you'll have no use for it and I'd hate you to waste money and space!

2T I'm fascinated by diets my DS3 was GF/CF for years as well as free from additives and other assorted nasties :rotfl: My food storage then was a total nightmare as he had such a restricted diet..he still has now but its self imposed to a degree due to his sensory issues around food.I've been working with him for years to get him to eat certain things which I can at least store so I know he won't starve but its very hard and extremely slow going.
I store plenty of baking stuff as he'll always eat bread,cake or savoury crackers,cereals(dry) he does love strawberries and has them every day 365 days a year which although we grow them presents a logistical nightmare if we have bad weather..I've waded through snow 3 miles to get them for him so we've gradually got him to eat grapes HURRAH! which will do as a stopgap..he eats most fruit now actually so it is getting easier to plan ahead.

D&DD

ooh just remembered 2T its weird but a lot of the kids who showed problems with the casein especially had problems with soya and soya substitutes..I think theres a lot more to health issues and diets than they let on..

Craigywv thats come around really quick hasn't it *gulp* so glad you have been preparing so sensibly.If I can be of any help please let me know.Have you any other bits planted along with your potatoes?The garden centres sometimes offload the veg plants and seeds cheaply at this time of year so may be worth looking if they have any bargains.I usually work out if I can buy the produce cheaper than the plants first it does happen sometimes.