Preparedness for when

sb44

Re SHTF prepping.

Anyone any ideas on storeage of food etc?

I had this idea, not sure if it will work but............

I have some carboard boxes, the kind that they have fruit in at Ald/Lidl etc which I have tins of food in, stacked up in the house (don't have a garage/don't have shelves to put tins on). However, it would be a pain in the artichoke to get things out of individual boxes, plus they are hidden behind things so are a pain to get to.

So, I got some of the smaller boxes ie the ones they display tomatoes etc in and filled them with the mainstay food items for 1 week. These are small enough to hide around the house. Then, I could transfer things to the boxes,for the following month. I know for instance how many weeks worth of food would be under the bed.

These wouldn't include things like veg or rice/pasta, things like tinned stewing steak, tinned chicken in sauce, spam, tuna, jars of bockwurst, corned beef, etc.

Things that you probably wouldn't normally eat much of due to the calories but should the SHTF we would need calorie dense food wouldn't we?

Does anyone have a list of items they have stocke up on to give others ideas of what to buy, ie 24 bags of 500g rice, 24 bags of 500g pasta, 24 cans of tuna etc?

sb44

Do any members have any links to trustworthy sites for free pdf prepping downloads please?

Ta.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

MaryB.. I totally understand where you are coming from, so no need to justify or explain your post...

From a small business point of view, the government are classing all businesses the same from a multi national down to a small business who emp!oy just a hand full of people.. And they think all businesses can find this extra money, take on extra people ( they said the private sector would employ more people to compensate for the public sector job cuts) etc.. How they expect the average Joe bloggs business to do all this???? Alot of small businesses are living/ working in over draft etc..so all they are doing is pushing the problems caused by the banking crisis on to the normal every day people.. Which are business owners too

Butterfly_Brain

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/investing/article-3152689/How-worried-world-s-stock-market-jitters.html

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Just had a farmfood leaflet through the door,

Their sugar is now down to 39p a bag.. Need to stock up on loo rolls, ( down shifted to Nicky loo rolls)

So will make the most of their £2.50 off £25 spend..

Doveling

sb44 wrote: »

Do any members have any links to trustworthy sites for free pdf prepping downloads please?

Ta.

I think people need to work out what they need for their own family. It's sort of how long is a piece of string which isn't much help I know.

We are prepping for reduced income next year, others have different reasons.
The links at the beginning of the thread are useful and I think some people go on a UK preppers website but I don't know which one.

There is always something which you forget.:)
I realised the other day that we only have electric toothbrushes, so am going to buy a couple of ordinary ones each when I spot them on offer.

1Tonsil

Have just been for my weekly shop. I thought if I went today the shops might be quieter and the parking easier. It is so unbearably hot at the moment its unreal! I could not face the shops if the ATMs run out of money and folks start to panic! Neither of us smoke, so that is one issue we dont have if there are shortages, my husband likes a drink but I am a non drinker. We do have some alcohol for medicinal use though in stock, and if needs be, to keep us cheerful!!!

The shops were absolutely full of supplies and they had moved the shelves over the weekend to fit more stock in. It made it hard to find things but there was so much choice, more than I have ever had before. I have to be very careful if I buy processed foods as I have celiac disease and I have a wheat and soy allergy. Most of the food I bought was locally produced and fresh. The fruit and veg were so cheap, as we are at the height of the growing season and the heat wave has made it ripen early. Lots of offers on food I would normally buy. I had cleared the freezer of bits and pieces so I could fit the fresh stuff in when I got home. I have defrosted the bits with freezer burn so the stray cat I feed can have them later.

My store cupboards are full of things like rice and dried beans, but I also have a stash of food which is canned which is already cooked and does not need water to cook it. We always have huge amounts of drinking water in, as our mains is not drinking quality. We have a huge tank of filtered rain water under the house for emergencies, it would last for months as it is as big as a swimming pool.

Most folks who were stocking up in the shops today were buying pasta, flour and sugar.....none of which we eat in our house. I do have supplies of local honey though, which is cheaper than shop bought and does not spoil. My husband informed me that he is enjoying eating all the healthy fruit and veg we have been having and asked me to stock up on more. Breakthrough! It also makes my life easier should the stocks run down in the stores, or us not be able to buy them.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

1tonsil, I should imagine buying local fresh produce is also good to keeping money local too...so its staying within the local economy..

GreyQueen

Afternoon, preppers.

sb44, I have a selection of strong coolbags, the approx footprint of an A4 sheet of paper. I bought them at various places secondhand for between 50p-£1 and use them for storing some canned goods in. The really deep stores, the ones which would be the last to yield to a search, contain a balanced selection of canned and packaged foods (i.e. proteins, carbs, sweet stuff). The idea being that each cooler bag module contains a variety of food sufficient for several days. Each bag has a tag on it with a letter and the letter corresponds to an entry in the food storage journal, with a list of each bag's contents.

You don't want to use the larger coolbags for this purpose as the weight of the tins will cause the straps to tear off the fabric when you go to move them.

Just a suggestion which works for me in these very small quarters. HTH.

Have come home to my 6 monthly water bill so will be paying that, shortly. I'm keeping not-a-lot cash in the bank, and regarding that as potentially lost in an emergency, or at least temporarily inaccessible.

jk0

Grr. Anyone else ever do that?

I've just had to throw away several slices of bread, as I don't know how many bits of swarf are in them. Also had to order a new paddle, as the present one has a lot of the non stick missing.

Would it be okay to use pro-tem?