Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Your general question, on how would we cope, brought it home to me that I have totally slipped with my prepping and lost sight of things with the upheaval of losing our main source of income ( closing down our main business due to the markets crashing) when in fact this should have been on top of the list in topping up what we were using...

I think a meanu plan with using totally dried/ tinned food etc is def a good idea...as I am totally used to fresh or frozen food...with the odd meal using tins or tins with fresh stuff etc

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You'll do small one!!!

Frugalsod

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I think a meanu plan with using totally dried/ tinned food etc is def a good idea...as I am totally used to fresh or frozen food...with the odd meal using tins or tins with fresh stuff etc

Actually trying a few meals in normal times from dried and tinned only will also allow you to work out what works for you, and more importantly what does not work. Then you can adjust your preps accordingly.

Frugalsod

It looks like the water boiling for some will be over soon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34082471

Karmacat

I've been doing a bit of a stocktake, and I've realised that apart from dried peas and beans, I couldn't last longer than a few months that's quite a wakeup call.

So right now, I'm planning on getting 7 months of food stocks in, to last until the end of the flu season (which I'm calling the beginning of April, tho I know thats a bit of a fiction). I've hit the mark with dried peas and beans, baked beans, tea, coffeemate, wheat pasta, oil, lo salt, hygiene goods and toilet paper. Nearly there with peanut butter, honey, dried fruit, tomato puree and a few other things.

As for wondering what I haven't done if I woke up tomorrow and the world changed ... I still don't have any means of transport, even a bicycle ... and I still haven't constructed my sturdy version of a haybox - the bits are lying all over my bedroom. Might do that this afternoon!

southantrim3

Looks as if some poor souls may have had an SHTF over night as HSBC seem to be in a spot of bother. Looks as if wages aren't being paid, possibly even in other banks if your employer uses HSBC.
Not a lot of fun for a bank holiday weekend...

armyknife

Karmacat wrote: »

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As for wondering what I haven't done if I woke up tomorrow and the world changed ... I still don't have any means of transport, even a bicycle ... and I still haven't constructed my sturdy version of a haybox - the bits are lying all over my bedroom. Might do that this afternoon!

:hmm:

I think arguments could be made that a bike is The MSE form of transport. :rotfl:

the_cake

southantrim3 wrote: »

Looks as if some poor souls may have had an SHTF over night as HSBC seem to be in a spot of bother. Looks as if wages aren't being paid, possibly even in other banks if your employer uses HSBC.
Not a lot of fun for a bank holiday weekend...

Yup, that's us ... luckily we had enough to pay the mortgage and I did the weekly food shop yesterday. I really don't need to buy anything else, and was planning to hunker down and do some long-overdue DIY anyway! But I do really feel for those for whom this will be a huge problem. Terrible timing. Why does this sort of carp always seem to happen over a Bank Holiday?

jk0

the_cake wrote: »

Why does this sort of carp always seem to happen over a Bank Holiday?

Maybe it's a softening up exercise for when we get a 'real' bank holiday.

jk0

On the subject of banks, did anyone see this worrying story today?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11829581/Contactless-card-revolution-to-end-5-minimum-spend-in-shops-and-pubs.html