Preparedness for when

Popperwell

Fruball, A lot of my store has dates into 2015/2016 now and I don't worry about dates either, if the tins aren't rusty or blown they should be fine, I don't dip into the store much but if I do I replace like for like...

I have been building up on gadgets too like kettles, camping stove and gas, hot water bottles, fleeces, frying pans, woks, saucepans etc...clothes, pj's just anything I think can be used in the future...

Dippypud

Popperwell wrote: »

Fruball, A lot of my store has dates into 2015/2016 now and I don't worry about dates either, if the tins aren't rusty or blown they should be fine, I don't dip into the store much but if I do I replace like for like...

I have been building up on gadgets too like kettles, camping stove and gas, hot water bottles, fleeces, frying pans, woks, saucepans etc...clothes, pj's just anything I think can be used in the future...

Don't bother with gadgets they will just take up room and you'll turn into a hoarder with no purpose to it all.

Keep a list of what you have and where, then you know if your short of something and not of something else.

SpikyHedgehog

Had to take the cat to the vet today (fleas :-( ) so as I'd got the hamster transport cage out, I prepped it for evacuation: ice cream tin crammed full of wood shavings substrate; ice cream tub with 5 handfuls of food; dorset cereal muesli box as a house half filled with shredded toilet roll bedding; drinking bottle. It needs a bottle of water & a label, but I'm feeling that this is do-able. & I need a cage for the other hamster...

I am filled with admiration for anyone who can crochet - I can knit & sew, & embroider though not as well as my grandma.

grandma247

Fruball If you really don't eat beans and rice now then you will be in for serious belly ache when you have to eat them

You need to build up enzymes in your stomach that break down the beans and you have to regularly eat them to do that. Maybe eating them a couple of times a week will be helpful so it would not be such a shock to your system if you end up having to live off them.

Honestly, crochet is not as hard as people think. I crochet like I am knitting because I can't do it the way I see it done in magazines etc. It always seems so awkward.

Popperwell

Dippypud wrote: »

Don't bother with gadgets they will just take up room and you'll turn into a hoarder with no purpose to it all.

Keep a list of what you have and where, then you know if your short of something and not of something else.

Well, at least the gadgets I have I am using and they are making preperation of meals easier and quicker. The slow cooker really has made a difference and some items are coming to the end of their use so its great being able to replace them immediately...my store is still mainly food and household goods...so I do agree to some extent...

Fruball

grandma247 wrote: »

Fruball If you really don't eat beans and rice now then you will be in for serious belly ache when you have to eat them

You need to build up enzymes in your stomach that break down the beans and you have to regularly eat them to do that. Maybe eating them a couple of times a week will be helpful so it would not be such a shock to your system if you end up having to live off them.

Honestly, crochet is not as hard as people think. I crochet like I am knitting because I can't do it the way I see it done in magazines etc. It always seems so awkward.

I eat loads of rice and beans and have done for years, esp lentils Love 'em! But I usually eat tinned beans (throw them into casseroles and chillis)....

I am storing

Rice - eat regularly
Beans - dried and tinned - I eat tinned regularly
Tinned veg - I never eat these but in a shtf scenario I will have no choice
Tinned fruit - I eat these on occasions and quite like them


Totally agree with you - suddenly changing diet from a modern processed one to rice and beans would be a killer, but at least people might be able to get to another planet by 'wind power' lol! :rotfl::rotfl:

skintscotslass

westlothianlass wrote: »

hi all
Well i have skill envy:o, can knit a bit, sew a bit, trying to crochet, aren't you lot useful and fab, I wouldnt know where to begin with spinning etc but hope to learn one day.
On the plus side I can grow stuff and cook and i'm a dab hand at wine making:D.
I think a meet would be a lovely idea but I don't leave Scotland very often, even had to look up where Swindon was:rotfl:.
Ive started putting together emergency bags for everyone, one completed one half completed, and 3rd one is a work in progress (ive ran out of rucksacks so stuff is lying around floor).
Made a list of stuff needed for the "armageddon" cupboard (it was a bit heavy on the beans/chick peas, and very low on anything to go with them).
Hubby is on board because i promised to buy him a cross bow!!so cupboard in the garage has been cleared.

*waves from Midlothian*

More skill envy. I can cook, bake and do very basic sewing. No knitting, crocheting here, I'm afraid. Oh and I am trying to grow my own veg, but its been very difficult this year. My strawberries have been a great success!

grandma247

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am glad you do eat them.

It is amazing how many people in America stock up on them but don't actually eat them now.

Any change of diet in a changed situation will just add to the stress people are under already.

Caterina

Re. Eating vegetables in a SHTF scenario, please consider sprouting seeds, alfalfa, sunflowers, even marrow fat peas, lentils and chick peas sprout very easily and successfully and probably provide much better nutrition than tinned veg. And the seeds if kept dry and stored un careful condition keep well for years. HTH

mardatha

Westlothian and Midlothian - are you interested in a meetup some day in Edinburgh? Just a natter and a lots of tea and cakes ? And anytime you're going south over Soutra, look to your right and gimme a wee wave !