Preparedness for when

craigywv

wondercollie you made me lol as my old dad says theres a hat for every head xxxpineapple ,last week we had to chande our dog to veggie diet due to him having an ulcer ...i know what your going through!!! we have found making a big pot of boiled rice ,adding a tim of carrots,beans and whatever is left on our plates all mixed up with a drop of gravy left to cool then bagged in individual freezer bags and putin freezer then big pot of pasta and a jar of cheap tescos 37p pasta sauce with same veg put in same again bagged and froze. and onalternate days take a bag out night before and defrost also 1 fish finger a day (can cook box and freeze saves gas} and mix this through withhis main rice or pasta is ample. i read on here rice can constipate the dog so plenty of veg is a must i use the frozen value brand 40p (i think).he turned nose up first day then seen he wasnt getting anything else then ate it. i also find it kinder to put him out the back garden while we eat as he still thinks its his God given right we should be giving him what we eating. Also i had to throw all his treats out to thebirds as he not allowed them either ..................nobody can go near the treat drawer without him having a near seizure thinking he getting one . he is a yorkshire terrier so i dont know what type yours is but once the food is made up and frozen it works out a lot cheaper than the gourmet horse he used to get 4% "lamb".................yeah rightlamb my buttif we eating giddy ups what are they eating. amyway good luck with the change over and be prepared for a huffy sulky dog for a few days who cant grasp why its being "starved" lol xxx

pineapple

Thanks. She is on low sodium so I have to be careful about stock but she adores rice. So far she has been on rice and some ridiculous expensive chicken (just on a temporary emergency basis) from the local Spar shop. I also added some cooked pureed sprouts which have given the food a tempting radio active green hue :eek:. Today I'm off to a real butchers to see what they can offer from the bits that don't make it to the shelves.
Many many years ago there used to be a fresh meat pet food shop down Leeds market. Being young and newly married and on our first mortgage I once bought some beef cheek from there and served it in a tasty pie to my unaware hubby (I couldn't stomach it!). We also used to get sheeps heads for the red setter. I wonder if subsequent householders ever got alarmed on finding the occasional set of teeth in the back garden? :rotfl:

craigywv

hahaha i would drop if i found a set of teeth. its -2 here at themo so bloody freezing! away to get son washed. diet club in aunts house starts today we get weighed put 7 quid in a tin note the weight ,we do this every monday ,come christmas tin gets open and we get our cash back. so no more puddings for me have a lovely day all. xxx

Rosemary_Jane

Hi, I saw this link posted on another forum. (long article)

It's scary, I don't know whether to take it seriously, and if I do - what do we do about things?
At least prepping helps us feel a little more in control, but for how long?

http://www.moneyweek.com/endofbritain

Rosemary

GreyQueen

the_cake wrote: »

Horrible shock in Sainsbobs today: their Basics tea has gone up from 27p to ...........35p!! What the hell is that in percentage terms? There is no hope, we are truly doomed now.

I knew it was only a matter of time; cupboard is chocka but I may just add some more to another storage area, it'll be going up again soon.

Thanks for that linkie, I have sped-read (going to work shortly) but will re-read in greater depth. It resonates with a lot of stuff I've known for some time, and have read, for example, on ferfal's blog about Argentinia.

In my line of work, I meet a fair few people who think it's perfectly OK to choose a lifestyle which is essentially parasitic; they boast that they have never worked and have anything from 6-14 children. I have seen child tax credit award letters for a sums higher that a pre-tax full-time min wage salary. And that's more than I earn.

I've been thinking for some time that the jig is about to be up on such lifestyle choices at the expense of others. Trouble is, a lot of innocent children are going to suffer the consequences of their parents' poor decisions.

I'm one of the generation mentioned in that article, although I was a child in the 1970s, things made a lasting impression. I don't think the under 35s have much of a clue as to how bad it was then, never mind how bad a Greek-style crisis could get.

I've long taken the Govt's so-called guarantee to cover your savings up to £85k per institution in event of a bank failure with a pinch of salt. There's no way they could bail us out.

I think it'd be a good time to get out of debt (if you're in debt) and think about diversifying into precious metals and hiding the stuff from the gubment as well as the fellow citizens.

As always, keep mum and keep prepping.........

Cheapskate

I've dipped into that article, too, thanks for the link. Slightly scary reading! :eek: Do we go back to hiding cash under the bed again? Stock all available space with ambient food/loo rolls/water? How much of it's hot air, how much real prediction?

I've long thought society's got to change drastically, but not this much, so fast - it's like science fiction brought to life!

I have friends and family in the USA, Canada, OZ, and Europe, and all of them have noticed big price rise in food, petrol, etc., uncertain markets, more low-level social unrest... maybe that article IS worth another read!

A xo

maryb

This article was in the Telegraph last week before the downgrade actually happened.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9883519/Losing-our-AAA-rating-could-mean-bank-collapse-and-deflation.html

I suspect they will go for inflation - it's always a much easier political choice and deal with the consequences later. They'll call it a growth strategy, of course. It gets people out of negative equity makes people spend rather than save etc (in fact it literally steals money from savers especially if they have to pay tax on their savings). Trouble is, it only works if wages go up. And it doesn't work for long. If it did, Zimbabwe would be richer than the US.

couponchaos

Just had a read through of the article too, definitely thought provoking stuff. My OH thinks I'm a bit bonkers due to my interest in prepping, might get him to read it too. I definitely don't think we've seen the worst of this recession yet. :eek:

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Morning all, the article is a thought provoking read but it doesn't need panic mode. We have strategies between us to stretch every penny to do the work of 5 already and I'm certain that whatever happens, and no matter how fast, we will cope. Life for everyone would be extremely hard should the whole system fail but we have skills, we have knowledge and the most important thing because of this thread we all KNOW we are not alone and coping on our own. WE HAVE EACH OTHER and that is worth more than diamonds!!!!!! Even if the web goes down we will know there are others coping, doing thier best for friends and family and knowing what to do at every point, we'll be OK, Cheers Lyn xxx.

maryb

Rosemary that's an interesting article (as in "May you live in interesting times":eek:)

As a matter of interest, what was the forum you found it on? I used to have a few economic forums I followed but they've gone off a bit recently. It happens - there are usually a few well informed people at the core and if they start posting less often, because life gets in the way, then things do fizzle out. So I'm always glad to get pointers to new ones with like minded people