THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

She wasn't just scornful she was foul mouthed about it just for good measure

Mind you, she always gives good measure of obscenities/profanities/blasphemies - I can't help finding it really offputting. She manages not to swear when she goes on television

moneyistooshorttomention

I admit to feeling very sceptical about the timing of the Girl Called Jack's blog post on stocking-up with tins coinciding with her book about cooking up recipes from tins. Very coincidental.....:cool:

I have a couple of her cookbooks - with the proviso that I'm used to having to add extra quantities and extra "stuff to flavour the food" to those recipes. But - I do find her very over-emotional generally and can't be doing with all those emotional rants she comes out with and do think that if it is "just coincidence":cool: that her ranting about tinned food coincides with her book about tinned food - then any genuine feelings she has now are her reacting to her own previous life experiences at an emotional level - rather than trying to look at things at a completely objective rational level.

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Anyway, on a completely different front - I've just had a letter through (that's probably turning up on doorsteps throughout this part of the country at present) on "Welsh rates of income tax".

I was aware this idea was going on and had reservations as to whether there might be an attempt to charge people more for living anywhere other than the English part of our country.

This letter leaves me feeling no clearer whatsoever whether the Welsh Assembly will ever be grabbing to get more money out of me than I'd be paying in England. I've checked out the website links given in it - and it's just totally vague and no figures. Unable to figure whether I'll be overcharged, pay less or pay the same for living in this part of our country, rather than another part of our country.

If anyone gets to hear any details about all this (hopefully ones that will set minds at rest stating that lower-income people in Wales won't have a "tax penalty" for being here imposed on us obviously...) then do let us know. Meanwhile - I'll just go and vent a few feelings by throwing stuff at walls or the like to vent "worry feelings" we might be penalised for an extra layer of "government" I don't even agree with having in place.....:cool:

Hmmm...thinks or I could stockpile bricks, heavy stones or the like ready to send by "postage paid by recipient" to said Welsh Assembly if they do try and impose a tax penalty on us. Mightn't help - but it would make me feel a sight better.....

K80_Black

I really don't want to get into debates about Brexit/Jack Monroe/similar!

I will say, that I have 'stockpiled' food for many years. I'm schizophrenic and sometimes get so unwell that even opening the door to a delivery man is impossible. The longest I've spent 'alone' after turning off the internet and refusing to open the front door is about 3 months. For times like this I have my 'zombie apocalypse' food.

I always have at least 10l of UHT milk, boxes and boxes of cereal and plenty of canned goods - everything from rice pudding to canned carrots. This is what I initially survived on, the first time it happened. It's amazing how long you can go just eating cereal and the occasional can of tinned veg for some vitamins!

I recently upped my game, bought a chest freezer which is now FULL. Should I get unwell, I will be dining on the finest veggie wellingtons, high protein/low sugar ice cream and other delights for a fair while!

While I'm sure I'm certainly 'prepped', I'm not sure if I'm missing any tips and tricks, especially with the arrival of the freezer. What should I be stocking in my freezer, aside from luxuries/things I'd normally eat? Any suggestions?

Nargleblast

If you cook meals such as stews, curries etc you can make a large batch then freeze the leftovers in individual portions. When you next go through a period of not feeling up to going out you will have your own homemade takeaway dinners in the freezer, just reheat and serve. Cheaper than takeaways and also you know what's in it, no nasty additives or junk ingredients.

K80_Black

Nargleblast wrote: »

If you cook meals such as stews, curries etc you can make a large batch then freeze the leftovers in individual portions. When you next go through a period of not feeling up to going out you will have your own homemade takeaway dinners in the freezer, just reheat and serve. Cheaper than takeaways and also you know what's in it, no nasty additives or junk ingredients.

Aye, I already have 4 portions of home made chilli in there from last night! I plan to continue with this whenever I cook a 'freezable' meal or sauce - having at least one extra portion for the freezer. I'm all out of little plastic tubs at the moment, but have more on order from amazon that should be arriving any day now.

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I have always and will continue to prepare for events that might mean it's not life as normal, for weather events or for illnesses, for civil unrest or war or just plain being snowed in or anything else disruptive in the short or the long term. I won't be specifically prepping for Brexit or because Jack Monroe or any other transitory celebrity says I should or I shouldn't. No, I will prep because I am and always have been a prepper and it makes sense to me to do so. The rest of the world can either join in or go to hell in a handcart if they so choose but I prep because I believe in prepping and really don't care what anyone else thinks of me because of it.

DigForVictory

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I will prep because I am and always have been a prepper and it makes sense to me to do so. The rest of the world can either join in or go to hell in a handcart if they so choose but I prep because I believe in prepping and really don't care what anyone else thinks of me because of it.

Hear, hear! From the depths of restocking a cupboard with blocks of noodles & eyeing the stashes of teabags. (Just tins? Good heavens, anyone would think the gel had a book to sell. Oh, wait.)

We prep because it makes sense.
(That said, plans to squat on underappreciated Scottish holdings, taking an "active" hike across France for the history & researching ways to avoid piling on the avoirdupois etc with incidental bangs all help keep the wits nimble.)

Dimly a propos of which I have purchased a nappy change bag as it will hold assorted technical stuff delightfully (lots of pockets!) and comes with bonus kneepad.

GreyQueen

There's nothing like a celeb on the make, hey?


I already have Quite A Lot of tinned sardines and have accumulated them over the years, they're all in date. Enough that, with them and allotment/ foraged greens, I could live quite handily for a year or more. And that is before we digress into the corned beef stash and the olive oil/ jarred olive supplies, which have been built up slowly over time with some of the money which the rest of the world sees fit to waste on cola and crisps (I shop in cheap supermarkets, I see what happens).


I also have plans for gardening, having expanded my agricultural holdings by another 50% ( up 150 sq m). The spud harvest is intended to be monstrous as I feed both myself and the 'rents and kid bruv.


I will also be pushing the boat out with another pack of Rainbow Lights chard. The original lot from 2008 was allowed to set seed and I have been enjoying Feral Chard ever since. The frequency of self-germinated chardlings has really tailed off lately so it is time to re-populate the lottie with another batch.


Chard has excellent nutrition, can serves a celery-substitute/ lettuce substitute, produces leaves 365 days a year with no effort whatsoever from the gardener. The ultimate low maintenance veggie.


My pal with the gee-gees has promised me manure, another pal has gifted me raspberry canes (well, pointed me at the patch and told me to help myself) and all is looking ever more preppertastic.:cool:


Of course, in extremis, there are plenty of pigeons in urban and rural environments (4 broods a year) and a pellet gun/ catapult could be a handy addition to one's life skills.

erin_transport

Hi
Always having extras in the pantry is the way I’m happy to live.

Coming from a haulage world, I know the cost to me in time, energy and resources with general delays at Uk/irl/EU ports, boarders and transit points - lets just hope that something feasible is agreed on.

ancientofdays

Feral pigeon is meant to taste vile but I suppose it would be a source of protein. I am 2 minutes away from a source of pigeons, mallards and swans. I believe the mallards are meant to be nasty (as in pigeon ) and you are not meant to eat swans as they belong to the Queen I think. I'm not entirely convinced that the queen knows about these particular swans. I'm not mad about meat bit I can imagine ,y carnivorous chaps eyingthem up.

We aren't prepping for any specific event but we do have enough food to keep us going for a while I a, not thinking about OH'S loo roll mountain which I've referred to previously as it makes me come over all unnecessary.

A couple of weeks ago, there was an interesting tv programme, me about army rations and how well or badly things lasted in tins. Then it went on to cooking in tents for some forces personnel and then to a meal served to food critics adequate from tinned food and that last bit had Jack Monroe, whose recipes they used, involved. Interestingly, the food was very well received.

I am not a lover of tinned foods generally but they have their place and I'd certainly not turn my nose up if hungry. We mostly have tins of tomatoes and beans of various kinds. Got a rather good pasta mountain but I think that's by accidenT as I sometimes forget to check the stocks begotr