THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

thriftwizard

Had an interesting conversation at our market this morning! Someone who I would have sworn would be completely blind to all the wheels quietly falling off the remote corners of our civilisation revealed that she's taken to prepping...

Seems her neighbour has been wearing the tinfoil hat for some years now, and she's been talking to him about it and is gradually beginning to see the world without the blinkers imposed by TV/endless shopping/easy credit and build her resilience. This is someone who works in an extremely high-tech, results-driven environment, who actually has very little time for contemplation. If people like her are listening, there is hope...

Si_Clist

Woo hoo! We finally got the bug-out bag 100% sorted this morning, so are now good to go totally self-contained for a minimum of 48 hours, including toiletries, medicines, bogroll, space blankets, lifeboat biscuits etc plus self-heating meals and chocolate puddings. Admittedly only one litre of bottled water will go out the door with us, but just in case there's no mains water available anywhere, we do have the chlorine dioxide tablets to fall back on.

If there's a downside it's that the total weight including rucksack is nigh on 18lb, but Plan A is for The Lady Wife to grab the spare empty rucksack on the way out and we redistribute things between them as soon as convenient. Plan B sees me saying 18lbs is perfectly OK for as long as my arthritic knees hold up!

DigForVictory

Tell beloved Lady Wife spare rucksack contains the chocolate.
All will be well.
Until the spare rucksack is empty again...

pineapple

I saw a thread about potato cakes on another site and realised all hope is lost should TSHTF. Was it about how to make them? No it was about where to buy them and how to cook the ones you bought.
Now I'm not puritanical about fast food and have been known, under cover of darkness, to consume a plate of a certain Aunty's oven chips..:eek: Dipped in ready made mayo :eek::eek:.
But dear me, the concept of actually making them yourself seemed alien. I can picture the scene now - zombie masses hammering at doors and windows demanding their potato cakes. Because they know f. all else...

Doveling

True confessions time

I am quite a keen cook and make meals from scratch but there are times, when life is busy, that I turn to Aunty for help with yorkies and roasties :rotfl:

I realise there are many reasons folk use ready made - time poor, less waste, illness etc
It's the idea that people only do this because they don't know how to make basic stuff that worries me.

Thriftwizard - hope your mum makes a good recovery x

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Doveling, a professional cook of my acquaintance tells me that all cooks have a blind spot, a particular thing that they just cannot do. Their blind spot is Yorkshire puddings. Which, given that they cook at a pub for Sunday lunches, is a bit of a problem. They secretly resort to Aunty. You won't tell anyone, will you?

Second day of pertiddling rain here, after five days of beautiful weather with temps hovering just over or under 30 c and not a cloud in the sky. Not unheard of for the time of year but a bit of a fast switchover.

Yesterday, there were a lot of people in the city who had been caught on the hop, sartorially speaking, and who were sloshing around in shorts and flip-flops. I felt a bit of a fool taking my mac away with me to the folks but needed it on the return journey. I have also discovered that the wally-trolley is more water-resistant than water-proof.:p

Fortunately, I had the stuff which really doesn't benefit from a wetting (like books) plastic-bagged inside, and other things got ever so slightly damp and soon dried out.

Interesting to hear about the so-called snowflakes. I wondered if I was guilty of being a middle-aged f@rt in observing what I feel to be both breathtaking naiety and complacency, as well as a lack of understanding of how the world really works. I do hope people currently experiencing these comfortable delusions get the time to wake up slowly, with only minor upsets, rather than face a catastrophic SHTF and discover that they are essentially on their own.

Thriftwizard, sorry to hear that your mother is presently unwell and hope that she rallies a bit. We have my Nan in hospital for two weeks now, the complications of great age, and I was glad she was on an air-conditioned ward when I saw her on Thursday, not sweltering at home.

Rightly, quick wander around the web, haven't been online for 36 hours, and will then slosh out to visit my firiend's junk shop. The drains were backing up there yesterday, he may need some assistance (wanders off to get her wellies.......)

pineapple

I have to say my Yorkshires are a thing to behold - in the days when I had a proper oven that is.
The potato cake thing was semi serious - in that there seems to be a generation (WARNING generalisation alert!) which doesn't want to know unless it comes out of a tin, a jar, or a packet. It seems to me we are gradually being de-skilled. I have no doubt that my mother knew less than her mother etc etc.
Meanwhile we have had a plethora of cookery programmes where chefs and aspiring chefs construct and deconstruct all manner of fancy towers and 'foams' and crispy things - and 'jus' (for heavens sake).
Last night on Great British Menu I watched someone create these golden blown apple shaped thingies. They were a wonder to behold. But I doubt many of us, after a day at work or in the garden or wherever will feel like decamping to the kitchen to spend an age creating little edible works of art :rotfl:
Unfortunately many people now think that to cook a meal you need a 'recipe' along with a large amount of time, skill and knowledge.
I think we could do with more weekday evening prime time basic cookery programmes.

mardatha

Pineapple we could seriously do with a lot more schemes in poorer areas that teach people good cheap old-fashioned cooking! How to make do with less and how to feed a family on next to nothing. That is desperately needed.

craigywv

hi all been awol AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 trying to catch up i see there may be an expert in yorkshire pudding making............YO PINEAPPLE! pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me how to make them i have tried too many times and fail they come out flat and dense many thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Si_Clist

pineapple wrote: »

... there seems to be a generation (WARNING generalisation alert!) which doesn't want to know unless it comes out of a tin, a jar, or a packet ...Meanwhile we have had a plethora of cookery programmes where chefs and aspiring chefs construct and deconstruct all manner of fancy towers and 'foams' and crispy things - and 'jus' (for heavens sake)

As in "I love cooking. I can watch it all day." It's the same principle as all the blokes who are mad keen on football and know all about it and wouldn't miss a match on the television but never get off their backsides and play it.