THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Karmacat

Mary, oh my word! Of course you're glad your own DD wasn't caught up in it. I understand the guilt, but you've nothing to be guilty about in RL. You've made some really good points too about contact.

I've just been catching up on it all this morning, watching some videos taken at the time

ivyleaf

So glad your DD is safely home maryb xx

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maryb wrote: »

But her battery was being drained quite quickly so top of the shopping list is a power pack

I've got one of these.

http://www.energizerpowerpacks.com/product_page.php?p_code=P0019

20000mAh, and a 4.5A maximum output. :cool:

I use it with my Hudl.

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maryb wrote: »

She has tickets for the Adele concert later this month. You can imagine how I feel about that.

Bad things can happen anywhere, even when doing something as mundane as shopping for a Mother's Day card.

You can't live your life in fear of what might happen, or you would not even leave your home.

thriftwizard

Too true, BSB. Glad your daughter is safe & well, Maryb, and even gladder to hear from my DS1, who lives in Sarf Lunn'n & heads up that way quite often.

pineapple

G'day preppers.
I was researching things I can bulk buy online - to cut down on expenditure as much as stocking up - when I came across this site about shelf life. Enjoy.
http://www.moneycrashers.com/things-you-shouldnt-buy-in-bulk/

ivyleaf

That's interesting pineapple, thanks

thriftwizard

Hahaha! 10lbs of oatmeal's a lot in a year? We go through 55lbs in about 6 months, and there are just 4 of us, and we eat oat groats, bought separately, too! Though the chickens do get a little every now & then, when I've run out of everything else. But by the time I've made hobnobs, generally at least once a week, and cheesy flapjacks, (everyone's favourite snack, plus I have to take 4 bars down for Mum weekly too) not to mention porridge for breakfast about half the time - spelt pancakes the other half - it doesn't take that long to demolish an entire sack. So I'm relieved to hear that it'd "only" be good for a year. If it got the chance...

Spices, olive oil, eggs - all things we go through a lot of. I do buy big packs of the spices I use the most (ginger & cinnamon) and herbs (Herbes de Provence & coriander leaf) as DD2's very much into Mediterranean cooking; bay we grow ourselves & dry by the bucketload.

I do take the point; it absolutely wouldn't be sensible for Mum, say, to keep vast quantities of these things in her wardrobe storecupboard. But I think IF you're catering for more than one or two, cooking mostly from scratch, and have mildly exotic tastes, the article could safely be taken with - oh go on, I can't resist - a pinch of salt!

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Large and hoarded salt or small and freshly bought salt, rock or sea, smoked or Himalayan rock crystal??? Oh decisions, decisions, life is so hard some days!!!

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I don't agree about canned foods.

Unopened, cans will keep for years/decades.

As for condiments, unopened, sauces and pickles have a massive shelf life.