THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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This cone is the centre, the worst winds will be for hundreds of miles around it. Eerily quiet outside. It will be turning northwards soon but still could veer either east or west. I wasn`t sleepless overnight fortunately but everything is crossed. Cyclone/hurricane same swirling winds, just a different technical origin
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024441.shtml?tswind120#contents

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watch if it moves east and watch the pressure as it falls and be prepared for bad heads and ears. I hate sudden pressure changes

I am going to take photos in the garage today, just belt and braces, in case, so that I have a visual aid

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

mardatha

Ooooh - guess who lives right under that area of big red arrows :eek: :D

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lol. yes exciting and frightening at the same time. It has started tracking over cooler water so will be losing energy and will stop that awful eye. Looks as though it will downpower but will still be a bad storm with hard gusts. Gusts, we can cope with

Amazingly my anemometer up on the fence post is mainly stock still but there are light gusts and the direction is changing from w to e to s and back again I am having strong coffee and then going out on a bike ride, the old bike in the garage. Next real details will be released later this morning. I will be prepping flasks tomorrow as soon as I get up

mardatha

Very windy up here today, but nice to see blue skies again.
Did anybody catch this - a real lesson on the importance of having some cash :
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-13/puerto-rico-without-electricity-wifi-atms-shows-importance-cash-gold-and-silver

[Deleted User]

here she comes

https://en.sat24.com/en

fuddle

Can I pick your brains about preserving at all?

Basically I need to rethink the type of food I store. I've to move towards a low salt diet. I'm getting my head round it in terms of the fridge and meals we eat but I need to start again re: tinned goods in the emergency cupboard.

The first job I want to tackle is to make and preserve my own baked beans. I've got the recipe but I need to know what kit I need to invest in and how to go about preserving batches. I'd like to move on to soups and tomato sauces eventually too.

Any advice you can give me I would be appreciated.

Karmacat

Fuddle, can't help with that very much, I'm afraid. I know I like having a big stainless steel pan to cook preserves in - I have a couple of 6 litre quite lightweight ones from charity shops, but my best is one I bought from a proper shop, much heavier, and thats probably needed to stop things catching.

My *plan* is to dehydrate simple foods, so that eventually I can mix together the makings for a meal. Plenty of people dehydrate already-made meals, but I'm not going down that road for now, just personal choice.

Prepping at the mo - I have a rough food cupboard list for 6 months, over the worst of the flu season, and I'm doing some big online shops to get lots of it - Asda and Healthy Supplies (veggie protein) have already delivered, just got a big one in from Sainsbo too - a cheap delivery time, and a £10 coupon that came through the door, that helps too.

nuatha

fuddle wrote: »

Can I pick your brains about preserving at all?

Basically I need to rethink the type of food I store. I've to move towards a low salt diet. I'm getting my head round it in terms of the fridge and meals we eat but I need to start again re: tinned goods in the emergency cupboard.

The first job I want to tackle is to make and preserve my own baked beans. I've got the recipe but I need to know what kit I need to invest in and how to go about preserving batches. I'd like to move on to soups and tomato sauces eventually too.

Any advice you can give me I would be appreciated.

Tomato sauce you can do in a waterbath, baked beans I suspect will need a pressure canner (which aren't common in the UK, and are are expensive to ship from the USA)
Have a look at Food in Jars.

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oh booger, the eye is re-forming and its looking to be a direct hit on the uk. People should be warned, not to panic but to tie stuff down

Fuddle the only way I would preserve ready meals is via freezing. I would not trust bottling or even my dehydrator