THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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yes fuddle, certainly is the dry air. Dry lips, skin, eyes, nose membranes. Heating plus dry atmosphere. I am just about to put my humidifier on. Humidity in my house is 44%, far too low for me and I know that my eyes will soon suffer, or rather would suffer if the stove was on

Please don`t venture out if not needed. It is incredibly and invisibly slippy out there, ask me how I know. Call it do-gooding, an invitation to the now open village cafe. Went to get my walking boots from garage, lots of snow on top of gravel, didn`t get a metre then slipped on my derriere, very soft landing. Crept back inside and am staying put. Do-gooding does not always mean safety

singlestep

I hope that everybody who is ill or under the weather is feeling more like themselves soon.

Just back from collecting a neighbour’s medicine. It was quite shocking to see snow so deep and pavements so difficult to negotiate several days on in a city. The train line still isn’t running although the buses are and the small supermarket was stripped bare of fresh food, ready meals, frozen food and drinks. The bakery chain was open and selling whatever odds and ends they’d still had in their freezer – about three types of pasty and some pizza slices but no cakes or breakfast items.

I couldn’t tell you if it was worse than December 2010 when I was stranded at work in a different town. Back then, the trains were running the next day and I was able to top up everything I might have needed on the way home.

I’ve been re-thinking some of my preps which I do make in case of bad weather but mostly because of a busy work schedule at this time of year. I have loads of hm soup in the freezer but could do with more frozen fruit and veg. Apart from that and some leftover stew and curry, my usual freezer emergency foods aren’t actually that great. Although it would be a while before I ran out of food, I have had to change my diet recently and my store cupboard standbys haven’t really caught up with that reality either. My freezer isn’t big enough for milk and I’ve got a pint left and some mini UHT cartons. The powdered stuff somehow got rotated out and will have to go back in! I have plenty of fruit tea and camomile tea and coffee is still coffee if it doesn’t have milk.

I have to go a bit further afield later to check up on friends and take some of my own supplies. One thing is for sure – I have nothing to be complacent about but I won’t be ridiculed by them again for trying to think ahead.

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cabin fever cure: craftsy classes, free all weekend. I am in

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I have plenty of food in store, but I had to nip out last night for some Imodium and re-hydration powders, so I grabbed half a dozen cheese & onion pies.

I've got one in the oven right now, which I'll be having with baked beans, since it doesn't take much preparing.

mardatha

I always liked baking GQ but hated cooking. When kids were wee I used to do a lot of big cherry cakes or sultana cakes, then as they got older I went onto the ring moulds and got fancy with cream and fruit and nuts I think I'm going to cry lol

Karmacat

I got caught up in watching the snow fall again! Oh my, a lot going on - BB, sorry you've been so ill, thats a good idea to sleep downstairs in the warm, though it sounds like you still had a bad night

Kittie, free craftsy classes! As I've just inherited a **huge** patchwork stash, I may well watch some of those.

I've still not done a hospital bag since the last time we talked of it recently oops. I'll make a list on the Notes section of my phone, from this thread, and see what I can do. Though it does sound very similar to my Hotel Bag. More change needed for vending machines, I think.

And I've opened up Amma zon on another tab to look for YaxTrax - prices are £11 upwards, and I have some Amazon vouchers to spend because of faffing about with Swagbucks Does anybody have any tips about sizing, or sellers? Please.

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Karmacat wrote: »

that's a good idea to sleep downstairs in the warm

I can't sleep downstairs, as I live in a flat, so all on one level.

Karmacat

I meant in the living room ...

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prepping next time, will bring walking boots and wellingtons indoors before it all starts. Could kick myself, pretty obvious that I would not be able to get to them

fuddle

kittie wrote: »

cabin fever cure: craftsy classes, free all weekend. I am in

I saw!! I did a little wiggle inside.

There goes that Facebook again, being all useful and all.