THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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kittie wrote: »

edit; one prepping problem is solved, yes the tall beko is perfect. It has deep drawers and can be put on at -14 so is freezing but slightly cheaper to run, anyway only costs about £30 a year to run and will be brilliant as another spare freezer. I have a small beko chest freezer in the garage, over a few winters and it runs perfectly, filled with empty lock n locks right now and switched off

I already have a tall BEKO in the garage and it has been brilliant. I am taking delivery of a second hand one exactly the same tomorrow so that I can freeze some of my allotment produce but it does worry me that we may have power cuts if we crash out of Europe. I do have an Excalibur so can dehydrate things (particularly with all this sun and having solar panels!) but it's just me to worry about and people with large families will find it much more difficult to stock up. One great thing about the Beko Kittie is that it has a shallow drawer which you could use for ice, but is great for freezing slices or small mounds of food which you can then bag up after freezing. I mash avocado with lime when they are wildly reduced for instance and make them into little patties which would be one portion for me.

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

Then, when I am in, I need to stockpile fuel. I am hoping to find a nice delivery driver who will back up to the garage and carry the 20kg bags in for a few yards, rather than dumping me with a pallet. If not, the alternative will be what I always have to do with heavy sacks, to roll into my 2 wheeled barrow, wheel in and tip. I am more inclined to get the smokeless oval eggs because thay are hotter and more efficient than logs. Reading the blurb, I would need to get logs that are < 25% moisture anyway.

Errr...it's best to forewarn you Kittie that you will be VERY lucky indeed if the delivery person will carry that sort of thing any difference at all. My own experience has been that they deliver whatever-it-is on a pallet and then drive off (after having made it very plain they aren't going to concern themselves beyond that).

My experience since moving here has been that that is how it goes with pallet deliveries. The only "carry things any further" stuff that has happened here is if I'm literally having one or two small/lightweight from a mans pov things delivered here (eg one or two reasonable size bags of compost or one or two heavy plantpots) and then I can "smile sweetly and ask if they'd mind carrying a few feet more to x spot".

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DD1 has a wood supplier who will for an extra £5 stack the whole load in her woodstore when he delivers. It's always worth asking if something of the sort is available, I'm a great believer in asking and if they DO say no, well you've not lost anything have you?

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ok thanks, yes I will ask before I order. I don`t order pellets by the pallet because I would have to barrow all of them from the lane. It was easier for me to put 250kg in my car, drive it close and roll and then barrow. The stove will be for occasional and emergency use as there is gas ch



LP I like the look of the tall beko and I never knew I could freeze avocado, you learn something every day

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Half price (£2-50) at the, soon to be closing, £world in my local precinct.

mardatha

Kittie don't get a heavy kettle, we can't lift them when we get older and it will do you more harm than good re your joints x

jk0

Could you not have the pallet pushed into the garage Kittie? When they bring things here, they use a hand operated forklift to move them around with.

herbily

Kittie, a lot depends on where you buy your fuel from - I've been using coals2u, and they will deliver to a location on your premises that you specify, within reason. I've never had any problem with them stacking up plastic bags of ovals next to my shed (I like to do the final stack inside the shed by myself).


Equally, my local coal merchant will deliver sacks round to the back - it's worth asking your potential suppliers if they deliver to the coalbunker or shed, or just to the kerb.

Karmacat

Interesting about the deliveries.


I had a bit of a prepping win today: went out to a local Nat Trust property, and found a sort of garden salvage place next door to it. I'll go again soon, to consider kitchen/garden wrought ironwork, and plants too, but in the meantime, bought a family size Le Creuset cast iron saucepan for £15. My haybox was going to be okay with a medium weight stockpot, and this saucepan isn't a big one - but if I *needed* to use a haybox, then cooking this amount of food would be the right amount, actually win-win.

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We're sat in the garden burning a SWEDISH CANDLE and I'm going to cook the sausages for supper on it as soon as it's stopped flaring and is burning red embers in the middle. This is a GOOD idea for prepping, so simple but we got it away with one match, some dry grass and leaves from the garden and some little birch twigs that had fallen off next door's trees. The how to make them is on google.