THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

VJsmum

Funnily enough I haven't heard any military planes here in mid Wales and there usually is at this time of year.

I am going to spend the next month eating down the stocks so that I can restock for winter. OH used all the coffee milk the other day and was bemoaning that he'd have to drink black. Yet again, I saved the day with a pint of (ahem, slightly OOD ) long life hidden in the cupboard. Well not hidden but behind something, and my blokes don't know how to look behind things...:cool:

thriftwizard

I am going to spend the next month eating down the stocks so that I can restock for winter.

You and me both, VJsmum - maybe that'll help me reach my target in the Grocery Challenge! I failed miserably last month, but that's a lesson in its own right.

We've had lots of jets screaming overhead, partly accountable-for by the local airshow, but they've kept on coming in the week after it finished; I'd assumed that they were doing other air shows along the South Coast. Sometimes they come over when they're just returning to base; in flying terms, we're not that far from the RAF & Naval Air Arm southern bases, and very close to one of their main visual references. However that also makes us close to the main route south...

We get massive flocks of birds going over & stopping over, too, in several different directions; swans going from Siberia to Spain, swifts, swallows & house martins going south, starlings from Scandinavia, geese going wherever geese go, etc. etc. Sometimes there are hundreds of swans plodding around the local watermeadows and in the river; some clearly like the look of us & stay put to augment the local population and in the last few years we've developed a small flock of black swans. Hope that's not an omen!

ivyleaf

How lovely to have black swans thriftwizard! We saw those when we visited New Zealand. We saw a pair of them courting, "singing" with their necks twined together, such a beautiful sound, never heard anything like it then they mated and shot away from each other, the female looking somewhat ruffled and indignant

(I do realise white swans do the same thing, but have never happened to see that.)

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Another one here who is definitely not buying any extra food for awhile I came home from my holiday on Friday and went to aldi's and got what I needed plus a quick nip into morrisons for some veg as Aldi's had run out and thats me for at least a fortnight now as my freezer is far too full, and my purse the complete opposite :) Battened down the hatches, and will use what I have in the cupboards and freezer. Was going to buy some butter today then remembered I have some vitalite at the bottom of the fridge, that will do instead on my crackers and cheese.

Si_Clist

For anyone who's interested and can either read German or is a whizz with Google Translate, all the advice put out recently by the German government on how to be prepared for when die Scheiße trifft den Fan is online at http://www.ernaehrungsvorsorge.de/private-vorsorge/empfehlungen-tipps/

Yes, it does tell you how many tins of sauerkraut you need per person per week, but who'd have thought you can get tinned ryebread? Anyhow, if nothing else there's some marvellous German words to try pronouncing, like "Grundnahrungsmittelvorrat" and such.

Pity I can't see our lot doing something similar ...

mardatha

Ordering candles, firelighters and matches this week, along with a load of tins and packets. Porridge & powdered milk, chopped pork & corned beef, beans & peas, carrots & custard, sponge pud & semolina

ivyleaf

Not seen you posting for ages Si Clist :T hope you're keeping well, it's nice to "see" you.

mrs-moneypenny

I feel like a slacker compared to the rest of you.
The world is a strange and confusing place at the moment, I'm reading but not getting a lot of free time. Stitches out and back to work, at the mo all I seem to be prepping for is the next decorating phase fir the house and the course I'm taking on at work.
Last weeks GCSEs weren't what ds2 was hoping for so hard a quick bit of panic followed by some rational thought and found him a local college where pe he can do retakes and another course he quite fancies so it may be better in the long run.
Sorted through the store cupboard and found 12 jars of mincemeat so I think the coming festive season will find me mostly making mince pies.

Ive noticed an increase of large helicopters flying overhead recently, and wondered if something is going on (one overhead as I type)

Si_Clist

ivyleaf wrote: »

Not seen you posting for ages Si Clist :T hope you're keeping well, it's nice to "see" you.

Thanks ivyleaf

Been a bit preoccupied of late with various things as a result of The Lady Wife's afflictions and whatnot, but mustn't grumble. Hopefully I'll be able to stick my oar in a bit more often now ...

mardatha

Icelandic volcano Katla stirring again. If that thing goes off then we might not have a growing season next year up here..

http://news.trust.org/item/20160829132417-kodr4/