The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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I post from the position of being a person who always has bought a couple of extra to needs items for the pantry if I had housekeeping money left over from the weekly shop.  I have always seen this as 'putting in futures' and have done it all my adult life and always have a well stocked cupboard with food items, toiletries, cleaning stuffs and general household items to hand, it's part of our way of life so the concept of Panic Buying seems very alien to me.  We value comfortable living over treats because 'we're worth it', our priorities are more bars of soap and porridge oats than fancy chocolates and wine.  We live within our means, always have, and although it may sound as though we have dull lives we enjoy very much who and what we are.  I feel sorry for people who are driven to panic shop because they haven't the slightly plodding mindset that is mine, it must be a very frightening thing to suddenly face the possibility of not having enough food etc. to see you by.

C_J

Instead of stocking up on crisps, I've bought a few packages of popcorn kernels. I pop them in the microwave (put some in a bowl with a lid, 1.5 minutes and you have a massive bowl full).

jk0

Meanwhile, the chancellor is expected to scrap a subsidy on diesel used by the farming and construction sector in an effort to encourage a switch to greener alternative fuel vehicles and help the UK meet its climate change targets.

Rishi Sunak is set to announce in next week's budget that red diesel - so-called because it is marked with a dye - will no longer attract a lower fuel duty. It currently accounts for about 15% of total diesel sales in the UK and costs the Treasury about £2.4bn a year in revenue.

This is a bit of a worry for farmers, isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51731757

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albiorix said:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted said:

Personally, I think the 'Army helping the police and health services out' is a very subtle way of threatening Martial Law.

not sure, I remember army "ambulances" etc being deployed (had to use one for an errant and accident prone sibling once), think it's just using available resources in an unusual situation.

Using troops for things like flood relief, food/fuel distribution is one thing (and as albiorix remembers, the old Green Goddesses used to bolster the fire service, but 'troops on the street' in a public order capacity has a bad feeling about it, however necessary it might become eventually (... ah I remember the long hot summer of '20' etc...)

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jk0 said:

Meanwhile, the chancellor is expected to scrap a subsidy on diesel used by the farming and construction sector in an effort to encourage a switch to greener alternative fuel vehicles and help the UK meet its climate change targets.

Rishi Sunak is set to announce in next week's budget that red diesel - so-called because it is marked with a dye - will no longer attract a lower fuel duty. It currently accounts for about 15% of total diesel sales in the UK and costs the Treasury about £2.4bn a year in revenue.

This is a bit of a worry for farmers, isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51731757

Bit of a bloody stupid idea at a (brexit related) financially sensitive time and while the industry is being encouraged to take on the role of land custodian rather than intensive farming

thriftwizard

Just another way to squeeze every last penny upwards?

3secondmemory

MrsLurcherwalker said:

I post from the position of being a person who always has bought a couple of extra to needs items for the pantry if I had housekeeping money left over from the weekly shop.  I have always seen this as 'putting in futures' and have done it all my adult life and always have a well stocked cupboard with food items, toiletries, cleaning stuffs and general household items to hand, it's part of our way of life so the concept of Panic Buying seems very alien to me.  We value comfortable living over treats because 'we're worth it', our priorities are more bars of soap and porridge oats than fancy chocolates and wine.  We live within our means, always have, and although it may sound as though we have dull lives we enjoy very much who and what we are.  I feel sorry for people who are driven to panic shop because they haven't the slightly plodding mindset that is mine, it must be a very frightening thing to suddenly face the possibility of not having enough food etc. to see you by.

Lol - I weighed my porridge oats this morning and marked a scoop - I like a big bowl so between 60 -75g a potion - a little maths shows I need 2kg a month. 

One of my good habits is to line my tummy with porridge in preference to taking Omeprazole.  

I have to keep things simple - porridge 5 days a week and granary toast with Marmite on the weekend

I think it’s a bit of my ASD but I do eat the same basic food all the time - maximum nutrition, minimum cost. I rarely feel hungry and don’t keep track of time. My ADHD kept me up most of the night so I just went with it. I even sorted out my rubbish and recycling. I kept a stash of cardboard, plastic bottles and lids ‘just in case’ I reuse a lot of stuff for potting seeds so I’d be saving some anyway. If the worst came to the worst, rubbish collections could be affected. I don’t want to be left with full bins for any length of time! 

I bought a mixture of seeds from Amazon - some for sprouting, some for growing. That’s my treat to look forward to at the weekend! 

 

3secondmemory

The joy of living alone is knowing you were the last person to touch the soap! Anyone who grew up in a large family who had to share the bath, might know what I’m talking about! 

I have cakes in every drawer! And how long does a bar last - flipping ages! 

Ohh I must add toothpaste to my list! 

And stock cubes or nice bouillon 

welshbabe88

Hm, well doing a shop online for tomorrow with Tesco - not going mad so wonder how much will be available.

On the health note hubby has asthma and other health problems - so today he comes back from his twice weekly visits to mum to say he's not going down again (she does have plenty of other children living there and visiting) - and with only one confirmed case in Wales so far!

So now I shall have to follow suit - I won't mind when it gets worse but seems a bit premature now - but what can you say! Just feeling a bit down about the whole thing (and people thinking I'm nuts when I drop out of my usual clubs etc, and probably have to stop people coming in the house).

Si_Clist

3secondmemory said:

... I like a big bowl so between 60 -75g a potion - a little maths shows I need 2kg a month.

When we determined to get figures on how long things actually last us (as opposed to us guessing), we were surprised to find that we actually average 1.2Kg of jumbo oats a week between the two of us.  So we now buy 'em in 25Kg sacks, which unfortunately doesn't endear us to the courier drivers who have to schlep them from kerbside to front door ...