The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

I went on something of a Prepping Spree. The Chinese wholesaler & supermarket has seen eldest sorted for melamine bowls, youngest for daftest beer bottle yet seen (Buddha beer) & folding paper fans for colleague’s beloved. (Air con without batteries & I’ll bet she can speak volumes with it.)

Then for me & my household In The Event (mostly of hunger)
I got a Whole Box of noodles (I have groused about the young devouring them - now they'll have to find the great big bright yellow box. Er, I'll not mention in what bag I stashed it in case they are more net savvy than I thought.).
A four litre jug of HP sauce.
Tins of bamboo shoots & water chestnuts at half the supermarket price.
Desiccated coconut by the sizeable sackful (adds something to the breakfast porridge, amongst other virtues).
A new (wider circumference) wok & shovel to stir it with (I resisted iron ladles & shovels for resale to re-enactors, this time! Once the season picks up a bit & my cash flow needs a lift, I'll check out who's where & what they need and are ready to pay for.)
Assorted soups for the work bag - healthy if salty meal (just add boiling water & enlightenment)
A pack of plural disposable chopsticks in case I need hair sticks, kindling or even (god help me) chopsticks.

Dear gods my workbag is going to read bizarre with cables, dark chocolate chopsticks & miso soup sachets as well as the lidded soup mug, reusable coffee mug, tea bags & coffee sachets & (on special days) a nappy changing kit with keyboard, mouse, wipes, Yet More cables and other digital sundries where a bag with lots of little pockets And a knee pad is dashed useful.

Although anyone who opens the glasses case may be in for a mild surprise. It's got my fishing tackle in. My rod licence lapsed, but shuttles of line and packs of hooks do not take up Much Space. Add a length of stick or just pick your bend in the running water carefully. If I can find a small ceramic knife, gutting for the use of, better still. (Jojo, your point about me not being wholly safe through customs is well taken!)

machasraven

I have been very bad/good over the festive time and have more cook books coming (do not drink homemade wine and go on secondhand book sites). I will say in my defence that Mr MR put up 3 shelves for me in the kitchen so I could see my books rather than trying to see them in the understairs cupboard so his fault and I'm sticking to that:rotfl:.

I am now starting to plan the veggies for the allotment.


The other thing I want to do is to play with my hand cranked sewing machine so I know its foibles:j

mardatha

I've stashed up on teabags and coffee and powdered milk. I really want to get in some more bacon next.

GreyQueen

Living_proof wrote: »

I have the most ground-down teeth my dentist has ever seen and they are now all capped. I have to have a plastic splint in my front upper teeth at night which stops this grinding and also alleviates some headaches, neck aches, jaw problems, etc. Bruxism is the medical name. I think the splint was about £70 to get made, but worth it.

I'm a habitual tooth grinder but have been using a mouthguard which is molded to fit over my lower teeth for several years now. Cost £75 and well worth it, imo. I still have the so-called 'linea alba' - faint white lines on the inside of my cheeks, which indicate I do grind my teeth but can't hurt them with the guard in place.


I'm back at the homestead after 8 days away over christmas-new year and am slowly getting back to normal, stocking fresh foods first, but will be adding some TP tomorrow, am planning to take my wally trolley out.


As well as saving one's arms, the trolley has the added advantage of concealing whatever it is you're lugging about, which is helpful - I aim to be very grey woman and unflashy. My neighbourhood is notorious among police officers clean across the region and it's as well to keep a low profile. Better to be thought too dull to think about than to be a flash harriet and end up robbed.:D

nannywindow

I had a mouth guard made at the hospital ( free) when they diagnosed my TMJD. I was supposed to wear it at night, but all it did was make me drool excessively and feel sick. Not a pretty sight :eek:

Karmacat

Welcome back, GQ, hope you're feeling better. I'll have to get my trolley in action soon - I'd prefer to do a big £1 delivery slot from a supermarket midweek for my tins, they're so heavy, but an awful lot of them arrive dented these days, and I have to go through the rejection or reimbursement faff. So I'll get them into the trolley. It's the only way, really.

Living_proof

nannywindow wrote: »

I had a mouth guard made at the hospital ( free) when they diagnosed my TMJD. I was supposed to wear it at night, but all it did was make me drool excessively and feel sick. Not a pretty sight :eek:

Haha nannywindow - I was just telling a friend yesterday that I woke up dribbling and assumed it was my splint. Do you look like a bunny 'cos I do when it's on.
It's interesting that GQ's is on the lower jaw and mine on the upper. My sil is a dentist and apparently a great number of complaints of the face and upper torso can be down to bruxism.

I did have clicky jaw at one time which was extremely off-putting but it went away thankfully. I have a spare in that a pair of sliders was made for me as well which is one upper and one lower and really more like a gum shield than a splint. It did help when my initial splint decayed after about four years and I used the sliders whilst the new splint was made.

VJsmum

nannywindow wrote: »

I had a mouth guard made at the hospital ( free) when they diagnosed my TMJD. I was supposed to wear it at night, but all it did was make me drool excessively and feel sick. Not a pretty sight :eek:

Same - it gave me angular cheilitis. I stopped using it some years ago (was given it due to clicky jaw) but unfortunately I think the Angular Cheilitis is now with me for ever on and off and at certain times of year - like now

Cappella

Shalom Bob

A happy new year Preppers

Hope the tooth is sorted MrsLW

DfV - our nearest Chinese supermarket burnt down rather spectacularly lastyear but the Asian ones locally are brilliant sources of rice and pulses.

Space for preps is proving raher a bugbear here so I'm rearranging things in the spare bedroom today and emptying the cupboard of doom. It's full of goodness only knows what on the top shelf but there are three huge suitcases that the son want taking up most of the bottom shelf so getting rid if those that will give me more than enough room for most of our honey. Then I can stack tinned and dried food on the shelves the honey is on and see far more easily what we're short of.
It was a very expensive year here last tear and savings are much depleted but food in the house could well be more valuable than money in the bank so I'm replacing used stocks first and then concentrating on building funds up again.

Cheapskate

Morning preppers

Our cupboards and freezers are chock full, but woefully disorganised, so this weekend's task is to rectify that, and get back some order. I know we're down to the last kitchen roll, last dozen loo rolls, and started the last jar/packet of instant/ground coffee over Christmas.

As part of a massive overhaul of life generally at ours, I need to declutter EVERYTHING, and sort out/digitise our paperwork again. I did it many years ago, when I had a scanner and an ancient PC, but not since. :eek: I'm ashamed of how disorganised I've let things become over the years, but I can see light at the end of the tunnel and am sort of up for the challenge! :rotfl: The littlies return to school next Monday, so I'm going to work through all this prepping stuff methodically, to get back to being a real OS-er, prepper, etc!

A xo