The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

MadamMim2013

monnagran wrote: »

Gatecrashing to say that the Readers Digest DIY book was always my gift to newly divorced friends. They grew more grateful as time went on and they saved more money by truly being able to Do It themselves.

Thanks Monna (& all who suggested it.. brain fail) I have just located a copy on fleabay for the princely sum of £2.80 with free postage!
I’ve been looking for a book that was actually useful for some time.. whoop :j

Nargleblast

I have just read an interesting book about protecting your personal privacy and security. Hiding in Plain Sight by John Snape. I got it the other day, a free Kindle book. It includes details of scams to be aware of, how to maintain anonymity online, and precautions for home security.

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Wouldn't some kind of sex aid be a better choice, for them to "Do It themselves"?

daz378

hiya people hope you all emerged ok from the festive season... im ok had a temporary front and back denture since yesterday ...slowly adapting regular gargling of salt water....nothing more adventerous than egg or cheese on toast....which should keep me on target at weigh in tomorrow ...mainly supermarket prepping veg and beans etc....you all take care

mardatha

Oh GQ now you mention herbs, I used to be really into herbal medicine and that reminded me I have no idea where my books on it are.. I need to go tunnelling into the big Book Cupboard now with a torch and find them..

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There's a super little book called 'Grow your own Drugs' by James Wong a BBC publication Published by Collins in 2010 ISBN 978 0 00734530 4 it's a modern herbal with how to make medicines in a modern kitchen. Easy explanations and methods, useful ideas including just for Mar Fennel Sugar Mice for flatulence (the sugar mice bit NOT flatulence), things like Elderberry and Ginger Cold and Flu Tonic, St. Johns Wort salve as an antiseptic and anti inflammatory wound healer and many more.

Cappella

I have the JamesWong MrsLW it's excellent. The cough syrups are especially good. I have a huge collection of herbals and am currently reestablishing my herb beds here at the house. Admittedly some of the suggestions in the older ones are a little risky - goose droppings mixed with chopped dill and fennel rubbed on a bald head will cure baldness according to an Anglo Saxon Book of Leechcraft - but many of the herbs are still used in medicine today.
I don't have many Prepping books but I am finding that my books of 1930s and wartime recipes are coming into their own at the moment; low fat and low sugar on the whole and don't gave lists of 27 obscure and exotic ingredients.

Just defrosted and opened the last bottle of the mixed currant cordials I made this year. Lovely with honey and hot water when the dreaded sore throat and cough bugs bite. Will definitely be making more next year

DigForVictory

I pulled & printed several herbals off the Gutenberg Project - as ever do check the likely cost benefit. That you can download to your kindle as well as PC-with-printer is a definite plus for me but the printouts bind and store on a shelf just fine.

Ye gods though, read some aloud! Just to see your patient either howl with laughter or take up sprinting...

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Does anyone posting here actually 'Stockpile'? the accusation that preppers do has been posted on the prepping for Brexit thread and seems to me to be vastly overstating what I see as prepping. I can only assume that the poster who wrote it as a word is basing the assumption on what is seen on the television as prepping norm in the USA. I have one cupboard in a store room with extra supplies in and one small cabinet in a bathroom with meds in does this constitute 'stockpiling'?

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Does anyone posting here actually 'Stockpile'? the accusation that preppers do has been posted on the prepping for Brexit thread and seems to me to be vastly overstating what I see as prepping. I can only assume that the poster who wrote it as a word is basing the assumption on what is seen on the television as prepping norm in the USA. I have one cupboard in a store room with extra supplies in and one small cabinet in a bathroom with meds in does this constitute 'stockpiling'?

Americans in general seem to have much larger homes than we Brits, even when you adjust for comparable income levels, don't they? As well as access to several big box chains which we don't have here, as well as some that are also in the UK.


I have encountered plenty of people who'd regard a couple of 4 packs of baked beans as an excessive stockpile and others who decide what they'll have for supper on a whim when shopping at the local convenience store each day. Obviously, such a diet is likely to combine both low quality and greater expense than cooking from scratch, and having only a teeny-tiny amount of shelf-stable foods leaves one vulnerable in the event of anything preventing one leaving the house. Or, in preventing the groceries reaching the store in the first place.


I think a lot of people have grown accustomed to having whatever they want available, whenever they want it, thanks to whizzy computerised tills relaying that X amount of Y product has been sold in Z store and thus an equivalent number will need to be on tomorrow's delivery lorry. A lot of folk haven't heard of the JIT (Just In Time) business model or don't understand it's ramifications as it may affect them personally.


I've been so very poor that I only had £10 in the whole world, and I have been dependant on benefits as a chronically ill person and have had the dreaded brown envelope. You know, the one which tells you that, effective a date already 5-7 days previous, that the benefit which is your sole source of income has been stopped for some arbitary reason and that these are your options to appeal........... meanwhile you still have to EAT. And wipe your bottom, and wash your clothes and try to interact with the rest of society like a normal person while panicking..... not good.:(



I'm risk-adverse and that's why I do know where my next meal is coming from and could feed myself quite handily from the allotment produce (a tater sack is 18 inches from my desk atm), canned sardines, tuna and corned beef, and fresh allotment and/ or foraged fresh greens.


But each to their own, I guess.