The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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boazu said:

 It's not fortune that's put us where we are it's our jointly made decisions and priorities throughout life and being prepared to live a very different lifestyle to many of our peers.  We don't and never have had debt that's a choice, we've always been content with a quiet life and have never wanted the glitz and high life and we've always been prepared to roll our sleeves up to do the physical work it's something we both enjoyed (and still both do) and that's a choice too that many people don't want and that's their choice. Luck plays no part in where we are today.

Good on you. My parents retired early thanks to my mothers facility with money and being to stretch it back and fore like knicker elastic. Shame I don't quite have her facility. However, she taught us, indirectly,how to do things, we went to Italy every summer when we were young and we had holidays with family, which if anyone does this regualarly, will know it's not a holiday at all, just life in a different place with the same responsibilities of cooking, cleaning etc. But we learned how to kill chickens, how to make bottled anything, although I draw the line at carp, can't stand it and just basically how to live without constant supermarket visits. There was also foraging for those with good memories, a national past time in Italy and the somewhat underhanded liverating of corn for the rabbits and chickens from the side of a field. Looking back it was lovely and I'm glad I learned things.

Serendipitious

Floss said:

@mothernerd could you keep your antibac wipes in your room & take them in & out of the bathroom with you?

I'd be keeping them in my sponge bag too if it was me.

When I lived in my previous place, I always had a 2 litre bottle of water by the bed in case of illness, as family then lived 50+ miles away so any help would have been a long time coming.

Serendipitious

Boazu I wish I had read your posts 20 years ago, it sounds lovely.

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It's muddy M'dear, it contains huge amounts of compost, manure, sweat and cut fingers when I do the chopping up but on the other side it contains jams and jellies, chutneys and pickles that I've known from seeds in a packet, it contains lovely home made cider, it contains sometimes altogether too many courgettes, runner beans and butternut squash but it's fun and rewarding and when the grandpickles are involved eating ripe fruit straight from the bushes on the plot it's heaven! We wouldn't swap what we've got and had for anything you could offer us, both a bit alternative y'see!

VJsmum

It wasn't an attack, boazu - merely commenting that others are not so fortunate.  

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I've just had a success in the cultivation stakes, I'd soaked some marrowfat peas the other day for soup and had too many for the recipe and sowed the surplus in some pots of compost on the windowsill in the garden room and this morning they've all germinated and put out beautiful little rootlets.  According to instruction in 3 weeks time if I look after them properly we ought to have a small field of pea shoots to supplement our salads, fabulously easy, just a 24 hour soak, 2 - 3 inches of compost in a pot sow the peas thickly (very thickly) cover up with some more compost and keep them dampened but not awash...place in warm light room and harvest when big enough...what's not to like?

pollyanna_26

VJ Good food for bad days was on Jacks Bootstrap cook blog. She brought out a low price papaerback. I bought a copy for dd who likes some quick and easy things to make on the low energy days. There's a good forward by Matt Haig and lots of advice from Jack.

Dd found a number of the recipies overcomplicated and could think of easier ways of doing something similar when energy was low and brain foggy.

The idea was good and some people will have found it helpful if they were new to poor health. TBH there were only a few things that she enjoyed.

The Carrot Cake Overnight Oats fromTin Can Cook was quite popular as it was quick and easy. Jack gave some good advice but the back story of Jacks life featured in Good Food for Bad Days in among the tips. That probably wouldn't affect many people but dd and others found it quite triggering as it brought up memories of things they'd needed to overcome to move forward..

Probably best for those interested to look at the recipies on the blog. We'd bought all Jacks previous books but that one was a bad choice. The reviews were very mixed unlike the previous books.

pollyx

MingVase

Hoping all those under the amber warning for heavy snow are safely indoors tonight - they are saying it's going to be lethal outside tomorrow as we had freezing rain earlier on and now fresh snow on top. Take care!

pollyanna_26

MingVase said:

Hoping all those under the amber warning for heavy snow are safely indoors tonight - they are saying it's going to be lethal outside tomorrow as we had freezing rain earlier on and now fresh snow on top. Take care!

Is all well with you and yours Mar. I will catch up in a couple of days. Everything is flaring with both of us and it's meds day tomorrow. Got an urgent have you any wool email from dd . I've spent ages today digging out all the yarn I can find to take with me tomorrow.

I've filled a very large bag. Good job the neighbours are used to the weird things I carry in and out. DD is thinkng of makng a shawl or throw. It may resemble a coat of many colours when she's finished. . Just sleet forecast for us but possible ice. I'll be treading carefully. Enjoy watching the snow nice and warm indoors.

I'm turning into a wimp.

pollyxx

mothernerd

Thank you for all your help. My 'toiletries bag ' is going to be my small rucksack (been meaning to sort it out for a while in case we ever have to do a hospital dash) so will have room for wipes and one week's pills (having another week's pills in the handbag and the rest in the drawer). I have got a blood test appointment for me (next Thursday) and hoping to get mum in tomorrow (if our doctor will stamp urgent on her form) and get someone to help her through the infirmary if I am not allowed in. My new phone has arrived and I did all the setting up myself. I went for a walk before it got dark, have walked all round the stadium but not found any signs but one of the staff pointed me in roughly the right direction (was too late to go any further and my glasses were steaming up - will wear best mask tomorrow and Friday), the phone directions were wrong.