The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

thriftwizard

Still keeping an eye out & a certain amount of non-perishable food & other supplies (regularly rotated, naturally) in in case of potential problems here! You never know...

herbily

Prepping for job loss - where I work, we've all been told that our organisation will close at the end of the year, and from September will require fewer people as it goes into a closedown phase. May need stores to get through a prolonged period of economic uncertainty, and pretty sure I won't be the only one...

euronorris

Si_Clist said:

Nargleblast said:

There's always room for Prepping ...

Well, it's 34 years now since the hurricane prompted us to start prepping ...

4/5 year old me slept through it! As did my dad. Still amazes my mum, who had to comfort her 4 other children through it lol

Still here, and still prep, just don't have much to add at the moment.

Got another too good to go box from morries yesterday which was fab again. Bread, eggs, potatoes, various fruit and veg. If I had bought at full value it would have been over £18! So a big saving at £3.09. So anyone prepping for economic uncertainty, its def worth it!

Karmacat

euronorris said:

Si_Clist said:

Nargleblast said:

There's always room for Prepping ...

Well, it's 34 years now since the hurricane prompted us to start prepping ...

4/5 year old me slept through it! As did my dad. Still amazes my mum, who had to comfort her 4 other children through it lol

Still here, and still prep, just don't have much to add at the moment.

Exactly.  And by the way, I slept through the hurricane too it was my second to last day at a temping job, no electricity when I woke, no buses, I had to walk to the other side of the city to get to my job ... very thankful that my house, which I'd bought at the beginning of that very month, suffered no damage whatsoever, though there were hundreds of trees blown over all around me.

I'm re-reading an old BBC favourite, about Harry Dodson and a Victorian kitchen garden, anybody else read it?  Plus a book by a guy called Stephen Bunner, on Herbal Antivirals, only just started that.

daz378

Yes i think  prepping  is a state of mind...though in my case   it  ebbs and flows a few years ago  i was   maintaining my stocks    residual/ default prepping   then  your antenna twitches  and you go into active prepping...im using my covid cupboard , so i can fill it back up....on sick at the moment  bit of fatigue from 2nd jab...but my eyes have been stinging for a few weeks    optician suggested heated masks...tried them   but fiddly to get right burning eyeballs ...so i used eyemist instead...wrong  so now ive gone back to perfecting my technique on eye masks...twice a day  if doesnt improve    at least can say tried that  ....stay safe

MingVase

KC I have that book, the Victorian Kitchen Garden, love it.

MingVase

DAZ have you tried anti-histamine? Might be an allergy.

Karmacat

MingVase said:

KC I have that book, the Victorian Kitchen Garden, love it.

That's the one!  I love the detail, and the efforts at renewal, and ... everything about it, really  

MingVase

I love the total self-sufficiency. How they could grow anything they needed for the table!

Karmacat

Absolutely - if it were a case of sheer survival, those walled kitchen gardens could provide a lot of basic food, but as they were then, they provided the most incredible delicacies, including a few pineapples