The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

pollyanna_26

I was about to say make it 4 re the freeze dryer but had a look on the big river site and it seems very useful for a prepper and preserves food for many years. Every day really is a school day on the forums.

pollyx

MingVase

Copied from another prepping site:

 "I was having a drink with a local farmer last night and he was telling me that the cost of fertilizer has gone up by 300% this year. Undoubtedly this will have an effect on food production & shelf prices."

tboo

Re the freeze dryer, I assume @houseinafield means a dehydrator.

Unless it is something completely different.

Well I stand corrected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzoHJn1lo_w

It is a machine which rather looks like a tumble dryer

Very American.

Si_Clist

MingVase said:

Copied from another prepping site:

 "I was having a drink with a local farmer last night and he was telling me that the cost of fertilizer has gone up by 300% this year. Undoubtedly this will have an effect on food production & shelf prices."

Indeed - especially when combined with the Canadian, North American and Russian wheat harvests being way down this year, tin and aluminium prices going up, European processors paying lots more for the energy they use, and the transport problems they're having.

It's a good thing that Doris keeps reassuring us that it's all fine and dandy ...

wondercollie

@Si_Clist I meet 20+ people daily at work.   We know where the difficulties will happen before we meet them just by getting their charts ready.

"self-diagnosed" anythings are drama llamas.  You can't self diagnosis Celiac Disease but we see at least two self-diagnosed Celiacs a week.

Allergies, if you have no idea of what happens, we can't put it down as an allergy.   Yes, I know allergies can develop at any stage of life (I wound up developing anaphalaxyis to egg whites and penicillin in my 60s) but having GI upsets on antibiotics isn't an allergy.

We literally cringe inside when we see someone with 14 allergies in their chart, gluten intolerance, and fibromyalgia headed our way.   Especially when they can't remember what the 14 allergies are when we ask them or the allergies don't match what's on record.

Don't even start me on the mid-20s who want their Mum's with them for any and all procedures and then don't know their own health histories because "Mum always knows that stuff".

So report me away for judging because all of the drama llamas judge their health care staff.

prepareathome

CCW007 said:

Discovered a gap in my preps yesterday after getting a rather deep cut in the "web" between thumb and forefinger - steri strips.

Read your post and went 'oh oh' - so checked and yes none in, used last one's months ago and totally forgot to replace them, so on list to be bought this week and because of this going to check everything in first aid kits incase missing anything else, did restock dressing and tape a month or so ago but think I could do with some more plasters as I am forever cutting my fingers.
Now wondering what else I might be missing on the non-food front as admit been concentrating on those mostly this year.

So big thanks CCW007 

Suffolksue

As a retired Practice Nurse I would like th thank that a million timesWonderCollie !!!

thriftwizard

As someone who is quite genuinely allergic to penicillin (and erythromycin) I see the sighs when I say that, then I'm asked very patiently what happens. I tell them that my lips & eyelids puff up, my throat seems to close over & I start wheezing and break out in an itchy rash, then they believe me. But they always say I'm the 20th person to tell them I'm allergic that day but the first who really is, and I end up worrying that one day they won't bother to ask, they'll just assume it's self-diagnosed like the other 19. Scary...

Note to self: find my Medicalert pendant & actually wear it!

greenbee

I was delighted to see that my allergies and adverse reactions are now recorded in the NHS app, so I can show that to people who look sceptical when I way I have an opioid allergy. It has all the adverse reactions from the people who ignored me previously - and the original allergy diagnosis. I don't bother mentioning adhesive (plaster and most tape) unless I'm not going to be able to get home and change the dressing within 30 minutes as it just causes delays. 

MingVase

But wondercollie's point was that it was the self diagnosed who were the problem, not the official ones ..