What Preps are you doing this week
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Got a good deal on popcorn and black eyed peas at the local indian supermarket, but unfortunately they were out of coconut oil.
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Resident and Co-Ordinator of AREA 2
Area 2 = Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks
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Sheepster
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Started harvesting kale last night, Going to buy a vaccuum sealer and freeze loads more of our veg this year for long term storage as well as the usual jam/chutney etc.
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At last we are now debt free managed to pay my loan off 2 years early a good prep me thinks, one or two things to organise and I can start to add to food and equipment stores.
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Well done! It is a good feeling to be a 'free' person.arnieh wrote:At last we are now debt free managed to pay my loan off 2 years early a good prep me thinks, one or two things to organise and I can start to add to food and equipment stores.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
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It's taken a long time jansman, but as you say it is a very good feeling to be free of the grasping banks, lets hope that life will leave us alone now so we can get on and prep as we want to. Like a great many people I do not trust the money institutions though I have had to turn to them in the past.jansman wrote:Well done! It is a good feeling to be a 'free' person.arnieh wrote:At last we are now debt free managed to pay my loan off 2 years early a good prep me thinks, one or two things to organise and I can start to add to food and equipment stores.
arnieh
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arnieh, you are right about life leaving you alone. The money you were repaying is now yours. Turn that into reserves( cash or goods) and you will soon have a healthy surplus. This will put you in front when the next life-event appears!
We became debt-free in March of last year. That money was stashed and we schemed and plotted and made it work for us. When our income crashed earlier this year, all that cash/resource stash kicked in. Great feeling, I can tell you. Now I am earning again (what I was making ten years ago) we continue to stockpile and such. This is helping my Daughter and Son in Law too. He is struggling to find work, so we can help with all sorts, which keeps the roof over their heads. In fact, they have just been up to my holding to do some 'shopping' in the polytunnel!
We became debt-free in March of last year. That money was stashed and we schemed and plotted and made it work for us. When our income crashed earlier this year, all that cash/resource stash kicked in. Great feeling, I can tell you. Now I am earning again (what I was making ten years ago) we continue to stockpile and such. This is helping my Daughter and Son in Law too. He is struggling to find work, so we can help with all sorts, which keeps the roof over their heads. In fact, they have just been up to my holding to do some 'shopping' in the polytunnel!
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
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moocher
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Went to carboot sale this morning and bought a set of webbing for £10,looks like plce style ,so for tenner I'm chuffed To bits,
Last week was a firemans axe and a walking stick with knob handle for a tenner.
Last week was a firemans axe and a walking stick with knob handle for a tenner.
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Continuing "practicing" making nut milk. Our pumpkin growing is fantastic this year and already there are three fruits that are starting to grow out of one of the 11 plants. the leaves are taller then previous years and they look fantastic.
I am planning on experimenting with other seeds and nuts for the nut milk so that I can possibly make pumpkin seed milk. My next big online purchase will probably be a yogurt maker so that I can learn how to turn my nut and seed "milks" into something more substantial and filling.
My theory is that this will not only provide me with a food that is allergy diet and candida diet acceptable (hemp milk is allegedly free of allergens... now I got to find a way of growing hemp to seed.... erm.... hmmm....) but also something that is low cost and filling.
I have very few afters in my meals apart from fruit that I shouldn't have too much of anyway thanks to the yeast problem (however, some home dehydrated apples on my gluten free porridge or cereal can be scrumptious!) and maybe yogurt will do the job and help my dodgy gut flora and fauna.
Not necessarily an off grid thing, unless you are using an inverter, but definitely a way of keeping me sane and healthy in mind and body through dietary control.
I am planning on experimenting with other seeds and nuts for the nut milk so that I can possibly make pumpkin seed milk. My next big online purchase will probably be a yogurt maker so that I can learn how to turn my nut and seed "milks" into something more substantial and filling.
My theory is that this will not only provide me with a food that is allergy diet and candida diet acceptable (hemp milk is allegedly free of allergens... now I got to find a way of growing hemp to seed.... erm.... hmmm....) but also something that is low cost and filling.
I have very few afters in my meals apart from fruit that I shouldn't have too much of anyway thanks to the yeast problem (however, some home dehydrated apples on my gluten free porridge or cereal can be scrumptious!) and maybe yogurt will do the job and help my dodgy gut flora and fauna.
Not necessarily an off grid thing, unless you are using an inverter, but definitely a way of keeping me sane and healthy in mind and body through dietary control.
reperio a solutio
Resident and Co-Ordinator of AREA 2
Area 2 = Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks
Resident and Co-Ordinator of AREA 2
Area 2 = Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks
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Le Mouse
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My aunt and her partner have been clearing out their loft, so this week I took possession of my Nan's old hand cranked sewing machine and a John Seymour book called 'Forgotten Household Crafts'. 
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This week or so I've signed up to a wholesale warehouse called Bookers. Easy to do as I'm self employed as they like to deal with traders.
Also I've aquired several 1 gallon food grade water containers for nowt. They were used to hold the concentrate for slushy drinks and the stall holder was skipping them so I soon had my mits on them.
Also I've aquired several 1 gallon food grade water containers for nowt. They were used to hold the concentrate for slushy drinks and the stall holder was skipping them so I soon had my mits on them.