What preps are you doing this week? part 2.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Mid way through I was joined by a off duty nurse who gave assistance too by the time the rapid response ambulance car came he was conscious and reasonably happy to see the nurse was a blonde bomb shell

[Yorkshire Andy]

Oh I put my winter car bag in the boot yesterday 4 season sleeping bag and a full change if clothes incl thermals and underwear gloves, hat, mini stove car 12v kettle 24 hr MRE kit extra torch battery radio mess tin UCO candle lantern extra tea lights bivvie bag and tarp . waterproofs et all

[Decaff]

Today I bought more bread mixes, duck fat in jars, tinned beef in gravy, big soups chicken & chorizo, tinned pate, Beecham's powders capsules, truvia sweeteners, microporous tape rolls and took delivery of 5kg soap powder from a Groupon deal.

[ForgeCorvus]

Decaff: Don't forget that duck fat (and other 'seasonal' goodies) will be Yellow Labled in about three weeks, make sure you've got some brass left to do a shelf-sweep

[Yorkshire Andy]

Put my lidl shelving up today in the store room ... wish the bloody germans knew how to use a deburring tool as after i finished i needed a couple of sterristrips

they might be rated at 50kg UDL per shelf but i wouldnt fancy loading that amount onto them.....


need to have a big sort out of my preps and stack them properly and safely and in some sort of order and keep cleaning chemicals away from food stuffs et all

[CynicalSurvival]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd post since I haven't been on in ages. Been busy with work etc!

In prepping terms I got a lot done around the time I first joined up - medical supplies expanded and updated, car loaded up with emergency kit, finances sorted, researched BOLs and got some outdoors kit too (with 2 primary school kids, though, it is highly unlikely that hitting the hills in a tent is gonna be my first choice SHTF option!). Did some reading too and invested in some good books including foraging info and fishing.

Since then I haven't done much tbh. The one thing I have kept working at is my physical fitness. I'm 39 and was starting to put on a bit of weight, but have been managing to kit the gym twice a week at work even though I am crazily busy. I figure that I am gonna want to have all the strength and endurance that I can.

As for food prepping, it is pretty poor really...we are on a tight food budget and try as I might, we always seem to run low. The one positive is that we have built up a bit of a stock of cheap carbs e.g. rice, pasta, lentils... not months worth mind, but enough to last us through a shorter emergency (I've always been of the opinion anyway that a way to forage or grow food is, long-term, a much smarter thing to focus on that just filling the cupboards...contraversial perhaps )

[Decaff]

Decaff: Don't forget that duck fat (and other 'seasonal' goodies) will be Yellow Labled in about three weeks, make sure you've got some brass left to do a shelf-sweep

Ooh yes I'm ready for that too!! Can't have enough pure fat stored and it has a 2 year shelf life on it too I'm just getting a couple every time I pop out as I've never seen any left after the madness has passed!

[FEISTY]

Can't seem to "quote" at the moment, so re shelving, very impressed with Big Dug shelving - holds hundreds of kilos per shelf and it does do the job (we got the all-metal version). Heavy 5 gallon buckets of things like salt or lentils are no problem at all. We got two sets of deep shelving and I'm still filling them - they hold A LOT. Decaff: I've started buying duck fat in jars too - saw them in Home Bargains and was sceptical, because I'd only ever used goose fat, but duck fat is just fine and I love that relatively long shelf life! Corded 'phone is now in use in the bedroom - no-one needs to know it's actually a semi-SHTF prep. Still have good quality walkie-talkies from when the kids were younger, but going to be looking into radio THIS YEAR! Determined an' all ! Also bought a weather proof map of this entire area, partly for walking come the better weather, but it's still a prep . The detail is really small, but it gives a good overview. Will print out each area in turn from the computer in a bigger format as well. Also want to know where the public 'phone boxes are - anyone know if there's an on-line resource for that?

[Decaff]

. Decaff: I've started buying duck fat in jars too - saw them in Home Bargains and was sceptical, because I'd only ever used goose fat, but duck fat is just fine and I love that relatively long shelf life!

I couldn't find any in HB but I know sainsbos sells goose fat as well as duck in jars too, I prefer the taste of duck to goose but will certainly stock up on either one when price is reduced. Yup, ingredients are listed as "100% duck fat" nothing added which is great. And it doesn't have to be stored in the fridge which is even better!

[Arzosah]

Also want to know where the public 'phone boxes are - anyone know if there's an on-line resource for that?

I've been doing some research on that myself - there's no national information out there at all There's the odd enthusiast collecting numbers, or private companies that will charge you a couple of hundred pounds to list the payphones in one town but in general its really bad. All I've done is collect phone numbers local to the people I want to contact, when I go see them. I've been writing about it in my new blog too (in my sig).