What Preps are you doing this week? Part 6.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Up here Andy everybody seems to drive Subarus, they must be good in ice. Them or land rovers.

Nothing grips on ice bar cars with studded tyres. winter tyres a a little better than normal 4 wheel drives often take longer to stop due to being heavier due to the extra running gear they often get going quicker thus get into trouble

Think the book says 10x longer stopping distance on ice.. for a normal car


Today's prep got a portable gas heater that will actually work when. It gets cold

[Arzosah]

My little radio arrived last night, and spent the night outside, behind the wheelie bin, where I spotted it this morning I'm letting it "dry out" inside the house for the day, no point in rushing.

Decided to do a stocktake upstairs - partly for brexit, partly because I'll need to be emptying the kitchen in April for the renovation (I have such brilliant timing, not) and things have got very untidy, and some stocks are a bit low - I think I'll summarise that by saying "complacency". Halfway done now, anyway. Some of the dried beans and lentils are a bit out of date - I'm very tempted to have a couple of weeks of having them for breakfast, to use up old stock and replace with better dates.

[jansman]

Today I shall split enough firewood for the week,as usual,and then clean and fettle all the animals.I am in the process of buliding some more breeding hutches for the rabbits.I have a lucrative deal for next Winter to supply rabbit meat,so am getting organised for that.

I have updated our first aid kits,since completing my workplace course.That course was probably the best prep ever to be frank.

Tomorrow I was going to fish,but the weather does not look good,so I will do some home brewing and a bit of Brexit shopping instead.

[jennyjj01]

OMG. Kenco Smooth 200g just went from £4 to £6.29 - £6.49 at both Tesco and ASDA. >50% increase overnight. And so it begins !?!

All good things come to an end and I'd been waiting for that offer to implode, but it seems to be ending on multiple outlets in rapid succession.
Time to stock up before Morrisons end their promo on 19th Feb. I wonder if they'll comment at my 20 jars max?... Plus a couple of trays of tinned tomatoes.

I suspect I might look like some sort of loony panic buyer hmmmmm. cover story: Stocking up for the coffee club at Dominoes? I'll get some funny looks bringing 20 Jars into the house, but who would dare challenge me for saving 50 quid on one of our regular staple buys.

Then over to Tesco where they have ChickPeas on 2 (kg) for £3.50: Best price per Kg that I've found. Full trolley, I guess with my new best friend.

Meanwhile, my SO got cross when a load of pasta fell out of the over-full kitchen cabinet, so it came to pass that we agreed to bung some stuff, such as coffee, in the 'overflow pantry' AKA the loft. I also got caught splitting up and vac-packing a big bag of dried onion. That'll go to the loft too.

What with my recent cooking 'speriments, I just mumbled something about brexit and a new fad diet and just got a few bemused shrugs. Coming out in phases

[Arzosah]

I've just been sorting my first aid and medical supplies, over the last couple of years they've got v v disorganised. They take up slightly more space now but because I moved a couple of rolls of plastic bags to the household set, its still in the same crates: 2 x 24 litre, and 1 x 32 litre. No cupboards for me

[hobo]

OMG. Kenco Smooth 200g just went from £4 to £6.29 - £6.49 at both Tesco and ASDA. >50% increase overnight. And so it begins !?!

Still £4 in Sainsburys....

[jennyjj01]

OMG. Kenco Smooth 200g just went from £4 to £6.29 - £6.49 at both Tesco and ASDA. >50% increase overnight. And so it begins !?!

Still £4 in Sainsburys....

I just lurched out to the local Sainsburys and ASDA before they shut at 4pm. The Sainsburys is a smaller store and they don't stock it. Hell their prices for everything are hellishly expensive. ASDA still had a few eco-refills at £3 for 150g. I emptied that shelf, though I do like to get and re-use the 200g jars. Maybe I'm just overthinking the ebb and flow of Kenco price, but this is the first time since 2016 that I've seen it at a non-reduced price.

[diamond lil]

I use Sainsburys and noticed today in the delivery that things are really going up. I don't tend to notice prices unless they really jump, and today they jumped

[jennyjj01]

I use Sainsburys and noticed today in the delivery that things are really going up. I don't tend to notice prices unless they really jump, and today they jumped

I use ASDA and Tesco a lot and some of the recent price changes there are awful. Especially the cessation of ASDA Rollbacks (eg 900g NIDO powdered milk leapt £5.50 to £6.99)
Also, some products just seem to be getting de-stocked (Whitworths and Great Scott Dried veg)
Lidl are even stopping selling staple products such as frozen carrots!!!!
In the case of LIDL and Tesco, I'm seeing more empty or nearly empty shelves. Fresh Veg prices such as onions, bell peppers, carrots just seem to be going up every visit. and not by small percentages. Bags of 3 onions or 3 Bell Peppers have shot up in price AND the onions and peppers have gone tiny.

[diamond lil]

I used to like Whitworth's dried veg, had a lot of that in the cupboard but ate it all now.