What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[diamond lil]

Stocking up on coffee beans, price gone up again

[jansman]

Stocking up on coffee beans, price gone up again

Everything is going up. Talking to one of our wholesale merchants on Thursday. He said that the average increase for foodstuffs is 18+ %. It is what it is now. We are just making sure that gaps on shelves are kept stocked up at home. You don’t know what is round the corner.

My workplace is ,locally ,a popular butcher shop/ restaurant / and bakery. Business has plummeted! We are now conserving energy,and stock levels are bare minimum. I wouldn’t be surprised to get redundancy in the near future. All the more reason to keep food/ consumables stocked.

On a lighter note,we have apples and pears aplenty from our mini orchard. Dried Borlotti and French beans too. The Scotch kale is superb. I won’t be growing that next year ,as my perennial Taunton Deane kales are now well established- so that’s a job less! The same with the Welsh and Egyptian onions. The fowls are laying well,so there are a few eggs to pickle ,along with beetroot too. I have three litters of rabbits,and when ready,they are all sold.

So life is a bit grim / but happy at the same time. So this week ,we shall try to avoid news as much as possible,and be positive and prepping as much as possible.

[Frnc]

One good thing about having a reasonable amount of food stocked up is that you can wait for offers to come up. For instance I generally only buy Quorn products (which I eat about 4 times a week) if they are reduced. Sometimes none are on offer, other times there might be 2 or 3 I want on offfer, and the only thing that limits me is space in the freezer. I only have 2 drawers at the bottom of the fridge freezer (lodgers have the other 2). But I can get a few weeks food in there. Currently I'm trying to use up what I've got so it doesn't get too old. When I see some offers I'll stock up again.

Toilet roll I buy in boxes of 48 rolls, no plastic, recycled. Just about to open a box so I have several months. They have gone up from £36 to £44 since I bought these. They are on a regular order, they just send me an email a few days before. These are from Whogivesacrap. Some of the money goes to help people who don't have clean water and sanitation.

[Nurseandy]

After the mini flood in the kitchen due to prolonged torrential rain I've assembled a simple flood kit comprising of floodsock, pump & bucket. Positioned next to a different door to the one that flooded so we don't have to open it to get the flood sock in place.
Long term (but before winter) plan is to fit a drain gulley to prevent it ever happening again anyway.

[izzy_mack]

So life is a bit grim / but happy at the same time. So this week ,we shall try to avoid news as much as possible,and be positive and prepping as much as possible.

Pretty much how I feel at the moment too.
Son coming to sweep my chimney today. Planning to move some rasp canes thus expanding my rasps for next year. probably be making more plum jam. One tree is so laden the branches are trailing the ground and the other has a small handful of plums ?? Splitting some logs ( can only do a small amount at a time so it really needs to be a daily job to catch up). If I have any energy left at all I'm hoping to do a big bake and freeze most of it as it will cost more to have the oven on next month.

[diamond lil]

I wanted to get toilet rolls now because they will go up in price soon - but in this place we have no room to store them. Absolutely nowhere, so I hope we get a move soon. To a house with a decent garden and then next year I can get moving with veg.

[Le Mouse]

I've been generally topping off supplies recently. Not too much though due to lack of money and like Lil, lack of space. I think today, I'll have a bit of a tidy up of my pantry and under sofa storage and see if there are any glaring gaps which will need filling in when I next get paid.

Tomorrow and Tuesday I'm doing my First Aid at Work requalification.

[GillyBee]

Like everyone else I get the feeling that my food and other stores will be needed this winter and am topping off where I can. Dried onion flakes in bulk and gluten free rolled oats and oat flour are on order. I topped up the coffee bean stock a couple of weeks ago when I realised my supplier still had them at the old price. Other stuff is sittting on delivery pending supplies so I hope it eventually turns up.

Had a right shock in Sainsbo's yesterday when I saw that our favourite yoghurt had jumped from £1.60 to £2.45 in one week! I hope it isn't a sign of things to come for everything else. Other regular purchases were simply missing with no shelf space now allocated to them. Has anyone else been noticing the same thing?

[Frnc]

Like everyone else I get the feeling that my food and other stores will be needed this winter and am topping off where I can. Dried onion flakes in bulk and gluten free rolled oats and oat flour are on order. I topped up the coffee bean stock a couple of weeks ago when I realised my supplier still had them at the old price. Other stuff is sittting on delivery pending supplies so I hope it eventually turns up.

Had a right shock in Sainsbo's yesterday when I saw that our favourite yoghurt had jumped from £1.60 to £2.45 in one week! I hope it isn't a sign of things to come for everything else. Other regular purchases were simply missing with no shelf space now allocated to them. Has anyone else been noticing the same thing?

Yeah, lots of things keep going up. I tend to only buy stuff that's on offer or go to where is cheapest for certain things. I just went to Ali, got a few bits. They had no washing up goves in and my hands are sore. Will get my whisky from Tesco next week, other stuff from Sainsbury's. I have to factor in a kidney stone diet, which is hard enough without factoring in cost as well. Cooking tomight using the thermos flask method. I get 3 meals from 1 jar of pasta bake sauce. I do the pasta 10 mins in the flask, drain, add sauce and cheese, 8 minutes in the mini-oven.

[GillyBee]

. I have to factor in a kidney stone diet, which is hard enough without factoring in cost as well.

I feel your pain with the special diets! It is one reason I tend to bulk buy. We are all on a very strictly gluten free diet but also corn/maize/xanthan gum/glucose syrup free and chicken/egg cause problems.
It leaves me with a lot of ingredient reading and a tendency to panic when a known safe item either gets a recipe change or disappears from the shelves. If it comes to rationing I don't know what we would eat as I imagine that if things get bad I could imagine conversations like this.

"Oh you're confirmed coeliac? Fine. Here is your GF pasta ration."
"But it has maize in it."
"What do you mean you can't eat maize? Maize is safe for coeliacs so stop fussing and take your ration or do without."