What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

[jansman]

Sorting the walk - in pantry day today. Won’t take long,but tastes have changed ( my wife ) so there is stuff we won’t use,so I’ll make up two bags - ish and pass them to daughters. Good use and family help. The main rejection by Mrs J is rice. She will eat a little ,say with a curry, but prefers naan bread. And has fallen out with rice. It’s one thing,along with pasta ( which we DO use a lot of)we stored for emergency feeding, but there is too much. Like 6 gallons of it.

At the moment, I am looking for information on YouTube. Firstly,and done,a repair to my upvc front door. Simple job,and cost is 3 quid! The other was a wood splitting’drill’ ,like a drill head ,cone - shaped. Looking at the half a dozen tracks, the product is cr* p! The comments add that too. The pictures you see in the adverts are just that, adverts! That’s saved me a valuable tenner! Son in law says he’ll deal with it anyway. so anything I need to do, I’ll check an easier way.

[Sneddle]

My new saw bit (is it called a "bit" on a saw?) arrived today, for cutting through pallets with. Now I have no excuse to not get out and build some raised veg beds. The garden can be very productive as is, but having that production raised up a couple of feet will make everything better.

A new year also means I have a new sense of energy and motion, too. The stock room, as I grandiosely call my room full of prepping stuff, needs a going through and sorting and categorising. I know roughly where everything is, but I want to know exactly what I've got and how much of it I have. I got a couple of 10kg bags of fusili pasta for £3 each from a local ethnic shop (past its best before date when I bought it, but it'll be past it by the time I eat it anyway), but I want to work out how many meals/calories that is. Stuff like that. I know I'll just keep buying stuff and end up with too much of one thing and not enough of another. Feeling a bit more with it and energised right now will make that job a lot easier.

[Frnc]

My new saw bit (is it called a "bit" on a saw?) arrived today, for cutting through pallets with. Now I have no excuse to not get out and build some raised veg beds. The garden can be very productive as is, but having that production raised up a couple of feet will make everything better.

A new year also means I have a new sense of energy and motion, too. The stock room, as I grandiosely call my room full of prepping stuff, needs a going through and sorting and categorising. I know roughly where everything is, but I want to know exactly what I've got and how much of it I have. I got a couple of 10kg bags of fusili pasta for £3 each from a local ethnic shop (past its best before date when I bought it, but it'll be past it by the time I eat it anyway), but I want to work out how many meals/calories that is. Stuff like that. I know I'll just keep buying stuff and end up with too much of one thing and not enough of another. Feeling a bit more with it and energised right now will make that job a lot easier.

Blade.
250 x 80g = 20kg

[jennyjj01]

I got a couple of 10kg bags of fusili pasta for £3 each from a local ethnic shop (past its best before date when I bought it, but it'll be past it by the time I eat it anyway), but I want to work out how many meals/calories that is. Stuff like that. I know I'll just keep buying stuff and end up with too much of one thing and not enough of another. Feeling a bit more with it and energised right now will make that job a lot easier.

In one of my stockpile lists, I estimate 85g to a portion at 288 kCalories. So your 20kg will be about 240 portions

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Maybe my list will help remind you of proportions to buy. Mind you that list is a bit out of date.

Worth noting , from there, the Calorific value of dried rice, because the packet never tells you properly. They always seem to quote it from cooked serving, which is heavier.

[Rusty74]

stocked up on extra veg seeds for this years growing from home bargins,only 49p a packet instead of 99p,plan on trying to grow some pak choi/chinese cabbage,as iv never grown this before so fingers crossed

[Arzosah]

Just had a very short power cut here, 5 minutes or so literally. First thing I did when I got myself together was look out of the window, to see if it was just me (it wasn't) and within that minute, I saw someone with quite a powerful torch walking along. There are definitely more preppers out there than you might think

[Yorkshire Andy]

Just had a very short power cut here, 5 minutes or so literally. First thing I did when I got myself together was look out of the window, to see if it was just me (it wasn't) and within that minute, I saw someone with quite a powerful torch walking along. There are definitely more preppers out there than you might think

Years back guessing 15 years ago I imported some at the time very bright torches via china .. my dad still uses his regularly .. well we went glamping with the kids and my newer brighter torch made him very envious ... It's his birthday tomorrow trustfire mc5 size of a chunky marker but like the sun

[jennyjj01]

stocked up on extra veg seeds for this years growing from home bargins,only 49p a packet instead of 99p,plan on trying to grow some pak choi/chinese cabbage,as iv never grown this before so fingers crossed

49p? From where?

[Rusty74]

stocked up on extra veg seeds for this years growing from home bargins,only 49p a packet instead of 99p,plan on trying to grow some pak choi/chinese cabbage,as iv never grown this before so fingers crossed

49p? From where?

home bargins

[jennyjj01]

stocked up on extra veg seeds for this years growing from home bargins,only 49p a packet instead of 99p,plan on trying to grow some pak choi/chinese cabbage,as iv never grown this before so fingers crossed

49p? From where?

home bargins

Thanks. I'll pop in.Is it just a few select greens or a good range at that price?