With the savings I'm eyeing Terrys mint chocolate oranges, just eyeing mind you the Diabetes Nurse would be none to pleased....diamond lil wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 12:45 pm I'm sorry but if they don't do desserts then I'm not doing them atall.
What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Wet and fresh when car camping, the dehydrated when I'm lugging it on my back
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Nothing very exciting going on chez Ara although I did go through the pantry shelves yesterday checking the dates on various foodstuffs. Most things well in date except for some crackers only Mr A eats so I reminded him about them. He complained the other day that there's a low stool stored in the pantry. Well, some of us stopped growing at 14 so need the extra height to reach the top shelf (and even then I can only reach the front of it). He has now moved it as it was in the way of his alcohol preps!
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Just done the dreaded ‘tin sort’ in the cupboard under the stairs. It’s dark, dry and cool but an absolute pain in the neck to sort everything as it’s at a slightly back-breaking angle! Anyway it had to be done as I’d done a couple of shops recently where I’d been putting off stacking new tins at the back and had some carrier bags full of various new tins that had just been dumped in the garage. All sorted now but Mr mcprepper commented that we have a LOT of tinned butterbeans and peaches so WTSHTF it’s butterbean and peach curry for us! So good to feel organised again … 
“Rotation, rotation, rotation”
You never get a disappointed pessimist.
You never get a disappointed pessimist.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Finally bit the bullet and bought a British Berkefeld 8.5l filter for emergency use and camping. The way our water supplies are going along with Tobias Ellwood's comments, I just hope we dont find ourselves needing it for every day.
Fleabay had the 4 filter version being sold by Berkefeld themselves for less than the cost of the 2 filter one anywhere else. Now I just need a couple of blanking grommets so I can choose how many filters to use.
Fleabay had the 4 filter version being sold by Berkefeld themselves for less than the cost of the 2 filter one anywhere else. Now I just need a couple of blanking grommets so I can choose how many filters to use.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Bargain.GillyBee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 6:19 pm Finally bit the bullet and bought a British Berkefeld 8.5l filter for emergency use and camping. The way our water supplies are going along with Tobias Ellwood's comments, I just hope we dont find ourselves needing it for every day.
Fleabay had the 4 filter version being sold by Berkefeld themselves for less than the cost of the 2 filter one anywhere else. Now I just need a couple of blanking grommets so I can choose how many filters to use.
My 6 litre one with 2 filters and 2 spares is sitting in the cupboard just in case,
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
I made a Berkefeld type filter based on two 10l buckets and a large ceramic filter. I have a spare filter as well. In conjunction with first chlorinating (or maybe boiling if there's enough fuel) the water, it should work well. I've found that a good way to prepare slightly cloudy water in small quantities is to fill one or more 2l Coke - style bottles, as they're tall, and let the sediment settle. Even fresh rainwater brings down some dust from the air. This will minimise clogging of the ceramic filter.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Did my summer rotation early, seeing as it's so hot. Checked the forecast for the next few weeks. I put some winter clothes away, and got some summer ones out. Moved a few bugout related things around. So for example, the main bugout bag now has a summer 'Just Cool' teeshirt, sunscreen, and sunhat. Emergency base layer bag has summer hiking socks. Longjohns went into the INCH bag. The prep room is not just a prep room, it's like a big walk in wardrobe. So the clothes rail has bugout items plus cycling clothes plus stuff I wear daily, so short sleeved t-shirts are back on that. Winter base layer tops gone. In fact the wardrobe in my bedroom mainly has things I'm not likely to wear, eg the winter base layer tops.
Found a pair of walking shoes I've only worn once, under the book case in the living room. One was very mouldy. Surprising. A reminder to check through stuff you have in long term storage now and then. I binned them anyway. Maybe they'd got slightly damp and I put them under there too soon.
Found a pair of walking shoes I've only worn once, under the book case in the living room. One was very mouldy. Surprising. A reminder to check through stuff you have in long term storage now and then. I binned them anyway. Maybe they'd got slightly damp and I put them under there too soon.