I'm New here - started to Prep a little.

[Secretpreps]

Hi All,

Just posting an introductory post as i have just joined the forum.

I am new to prepping in the sense of actually doing it however i have been in and around the community for many years, several decades.. I spend most of my time camping/bushcrafting/hiking etc as these are my passions.
As you all would know, as of recent many countries including ours has actually been requesting that we all start to be a bit more prepared for all sorts of problems and released 72hr emergency list etc. Due to this as well as my own observations from what has been going on, I decided to get started..

I have started to piece together various means of cooking, heating and lighting outside of my camping gear.

I live in a city - highly populated and built up area.

My goal: my goal is to stock 2 weeks of food and water as well as other baby hygiene requirements. To acompany this i am working on 2-3 weeks worth of cooking capabilities, lighting, and heating.

Where I havent started: Stored power and generating that power.

[Zoidberg]

Hello and welcome.

Three weeks is a sensible target in my opinion. 72 hours seems pointless. Most people have more than that that in their cupboards already anyway. I mean a standard weekly weekend shop to the supermarket is 7 days worth of food.

Personally I just have a few extra weeks worth of tins of what I eat regularly anyway. Then I rotate the stock by always eating the oldest tins first so it stays in date.

[pseudonym]

Hello and welcome to the Forum.

[Secretpreps]

Hello and welcome.

Three weeks is a sensible target in my opinion. 72 hours seems pointless. Most people have more than that that in their cupboards already anyway. I mean a standard weekly weekend shop to the supermarket is 7 days worth of food.

Personally I just have a few extra weeks worth of tins of what I eat regularly anyway. Then I rotate the stock by always eating the oldest tins first so it stays in date.

This is exactly what ive been saying to people - most people have more food than they realise!

[Yorkshire Andy]

Hello and welcome.

Three weeks is a sensible target in my opinion. 72 hours seems pointless. Most people have more than that that in their cupboards already anyway. I mean a standard weekly weekend shop to the supermarket is 7 days worth of food.

Personally I just have a few extra weeks worth of tins of what I eat regularly anyway. Then I rotate the stock by always eating the oldest tins first so it stays in date.

This is exactly what ive been saying to people - most people have more food than they realise!

You'd hope but many live day to day

The good old slowly slowly bit at a time dont let prepping rule your life or bankrupt you but keep it in the back of your mind hunt the special offers or reductions if you add a tinned meal every week on a big shop after a month you've 5 meals that you didn't have last month sort of thing Asda had an offer on own breakfast cereal 2 boxes for £2 the other day when a box of kellogs is £3+ you can guess what I did

2 boxes of cereal will feed a family of 4 breakfast for about a week .... So £2 I've got breakfast for a week straight off the bat. Chuck a carton or 2 of uht milk in the basket there's milk and a bit left for White coffee / tea

[Secretpreps]

You'd hope but many live day to day

The good old slowly slowly bit at a time dont let prepping rule your life or bankrupt you but keep it in the back of your mind hunt the special offers or reductions if you add a tinned meal every week on a big shop after a month you've 5 meals that you didn't have last month sort of thing Asda had an offer on own breakfast cereal 2 boxes for £2 the other day when a box of kellogs is £3+ you can guess what I did

2 boxes of cereal will feed a family of 4 breakfast for about a week .... So £2 I've got breakfast for a week straight off the bat. Chuck a carton or 2 of uht milk in the basket there's milk and a bit left for White coffee / tea
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Cheers for the reply. I will be getting parts at a time so the food will be completed end of this month. December will focus on diy and repairables and christmas. Jan will improving home insulation and loft storage system.

[GillyBee]

If you have off grid cooking facilities you can take advantage of the big packs of rice and lentils that are currently on offer for Diwali.
They add a lot of potential meals for less cash than you expect. But you do need the recipes to use them up in rotation and would need to store some flavours (spices onions tomatoes etc)

[Yorkshire Andy]

For loft insulation see if there's any grants or discounts available from your energy supplier or local council schemes..

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/home-gr ... yYQAvD_BwE

[korolev]

You'd hope but many live day to day

This is true, my sister in law and her husband decide at breakfast each day what they will have for dinner then go out and buy it. We've been to stay with them and, even then, they don't get any extra grub in so we now take a bag of food with us.


Oh, and welcom to the forum

[Frnc]

I think for cooking, a few days' worth of gas cannisters is reasonable. Maybe a week or two. After that, I'd have to go over to twig stoves. Main thing is to boil enough water for a portion of pasta. You can cook it just by leaving it in hot water for 15 minutes. I have one twig stove that's a gasifier. I also have a Trangia but need to get some more meths.