What Preps are you doing this week

[mogs]

yea, was elated when they arrived, Im pretty lucky that I have huge amounts of storage space, could buy at least 10 sets without being on show but unfortunitely my OH is forces and we will undoubtably have to move a fair few more times so finding a house as big as this one will be a struggle.

Have lots of bits and pieces on the way to help stock up yey

[Brunel]

Once I decided I'd got a good enough basic food supply for 2 people for 1 month, I adopted a new buying strategy... Basically, when I open one item from the basic stock, I go out and buy 2 more.

Which means this week I need to buy another: - 2 bags of 10kg rice; 2 bags of 10kg flour; 2x 24 rolls of loo paper - in addition to the usual shopping list. Buying in this way you never deplete your basic supplies, they just keep building up. It also helps spread the cost of your provisions across the year. Store what you eat and eat what you store...

[survivor_steve]

been out today to boyes and got some more ore gas canisters,while there saw a gas canister style heater..... missus is going to get one next week, what with that,gas cooker, gas camping cooker, gas bottles and bbq, trailer tent with no innerds as redone as a camping trailer with gas cooker and sink on the back.....hopefully that will be the cooking and heating side sorted

[SkyWatcher]

Got a delivery today of 2.5l tubs with lids and 1l tubs with lids too. Going to spend Thursday making sure they're cleaned properly then make a start to filling them with flour, rice, sugar, lentils and peas

[nickdutch]

Just purchased a cheap kindle book on edible insects. Haven't read it yet, it might be very american based, but i hope that it can give me more information for inspiration.

[redskies]

If you're eating insects, I think the word you're looking for is desperation, not inspiration!

We've planted our windbreak and have been sorting wood to make raised beds and tubs.

[Arzosah]

Just ordered some underbed storage plastic crates from Tatco, and a glass faux-Kilner jar, picking them up over the weekend, and I also used one of my last Tatco vouchers, so I got them at £1 off

[nickdutch]

If you're eating insects, I think the word you're looking for is desperation, not inspiration!

We've planted our windbreak and have been sorting wood to make raised beds and tubs.

I think the thing to do is to learn how to farm them, prepare them and cook them to make a healthy diet that is sustainable and thrifty. i have been curious about insect food for a while now.

Also in other parts of the world when there was an economic downturn, the local animals got hunted to extinction by the people because the wild animals god seen as a food source by the "preppers" of those countries.

Think how many slingshot operators there are in this country and that fact that if there was any problems (not saying there will be, or there wont be, but hypothetically if there was) all the rabbits, deer, and all the rest wold die out quite quickly.

Therefore start learning how to do insects as opposed to learning how to do rabbits.

[redskies]

I'll pass, which leaves all the more wriggly goodness for you

[nickdutch]

I'll pass, which leaves all the more wriggly goodness for you

As if by magic, once its cooked, it stops wriggling