how am I preparing??

[st3vi3]

Moneysupermarket is great website loads to get through thou.

Wildadventurer thats great plan seem to be well though through.

My preps today included filling cupboards with good food, got some long life tins stacked and will add to that. Got more water stored and planted some seeds mayb bit early but we will see. Stocked up in batteries of all sizes and filled 1st aid kit for house and car.

Next prep will be work on car service and make ready for MoT zzzzzz but car gets treated often.

Downloaded few ebooks on survival, bug out bags and food storage so my night is sorted

[st3vi3]

More of a question for you smart people. Is there any books, ebooks or top articles on food storage long life? I keep finding rubbish

[redskies]

More of a question for you smart people. Is there any books, ebooks or top articles on food storage long life? I keep finding rubbish

Try switching your search engine to a non google alternative. They're buggers for screwing about with the results you get. I use duckduckgo.

These are some of the links I have bookmarked.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4964887_dehydra ... tml#page=0

http://www.pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm

http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipes/bottling-canning

http://preparednesspro.com/safely-preserving-eggs/

http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/

Lots of good stuff there. My parents in law use a variety of methods to preserve the stuff they grow (MiL is a real soup fiend now!) but primarily the sand box method for root veg. It works really well. They finished the 2011 harvest in May 2012. They use paper sacks for tatties, still got three and a half left from their last harvest, will probably do the pair of them til they plant and harvest the first of this years crops.

[st3vi3]

These are great redskies will have to try few out now.


Preps yesterday, hit on a good clearence bin did rather well I felt got some lamb chops still 2days in date will go to make up some nice stew later for freezer. Got a trolly load of tinned goods rangin from 10p tined peas took the entire box, 18p tinned sweetcorn again cleared the box, tinned beans 20p took most only left dented ones. Got few other cakes and buns also 15p. Amazing when you get in just as they reduce what ya can get. All good storage food except the cake. Food store is builing nicely.

Was on ebay today 17th and got camping stove, single ring in a carry case. Has been used but looks new to me. Got it for £2.38. Must say im chuffed £3.99 post but I dont mind. Hope it works now. Backup cooking has improved

[st3vi3]

So this week back to gym after christmas period and january newbies mostly gone... Feel sore but ill live. Got some my camping kit out and managed to encourage my misses to help me try it out and learn some skills with me... I say she was thrilled by the idea haha. Enrolled back to college to do a course and will do 1st aid along side it, might do the next level 1st aid later on.

Food store is going very nicely and I think im spending less overall. Also started to store basic comforts and working on measures to add to cooking, heating and water storage.

Pollytunnel will be up soon, be a trail this year, got area cleared for it and the put down foundation. Get it going, plenty of farm work to do including repairs and ploughing fields. This will be a busy year hopefully and hope weather is on our side. Would love an extra hour in the day

[mogs]

yea i agree with the library, ours aint that great, ebay is wonderful nowadays i get books for £2 or £3 and resell them. as for the garden i work with my partners father in spare time on their farm. last we grew loads of veg and acre of spuds. this year we bought a polytunnel and hope to take step further. i am trying to get him to get hens and turkeys in, but as farms go there is always project to do. in future hope to get planning permission to build there and prep easier. At the minute its hard due to location and living in a housing estate in small house. still can set aside at very least 3 months of food anywhere in my eyes.
car boot sales can pull up some nice "junk" treasures. Do we ever to storage holding auctions over here or is that just USA?

There are storage auctions here but they are few and far between, best to approach storage business' direct to ask if anything is coming up, another good place to pick up bargains for yourself or re-sale are police auctions. I got myself a full suspension bike for £8 (nearly new) and a lawn mower for £3!

[mogs]

Thanks for the reply

Should have pay sorted mid jan ... So im told Then can stock properly. First aid glad you said that I need to renew that. I work 12hr shifts alone in security so plenty of info gathering done... How I found here

Just had a thought, with your pay being so delayed the company you work for have a legal obligation to provide you with your wages and most people dont know....for example is...if you were due pay on 1st jan and didnt receive any, you can tell them you need it within next day or so and they have a responsibility to get it to you, all companies have the facility to get the money into your bank within 24 working hours, is a simple BACS system, also if you do not want to tell them to pay you and pay you now or if they do not pay you in this timeframe lol then if you incur any bank charges or default charges on returned bills then the company is liable for those charges, always best to let boss know if your wages are late and you have bills due, also make them aware that they will be held accountable for any charges you may receive! may want to check up on this but Im 99% sure the law hasnt changed to much recently on this kind of thing

Hope this is helpfull

[st3vi3]

That is very useful indeed glad you told me that. This time I didnt have any bills or charges but it was christmas time so thats what annoyed me more. Thank you for that info very useful. They got me paid on the 11/12 jan like 5weeks overdue but I survived haha

[st3vi3]

yea i agree with the library, ours aint that great, ebay is wonderful nowadays i get books for £2 or £3 and resell them. as for the garden i work with my partners father in spare time on their farm. last we grew loads of veg and acre of spuds. this year we bought a polytunnel and hope to take step further. i am trying to get him to get hens and turkeys in, but as farms go there is always project to do. in future hope to get planning permission to build there and prep easier. At the minute its hard due to location and living in a housing estate in small house. still can set aside at very least 3 months of food anywhere in my eyes.
car boot sales can pull up some nice "junk" treasures. Do we ever to storage holding auctions over here or is that just USA?

There are storage auctions here but they are few and far between, best to approach storage business' direct to ask if anything is coming up, another good place to pick up bargains for yourself or re-sale are police auctions. I got myself a full suspension bike for £8 (nearly new) and a lawn mower for £3!

WOW THATS A DEAL!!!!

[mogs]

Haha, yes indeed a great deal! Ive been dubbed THE bargain hunter!