What Preps are you doing this week? Part 5.

[Deeps]

I just toyed with the idea of listing what we normally eat. Hmmm. KFC, Fish and chips, Maccy D, Carvery, ... OK, tongue in cheek, but it's odd to think about normality without a plethora of dining out and takeaways. Note, none of those use rice or pasta or canned tomatoes or baked beans. Clearly my hunkering down over my stockpiled nosh would be quite a culture shock.

I know I'm being frivolous, but there's a serious point to this thought experiment. I'll maybe make a new thread about preppers' menu cards.

We hardly ever get a takeaway any more, not for any altruistic reasons, we're just more skint than we were. We do eat more pasta and rice than tatties but everyone will be different. I've got galloons of dried veg that I can add to meals, I do it now when away hill walking or camping and its V handy. I suppose it straddles the short term/survival gap as I use it in the house too, things like packet pasta/noodles can be sexed up with some dehydrated veg,

Bread will be tricky, we do have flour, I could do with more though but that's being a prepper I suppose.

[ForgeCorvus]

Jenny, Re: chocolate. I'm a big believer in store what you eat and Cadbury's is as budget as I can go, I've tried a few own-brands and they all seem to taste like cheap cooking chocolate to me (although I haven't tried Asda's offering yet)..... Currently looking into cocao for long term stores (and perhaps as a diet option).

As I'm the only one who can eat rice, other grains, most pulses or pasta and baking bread is a very new skill, Potato is a mainstay here.

[jansman]

I really do store what I eat and eat what I store though I've gone off rice recently. *What* I store wouldn't be a map for anyone else, I'm a vegetarian with cow dairy intolerance and gluten intolerance Plus when I had the severe chronic fatigue, I used tinned potatoes, and found out I actually like them. Lidl do tinned tatties for 19p?

We are the same.My wife is also cow dairy intolerant.A lot of folks ( these days) don't eat tinned food.We do.Perhaps it is down to our upbringing,as our girls are also quick to open a tin! Of course,what we eat is not what others would...but why would they?

Don't get me wrong,we eat a lot of fresh,indeed I grow and raise food, but you can't beat a good old fashioned 70's dinner.Last night,because Mrs J did not know what time I would appear from Planet Turkey,we had instant mash,corned dog,and baked beans,with brown sauce.Bangin'!

[Arzosah]

Last night,because Mrs J did not know what time I would appear from Planet Turkey,we had instant mash,corned dog,and baked beans,with brown sauce.Bangin'!

Omigod, that sounds fantastic (except for what Planet Turkey must be like)

[ForgeCorvus]

Jansman, I know what your workload must be like. A mate of mine is a turkey farmer and farm shop owner, nobody sees him from the end of November until well after New Year (I think he spends the start of January sleeping for a week)

[Deeps]

We are the same.My wife is also cow dairy intolerant.A lot of folks ( these days) don't eat tinned food.We do.Perhaps it is down to our upbringing,as our girls are also quick to open a tin! Of course,what we eat is not what others would...but why would they?

Don't get me wrong,we eat a lot of fresh,indeed I grow and raise food, but you can't beat a good old fashioned 70's dinner.Last night,because Mrs J did not know what time I would appear from Planet Turkey,we had instant mash,corned dog,and baked beans,with brown sauce.Bangin'!

I think there's a level of snobbery involved with some tinned foods, I was probably subconsciously guilty of it myself. I've managed to get over it and while you can't beat fresh, tinned (and packet etc) has its place.

As for your scran last night... we're partial to a 'council house scran' (no snobbery, we're both council house kids), you can't beat a pie, oven chips and beans meal, we love it but I wouldn't fancy it all the time. Its easy to forget just how good we have it in The West.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Jenny, Re: chocolate. I'm a big believer in store what you eat and Cadbury's is as budget as I can go, I've tried a few own-brands and they all seem to taste like cheap cooking chocolate to me (although I haven't tried Asda's offering yet)..... Currently looking into cocao for long term stores (and perhaps as a diet option).

As I'm the only one who can eat rice, other grains, most pulses or pasta and baking bread is a very new skill, Potato is a mainstay here.

Lidls is lovely I prefer it over Cadbury and galaxy

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[Yorkshire Andy]

I was a bit up on my online betting account so took 20 quid out, astutely invested it in another torch, well you can't have too many.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

I feel cheated now, it was 16 quid a couple of days ago. Still a great wee torch for the pocket.

It came today it's a bloody good light the Yorkshire man in me likes the rechargeable idea the 20 min full power isn't long but in a shtf it's enough to get out of a blackened building / dangerous situation and the 7 hour low power is impressive added it to the old maglite "strap"

[jennyjj01]

Jenny, Re: chocolate. I'm a big believer in store what you eat and Cadbury's is as budget as I can go, I've tried a few own-brands and they all seem to taste like cheap cooking chocolate to me (although I haven't tried Asda's offering yet)..... Currently looking into cocao for long term stores (and perhaps as a diet option).

As I'm the only one who can eat rice, other grains, most pulses or pasta and baking bread is a very new skill, Potato is a mainstay here.

Lidls is lovely I prefer it over Cadbury and galaxyimages(75).jpg

Thanks,
Variety is the spice of life. At 39p a bar, I think 11 bars next time i visit.

Meanwhile Lidl Mixed Dried fruit is amazing value at £1.09 per 500g

Someone mentioned Lidl tinned spuds at 19p. I might have bought the last of their stock forever. A lidl employee said they'd discontinued it for now.
540g tin WAS 19p and pretty damned good, especially fried up in a bit of ghee.

Currently working on a SHTF meal plan for my stash. It never occurred to me how to make a palatable meal out of canned fish without bread. And rice and pasta does not a meal make. I have a gazillion calories of rations and not so many acceptable meal options.
Working on it. Will post up soon.

[Deeps]

It came today it's a bloody good light the Yorkshire man in me likes the rechargeable idea the 20 min full power isn't long but in a shtf it's enough to get out of a blackened building / dangerous situation and the 7 hour low power is impressive added it to the old maglite "strap"

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Aye, rechargeable is handy, saying that, you get rechargeable AAA's too....

Its a lot of torch (for 20 minutes) for the size of nothing. I'm happy with mine too, keep meaning to do a torch test on the early evening dog walk with the 3 in my breeks pocket compared to the cheap cree I have in my jacket pocket. I suspect out the 3 smally's, the rechargeable will have the most 'oomph' but I keep running into mates and I don't want to be the weirdo playing with torches.