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- Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:08 pm
- Forum: Books and Educational Materials
- Topic: What survival/preparedness books do you own
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12299
Re: What survival/preparedness books do you own
ATM - absolutely none. BUT I have the internet . . .
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:00 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627869
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Bagging up 25kg jasmine thai rice & 20 kg basmati rice and 10kgs plain flour, 5kgs self raising flour. Got some excellent foam draught proofing self adhesive strips in £1.00 store 4 rolls per pack at 4.5m per roll bought 3 to draught proof all windows and doors in house My word that is SERIOUS ...
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:15 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Food Storage
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5950
Re: Food Storage
Mung beans, green lentils, red split peas and rice are my main "prep" foods. I get the beans and lentils in 2Kg bags and they can stack. The rice is one 5 Kg sack and it sits on its side. Tinned fish has a separate shelf. The rice flour, buckwheat flour and gram flour sits on a separate sh...
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:41 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Canning and bottling.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2750
Re: Canning and bottling.
Saving up for the canner and the jars is gonna be a b_gg_r, better to do pickling of vegetables in apple cider vinegar until such a time as I can afford the canner and very expensive mason or kilner jars. BUT, the hawkins 22 quart pressure cooker/canner is practically a turn on in its own right :) M...
- Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:19 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627869
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
I know what you mean! 36 cells tabbed and linking them tomorrow! also got a UPS from maplins which has a 250W pure sine wave inverter I plan to attack tomorrow! =) recorded some videos try and sort out youtube thing to make it easier to share my experiments! cool man. Show us the video when its upl...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:52 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627869
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
found a seller on ebay doing tonne bags of pre cut palletwood for £20 in my local area soooo I took the van up there and grabbed one! =) also started tabbing the solar cells that came in my kit! =) Solar panel construction is great fun, if demanding. I have done my own with broken reclaimed cells a...
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Winter Storage Question
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4748
Re: Winter Storage Question
Watching A History of Ancient Britain the other night, Neil (Get your hair cut, its not a good look for a man of your age) Oliver revealed that late bronze age man stored grain in holes in the ground the entrances to which were sealed with clay. The grains on the outside would get moisture from the...
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:07 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627869
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Just bought 4 X long sleeved thermal vests and 4 X longjohn off ebay
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:02 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Cheap Domestic heater.. OR Flowerpots on a stand?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2133
Cheap Domestic heater.. OR Flowerpots on a stand?
Guys and girls I need your advice on this. Has this man just "invented" a few flowerpots that have been held together by a bolt, a handful of washers and a nut and balanced on a stand with a candle or a light bulb under it and can we make one better? I am thinking bent coat hangers for the...
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:19 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: WINTER CHECKLIST
- Replies: 68
- Views: 10065
Re: WINTER CHECKLIST
Many of (but not all of) the things that you have mentioned i have more or less sorted out for myself in one manner or another, but you also mentioned this little point: Also that room you may be forced to live in can be kept bearable , believe it or not by a couple of burning candles . Just be safe...