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by ForgeCorvus
Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:54 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99383

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Doing a bit of a stock take of tinned and long life food reserves. Embarrassing!! OMG, SO MUCH is WAYYYYYYY PAST BBE. Has it really been 7 years that I've been buying this stuff? !!!!! I'll post up a confession list, when the stock take is complete and as a self punishment, I'll open and consume my...
by ForgeCorvus
Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:28 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: NRG-5 rations or freeze dried rations?
Replies: 31
Views: 2135

Re: NRG-5 rations or freeze dried rations?

* I'm inclined to make my first BOB. Currently just a gym bag and pretty useless. You should. A rucksack is more practical. Size-wise, depends, if you want to be self sufficient, outdoors for several days, ie carry some form of shelter, and be warm in winter, you need at least 50 litres, preferably...
by ForgeCorvus
Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: NRG-5 rations or freeze dried rations?
Replies: 31
Views: 2135

Re: NRG-5 rations or freeze dried rations?

The NRG are great.... If you want something you can stick in your car kit or Hotel bag and then just forget about.
If you need a food reserve, there are better (and cheaper) ways of doing that.

They're 'lifeboat' type rations, best to use them as such
by ForgeCorvus
Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Decanting dry foods? Milk Bottles?
Replies: 12
Views: 2213

Re: Decanting dry foods? Milk Bottles?

jennyjj01 wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:54 am
Getting them bone dry, esp inside the handles is the next hurdle.
If you have an airing cupboard try that.... Avoid direct heat as the HDPE will warp at the drop of a hat.
by ForgeCorvus
Sun Oct 08, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
Replies: 14
Views: 2836

Re: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)

Ha! I see your plastic box and raise you a wooden box https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbopetda-Storage-Kitchen-Canister-Aerating/dp/B096MB4FLS/ref=asc_df_B096MB4FLS?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80333198071520&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&...
by ForgeCorvus
Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99383

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Moved some cheese powder into my Amazon basket for end of the month. It's not something I'd normally buy, but I need some protein for my food store, apart from tuna, and I reckon it could go into pasta sauce, or make mac and cheese. Bought some Al'Fez dehydrated falafel mix from Sainsburys, again f...
by ForgeCorvus
Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39093

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

jennyjj01 wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:02 pm
Meanwhile, A shout out to this week's charity shop purchase: 'The Student Cookbook' Student type recipes rest well with my prepper store cupboard.
Looking forward to Jenny approved student recipes :D
by ForgeCorvus
Sun Sep 03, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99383

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Jansman: Keep Troshin' on Frnc: For tarp and tent repairs I'll recommend "Tenacious Tape", its clear and sticks like goosegrass on a poodle. Not cheap but a repair I did on a tent is still there after five camping seasons. I like the auto-awl concept and have a Buffalo, I don't use it ofte...
by ForgeCorvus
Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:14 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99383

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Got a small, cheap second hand sewing machine and going to start out with new lined heavy curtains for the winter. As an aside, when did sewing machines get so expensive and complicated?!? Looked at some in JL and was really a bit freaked out by both cost and complexity, assured by colleagues that ...
by ForgeCorvus
Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99383

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Rotated the petrol stocks, not sure if one can was filled this year.... So I dumped it in a nearly empty car and filled up with another ten gallons so its well diluted. Going to buy a chinagraph (because I can clean it off) to date the cans . Psuedo: I tend to use battery adapters to run my D cell t...