What Preps are you doing this week

[pseudonym]

This is my first deliberate prepping.

Addictive and rather pleasing at the same time isn't it?

The only big problem I have is that we drink a lot of milk and I don't know how to substitute for that. I use mine mostly in coffee, my 3yr old drinks it as is.

Try Nido - Full fat powdered milk - shelf stable to boot.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/ ... =260148289

All the supermarkets stock it - try the World aisles.

HTH

[MissPrep]

Definitely

Thank you for the suggestion about milk, my local Tesco apparently doesn't stock it but there is a bigger one a bit further away that might do so.
I'll check it out next time I'm in there.

[pseudonym]

Some more Kilner Jars and spare seals from Sainsburys, on offer in store at the moment.

[Le Mouse]

Some more Kilner Jars and spare seals from Sainsburys, on offer in store at the moment.

Really? I'll get down there at the weekend then Cheers!

[pseudonym]

Some more Kilner Jars and spare seals from Sainsburys, on offer in store at the moment.

Really? I'll get down there at the weekend then Cheers!

Filled them already:

[Yorkshire Andy]

Trying to revive a over discharged deep cycle battery I left connected by mistake

[Arzosah]

I got 10 of the half-litre jars from Sainsbo - not clip top, t'other sort. The computer was glitching so badly, I got a bit cheeky and got another 25p per jar off the sale price of £1.50

Love that shelf space, pseudonym, very efficient ... and I didn't know about Nido, either, so I'll have a look at that. I've just got some Sainsbo dried milk from the Basics range.

Miss Prep - sounds like you're doing great. As is the rest of the gang I keep looking at the news and thinking, hmmm - I need this, that or the other, but really, us lot are at least *starting* to take notice and take care of things.

[ForgeCorvus]

@MissPrep. You've made an impressive start there.
2.5 M3 is (according to my phone) 550 Gallons (2500 litres)..... And with the largest B&Q stock being 210litres, thats a lot of waterbutts .
Mind you, according to my local waterboard 'average' use is 145 litres a day, which works out at 4,350 litres a month per person so you using a little over half that for your household is impressive.
If your SHTF plan includes modifying your eating habits, then maybe you should plan to alter your water usage (although having a three year old might make that hard). Remember that ATM all the water you use is treated to exactly the same standard (drinking quality), however it doesn't need to be (laundry water can be reused to flush with, for example).

[Stasher]

Miss Prep said
Not sure how to collect or process water on a longer term basis apart from rain water barrels.

We don't have std rain barrels/water butts a la B&Q. Instead a couple of years ago Alpha Male (with a neighbour) bought some MASSIVE liquid containers from a nearby monastery. The monastery makes alcohol and clearly these liquid containers had something they use in the process at some point. Not sure how much they can hold, but by looking I would say they hold 4/5/6 times a std water butt does. They are sheathed in a metal cage. If you want to drink the water it would obviously have to be purified.

We often see the containers in films when they are showing loading bays/dockyards or cargo holds. We bought them a while ago, but they were only about 50 quid. You do need some serious transportation for the tho!

[MissPrep]

Thank you, you guys are very helpful.

I think I need to do an experiment & measure all the water we use for cooking & drinking over the next month to see how much of it needs to be drinking quality.

I hadn't thought of dividing it into water to be ingested & not before, so perhaps if I do that I can begin with working on figuring out how to get an ongoing store of potable water then work on the 'other' water afterwards.
I'd rather be grubby than thirsty.

Maybe somewhere they sell bigger tanks you could store underground?
Digging holes & basic cold water plumbing I can do.

Don't think a 210 litre water butt is going to do the job, although I will have one of those attached to the greenhouse as well as one to the downpipe off the house so that will be something.

I have a lot of thinking & googling to do as I'd like to find a way to have a 3 month store of water as it never seems to rain when you want it to.