What Preps are you doing this week

[nickdutch]

Researching thermal cooking

[the7ps]

Todays little conquest produced:
2x plastic storage boxes
2x 20m tin foil
21x disposable lighters
14x batteries
100x paper plates
100x plastic spoons
2x toothpaste
2x tooth brushes
3x soaps
1x very happy prepper

[pseudonym]

Added some more salt, sugar and pasta to my supply, currently watching another paraffin stove on ebay - 3 1/2 hrs to go........ fingers crossed

[the7ps]

Please forgive a stupid question, I'm a newbie and this will prove it; youve said, pseudynom, that youve stored more pasta, is this shop bought pasta? I see shop pasta with short dates, as well as rice and wonder where all you experienced preppers get these long life rices?

[preppingsu]

Please forgive a stupid question, I'm a newbie and this will prove it; youve said, pseudynom, that youve stored more pasta, is this shop bought pasta? I see shop pasta with short dates, as well as rice and wonder where all you experienced preppers get these long life rices?

I have supermarket rice with dates of 2013. Although I haven't yet done this storing in mylar bags in food grade tubs with oxygen absorbers will extend the life of the dried food. Have a read of these threads. HTH

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[the-gnole]

Please forgive a stupid question, I'm a newbie and this will prove it; youve said, pseudynom, that youve stored more pasta, is this shop bought pasta? I see shop pasta with short dates, as well as rice and wonder where all you experienced preppers get these long life rices?

Ah, the wonders of marketing.

Sell by, use by and display until dates are a marketing thing as well as a stock keeping and rotating thing for huge amounts of food stuffs.

Learning these is a great start to prepping.

[pseudonym]

Please forgive a stupid question, I'm a newbie and this will prove it; youve said, pseudynom, that youve stored more pasta, is this shop bought pasta? I see shop pasta with short dates, as well as rice and wonder where all you experienced preppers get these long life rices?

Not a stupid question at all.

As already stated above, don't let the supermarket dates fool you. Shop bought pasta is just flour, water and egg - then dried rather than the fresh stuff.

I like to think of it as being dehydrated for me by the supermarkets

On a sad note I missed out on the paraffin stove

[Slimslim]

Better luck next time Pseudonym

For today I brought about another 1 Kg of rice to be stored under the bed and went for a long run through some of the cycle tracks around my village. (Good for building fitness and scouting secondary exits )

Oh and spending a long time filling out Army Medical forms and the like

[bic1]

Bought 12 large tins of Spam this morning from Morrisons,on offer two tins for two Pounds, bargain!

[the-gnole]

Bought 12 large tins of Spam this morning from Morrisons,on offer two tins for two Pounds, bargain!

Now we need a recipe for the best way to serve this, I like cooking it in a frying pan add a couple of eggs and a spoon of beans.

This weeks preps will have to wait until the weekend, need to get a couple of jerry cans of Paraffin and also need some gas hose and some fittings to make up a rig for the gas lamp I got on Ebay a few weeks back.