Reordered my stocks today so I could visually see how much I had
Scary how it looks alot but it's not even a months worth calorie wise
What Preps are you doing this week? Part 8.
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when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow
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Planted half a dozen sets of seeds, finally. I think I may have drowned them the first day because either there's spots of mould on the top of the cells, or the fuzzy backs of sprouted seeds are showing themselves
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Calories (carbs) are the most inexpensive bit and easiest to store. They are the base of any food stash.Jerseyspud wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:39 pm Reordered my stocks today so I could visually see how much I had
Scary how it looks alot but it's not even a months worth calorie wise
I calculate my
Food survival time in days as ((total calories stored) / (2000 * Number of mouths))
I record all my stash in an excel workbook where I log everything as KCalories/£1 and KCalories held.
Cheapest kCalories per £1 are Oats and Flour, which is handy, because they are SO flexible.
A kilo of rice or pasta or oats is about 2 person days of calories... But will last you a week.
A litre of oil is about 4 person days of calories, though you can't make a meal just from oil.
First thing I got. Pasta, rice, dried instant mash, oats and flour. Get a few tens of kilos for as little as 50p per kilo and you can get a years worth for just a few £hundred. But If I ran out of tea & coffee then life wouldn't be worth living. So that was next to buy.Then augment with tinned tomatoes and cooking sauces and you at least won't starve to death.
From when I did the ration challenge, I soon realised the value of simple flavouring even if it's a box of oxo cubes or a tin of tomatoes. Get lots of tins of tomatoes
Then embellish with more expensive stuff = proteins and veg.... the stuff you never bothered with as a student.
I definitely recommend the Ration Challenge to any Prepper. Teaches you in a week what's NEEDED in your stockpile.
My summary... A bit out of date...
download/file.php?id=1681&mode=view
Graceful Degradation! Prepping's objective summed up in two words. Turning Disaster into Mild Inconvenience by the power of fore-thought
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
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I've got a fair bit of carbs.Pasta, cous cous, rice, crackers etc. It was more the protein and fruit and veg :/jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:28 pmCalories (carbs) are the most inexpensive bit and easiest to store. They are the base of any food stash.Jerseyspud wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:39 pm Reordered my stocks today so I could visually see how much I had
Scary how it looks alot but it's not even a months worth calorie wise
I calculate my
Food survival time in days as ((total calories stored) / (2000 * Number of mouths))
I record all my stash in an excel workbook where I log everything as KCalories/£1 and KCalories held.
Cheapest kCalories per £1 are Oats and Flour, which is handy, because they are SO flexible.
A kilo of rice or pasta or oats is about 2 person days of calories... But will last you a week.
A litre of oil is about 4 person days of calories, though you can't make a meal just from oil.
First thing I got. Pasta, rice, dried instant mash, oats and flour. Get a few tens of kilos for as little as 50p per kilo and you can get a years worth for just a few £hundred. But If I ran out of tea & coffee then life wouldn't be worth living. So that was next to buy.Then augment with tinned tomatoes and cooking sauces and you at least won't starve to death.
From when I did the ration challenge, I soon realised the value of simple flavouring even if it's a box of oxo cubes or a tin of tomatoes. Get lots of tins of tomatoes
Then embellish with more expensive stuff = proteins and veg.... the stuff you never bothered with as a student.
I definitely recommend the Ration Challenge to any Prepper. Teaches you in a week what's NEEDED in your stockpile.
My summary... A bit out of date...
download/file.php?id=1681&mode=view
Although its really show what to work on for now which I plan to
when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow
Prepping on a small island
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I also have lots of stock cubes, and things like Casserole mixes for the herbs etc. Oh and instant mash
when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow
Prepping on a small island
Prepping on a small island
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Currently scavenging firewood.I very ,very rarely buy it,and I am not planning on doing so anytime soon! I have enough softwood stashed for Winter2023/24 ,but gotta get 21/22 sorted - and I will.
Set the tomatoes in their final pots,broad beans in and thriving,peas coming through and my marigolds are ripping away! Speaking of gardens,my neighbour has a conifer big enough to rival the Norwegian Spruce in Trafalgar Square... complete with so**ing pigeons! So,Jansman being ever resourceful,I contacted the landlord of next door ( From whence the pigeons are gathering nesting materials!!) and then hopping into my garden for dinner. and I am now putting pigeons in the freezer for future consumption. At least I know they have been eating organically!
Looking at economic forecasts/ projections/prophecy, we are going to ramp up storage. Once the government support schemes finish,I suspect there will be a little pain. This:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2021 ... oes-begin/
I really do think we are in for economic problems quite soon. I hope I am wrong.
Set the tomatoes in their final pots,broad beans in and thriving,peas coming through and my marigolds are ripping away! Speaking of gardens,my neighbour has a conifer big enough to rival the Norwegian Spruce in Trafalgar Square... complete with so**ing pigeons! So,Jansman being ever resourceful,I contacted the landlord of next door ( From whence the pigeons are gathering nesting materials!!) and then hopping into my garden for dinner. and I am now putting pigeons in the freezer for future consumption. At least I know they have been eating organically!
Looking at economic forecasts/ projections/prophecy, we are going to ramp up storage. Once the government support schemes finish,I suspect there will be a little pain. This:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2021 ... oes-begin/
I really do think we are in for economic problems quite soon. I hope I am wrong.
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Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
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Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
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I've found somewhere to move to and I'm hoping like hell my references work - letting agents ask so many more questions now, it's bonkers! My new place is a bit more rural and is old enough to have a pantry! I'm thinking about having a crack at container gardening when I've settled in, but I figure that I'd have to buy part grown plants by that time which I'm going to guess is rather expensive.
In other news I've booked my second covid jab and I bought myself a TENS machine to help my knackered back and save me taking too much in the way of pain relief which I can get through pretty quickly.
In other news I've booked my second covid jab and I bought myself a TENS machine to help my knackered back and save me taking too much in the way of pain relief which I can get through pretty quickly.
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Glad you've found somewhere to move to mouse
when it comes to catastrophic events, we never know when the day before is the day before. So we prepare for tomorrow
Prepping on a small island
Prepping on a small island
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Thank you! I'm very happy about it and crossing fingers and toes that it all works out
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Mouse, that's great news - more rural too? Lovely.
Jansman - your description of the pigeons is brilliant I haven't yet read the latest consciousness of sheep post - I'll do that tonight.
Jerseyspud - I find my protein intake to be really crucial - I feel so hungry without it! And if I've only got carbs, I binge on them terribly, its not good.
Preps-wise for me, garden is getting better, I've put a piece of trellis back up, on my brick shed, so I can put a container on the patio and have it grow up the trellis. I keep chatting to the seeds I've just planted, hoping I haven't drowned them. More sawdust from the neighbour with the socking great chainsaw is creating a little path between container beds. I've found the lid to the compost bin I've been taking care of the finances, where they are and what the interest rate is. I haven't yet done the leaking-the-gaz-out-from-the-rusty-cartridge - I want to do that on Friday. Basically I'm doing lots of little jobs so I can start on another big prepping job.
Jansman - your description of the pigeons is brilliant I haven't yet read the latest consciousness of sheep post - I'll do that tonight.
Jerseyspud - I find my protein intake to be really crucial - I feel so hungry without it! And if I've only got carbs, I binge on them terribly, its not good.
Preps-wise for me, garden is getting better, I've put a piece of trellis back up, on my brick shed, so I can put a container on the patio and have it grow up the trellis. I keep chatting to the seeds I've just planted, hoping I haven't drowned them. More sawdust from the neighbour with the socking great chainsaw is creating a little path between container beds. I've found the lid to the compost bin I've been taking care of the finances, where they are and what the interest rate is. I haven't yet done the leaking-the-gaz-out-from-the-rusty-cartridge - I want to do that on Friday. Basically I'm doing lots of little jobs so I can start on another big prepping job.