What Preps are you doing this week

[gadgetguy]

Bagged up some more pasta today and various other food items and sealed them in white food buckets. Got a new spare twin ring and grill camping stove.Zeroed in the air rifle and got 2000 pellets waiting for 20 new bolts for the Xbox to arrive.

Quick question I mylared up ten packs of super nooddles,daughter loves them,they have a BB date of 1/15 if the are in a Mylar and have a 02 absorber and sealed in a white bucket how long past that date would people think the noodles would be good for??

[pseudonym]

Picked up some bargains at a Military show and a Surplus store over the weekend.

A Trangia 27 complete set for £10 - should of bought them both. Car Winter kit

Reversible thermal trousers £12.50. Car Winter kit

Fleece for £8.50. Norway trip then in my Car Winter kit.

[junmist]

Brought some more touches and batterys

[munchh]

was checking out the sardines and UHT milk in Tesco, they do PiriPiri sardines you know!

Also alot more varieties of UHT milk than when i was a kid, interesting.

[jansman]

was checking out the sardines and UHT milk in Tesco, they do PiriPiri sardines you know!

Also alot more varieties of UHT milk than when i was a kid, interesting.

I find the co op uht to be the most palatable ( but that is me!)

[tshw1973]

was checking out the sardines and UHT milk in Tesco, they do PiriPiri sardines you know!

Also alot more varieties of UHT milk than when i was a kid, interesting.

I have tons of sardines $and mackerel) in tomato sauce. Cheap and nutricious and tasty on toast. Lasts for years.

I tried a random pack of sardines in chilli oil last week. I had forgotten about them and I think they were 3 years out of date. Very tasty though!

[PreppingPingu]

Getting my car booked in for a service *prods her hubby to ask that nice mechanic at work for a service in return for some beer* No good having a car if the brakes fail and the oils run out. Always get it checked before the winter sets in to be prepared.

[TwoDo]

Just planted a dozen rhubarb roots. Prepared a bed earlier in the summer and worked in some manure.

I'm a real big fan of rhubarb as a prep. It is an extremely tough perennial, productive, low maintenance, full of vitamins and is the first thing up in the spring. If SHTF it will provide a valuable source of food early in the spring when there is little else around.

Now is the time to get your own rhubarb plants in. Find a friend or relative with a big clump - use a shovel to split out some roots about the size of a baking potato and plant them in a bed of your own. Next spring it will sprout and you will get some leaves - do not pick them in the first year so they can get set and you will have your own rhubarb ever after.

[pseudonym]

Following on from this post:

Just picked up another 12 storage boxes:

http://direct.asda.com/ASDA-30-Litre-Bo ... lt,pd.html

30 litre plastic boxes in ASDA going for £2.50 at the moment.

Just the right size for my shelves, and when full, can still be lifted easily.

Cleared a cupboard, and moved them into it freeing up my shelves. Just finished date checking and rotating





Time for a cuppa...... Doh, teabags are in bottom left box

[seamus1979]

Following on from this post:

Just picked up another 12 storage boxes:

http://direct.asda.com/ASDA-30-Litre-Bo ... lt,pd.html

30 litre plastic boxes in ASDA going for £2.50 at the moment.

Just the right size for my shelves, and when full, can still be lifted easily.

Cleared a cupboard, and moved them into it freeing up my shelves. Just finished date checking and rotating





Time for a cuppa...... Doh, teabags are in bottom left box

I like what you have done but for me my main intention with my storage boxes was it would be an easy way to quantify how much I've got and each box is self sustained. So one box alone has enough to keep me and my family going for one month or two weeks.