Been spending

So been to asda today and started stocking a bit. Nothing heavy.

I got some Tupperware to put stuff in, our house is a bit damp and bloody mice get in the kitchen from the fields so things are not too safe out in the open.

I got some rice packs I love them there nice teasty and not too excpencive and when I'm dieting there ok on slimming world. So iv got a few and put them in a tub they should last a year or more. Iv also got some dry beans, and pulses there good to have I like making a stew with them. It's good on slimming world too a couple of tins of beans some tomatoes (tin) and stock as well as a few handfuls of beans and pulses it can be chunky or blitzed up in a soup. With any veg to through it too.

We have also started clearing out the kitchen and at some point I'm going to disinfect the cupboards so I can start having a good supply of tins in there. As it is we have a handful in there and some in boxes and bags through out the room.

I'm shattered though we have been all over today. If we can afford it we go to makro and get a few trays of cans (pop) it's not a nessesety but a treat so hence the clearing of the kitchen to find room.
Whilst going round the supermarket hubby figured out what I was doing. He's cool with it I guess as long as he doesn't have to spend anything lol. We got another bit bag of pasta we eat a lot of the stuff anyway.
So the picture is of a sprout not the type you have at Christmas. The beans and pulses I got not only are fab in soups and stews but by. http://mountainroseherbs.com/ sprouting. How to prepare beans etc for eating like a salad and also for planting. Pulses are a versatile food to have in stock. This is how beans sprouts in your Chinese are made. It is not the only food you can do this with many do it with broccoli and others ( really should look it up)

I also have a good stock of pudding rice (I love it) slimming world stile made with half skimmed milk half water and a very good load of sweetener and a drop of vanilla in a small slow cooker.


Iv got many seeds which is one thing we do have. We have a very small yard and would love to grow more. We should have had potatoes and courgettes but the snow has left the garden wet and frosty so looks like things won't be starting any time soon even the mint has died and this is most unusual considering it grows at amazing speed and takes over we're ever it is.


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I forgot

So today I also got a big torch with long life batteries now I know it wouldn't last too long. Iv also got a hand full of the wind up torches somewhere ok there not too bright but there a good thing to have.

So thinking about we're I am going to put all my things is a hard one.
To prep you require some were cool and dry which is not an easy thing to find in my house the cellar we don't use it's tiny and damp kitchen is big but it a terrible messy state so before I start to get too over excited on my new trip I need to get the kitchen sorted. I am in my final year at uni so when all my last assignments are handed in I'm going to set too in the kitchen and get it cleared out. I can then get some mouse traps down (we live next to fields and woods ) were always getting field mice coming in to say hello and eat through cereal boxes (don't think it's a good plan to stock them without putting them in boxes first.

I will be looking out for bargains were ever I go, I do not plan on spending fasts amount of cash for my pantry

Prepping pics

These photos came from google images and not from me.

Some inspirational pictures.

The empty shelf one how long do you think it will take for this to happen. Most of us have seen it round about Christmas or when we are due snow, panic buying. Now if we made sure our pantries are stocked there would be no need for this. If we new there was always a meal to be had we are been sensible.

Again like my husband having off sick, our MOT just failed and its going to cost a lot. We will have to empty our ICA but that is what it is there for we will not have to get a loan or borrow or over draft. The money is we will just have to work our backsides off to replace that money.
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Starting line

The starting line

So I started today whilst in town with my children I picked up one or two things.
It's seems silly but I'm a bit excited.

So I have
A jar of honey , two jars of jam in different flavour each had until 2015 date ( I know they will last longer well especially the honey which has been found in ancient pirromids still edible.
I also got four tins of tuna and some rice packs. The tuna was 2014
As I have said before I am not stocking up for long term just enough for a couple of months.

I spoke to my mum today who has always had a full pantry since I was a little girl. I said I'm getting a stock together she said it was a good idea. As we chatted we discussed having enough to get by on.

Last month my husband hurt his sturnam and had to have in the end two weeks off work and because his work is manual and shitty he got very little sick pay. We got by and it is only because of my thriftiness and putting little bits of money away we could afford to get by.

It's not just food you should be stocking up on it is money too. Every little bit helps I am we'll a were that we can only get by because we have no depts or credit cards I will not apologise for this and would not disrespect other who did but even if you do have debt a pound in a jar a day wouldn't do you wrong.

So after two weeks off our savings is nearly empty again but we are starting putting it back in so if anything did happen we could pay our bills. Having a months bills/shopping in a savings account for just in case.

I now need to find some dry box to start packing our pantry things in. We haven't go too much room so I think I will stack them up on the shelves so we can use things as we need them just keep replacing them so there not just left.

I have seen that some preppers store watered too but I'm a little hmm about this. We live next to a canal and river so no water has never occurred to me. I may buy a few large bottles to put to one side but I won't go over bored.

Because I had the kids with me I couldn't really look through things properly in town but there is so much pounds shop things I could spend a fortune. Medical things I have been getting for a few years but never thought to have a stock of them. We get a bit complacent about things we have easy access to so my next step is to collect small amounts at a time of things. Such as badges plasters, medical cream, burn cream. Feminine produce, and personal higeen (no idea how to spell that and my spell check won't find it) so things like tooth past disposable razors ext.

I have again been looking at weapons I'm still on the no no type thing but I would love to hunt. I was to try rabbit but the butcher never has any and iv herd there bleeding excpencive which is strange. I would love to try my hand with a bow and arrow but really ones can cost a fortune. I saw some cheap crossbows but my husband things they maybe elligle. There is some hunting knives that I would need if I were to be catching rabbits.

I just wish we had a Cardenas we could raise our own and chickens I would love to have some hens for laying and eating too.

We have a little yard in the front off the main road we grow some veg but the snow has been terrible and killed all the seedlings so its a no no for us right now.

Will blog again soon

OCD or common sence

Iv either got OCD or I'm been very sensible

Iv started getting in to prepping iv always had it in me when I first got married I would fill the pantry up with tins ext so we would always have food but Martyn would moan so I stopped but thinking of how the uk has got over the last few years. Food is getting more and more expensive to buy people are losing there jobs and the second any adverse wether comes along to supermarkets get empty. Now I know this will sound like paranoia but the uk knows what it is like to be hungry we are so better off than many of the poor countries but during the war food went first even when you had the money to buy food it was still impossible to find. The uk replies on so many other countries for it produce even back then and today's market is just as bad. Once upon a time us been an island went for us been able to protect all sides now however now it is against us we no longer have the room, the wether or the money to be self efficient again.

I not saying we will go to war again or anything drastically life threatening will happen but as the bills rise up so dose my worry on feeding my family.
I am unsure how to start prepping so to speak and there is so much different information out there.
The one thing I am going to work towards is to have 3 months food produce so if the shit did hit the fan and food became so expensive or if for any reason food became hard to get we would be safe for a while.


Now I know some people think preppers are well: selfish, mad, crazy, off there rockers and many other names beside but I truly think they have the right idea on a lot of stuff.
Do you know servivle skills? Would you know how to make shelter or cook outdoors. It takes me back to my girl guiding days we learned so much it was amazing. It's a shame that young people would not know what to do if they were not within arms reach of a plug socket.

I can't wait to teach my children how make a fire out doors and cook. I really want to go camping with them (hubby wouldn't ) we go the caravan which is half way there to camping.

It's funny we're above people may think preppers are selfish but to me I do not feel that way when I think of stocking a good food pantry I think of my parents my sisters and there family's. having enough to make up a massive pan of pasta and veggie tomato source. Or a stew

The USA preppers talk of guns/knives and weapons besides it scares me that the fighting thing goes to there heads and it becomes more important than the food ext.

When I think of prepping I often think of medical first aid having kids with additional needs it would be very important. I already have a very large first aid kids and always have medication of somewhat in the house too.

I think my first point of call will be the pound shops. They have grown in the uk over the last few years and in our little town we have around six, now when I get an idea in my head I rush in to it head long but I'm going to try keep it slow and just buy one or two extra tins when we go shopping. I will be buying big bags of pasta and rice to stock up iv seen people use the two Ltr pop bottles which look good but I'm not running to all them oxigon things to take O2 out of the food packet. I'm going for food lasting years (we haven't got room ) so as I said above like a security blanket I will work towards having 3 months stock in the house.
So yes that's me, I know many wont read hear but I'm not doing it for that so I will be back