Prepping

[Countdown]

My wife is cooking different stuff every day so the house is full of the smells of baking, frying, meat being grilled etc.

Yesterday she made chapli kebabs with fried onions, diced potatoes and stir fried veg. The day before it was Lamb Pilau, and samosas. The day before that it was salted caramel cheesecake. She basically looks on Youtube to find different variations of her usual recipes.

I am dreading having to fit back into my suit in 2 months time.

[Bill]

Guvernator said:

Yep panic buying seems to have died down as people realise there is still food on the shelves and we might be in this for the long haul. Last time I went shopping, there was nothing I needed that wasn't available on the shelves, they even had toilet roll (still have no idea why people are hoarding bog roll).

Now the pain is the limits. We're a family of 5, and all need a packed lunch as we're both NHS workers and the kids are in school. 3 loaves of bread does us 3 days maximum. The online system (I managed to get organised so still waiting on one for Thursday) limits you to 6 on any fruit - 6 bananas say - or bags thereof. So one internet shop won't do us a week.

Or we have to brave the shops more often which is time we don't have as well as an infection risk (to everyone else more than us to be fair )

[hyphen]

Bill said:

Guvernator said:

Yep panic buying seems to have died down as people realise there is still food on the shelves and we might be in this for the long haul. Last time I went shopping, there was nothing I needed that wasn't available on the shelves, they even had toilet roll (still have no idea why people are hoarding bog roll).

Now the pain is the limits. We're a family of 5, and all need a packed lunch as we're both NHS workers and the kids are in school. 3 loaves of bread does us 3 days maximum. The online system (I managed to get organised so still waiting on one for Thursday) limits you to 6 on any fruit - 6 bananas say - or bags thereof. So one internet shop won't do us a week.

Or we have to brave the shops more often which is time we don't have as well as an infection risk (to everyone else more than us to be fair )

Supermarkets have upped/scrapped limits today.

[Bill]

hyphen said:

Supermarkets have upped/scrapped limits today.

You need to tell my local Sainsbury's.

[BlackLabel]

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-c...

[DonkeyApple]

[jimmyjimjim]

The guy on the left looks like he's just buying his regular weekly amount.

[mybrainhurts]

Cow. You'll be needing a cow. Three would be better.

And land mines.

[Countdown]

Is that CostCo? if so you could argue that bulkbuying is the norm.....

[DonkeyApple]

mybrainhurts said:

Cow. You'll be needing a cow. Three would be better.

And land mines.

Rabbits are surely easier for wiping ones arse?

[mybrainhurts]

DonkeyApple said:

mybrainhurts said:

Cow. You'll be needing a cow. Three would be better.

And land mines.

Rabbits are surely easier for wiping ones arse?

I'll try that and get back to you.

I'm told the same does not hold true for hedgehogs.

[dirky dirk]

Pickled said:

4x4 Response sticker?

. This was an old post.
But it’s very funny.
Well done

[DonkeyApple]

mybrainhurts said:

DonkeyApple said:

mybrainhurts said:

Cow. You'll be needing a cow. Three would be better.

And land mines.

Rabbits are surely easier for wiping ones arse?

I'll try that and get back to you.

I'm told the same does not hold true for hedgehogs.

Possibly has a use for an initial wipe or stubborn clingons?

[anonymous-user]

Countdown said:

Is that CostCo? if so you could argue that bulkbuying is the norm.....

It is the norm, my neighbour asked me if I was a prepper, I replied no just a costco member.

[Drawweight]

Maybe not quite to that extent but we use Costco for stocking up on toilet rolls, kitchen paper, washing pods and general cleaning stuff.

We go a couple of time’s a year max and seldom buy much else.

Another benefit is the cheap(ish) petrol.

[CoolHands]

So given the latest shambles, (energy companies going under, fuel nowhere to be found, food products hit & miss) I’m thinking it’s wise to start planning on running a higher stock of certain household items. It’s more & more apparent just how close we always are to major shortages given the farcical planning in this country. Anyone else?

I also have 2 led torches, so bring it on

[paralla]

I carried 1.6 square meters of firewood up four flights of stairs and stored it on my roof terrace yesterday. The Log burner means we won’t go cold if there are electricity or gas outages this winter.

[DonkeyApple]

CoolHands said:

So given the latest shambles, (energy companies going under, fuel nowhere to be found, food products hit & miss) I’m thinking it’s wise to start planning on running a higher stock of certain household items. It’s more & more apparent just how close we always are to major shortages given the farcical planning in this country. Anyone else?

I also have 2 led torches, so bring it on

It's at moments of extreme crisis and fear that we must do our best to survive. I doubt many people will be alive after Christmas.

In a country where a handful of tinpot fast and loose energy entities tried to sell at a loss to gain market share before the inevitable commodity spike that they were never going to survive, where on petrol vendor cut premium fuel from a few dozen shops because in the 5 years since Brexit they didn't want to pay more for non third world labour and where its become difficult to find ripe avocados in every shop in town, we are truly in the dark ages and doomed. Of course, it might just be that half the country are dim witted, easily scared bog roll fetishists.

[Evoluzione]

paralla said:

I carried 1.6 square meters of firewood up four flights of stairs and stored it on my roof terrace yesterday. The Log burner means we won’t go cold if there are electricity or gas outages this winter.

Sorry to be pedantic, but 1.6 Sqm of wood, would be of zero height, you mean a cubic metre. Probably 1 cubic metre (1m3) looking at your pic.
I do like prepping though

[Scabutz]

I have large quantities of wine in an underground vault. Come the revolution if you need me I'll be drunk as fk, and probably useless.