Adding to Preps - Beginner Prepper UK
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- "Consistency is key" - some more food preps and other bits gathered up recently.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & food preps
02:03 Non-food preps
03:09 Car organiser
04:55 Portable cooker & mess tin set
05:26 Water purification tablets
05:52 Sharpening stones
06:02 MREs
07:14 Menstrual cup
08:38 Whey protein powder
09:35 Prep pantry & thoughts
You coming on leaps and bounds since we spoke!!! love it
Thanks Mike! Learning lots from the UK Prepper Network (and your channel) so thank you for introducing me.
Some great additions there 👍..like I said on insta, you can’t go wrong with Wayfarer..I’ve never found one I don’t like, even the veggie options are amazing. They’re not cheap, but they’re good. I’m with you on the protein shakes, my protein double choc brownie is the best I’ve found. The diet whey is the worst 😆…well done on the additions, take care, Mark
Thanks Mark, appreciate the Wayfarer recommendations (I'd hate to waste my money on food I didn't like!) and glad you found a protein shake you like too!
Thank you for talking about and showing the menstrual cup, this is something that most prepper channels just gloss over, lumping it under "female hygiene products" and promptly moving on 😞 I think it is a very important prep for every female, having a couple of spare ones is a good bet.
Thank you for donating it to someone who will benefit from having it ❤
ALDIs own brand microwave rice pouch's are also handy for the pantry as they can be eaten cold if needed (as they are already precooked) or can be added to a can of say chilli and heated for a quick hot meal.
Those fuel tablets really stink when you burn them, so use in well ventilated area 🙂
Wayfarer is a good choice and again can be eaten cold if needed.
I think that you now have to stop thinking of yourself as a beginner prepper, you are gaining ground with every video 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks Lee! Maybe I will 'level up' on prepping once I test a few items out. Thanks for the recommendation on Aldi's rice pouches - and for the warning about the fuel tablets!
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency Yes, testing yourself is a lot more important than trusting someone else's opinion, much better than getting lots of something then finding out that you don't like it or it doesn't work for you 🙂
Best of luck on your journey with prepping. Please don't get discouraged. Prepping is what your grandparents did on a daily basis. All it is is another insurance policy that you are in charge of..
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words. You're right, and such a shame that so many skills have been lost in the space of two generations. I look forward to learning some of them!
Awesome preps :) Totally get your fella thinking you've lost the plot mine thinks so to but he's trying lol he wanders around Lidl while i do the shop picking up things that "could be useful" bless him lol.
Bless him - your partner sounds like a good egg.
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency he has his moments lol
Hi from the North East ❤. Good luck 👍 😊. Don't worry about your other half thinking you're nuts 😜. I believe they'll appreciate it when SHTF ! You keep going. 💯 my advice on the floor is get a hand mill and some non gmo grain. Last forever and make it when you need it ✨️
Haha that's my logic too. He keeps reminding me "I bet you can't wait to say 'I told you so'" 😛
The handmill and grain is on the wishlist! 🙂 Appreciate your advice, thank you.
When I began my husband thought I had hone round the bend but it didn't take him long to get on board. Thanks for the video.
You can save so much money if your purchase washable sanitary napkins and or period panties. Then you will have more money to prep. You could also put together a get home bag for your car. Don't get discouraged! Keep prepping.
Yes I love my reusable menstrual cloths, they're great money-savers! And good idea - I have a home bag in my wardrobe at the moment but think the car would be a better place for it. Thank you for your suggestions and support!
Canned heat is great to reheat cans of food and boiling water. Don't forget a can opener for your car.
Thanks Peggy! I had to google canned heat (and then had to google 'canned heat product' as it just showed me a band with the same name haha). Good idea on the car can opener!
You could also put some smaller shelves onto your shelves to Increase storage
Good idea - lots of height space wasted here.
Start vac sealing your flour, sugar, pastas and anything else you are not using in your working pantry. Don't use oxygen absorbers in the sugar because it will turn into a brick hard mass. There is lots of information on CZcams about preserving food to make it last for years and years. Anything you can purchase that is hand operated to replace anything run by electricity will also come in handy. There is a saying that One is None and Two is One. Backups are going to come in handy, especially multiple can openers. Thank you for covering the menstrual cup. Those days are long gone for me but our adult daughter will benefit from one.
Thanks so much for all the helpful tips! Good shout on the multiple can openers, especially as one of ours broke recently! Also like the tip abuot hand-operated tools/equipment too. A subscriber kindly gifted me a vac sealer recently - now I just need to learn how to use it haha. Thanks again
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency when you can, purchase some non-gmo wheat berries. You can grind these into flour to make bread. You can grow wheat from the berries and you can soak them for a cereal type meal. You don’t need yeast for all bread recipes. There are fry pan bread recipes. Print recipes to have on hand if/when power is not available. ❤️
@@jessicasarmy8896 Thanks so much! Have had a few subscribers strongly suggest getting non-gmo wheat berries. It's on my to-buy list :) Fry pan bread sounds lovely!
How dare you not like baked beans with sausages lol, and then you have the cheek to like black beans. I despair. Like you I have to use non scented, for sensative skin to, might try that bio stuff. I love you dog, a french bulldog? You might want to get a a water straw to, then you can filter water as you are on the move.
Hahahhaha love this comment, Josh 😆I've nothing against baked beans, just the tinned sausages 😄 I am a sausage snob haha - grew up eating nice N.Ire sausages and the ones over here just aren't the same. Spud is an English bulldog (though he's still got his puppy face so has some growing to do yet haha). Good shout on a water straw, thank you - it's on the wishlist!
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency And what is wrong with our sausages here? Dig yourself a hole woman! haha
Wicked prepared on CZcams shows how to make meals in a jar. Better than MRE.
Thank you for sharing, I've now subscribed to Wicked Prepared (not heard of them before!) It would be amazing to make my own meals in a jar.
You don't like pork n beans/beans and sausages, and put pineapple on your pizza,ohhh no what's the world coming to 😆🤣😂, you can get transparent tubs from Argos,i think they are for shoes, usually around a tenner for 3 your flour and pasta will fit perfectly in them and protect them from insects and other pests, nice shelving rack, some nice essentials you've added to your preps,as for in your car bring a flask of hot water so you can make yourself a cuppa tea/coffee or a cuppa soup etc.
Hahahaha, I don't mind baked beans, I'm just a sausage snob after growing up eating nice sausages in N.Ire - they aren't the same over here haha.
Storage tubs do look very nice and organised from what I've seen on other CZcams channels.
....You aren't going to like this....but I don't drink tea or coffee either! (Unless not feeling well and even then it's fruit tea) 😄🤭
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency yes you can't beat an Irish breakfast, proper black pudding and white pudding and soda and potato bread and proper sausages,I do like the deluxe sausages and chipolatas from Lidl,I do like a fruit or herbal tea with honey,but I do like my earl grey tea.
@@OutdoorPrepper2025 All sounds lovely!
Love that you mentioned soda AND potato bread (potato bread especially is a firm favourite).
I find that if I wait for three months, the supermarkets ALWAYS have things on special offer, coffee especially. It's at these times i buy my coffee etc. I would get 6 jars and 6 cheaper jars. half a years worth.
Good thinking - love a special offer! Worth keeping an eye out :)
If you're concerned about displaying your stuff or even to protect it from things like rodents or whatever why not buy some plastic tubs/bins to put it in?
They will sit on the shelves or you can just stack them in a corner or under a bed etc.
Might mean a bit more work in terms of keeping track of it but may be worth it.
I've just had to throw some stuff out in our cellar as a couple of mice managed to get in in spite of the fact I was certain that it was sealed against them.
Good suggestion with the plastic tubs/bins - they look the part as well (from other CZcams videos I've watched) 🙂 Like you say, think I'd need a whiteboard system to keep track of it all! I'm one of those "out of sight, out of mind" people.
Oh noooo, sorry to hear about your mice issue. We had a mouse infestation at my old workplace and I remember the pest control guy saying the only thing mice can't chew through is metal.
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency Actually just after I posted I walked into our Kitchen and noticed something else we have which would be better imo.
They're like an industrial cabinet in metal but much cheaper. They have 2 doors and shelves top and bottom and a couple of drawers in the middle.
They sound horrible but they're dark grey and have a real industrial sort of feel to them and you can lock all the doors/drawers if you want to.
They're about 1.8m h x 800 wide and as deep as your shelves look.
We're in Australia but they were just at a Hardware chain store on special so maybe you can get them.
Alternatively you may find second hand ones you can paint up.
Much better than tubs imo as you can just open the doors or use the drawers without mucking around.
Good for chucking things like bread makers and air fryers in as well.
@@oldbloke204 The metal unit sounds like a better job - and know what you mean about less messing around!
@@StrivingforSelfSufficiency Yeah we're very impressed with them and have one in the kitchen and another one in the laundry.
Our place is pretty old so they fit in pretty well in our opinion.
If we ever move or do something different then can go down the shed for tools or whatever.
You might have to look at weight limits on the shelves if you plan on loading up with cans but it doesn't take much to spread light and heavy stuff around.
I hope you can find something as I think that they're good for this purpose and you can even chuck stuff on top.