Are you prepared? Got your emergency grab bag ready?

[Pickman's model]

Thanks goodness. Cheese ought to come out of the fridge before serving, to reach room temperature. But it should not be stored at room temperature for long periods.

Yeh that would be crackers

 

[Mation]

All you really need is a gun and then you can just take stuff that other people put in their grab bags.

In similar vein, you should always take your own bomb onto a plane, as it is statistically unlikely that there will be two

 

[JuanTwoThree]

In similar vein, you should always take your own bomb onto a plane, as it is statistically unlikely that there will be two

Baldrick kept a bullet with his name on it.

 

[Mation]

I always carry a (fish) gutting knife, hickory chips, a folding smoking box of my own design, some fishing line, weight and hook so in the event of an emergency I can catch, clean and smoke a fish

You're going to need some heavy-duty Rizlas.

 

[Manter]

In Sudan we had a grab bag containing all the important documents passports, residency documents etc. and a fistful of dollars. We had been advised to do so by the British embassy.

As a Sudanese friend said to me ‘I moved halfway round the world to get away from stuff like this’

 

[JuanTwoThree]

You're going to need some heavy-duty Rizlas.

Proper Tidy 's got some that can survive anything

 

[Mation]

Proper Tidy 's got some that can survive anything

And when, at last, the aliens come, they will be greeted only by stoner cockroaches

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm not leaving the house regardless, its secure here. Food in the cupboard.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

If it were a real emergency I would just grab someone else's bag

 

[Baronage-Phase]

You’ve always got a bag with cheese in it? Where do you store the bag? How often do you rotate the cheese stock?

Well...I love cheese so... it's replaced quite often or used to be. I'm probably going to have to cut back on cheese soon

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Ps.

"So picture this. It’s a bona fide emergency survival situation. You are holed up on your home and living off of the emergency preparedness supplies you stored. And you’ve got one heck of a hankering for some yummy melted cheese. But you’re just not in the mood for the Velveeta, that nasty powdered stuff, or the “squirt” kind of cheese. You want a good solid bite of a yummy Parmesan, or Swiss, or a sharp cheddar. (I’m making myself drool even as I write this.) But hey, cheese doesn’t store for a very long time, right? Well, in this case, I’m happy to tell you that you’re wrong. And if you’re a true cheese addict, then you’ll be happy to hear that you’re wrong for once, right?

So here’s the good news. You CAN have your favorite cheese on hand, even in an emergency, and even though no stores are open and you have no access to electricity. All you have to do is buy the hard blocks of cheese that you want now in order to have them stored for up to the next 25 years. Cheese wax prevents your cheese from developing mold or bacteria and it keeps the moisture in. Simply use a combination of dipping and brushing with a natural boar's hair brush to apply the melted cheese wax liberally to your block of cheese, let it harden, and then, VOILA – you’ve got your wish. Cheese treated with cheese wax will store for up to 25 years at a mild to cool temperature. Sure, it will continue to age. But it sure won’t get moldy! (And even if it does in parts, you can simply cut off that part, and re-wax over it.)"

Read more at Cheese Wax Will Save Us All



SEE ?

 

[A380]

If truth be told I could quite get into prepping. I reckon if I lived in the US I'd probably be really into it.

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That's a civilian UK respirator. Just saying...

 

[A380]

Whilst I had go bags in a number of previous jobs; chocolate, pens and batteries formed most of the content. In home life though:

• Condoms*
• My favourite soft toy
• A copy of À la recherche du temps perdu with each volume printed on waterproof paper and indexed with tabs for quick reference in an emergency
• An anglepoise lamp
• Some gerbils
• A comfy armchair
• Some kind of brass instrument (tuba or above)
• Matchmakers - mint flavour - so when some one asks if anyone has a match I can get them out and then look hurt when they call me a fuckwit
• A jaunty hat made of ballistic ripstock nylon in tactical black, with a feather
• More condoms**

Starter for 10.

* You can use them to carry up to three pints of water, dress a badly cut finger or make an emergency catapult for killing game or deterring large carnivores .

** and those ones as well, sigh...

 

[danny la rouge]

. I'm probably going to have to cut back on cheese soon

I sympathise comrade.

 

[danny la rouge]

Ps.

"So picture this. It’s a bona fide emergency survival situation. You are holed up on your home and living off of the emergency preparedness supplies you stored. And you’ve got one heck of a hankering for some yummy melted cheese. But you’re just not in the mood for the Velveeta, that nasty powdered stuff, or the “squirt” kind of cheese. You want a good solid bite of a yummy Parmesan, or Swiss, or a sharp cheddar. (I’m making myself drool even as I write this.) But hey, cheese doesn’t store for a very long time, right? Well, in this case, I’m happy to tell you that you’re wrong. And if you’re a true cheese addict, then you’ll be happy to hear that you’re wrong for once, right?

So here’s the good news. You CAN have your favorite cheese on hand, even in an emergency, and even though no stores are open and you have no access to electricity. All you have to do is buy the hard blocks of cheese that you want now in order to have them stored for up to the next 25 years. Cheese wax prevents your cheese from developing mold or bacteria and it keeps the moisture in. Simply use a combination of dipping and brushing with a natural boar's hair brush to apply the melted cheese wax liberally to your block of cheese, let it harden, and then, VOILA – you’ve got your wish. Cheese treated with cheese wax will store for up to 25 years at a mild to cool temperature. Sure, it will continue to age. But it sure won’t get moldy! (And even if it does in parts, you can simply cut off that part, and re-wax over it.)"

Read more at Cheese Wax Will Save Us All
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SEE ?

When I go to Co Cork I see waxed eggs in the shops.

 

[Yossarian]

I've got swimming trunks, a snorkel, a towel, a bucket, a spade, a bottle of water, and some interesting rocks the 8-year-old collected on a previous excursion. OK, it's the beach bag, not an emergency grab bag, but some of this stuff might come in handy, depending on what kind of disaster we're dealing with.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

When I go to Co Cork I see waxed eggs in the shops.

Really? I've never seen them. Read about them though

 

[peterkro]

Well quite.
The populous in NZ is also urged to have such a bag but they are always having fecking earthquakes so....

The irony is it was always Wellingtonians who would have earthquake kits and went on about them ad nauseium,Wellington being overdue to fall in the sea by many generations. As far as I'm aware hardly anyone gave a fuck (maybe some of the middle classes in Cashmere and Sumner ) in Christchurch where a big one hit. Of course post horse bolting they want everyone to be prepared.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Lupa I love that you have emergency cheese

 

[MickiQ]

Will I be required to kill any zombies? If so I shall start packing a bag immiediately

 

[A380]

Ps.

"So picture this. It’s a bona fide emergency survival situation. You are holed up on your home and living off of the emergency preparedness supplies you stored. And you’ve got one heck of a hankering for some yummy melted cheese. But you’re just not in the mood for the Velveeta, that nasty powdered stuff, or the “squirt” kind of cheese. You want a good solid bite of a yummy Parmesan, or Swiss, or a sharp cheddar. (I’m making myself drool even as I write this.) But hey, cheese doesn’t store for a very long time, right? Well, in this case, I’m happy to tell you that you’re wrong. And if you’re a true cheese addict, then you’ll be happy to hear that you’re wrong for once, right?

So here’s the good news. You CAN have your favorite cheese on hand, even in an emergency, and even though no stores are open and you have no access to electricity. All you have to do is buy the hard blocks of cheese that you want now in order to have them stored for up to the next 25 years. Cheese wax prevents your cheese from developing mold or bacteria and it keeps the moisture in. Simply use a combination of dipping and brushing with a natural boar's hair brush to apply the melted cheese wax liberally to your block of cheese, let it harden, and then, VOILA – you’ve got your wish. Cheese treated with cheese wax will store for up to 25 years at a mild to cool temperature. Sure, it will continue to age. But it sure won’t get moldy! (And even if it does in parts, you can simply cut off that part, and re-wax over it.)"

Read more at Cheese Wax Will Save Us All



SEE ?

This may be the best and most useful thing I have read this month.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Lupa I love that you have emergency cheese

Life would be miserable without it.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Lupa I love that you have emergency cheese

Years ago I was in hospital for 3 weeks and had a stash of cream crackers and cheddar in the locker next to the bed. It cheered me up no end. Plus its really the cheese that I love. The crackers are merely a conduit.
I've always kept some safe just in case.

 

[danny la rouge]

Really? I've never seen them. Read about them though

Yes, they call them “buttered eggs”. It’s not butter, though.

If you go to Cork city, go to the English Market. All sorts of foodstuffs there.

 

[Celyn]

... Simply use a combination of dipping and brushing with a natural boar's hair brush to apply the melted cheese wax liberally to your block of cheese...

First catch your boar, of course.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Yes, they call them “buttered eggs”. It’s not butter, though.

If you go to Cork city, go to the English Market. All sorts of foodstuffs there.

I've been there.

 

[friedaweed]

1. Can this be merged with all the other preper threads that are waiting like coiled springs just behind pogofish 's couch?

 

[bellaozzydog]

My rather metal heavy Go kit for Baghdad and Kirkuk travels.
Lacking fishing tackle, personal toiletries and flashlight

Large union flag for waving at Americans so they don’t shoot you



Wearing most of it

 

[friedaweed]

My rather metal heavy Go kit for Baghdad and Kirkuk travels.
Lacking fishing tackle, personal toiletries and flashlight

Large union flag for waving at Americans so they don’t shoot you



Wearing most of it

No tooth brush. Dirteh fucker

 

[kebabking]

I only took one rifle, but a lot more food...