I'm now in my 70's, was raised to always keep a pantry, for when big bills come in, or visitors turn up or the weather takes a turn..so I've been a prepper for 50+ years now lol.. was fine during lockdown, had soap and loo rolls already in and cleaning stuffs, black bin bags etc, I don't go mad or overspend, just a few items each week, even helps keeping my food bills down.. have candles and spare batteries in too and cold and flu preps, plasters etc. Just always made sense to me, stock is as good as money anyday and peace of mind is precious.
@@suepoole8323 I think forgetting the ways of past generations is one of the problems my generation & my kids generation Everyone nowadays wants the perfect lawn or block paving in their garden (if they have one). My dad told me that his dad (my grandad - I never knew him as he died when I was a baby) turned his front garden over & grew potatoes in it. And his back garden had the greenhouse, henhouse & veg beds in it. Not a blade of grass in sight. And on top of that, a well stocked pantry, baking days on a Sunday for the week ahead & so on. Us younger folk (collectively) could certainly learn a thing or two from your generation.
Do it like this. £1 a day (or whatever you can afford to spend) & go shopping once a month just for preps. It was so much easier doing it this way than going weekly with £7. And I think we got quite a lot for £30 considering how expensive everything is nowadays Thanks for the comment 😀
Lots would turn their nose up at ASDA smart price groceries - but check the ingredients and compare to higher priced branded products and see the difference - less salt / sugar / additives . ASDA even paid out $15m so as to keep from being forced to use Aspartame as a sweetener that most branded juices and foods use . Used to shop there a lot till they changed to the self checkout crap taking over . We don't go for the store cards , way too much info being collected . Noticed in Iceland yesterday the in store radio announced - " get your store card and start saving , just hand it in at the till and show your ID to save " as they want to make certain the data they collect is verified against you . I prefer to stay under the radar and use cash as much as possible .
@@SaintsofAvalon I get the idea of not using store cards & only paying cash. And if I was making big bulk purchases (a case of beans, a case of hot dogs etc..) then I’d certainly not be making a transaction than could be tracked. But for a £30 shop across 3 shops, I’m confident all will be fine. When we 1st got married, smart price was all we could afford to eat. The only difference we found was you get a little less beans/peas/spaghetti loops & a bit more water/sauce. But if things are going south, having extra sauce in the beans or spaghetti loops or extra water in the veg won’t always be a bad thing. You can use some of your dried goods to bulk it out Yeah I’m not a fan of the self service tills. It was a nightmare ringing this lot through. I even asked for a till but they said nobody was available for it 😡
@@Suburbanpreppers David Cameron was the first PM to come out with " WE need the store card data to see what people are buying , and fine those who buy too much unhealthy food " ( unhealthy could be deemed to be Raman noodles or as the government has already told us to eat less fish due to heavy metals contamination - could be tinned tuna ) as he used the then current " fight on obesity " to push for the data . Then Boris tried and failed to allow the breach of data protection . And only yesterday under the new Labour government it starts as the data from schools show how there are more obese children than before = They will soon be asking for the data = We never ever use them and break the paper trail as much as possible . But prior to this our bank started sending out several pages of A4 " breakdowns " of where we had shopped over the full year with their reccomendation's as to where we should have shopped to save money ? - this was the start of using cash as much as possible around 17 year's ago . And you have to think about the self serve style of tills that now have camera's = facial recognition data as well as audio possibly collected ( Police system at same head height and they have you move around side to side to get the video just as you do going from basket to scan to bag at the other side giving both side and front view ) with your name etc through use of the card to verify plus what you purchased in one go . Iceland don't have self serve so require ID to complete the " verification " .....
@@dillonrobinson8468 for us personally, we think short-term events are more likely than doomsday scenarios. As an example, we have friends that live on the outskirts of a large town here in the northeast of England & they were his with a power outage that lasted nearly 2 years before the mains power was restored. This was in the depths of winter with snow & ice outside. They had no power, no way of keeping themselves or their kids warm & their pipes froze so they had no running water. Another example is when the supermarkets were stripped bare during Covid. Imagine how handy it’d be having the food on hand already so you don’t need to fight the hoards for a bag of pasta or a roll of toilet paper. And finally, just this evening we made spaghetti bolognaise. We didn’t realise we had no chopped tomatoes left in the kitchen so we just grabbed a couple of cans from our stores. Of course, if someone major was to happen, then it’d be good to have stuff on standby to hopefully make life a little easier for us.
Hi there 🙋🏻♀️ Great shop. I’m not a fan of spaghetti hoops, but if you blend it with a hand blender it tastes like a nice tomato soup and you can then always use it then for a cheap base for pasta etc. 👍
@@ruthsmith2367 yeah they aren’t the best. But in a pinch, they’ll do. Plus (as you said) you can bulk it out with pasta etc.. Thanks for taking the time to comment. We appreciate it
We got loads for 30 quid. Obviously the Asda vouchers helped bulk it out. But we’re happy with being able to start to replenish our stores again on a regular basis. Though we had to dip into it last night for some chopped tomatoes for our Spag Bol 😂
Nice stock up there and Asda is great but just a shame they have a very random approach to where they locate their stores - I always imagine them throwing a dart at the map on when it lands that's the place for the store
@@Mike_5 Hi Mike. Around where I live, all of the stores are where they’ve bought/leased the buildings of where other supermarkets have been (Safeway, co-op etc..) rather than being just Asda. I suppose it saves them a few quid on building a store. Previously there was none & suddenly we had 5 or 6 in close proximity to each other!
Just as easy to eat veggies with spuds, without all the salt in the canned stuff. all I've ever tasted in tins is salt. I do not use salt or any other heart attack material.
@@DawnSpence-i6v fresh veggies aren’t good for keeping sadly. But I do plan on getting a dehydrator soon (if funds allow) and hopefully I can store more then. Tinned food is not ideal. But it’ll do for now
There's no chance of spending that when you are celiac.. There's no meat or eggs or bread here. I just found your channel tonight. Is this just a pantry haul, but you have a fridge and freezer full?
@@karenrobinson129 i didn’t want to not acknowledge your response, but please be clear I’m not liking the fact that you can’t eat it. I’m liking that you took the time out of your day to respond to me. We’re fortunate in the fact that we can all eat pretty much anything without any immediate ill effects. It must be so hard for people with conditions such as celiac, dairy intolerance etc..
I’d love to go dumpster diving. But they’re usually behind locked gates so that could be classed as burglary if you got caught. Also (from when I worked in a supermarket), there’s something usually wrong with the food if it’s gone in the bin. However, it’d be a good way to raise funds if you sold the stuff on marketplace, car boot sales etc..
I'm now in my 70's, was raised to always keep a pantry, for when big bills come in, or visitors turn up or the weather takes a turn..so I've been a prepper for 50+ years now lol.. was fine during lockdown, had soap and loo rolls already in and cleaning stuffs, black bin bags etc, I don't go mad or overspend, just a few items each week, even helps keeping my food bills down.. have candles and spare batteries in too and cold and flu preps, plasters etc. Just always made sense to me, stock is as good as money anyday and peace of mind is precious.
@@suepoole8323 I think forgetting the ways of past generations is one of the problems my generation & my kids generation
Everyone nowadays wants the perfect lawn or block paving in their garden (if they have one). My dad told me that his dad (my grandad - I never knew him as he died when I was a baby) turned his front garden over & grew potatoes in it. And his back garden had the greenhouse, henhouse & veg beds in it. Not a blade of grass in sight. And on top of that, a well stocked pantry, baking days on a Sunday for the week ahead & so on.
Us younger folk (collectively) could certainly learn a thing or two from your generation.
That's how we were raised isn't it
Agreed, corned beef hash 😋 is brilliant 😊 great prep haul well done.
Myself (Robert) and the kids & dogs love it. Laura hates it. But she’s always been a bit funny 🤪
Good stuff man, ive gotta get back into prepping since I started youtube ive neglected it waaay too much
Do it like this. £1 a day (or whatever you can afford to spend) & go shopping once a month just for preps. It was so much easier doing it this way than going weekly with £7. And I think we got quite a lot for £30 considering how expensive everything is nowadays
Thanks for the comment 😀
Lots would turn their nose up at ASDA smart price groceries - but check the ingredients and compare to higher priced branded products and see the difference - less salt / sugar / additives . ASDA even paid out $15m so as to keep from being forced to use Aspartame as a sweetener that most branded juices and foods use .
Used to shop there a lot till they changed to the self checkout crap taking over .
We don't go for the store cards , way too much info being collected . Noticed in Iceland yesterday the in store radio announced - " get your store card and start saving , just hand it in at the till and show your ID to save " as they want to make certain the data they collect is verified against you .
I prefer to stay under the radar and use cash as much as possible .
@@SaintsofAvalon I get the idea of not using store cards & only paying cash. And if I was making big bulk purchases (a case of beans, a case of hot dogs etc..) then I’d certainly not be making a transaction than could be tracked. But for a £30 shop across 3 shops, I’m confident all will be fine.
When we 1st got married, smart price was all we could afford to eat. The only difference we found was you get a little less beans/peas/spaghetti loops & a bit more water/sauce. But if things are going south, having extra sauce in the beans or spaghetti loops or extra water in the veg won’t always be a bad thing. You can use some of your dried goods to bulk it out
Yeah I’m not a fan of the self service tills. It was a nightmare ringing this lot through. I even asked for a till but they said nobody was available for it 😡
@@Suburbanpreppers David Cameron was the first PM to come out with " WE need the store card data to see what people are buying , and fine those who buy too much unhealthy food " ( unhealthy could be deemed to be Raman noodles or as the government has already told us to eat less fish due to heavy metals contamination - could be tinned tuna ) as he used the then current " fight on obesity " to push for the data . Then Boris tried and failed to allow the breach of data protection . And only yesterday under the new Labour government it starts as the data from schools show how there are more obese children than before = They will soon be asking for the data = We never ever use them and break the paper trail as much as possible . But prior to this our bank started sending out several pages of A4 " breakdowns " of where we had shopped over the full year with their reccomendation's as to where we should have shopped to save money ? - this was the start of using cash as much as possible around 17 year's ago .
And you have to think about the self serve style of tills that now have camera's = facial recognition data as well as audio possibly collected ( Police system at same head height and they have you move around side to side to get the video just as you do going from basket to scan to bag at the other side giving both side and front view ) with your name etc through use of the card to verify plus what you purchased in one go . Iceland don't have self serve so require ID to complete the " verification " .....
What are you prepping for ?
The End....! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dillonrobinson8468 for us personally, we think short-term events are more likely than doomsday scenarios.
As an example, we have friends that live on the outskirts of a large town here in the northeast of England & they were his with a power outage that lasted nearly 2 years before the mains power was restored. This was in the depths of winter with snow & ice outside. They had no power, no way of keeping themselves or their kids warm & their pipes froze so they had no running water.
Another example is when the supermarkets were stripped bare during Covid. Imagine how handy it’d be having the food on hand already so you don’t need to fight the hoards for a bag of pasta or a roll of toilet paper.
And finally, just this evening we made spaghetti bolognaise. We didn’t realise we had no chopped tomatoes left in the kitchen so we just grabbed a couple of cans from our stores.
Of course, if someone major was to happen, then it’d be good to have stuff on standby to hopefully make life a little easier for us.
Hi there 🙋🏻♀️ Great shop. I’m not a fan of spaghetti hoops, but if you blend it with a hand blender it tastes like a nice tomato soup and you can then always use it then for a cheap base for pasta etc. 👍
@@ruthsmith2367 yeah they aren’t the best. But in a pinch, they’ll do. Plus (as you said) you can bulk it out with pasta etc..
Thanks for taking the time to comment. We appreciate it
@ For 19p we can’t grumble can we 😊
@ absolutely right we can 😂😂😂
You've got a lot of great stuff there❤
We got loads for 30 quid. Obviously the Asda vouchers helped bulk it out. But we’re happy with being able to start to replenish our stores again on a regular basis. Though we had to dip into it last night for some chopped tomatoes for our Spag Bol 😂
Nice stock up there and Asda is great but just a shame they have a very random approach to where they locate their stores - I always imagine them throwing a dart at the map on when it lands that's the place for the store
@@Mike_5 Hi Mike. Around where I live, all of the stores are where they’ve bought/leased the buildings of where other supermarkets have been (Safeway, co-op etc..) rather than being just Asda. I suppose it saves them a few quid on building a store. Previously there was none & suddenly we had 5 or 6 in close proximity to each other!
@Suburbanpreppers same here buddy not far from me they have two stores they bought about a 5min walk from each other 🙃
Just as easy to eat veggies with spuds, without all the salt in the canned stuff. all I've ever tasted in tins is salt. I do not use salt or any other heart attack material.
@@1carpmanic I try to pick the ones just in water for that reason. But we mostly use frozen veg at home. Tins for emergencies
Salt is necessary for life. Electrolytes contain salts
Well done keep up the good work
Thank you for the support Alan. We appreciate it
Would like to see more fresh veggies and frozen
@@DawnSpence-i6v fresh veggies aren’t good for keeping sadly. But I do plan on getting a dehydrator soon (if funds allow) and hopefully I can store more then. Tinned food is not ideal. But it’ll do for now
There's no chance of spending that when you are celiac.. There's no meat or eggs or bread here.
I just found your channel tonight. Is this just a pantry haul, but you have a fridge and freezer full?
@@karenrobinson129 yes this is just for items for the pantry/store cupboard. Fridge & freezer are just typical for a family
@Suburbanpreppers I thought that as I couldn't eat most of it.
@@karenrobinson129 i didn’t want to not acknowledge your response, but please be clear I’m not liking the fact that you can’t eat it. I’m liking that you took the time out of your day to respond to me.
We’re fortunate in the fact that we can all eat pretty much anything without any immediate ill effects. It must be so hard for people with conditions such as celiac, dairy intolerance etc..
@@Suburbanpreppers Wow! You took offence?🤔
@@karenrobinson129 took offence at what sorry?
You should have gone Dumpster diving at Cash & Carry near you as does these Dumpster divers on Y-TUBE claim?
I’d love to go dumpster diving. But they’re usually behind locked gates so that could be classed as burglary if you got caught.
Also (from when I worked in a supermarket), there’s something usually wrong with the food if it’s gone in the bin.
However, it’d be a good way to raise funds if you sold the stuff on marketplace, car boot sales etc..