• Being Prepared

    Published On: October 5, 2025Categories: Prepping

    Be prepared was my Girl Guide motto, and one I have tried to live by ever since. I see lots of posts on social media at the moment about preparation. This may be for winter, [...]

  • Knowing how much food to preserve

    Published On: September 19, 2025Categories: Foraging For Food, Growing Food, Prepping

    My kichen feels like a factory at the moment.  I am exhausted. Garden and foraged food have been preserved to get us through the winter. I am better at planning my preserving now.  Notes have [...]

  • 3 cooking ingredients with 1 kg of tomatoes.

    Published On: September 13, 2025Categories: Prepping, Saving money on food

    I have a glut of big tomatoes at the moment. We are eating lots every day but I don't want to waste any. I have no more jars to make passatta, and no room in [...]

  • Getting ready for Autumn

    Published On: September 5, 2025Categories: Living Simply, Prepping

    The garden is slowing down and the leaves on the trees are starting to go yellow. This has given me a nudge to start getting ready for Autumn and the following winter. I can't believe [...]

  • Water bathing compote

    Published On: August 8, 2025Categories: Foraging For Food, Prepping

    We have a massive bag of foraged apples to process, and we went blackberry picking today. I managed to squeeze one bag of blackberries into the freezer, but had lots left. Water bathing  blackberry and [...]

  • Could you survive with no electricity?

    Published On: August 21, 2024Categories: Prepping, Wellbeing

    I noticed that last week the energy companies warned us that there might be outages caused by solar storms.  I have also read about weapons that could be used in a war situations called EMPs [...]

  • Prepping frugally

    Published On: August 10, 2024Categories: Prepping, Saving money on food

    What is a prepper? A prepper is someone who prepares for the worst case scenarios and future catastrophes.  I am a bit of a prepper. That doesn't mean that I think that there will be [...]