My own personal shtf.

[Scythe13]

(20 March 2012, 10:14)TOF Wrote: Nope not personal at all.

Flour. I had 24lbs stored. Because I'm making the more expensive foods go further, I'm using far more and I'm making filleruppers(plain scones etc).
Baking powder. Because of above. I don't store self raising flour because it raising agent goes off too quickly.
Dehydrated veg. Again I can't believe how much I'm using.
Cake ingredients. dried fruit, dessicated coconut ground almonds
Dried full fat milk.
Home canned fruit.
Home canned meat.
Stock cubes.
And worst of all...... I RAN OUT OF BOVRIL!!!!!!
I was aware of the shortcomings in home preserved produce. That is something I hope to sort once my situation improves and I can start building up reserves again. I ate my last jars of pickled beetroot, pickled cucumber, home canned cherries, apples, and sauerkraut.
It has been a real moral booster to have some nice stuff in the stores.

Stuff that I will find a new home for. It's mostly canned stuff.

Cheap Hotdogs(bleughhhh!)
Sardines.
Green beans
peas & carrots.

I've also found there has been much less wastage. This has pretty much been a subconscious thing. If I haven't eaten it the chickens have. Both the chickens and the attack cat have been on short rations. Something else I need to do is put more animal food by.

Sounds like it's all been quite an education.

I like the fact you say about how you say that having nice food in the stores is a morale booster!!! That's one of the reasons I have so much chocolate in all my bags. The stuff is heavy, but still manageable. That morale boost is important, I think. That's also why I did have some of those hard boiled sweets, but AlyBear tucked in to them. Thankfully SD said they become to sticky, so it's a good job we started on them soon enough to not find that out the hard way.....or the sticky way. I'm thinking of going down the tinned mints route instead. Something sweet, like hard boiled sweets. Any ideas?

If those hotdogs are going, I'll have them right off you. Love them (I know it's a really bad thing to admit, but I have around 10 tins of them, and I want LOADS more. What can I say, I'm still a student at heart haha.