What have done towards your prep?

[Pete Grey]

I think as most of us who haven’t much space for chickens or rabbits for meat, rely on tinned meat, wether corned beef, pork, spam, chicken breast, tuna etc as the only way to provide protein after an event, when all the freezers have died. There aren’t all that many pigeons and squirrels to shoot.

Any fruit and veg you can grow is a Godsend but will not be enough for a balanced diet, even one tin of meat a day

Work on the open veranda/canopy should start soon.

after an event, any amount of tinned food is not going to last for ever, at some point it will all be eaten, without a back up supply in some form, people will go hungry. during WW2 British people kept Chickens and Rabbits in their back yards and fed them on scraps, they also dug over any ground they could find to grow veg, near where I live in WW2 there was a mile long Potato "clamp" so dont tell me it cant be done.
as for Pigeons and Squirrels you'd better move down here, there are loads everywhere I go, plus Pheasants, Deer-Red and Roe, Foxes, Badgers plus visiting Ducks and Geese.

I’m sticking to tinned meats, i’ve enough to outlast the meds by 3 or 4 months, when you’re in your 80th year meds are more important than the crops I might have been able to grow 20 years ago, but certainly not now.

I'm 75, but I'm not relying on meds to keep me going, in fact I try to limit any meds I have to take, I dont even take pain killers for a head ache if I can avoid it, I dont trust modern medicines too many side effects. I didnt have any of the Covid shots.
I'm growing food, it dosent take that much effort, I use the no dig method , mostly raised beds and tubs, which takes a lot of the strain out of it.

I said meat for protein.