Here is the latest item to my prepping supplies, its a super cheap Hultafors Craftmans Knife, this item is carbon steel and was ordered from Amazon and delivered for £6 total! the photo does not really do it justice, it was able to shave the hairs on my arm strait out the box..Whilst Mora are the standard for "budget" but quality knifes considering this knife is half the price and yet 95% as good quality its a real steal!.

If you would like to earn this knife for free you can do so here.

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Food prep

This is what i bought for £75 , here we have 60 litres of water (could not fit it all on the table) over 5kg of tinned meats, 10 tinned pies, 7kg of rice, pasta, 200 tea bags,curry sauce, ketchup,brown sauce,jams, vinegar,salt,pepper,tinned fruit and veg, beans, spaghetti, tinned minced beef, Irish stew,peanut butter,honey,corned beef hash, sardines. 5  - 100 gram bars of white chocolate.

This was my main food buy and i now add to this a couple of times a week. One prepper saying is "store what you eat and eat what you store" This is very important. Its no good storing food you wont ever use unless desperately needed and you don't want to have to throw away food that has gone bad so this is very important.

Why prep?

So I thought it would be a good idea to talk why i personally prep.

Prepping has had quite a lot of media coverage over the last months. With "doomsday preppers" on NatGeo and the Mayan calender ending on the 21st of December this has given some media coverage into the whole idea of prepping.

So why do people prep?? Well the reasons are highly varied and like anything there are people who take it to the next level. Some people prep for "TEOTWAWKI" (the end of the world as we know it) be this a super volcano erupting, a catastrophic Asteroid impact, Nucular wars, or complete economic and social breakdown. Whilst others simply prepare for more likely things - like severe weather,inflation,loss of earnings/job, power cuts ect.

I fall somewhere between the two camps, im aged 29 and im preparing for severe weather , power-cuts and a worsening economy. I believe inflation will push up food prices to the point where the wages a average non skilled worker in the UK can earn just wont be enough to survive on. These are my personal reasons to prepare.

By the time something happens its too late, i personally started prepping back when hurricane Sandy was just about to hit the US. Knowing people would be stuck in there homes with little to no water and food & no electricity. This was enough to make me realise how terribly unprepared i would be should anything ever happen like that where i live.

So i went out and spend £75 on value foods, mainly tinned goods with good dates (18 months at least) This was the basis for me and 2 other family members to store, equipment is something i started to focus on later.

Welcome.

Welcome to my blog! this blog will be related to urban prepping, the things i buy and store. I will also be listing the price of foods bought and the date and store i bought them from. It is my hope that this will be a good thing to look back on just to see how much prices fluctuate. I hope you enjoy my blog and it gives you some insight into reasons to prep.