THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Karmacat · 22 April 2017 at 9:40AM

As I mentioned on the KM thread, I'm sorting my first aid stuff today ... two different long term storage places, plus a little "bug out" pack filled with ibuprofen and OTC stuff like that, plus an everyday box so I don't need to fetch from the main storage every time I use something. It needs some TLC, thats for sure!

And having read this thread this morning, I'm going to make myself a resource document about savoury rhubarb, love it.

ETA - just read ivyleaf's post properly, after seeing fuddle's post below

so sorry ivyleaf. I hope your DD is better soon.

fuddle · 22 April 2017 at 9:52AM

ivyleaf my heart goes out to your DD. Is her pain under control? The thought of the pleurisy pain for that amount of time is sending shudders down my spine, and that's without the pneumonia! So sorry, what a predicament. Is she normally fit and well ivyleaf?

I get to start from scratch with my freezer Lyn and although I'll never rely on it for preps (remember I lost a whole load with a freezer breakdown when in the damp house?) I am going to use it carefully to help rather than just incase yummies too.

Speaking of which how long will milk, butter and cream last in the freezer may I ask?

GQ I dunno about soapbox but I was nodding through all of your post. I am lucky that I have DH with a company car and [STRIKE]paid[/STRIKE] heavily taxed petrol so weekends I do get to socialise and experience but week days I am on foot, feel pretty isolated and just make do in my surroundings. It costs me and 8 year old £1.95 single journey to get 1.6 miles from school to home. Public transport to get my DD to school and back on a daily basis is out of the question because I too have a craw and begrudge it.

The bus service is an absolute must round here and I want to support it, especially as I choose to not have a car, but something has to give to help the ordinary folk feel like it's not an indulgent spend. I really do feel like a consumer wasting money when I could do without if I even think about leaving my locality. That probably says more about me than the price of a bus fare though.

Karmacat · 22 April 2017 at 10:21AM

greenbee wrote: »

Try these Lyn:

Beetroot & rhubarb salad
with lentils as a curry
with goats cheese and peppers

lots more out there...

ooh.... and this

I need rhubarb...

I'm making my rhubarb resource document :rotfl: These are great, greenbee - but the linkie to the goats cheese and peppers doesn't work. I can imagine it, but just thought I'd let you know. Ta!

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[Deleted User] · 22 April 2017 at 10:48AM

KARMA one of my Scandi Cook Books has a suggestion for roasted rhubarb to serve with fish (mackerel in the recipe) and all they suggest you do is cut the stalks into 5cm pieces, brush them with vegetable oil, sprinkle with a little sugar and then put them on a baking sheet and cook at 180deg C in a pre heated oven for 15 minutes. Next time we have salmon I'll try this and let you know how it tastes. It's a veg accompaniment not a pud!

ivyleaf · 22 April 2017 at 10:48AM

Thank you Karmacat and fuddle :A :A TBH I probably wouldn't have mentioned DD's illness on here but I forgot which thread I was on

She was born on a Friday afternoon and we reckon she is a real "Friday afternoon model" (like they used to say about things like cars that kept going wrong). She is so fed up with being ill, she has had one medical problem after another these past few years including DVT and pulmonary embolism. We feel so sorry for her!

greenbee · 22 April 2017 at 12:48PM

Thanks for letting me know Karma. The 'insert link' was playing up when I did this and took several goes.

It's here: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/melty-rhubarb-goat-cheese-and-peppers/

Karmacat · 22 April 2017 at 1:39PM

Thank you for that! I found 3 recipes I already had stored, so now my little "resource book" has a total of ten, thats just right

covers a whole range of foods and skills

I may need to adapt this one, however (and I've adapted others - Yotam Ottolenghi wanted 20g of pickled flat parsley, not just "parsley"

life's too short for that ... I don't understand the need for parchment? If it needed to retain moisture, I'd put a lid on the casserole? I think I may just have to slum it

ivyleaf · 22 April 2017 at 1:54PM

greenbee that sounds really nice - and I'm not even that fond of goat's cheese!

Karmacat I've never even heard of pickled parsley! Perhaps it's much more common in the Middle East.

VJsmum · 22 April 2017 at 4:12PM

GreyQueen wrote: »

We need to reorganise transport so it begins to look daft to take a car (for those who have that option) on urban and suburban journeys.

climbs off soapbox

I travel by train A LOT. And it is, mostly, very efficient. BUT - I don't pay as OH gets free rail travel for the family (he works for a train operating company). I travel to London once or twice a month on the early morning commuter train - it takes an hour from where we live. I am very aware that some on that train pay £200 or more for their ticket (or the companies do) and it is always very busy.

I have just returned from holiday in the Czech Republic and Germany. We flew to Prague and then travelled everywhere else by train (mostly in Germany). they don't always work like clockwork - but they mostly do.. The trains are bigger and faster. We travelled standard class (we travel 1st class in the UK

) and standard was largely better than some UK companies' first. There's usually a dining car on the intercity trains - you can go and sit and have a meal, on a plate, decent sized, not too pricey (I had a massive salad for about £9 - so a little more than M & S prices, but bigger with a beer :beer: that was about £3.50 a pint).

In Stockholm, for example, most people do not own a car. They walk, take the tube or cycle. People live in the city (the family i know there live in a massive four bedroomed apartment, but it is over a chinese restaurant, something most UK citizens would choose to avoid. she is a university lecturer, he works at CERN so they are not short of cash, it is just the norm there). There are schemes you belong to whereby you can hire a car for anything from two hours (to do the shopping) or two or more weeks (to go on holiday).

We need the Gubment to increase car tax and petrol duty, and put that money into subsidising the railways, busses and cycle ways. But which government would actually put that into their manifesto.....

Perplexed_Pineapple · 22 April 2017 at 6:14PM

VJsmum wrote: »

We need the Gubment to increase car tax and petrol duty, and put that money into subsidising the railways, busses and cycle ways. But which government would actually put that into their manifesto.....

VJsmum, I'm all for more cycling and public transport. A lot of people have little option other than a car or motorbike though. The combination of fuel duty and VAT already means that about 60p in every pound spent at the petrol pump goes straight to the exchequer. People who drive as part of their business may be able to claim mileage from their employer or have fuel costs as a business expense but there are people who don't get anything - I am thinking of carers who have to drive between clients, short term contractors who work in different towns, that kind of thing. I can't think that hitting them harder is the right thing to do.

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