Next time you make a withdrawal from your bank, ask to be paid in gold

beaujolais-nouveau

itsnever2lateisit? wrote: »

You can spend them with me 1 sovereign =£1:D

And with me Who knows, three years hence, I may be saying to you: three gold sovereigns for this tin of cherry pie filling from my stash? - certainly, sir.

Davesnave

And with me Who knows, three years hence, I may be saying to you: three gold sovereigns for this tin of cherry pie filling from my stash? - certainly, sir.

Cherry pie filling? Eeuurrkk! If you are going to have a stash, at least make it a healthy, nutritious one.

Mind you, as I've said before, the only decent meal I've found to come out of a tin is chilli-con-carne, and that still needs heavy doctoring. I'm off to play with a tin of chicken curry now, but I know it will just end up tasting like hot, spiced dog food.

Don't ask me how I know....

beaujolais-nouveau

Davesnave wrote: »

Cherry pie filling? Eeuurrkk! If you are going to have a stash, at least make it a healthy, nutritious one. .

I happen to like it - but not all the time, of course, so there is other stuff in my stash. Someone on another forum, who said he was stockpiling 250 tins a month, recommended M&S Irish Stew. That is on special offer just now, so I bought two but will have to test one: most tinned meals are, I find, pretty inedible but perhaps this will be OK. Incidentally, M&S Irish Stew seems a lot healthier than M&S steak pie filling which, if I remember the label correctly, had twice as much sugar, fat and salt in it than the Irish stew.

Davesnave wrote: »

Mind you, as I've said before, the only decent meal I've found to come out of a tin is chilli-con-carne, and that still needs heavy doctoring. I'm off to play with a tin of chicken curry now, but I know it will just end up tasting like hot, spiced dog food..

How was it? (The tinned chicken curry.)

Davesnave

The curry was better than expected, thanks, after I'd tweaked it with extra veg and spices. It was quite healthy too, compared with those from the chiller, and certainly cheaper. OK not something I'd want regularly, but in a crisis, 'needs must' and all that.

I remember Irish stew from student days; 10p a tin from the corner shop. Might give that a go too, purely in the interests of research.

I presume the 250 tin/month stockpiler is intending to make a profit, rather than eat them all? A risky strategy in my opinion. Unlike gold, tins are harder to hide.....and if you bury them they go rusty. On the up-side, they will be useful to donate to the local soup kitchens if the crisis passes and we all become incredibly rich again, thanks to our extremely valuable houses.

econo_2

ad9898 wrote: »

For what it's worth I think the 'gold boat' has been missed, if you were going to hedge, it should have been done 6 months ago.

Sorry Ad don't think it is worth a lot. We could quite easily see $2000 dollar gold and then the current record would look cheap. It amazes me how many think we are at the bottom and starting the first bend to recovery. No bottom has been reached in this fiasco, the dominos continue to fall daily around the globe and it will only take one leaked story of a big Asian powerhouse to be stockpiling gold and selling dollars for it to go ballistic and everything else to collapse again. And this time there is no money left in the pot for a 'steadying the markets' game.

You ain't seen nothing yet. :j

chucky

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

and let us know how you get on!

why would anyone want to do that?

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

The curry was better than expected, thanks, after I'd tweaked it with extra veg and spices. It was quite healthy too, compared with those from the chiller, and certainly cheaper. OK not something I'd want regularly, but in a crisis, 'needs must' and all that.

I remember Irish stew from student days; 10p a tin from the corner shop. Might give that a go too, purely in the interests of research.

I presume the 250 tin/month stockpiler is intending to make a profit, rather than eat them all? A risky strategy in my opinion. Unlike gold, tins are harder to hide.....and if you bury them they go rusty. On the up-side, they will be useful to donate to the local soup kitchens if the crisis passes and we all become incredibly rich again, thanks to our extremely valuable houses.

Gosh you're brave with the tinned goods experimentation. I was wondering, as you are a gardener, if you have 'clamped/earth stored ' veg? I haven't and I'm inbtrigued by it. I have low tolerance to things like checking stored apples, as does my mother, so we freeze a lot of our produce. We do some bottling, but freezing is just so much easier:o

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Gosh you're brave with the tinned goods experimentation. I was wondering, as you are a gardener, if you have 'clamped/earth stored ' veg? I haven't and I'm inbtrigued by it. I have low tolerance to things like checking stored apples, as does my mother, so we freeze a lot of our produce. We do some bottling, but freezing is just so much easier:o

Well, in my rented garden, I've been too busy dealing with the brambles, emerging nettles and two years of general neglect to actually plant anything, and my nursery garden is so stack full of my old stock there's no room to build a clamp.

However, the apples (Russets) I bulk-bought before Christmas have stored well, buried under sacking in the cold garage. When we had an allotment years ago, we just left stuff like carrots & leeks in the ground till we needed them. I used to bury a few plants like fuchsias in damp sand/peat to protect them in thecold winters we used to have, but I've not bothered for ages.

We had dozens of Kilner jars, but DW refused to do any more bottling, so we sold most of them off before moving. Fruit used to keep in those for ages but, like you, we preferred the frozen kind.

As you say, the good thing about freezing is that there's no risk of contamination from one fruit/veg going bad. I am not good at checking up on things either, but I bet I'd improve if our food depended on it, as it did long ago.

The tinned food thing is just a sideline. I do have a stash, but it's not speculative, like that of the stockpiler beaujolais was mentioning. If we ever need it, I won't be shouting that we have it!