As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

GreyQueen

jamanda wrote: »

So what do we think will go up (more than usual) then? I assume all flours, pasta, cooking oils - what am I missing. Have good store cupboard (still living down the embarrassment of DH finding my "emergency" stocks). Growing fruit and veg as far as possible.

Duh - all meat and poultry too because of the feed. (Am thick this morning).

I've got all of the above. My advice would be to punt in lots of tomato-based products (canned, puree, passata, ketcup) and baked beans. Can currently get 4 packs of Crosse and Blackwell baked beans in Iceland for a quid against 2 quid for 4 packs of Branston beans in Lidl. Wheat is a thickening agent in lots of processed foods inc sauces. Depends on what you and yours eat. I'm studying on best-before dates and working out what of the items I use I can store.

Love and peas GQ (sitting on the Tomato Mountain but still in a drought).

Oh, and rice, I think, and pulses and tinned fish.

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all cereals jamanda and anything else that uses cereals. I am wondering about farmed fish ie what do they eat?

I want to know how crops are doing in other parts of the world ie coffee, cocoa, tea, canadian wheat and so on. I think I`ll start examining the futures market again and that will give me a good idea, which I`ll pass on. I have started stocking up again after a short lapse, my wardrobe now holds 29 packets of pasta and my study holds lots of sugar (for preserves). I`ll be back to costco in 2 weeks and I am getting more bulk stuff like tomatoes and tinned sardines

FTM is absolutely right re what the farmer said, the wheat fields around the village are starting to yellow. The grass farmers were silaging this week and they should have had two good cuts in by now but they have had one poor cut and there will be a dire shortage of animal feed this winter. My guess is that farmers will start selling stock before winter, so that they have less to feed

bluebag

Russia has just announced that it is lifting it's ban on exports of wheat, so 5 million tons will come onto the global market this year, they have had an excellent crop this year.

So that may go some way to ease the bad crops here, although as this would have to be imported, not quite as cheap as homegrown.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Hi everyone

I have not been on here for a few days so I am way back on page 68.

If anyone is interested Home and Bargin are still doing tinned tomatos for 25p a tin and Tesco light choices baked beans are 4 for a pound at the moment.

I know the discussion about being taught home economics was pages ago but I was taught I the early 80's and out lessons were quite good. We had to plan and cook things such as a three course meals or packed lunches for a man with a physical job, a meal for a sick child or cater for a childrens birthday party. We cooked a lot of different meals and learned a lot of different techniques, cakes, pastry bread etc.

My two girls have not made much more than soup, sponge cakes and a bolognaise. The youngest has taken cookery as a GCSE and now seems to be cooking a wide variety of dishes all based on themes shuch as protein, milk etc. I have to say that some of the dishes she has coosen to cook are very expensive. I think that some frugal cookery should be taught in schools, especially as some parents do not seem to bother cooking themselves let alone teach their children how to cook.

Will nip off back to page 69 and continue to catch up.

Mrs VP

redlady_1

If I buy a sack of flour now, how can I kill off the weevils please? Obviously I cant stick it in the freezer. And if I do it now, does that mean they have a chance of coming back later? I really flipping HATE weevils. It took me about 3 months to get rid of them.:mad:

GQ - you already have 72 tins of tomatoes. I am worried about your mental health woman!

greenbee

kittie wrote: »

FTM is absolutely right re what the farmer said, the wheat fields around the village are starting to yellow. The grass farmers were silaging this week and they should have had two good cuts in by now but they have had one poor cut and there will be a dire shortage of animal feed this winter. My guess is that farmers will start selling stock before winter, so that they have less to feed

They've already started selling stock in some places. My aunt and uncle reckon that they won't be haymaking before harvest this years, and it'll be a poor crop as the grass should be getting long now and looks as if it has already been cut.

Maybe now is the time to get a oil and chickens to recycle any food waste...
!

GreyQueen

redlady_1 wrote: »

If I buy a sack of flour now, how can I kill off the weevils please? Obviously I cant stick it in the freezer. And if I do it now, does that mean they have a chance of coming back later? I really flipping HATE weevils. It took me about 3 months to get rid of them.:mad:

GQ - you already have 72 tins of tomatoes. I am worried about your mental health woman!

:rotfl:I haven't bought any for a couple of months, honest! * It may be less than 72 as I use 2 per week so it's less than a year's supply. Will have to do a stocktake under the bed in the storage trollies.

As to my mental health......you wouldn't be the first and probably won't be the last.......:rotfl:

* I've graduated to the hard stuff.....double concentrate tomato puree in tubes hehehehehehe.;)

grandma247

congratulations jedi.I am glad it is all over for you.

jamanda

Thanks for the replies. Still have a stock of beans, tomatoes, tuna, salmon, etc. DH made me promise not to buy any more......... although that was a while ago. I'd sooner have stocks like that than try to put any spare cash in the bank at the moment. Trust beans rather than bank.

Don't eat many cereals, only me likes them. The boxes are a bit big to store as well. We'd need an extension!

kezlou

hi all,

Sorry to hear about OBB redlady ((hugs)) hows the fat knacker?

Well its tortuous over here what with bracing glae force winds and hard weird rain over the past four days. Been spending loads of moolah courtesy of coddy's (ds1) 11th birthday but now i think were back to normal for now. Well except for OH's b'day in two weeks time.

Apart from the above been plodding along sorting out the house, its a bombshell yet again and volunteering loads. Fingers crossed i'll get a job out of it. Right just a quick hi to everyone, back on a in a bit, going to put some jackets in the oven and make some snacks for he gannets.