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

ChocClare

Well, I am now full of roast chicken/potatoes/parsnips/yorkshire puddings/bread sauce/peas/gravy/red wine and am now ready for a busy evening snoozing on the sofa.

Honestly, this weather! It seems to have sapped my energy completely!

Thanks for the links to the LDS sites, kittie; I already go on the food storage made easy one, but always fun to see others. Americans all seem to have such huge basements/storage areas for their year's supply. I'm not sure I go along with their thinking 100% - there are a couple of sites which talk not only about food storage but about such things as modest dressing for wives :rotfl:- but I'd much rather their outlook on life than those prep sites which talk about how many guns you can fit into your bug-out bag :eek: My DH is a crack shot and used to belong to a pistol and rifle club, but he stopped going after more and more people started turning up in camouflage gear, brandishing their pistols and boasting, "when the Russians invade, I'm ready!" (shows you how long ago this was, btw!).The people on some of the prep sites are a bit like that, I think.

I hope I haven't offended any LDS people on here btw - I promise I would NOT mock anyone's faith, just that the ways of "some" adherents seem very odd to us here in the UK. The idea of preparing food/water/money/clothes so you have a year's back-up to see you through times of trouble seems like an eminently sensible plan to me, however - though I'm not sure I'd be so keen to store red wheat and rice as they seem to be. I imagine in the Bible Belt of America that there are actually some fundamentalist Christian groups who might see all that preparation as in some way blasphemous - the Lord will provide etc - but I prefer to think that the Lord helps those who help themselves - as long as we share our recipes and tips along the way, LOL.

Oh wait - that's what we do on here, isn't it?

saveabobortwo

:rotfl:but it dont look like it maybe its about performance and not numbers so here goes :rotfl:yesterday i made a loaf of bread out of 2 old oil drums and can of creosote now if that dont do it ill eat my hat:rotfl:

ChocClare

funkystarfish wrote: »

It's really worth a read, it's amazing the stuff she manages to do, she even manages to go on hol!

Bored waiting for f1 to start again after hour n half rain delay :eek:

I read that - enjoyed it, but it was only really doable if you were single and lived in a city. And hadn't she paid all her rent/bills upfront (can't remember)? Not sure I'd hitch-hike everywhere either, but that's probably because I've watched too many horror films

Still a good read though, and made you think - I loved the idea of going to lectures at the university and staying for the free food afterwards!

Sequeena

saveabobortwo wrote: »

i give them their personal space but i am aware when the reductions are being made im a savvy shopper no point paying top price unless your quite happy to throw your money away:rotfl:

I agree, I always make sure to go at the right times... and it helps that I know everyone instore :j

kate1974

kezlou wrote: »

~Hi Kate i was wondering if you could up your recipe for pasta? I have a machine, but i ahem, haven't used it yet thanks x

mamaninie - mine did that too. I just added extra yeast to it and it seemed to work fine. Another thing i also do now is instead of string white flour, i just use ordinary plain flour and it works a treat.

dolly - they tend to just come in a box. The sainbugs basics one are like that too.

Hi everyone,. got loads to catch up on with the thread.
Seems more and more people are posting welcome!!!

Thanks for information regarding nettles and arthritis, i will definitely be looking into that. Finally got a kind of diagnosis off the consultant, apparently i have arthritis caused by the break in my knee. Took them a year to say "go home, keep off your feet, do physio, you'll have a cracking sound from your knee, you'll be in pain, and nothing we can do now". Lets just say i am not a happy bunny. But physio gave me lots of advcie and i'm going to take it.

Been a crazy few weeks with kdis / OH birthdays, classes etc.

but i'm back on with the OS style living. Going to spend the next few days catching up on the thread and fixing j's (OH) caving oversuit. Well it'll saving me the £95 for a new one.

See you all in a bit x

hi Kezlou!
My recipe for pasta is very basic
1 egg
pinch of salt and pepper
if you need more pasta add some water
and flour-honestly I don't know how much-actually never measured-I'd say enough to make a dough and roll it.
It's much easier(MUCH easier) to make pasta if you can find someone to help you-that's why my DD6's usually in charge of handle.
You can add whatever you'd like to the dough-spinach,tomatoes,herbs-just add more flour and salt
HTH
Kate

ceridwen

smileyt wrote: »

Hullo peeps!

I have made 5 loaves of bread! Unfortunately my new oven seems to be fast and it has burned the loaves on the top shelf, just at one edge. I think the oven may be on a slope. I shall have to practise more baking!

This could be to do with baking them all at once maybe?? When I was doing my production line breadmaking yesterday I found that the top shelf ones cooked in my normal time (ie 40 minutes) - but the ones on the bottom shelf needed an extra 5 minutes. That surprised me - as I have a fan oven and I thought they were supposed to be "even heat" all round.

saveabobortwo

who is reducing the item if its going to be priced down and if we can have one we dont over crowd them and we re not greedy either we take one as there are loads of other people who are waiting for the reductions to happen .

redlady_1

I had to share this...I have just made fish pie tonight and I told the OH that I was going to be using pouting in it. The conversation went like this...

"Um, this pouting is lovely"

"That's not pouting. It's a boiled egg!"!!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pure class, bless him.

freudianslip

aaaaw :rotfl:

did you think pouting tasted similar to cod then? They're related I think.

Really cheap in comparison. Does go to show that we (generalising ) have it in our heads that cod it must be.

mmmm fish pie.I've never put [STRIKE]pouting[/STRIKE] egg in a fish pie though, all recipes say to do it but I can't get my head around the combination :cool:

smileyt_2

ceridwen wrote: »

This could be to do with baking them all at once maybe?? When I was doing my production line breadmaking yesterday I found that the top shelf ones cooked in my normal time (ie 40 minutes) - but the ones on the bottom shelf needed an extra 5 minutes. That surprised me - as I have a fan oven and I thought they were supposed to be "even heat" all round.

I don't know, ceridwen. My old oven didn't burn them and I used to do lots at a time. The ones on the lower shelf did take longer so I put them on the top shelf once the top shelf ones had come out (if you can follow that!) and within 5 minutes they had burned at the back edge too. It must be the hottest part of the oven, I suppose.

I miss my old cooker - the knobs are all in the wrong place on this one :rotfl:

ETA Redlady that's hilarious! Bless him, eh?

Saveabob I bet my bread's more edible than yours then lol