A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

kidcat

Fuddle there are loads of reasons, snow and bad weather, food price inflation, etc. For me its a combination having survived a snow in two years ago, after following the advice on here that spurred me on. But also with price rises at the moment its a better interest rate putting your money in food. But also for me its about job security which is so unpredictable, I worry my oh Will lose his job - the food would tide us over till benefits kick in and also its non declarable as savings.

littlecal

fuddle wrote: »

I'm looking for a bit of help if you can fellow threaders. DH is asking why I want to build up stocks of tins *ahem. I have told him just in case it snows badly but I'm wanting to go into it further.

Why is it that you all stockpile your tins?

Hi fuddle,although I actually live in the middle of a local shopping area,our supermarkets are the c0-0p and sp@r and I find them really expensive,so once a month(ish) OH takes me to Mr S and I stock up with their basics range.

I can't justify spending 69p:eek: on a can of kidney beans when I can get them for 16p elsewhere.

I learnt my lesson after last winter,no stocks and having to pay top prices....I wasn't organised at all! Just need a bigger freezer now,mine's about the same size as a shoebox:rotfl::rotfl:

SavingFreak74

I use tinned kidney beans in my vegetable soup to give protein and thicken. I've ordered some more in tomorrows shop from Sainsburys at 20p a tin. I also cook them with couscous, peas, fried onion and mince lamb with spices and we all including the kids love it. I make extra and eat either the next day or freeze it. I now buy all basics or budget tinned sweetcorn, kidney beans, tomatoes, mushy peas, custard, pasta, natural yogurt, apples, salad, bananas, raisins, cottage cheese, carrots, cabbage, full flavour cheddar, onions. I won't compromise on Heinz tomato soup, anchor butter, warburtons bread, tomato ketchup, Yellowfin tuna, Bounty rolls, good toilet tissue, Yorkshire Tea, fresh coffee beans, free range eggs, decent ham, plus other bits. The meat I buy on offer at 3 for £10 or the butchers locally are quite good.

paidinchickens

hornetgirl wrote: »

I have an Oxo Goodgrips tin opener and can't praise it highly enough. It came from Lakeland and is fabulous.

Met a lovely lady today who came to pick up a bed we'd put on Freecycle. It's for her son, and in return she's putting his "baby" bed on there. To me that's Freecycle at its best.

oh that is lovely. We always put something on when we have had something and we try to put on at least one thing a week as well I must say I do find it hard when several people want the item how do you choose ??/

fuddle wrote: »

That is one shelf cleared out in my wardrobe for... more tins. Boyoboy - what have you all done to me

Soups are on the list next.

Apparently, regarding onions making you cry, we're supposed to keep our mouth open and breathe through that as opposed to our nose. I've been told that it is the smell up our nose that makes us teary. I have to admit that I don't know if it works as I always forget and breathe through me snout!

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fuddle wrote: »

I'm looking for a bit of help if you can fellow threaders. DH is asking why I want to build up stocks of tins *ahem. I have told him just in case it snows badly but I'm wanting to go into it further.

Why is it that you all stockpile your tins?

We started a stock pile of tins, pasta etc a few months ago and I am amazed at how quick we get through beans :rotfl: We are in a village and are stock piling incase of bad weather as we were snowed in for a week last year. I am maybe a little paranoid as wherever I have moved we always get power cuts so this year I am ready with a calor gas heater off ebay early in the year, my stockpile and a generator :rotfl::rotfl: ok maybe the generator is a little over the top but hey I got it cheap :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I spoke to a couple of friends on the other side of the country last night and they are in a right old mess. They have one of those Gas tanks in the garden and they have come to the point where they can't afford to fill it. They both work full time (no kids) but by the time they pay the rent and bills they have nothing left. They got in this mess as one of them was out of work for 3 months this year before finding another job :eek:

I felt so sorry for them as one of them is full of cold and they are really down and miserable They are both praying their car holds out so they can still get to work or they will be truly up the creek. I told them to stockpile as much as they could as they live in the middle of nowhere but they are living hand to mouth as it is.

I was going to send down an emergency food kit for them by courier but DH said that we might as well pay for the fuel for them to come at xmas so they can take a package back with them, that way they will be fed, looked after, be able to have a bath etc. I wish I could afford to fill their tank up We are still having my old next door neighbour staying a few days over xmas so we may have a full house :rotfl::rotfl:

Last year we had all the strays who either had nowhere to go or could not get to family because of the snow. We had a fab time, infact it was probably the best xmas ever! this was not down to gifts but how lovely it was to have the house full of friends and to see those friends have a lovely time as well. The house looked like a bomb had hit it and took a week to clean after everyone had gone :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry for the waffle

PIC x

villagelife

I don't post on this thread but I would like to say to KIMSMUM
that there is research that if glasses are changed by more than 1 dioptre then due to the change in magnification people are more likely to fall for about a week afterwards. This can apply aftercataract surgery aswell.

fuddle

It's snowing! It's not lying but it's snowing!

The dreaded christening today. I really don't want to go but I have no choice. At least being sat there in my jumper dress and boots I will be dressed as per the winter weather.

How do you guys feel about tumble dryers? I know they eat eletricity as I had one up until last year. When my broke down I vowed that I wouldn't have another and would manage. The thing is I have no other way of drying the stuff as I am trying to be heat free during the day. I'm finding I have to put the heating on just to get the clothes dry and that is a huge waste in my eyes. We have no airing cupboard or hot spots to put an airer next to and the clothes are taking days to dry without the heating and some are beginning to smell.

DH and I are pooling our parents Christmas gifts together to get a new machine. I have tried but I feel with a family of 4, one of them a hands on dirty worker and 2 of them little school kids with only 2 school jumpers each, I can't cope with the demand and slow turnaround times.

So in not so MSE style I am happy with the decision. I might get some heat in the kitchen too when it's on. I have been trying to remember how my grandma managed without a tumbler and I'm putting it down to the open fire in the living room. It has to be that.

I feel like I'm admitting something really horrendous! I have tried though

Kittikins

paidinchickens - what a lovely thoughtful and kind couple you and your OH are. Your full house at Christmas sounds fabulous :0) I have a friend in dire straits and as give her food parcels when we go to stay. It's not much in the grand scheme of things, but I hope it tides her (and will do your friends as well) over.

lizzyb1812

I have stockpiled because of food price inflation mostly. Fuddle - you could give a practical example to OH, eg tinned tomatoes used to be 16p, now they're 33p and we use 6 a week so that's £1 extra a week. Or something like when the Chancellor announces a petrol price rise we always fill up the tank the day before - this is just the same but with food.

Unless they do the big shop lots of men won't realise how much/how quickly food prices are changing and a practical demonstration is a good way of showing them.

westcoastscot

Good Morning Guys,
We have snow too this morning - the world looks beautiful.
Fuddle our Grannies didn't do the volume of washing we did - if you came home from work dirty you took off your dirty clothes, put on clean ones and got back in your dirty ones to go to work the next day - same with school clothes - we only had one set, which included two shirts, and we wore them all week, changing into playing out clothes after school.
My Mum had one washing day a week - and there were six kids - she had a twin tub and just kept at it until it was done.
I think with the advent of automatic washing machines we just didn't wash everything after one wear, and I certainly don't now. For my own clothing I have two loads a week, one lights one darks, plus bedding as it's needed - I have a sheet under my duvet so I don't need to wash the heavy cover each time. (although that's more to save my changing it, I have arthritis and its hard work, than to save on washing).
Have a good day guys - I'm supposed to be getting my weight down and exercising more to help with blood pressure - weighed myself this morning and have only lost a pound, after a really hard-working week! They did say that some of the meds I take make it very difficult to lose weight - but at this rate its going to take me forever!!! very depressing!!!

Have a good day everyone,
WCS

Kimsmum

villagelife wrote: »

I don't post on this thread but I would like to say to KIMSMUM
that there is research that if glasses are changed by more than 1 dioptre then due to the change in magnification people are more likely to fall for about a week afterwards. This can apply aftercataract surgery aswell.

Thank you for that Villagelife, Will check with the opticians tomorrow.

Fuddle I was the same as you and then I started to tell the OH about how one item was 16p one week and had gone up to 31p the next.
Also last year we got snowed in, also we had no water for 7 days.
So now he asks if we will be ok if anything happens.

We are in a two bedroom flat, and I have some of the plastic containers that roll under the bed all with food in them.
Bit like GrayQueen:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: