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Popperwell

kittie wrote: »

pops. you should add edits to your posts, rather than make so many additional posts one after the other

OK I was just working my way through the thread as I read them and individual posts seemed tidier than a long post...also as I was alone on the board there was no one to break up my posts...

But point taken and I accept what you say...I don't want to upset anyone...I could try and merge my posts but that may mess things up...

Meme30...Gird up your loins reminds me of Round The Horne on the radio(but you are too young to remember that)

Here's a link to that programme, it's scarey...

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=323049

It's available for 28 days.

This one is also quite an eye opener(still available for 21 days)

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=322644

You can save them for later...

I worked out if you do not get help with rent, council tax, bedroom tax...if you were getting an income of £200(few do I know)that 75% is to pay for those charges and to keep a roof over your head. And even if you are frugal the remaining 25% has to pay for the food, utility biills, any entertainment(such as the tv license, internet, telephone, travel to and from work, clothes, shoes, repairs etc...)

And I believe they are working on the assumption the average wage is £250 per week. And I would say for most households they are on low incomes/minimum wage. And we haven't even figured in at what point you pay income tax...

But enough about money I don't want to b in trouble again but it ties in with why there are food banks, also your point about Mum's working who may ave to use foodbanks because of the BT. I was only responding to points being made...

Tomorrow I hope to buy some items at Aldi for the future, I lose a little of the bargain aspect and if the new one at the ottom of my street was open I could save the taxi fare but whilst I can I'll get some chopping boards, a two hob heater, a non stick frying pan, a non stick wok, possibly a three tier steamer and I may get a dinner service(plain but functional)

There's a big ASDA close by, I may see if they have any electric blankets(not sure what kind I should buy)Over or under blanket and one you switch off rather than leave on. If I see some woollen gloves, hats and scarves for winter I may buy some too. They may have something different for my store room.

meme30

I am sitting here picturing my Mam's pantry from when I was young. Come to think of it she still has a pantry in her present house! My house is an old one but the previous people modernised the kitchen and knocked out the pantry. It's only now when I am struggling to store my food stocks that I appreciate how useful it would have been.
I know the answer I would get from DH if I suggest rebuilding one:eek::rotfl:
How many of us have pantry's?

Possession

grandma247 wrote: »

Pah I couldn't shut down without saying what a great result re the food storage idea and the HA.

Someone gave a talk last night about bug out bags and said we should keep enough water in each bag for 3-5 days. I sat there shaking my head. People have no idea how much water they actually need for that length of time. I intend finding the money for those filtered drinking bottles you posted the link for.

Grandma247 Amazon have just sent me an email about that very thing, so just recovered this from my trash (can't afford them at the moment):
Aquapure Traveller
by Pure Hydration

Price: £27.63
Dispatched from and sold by Home Health (UK) Ltd.

NEW 2012 Travel Tap ' Flip spout ' 800 ml pure water filter bottle with insulated carrier - 1600 Lts
by drinksafe-systems

RRP: £38.95
Price: £32.95
You Save: £6.00 (15%)
Sold by drinkSAFE-systems and Fulfilled by Amazon.


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by drinksafe-systems

RRP: £38.95
Price: £28.95
You Save: £10.00 (26%)
Sold by drinkSAFE-systems and Fulfilled by Amazon.


the bottle with filter 'Royal Navy Blue' label
by the-bottle.com

Price: £6.95
Sold by drinkSAFE-systems and Fulfilled by Amazon.


Katadyn Vario Water Filter
by Katadyn

RRP: £85.00
Price: £68.18
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Surviva-Pure Canteen Water Bottle
by Web-tex

Price: £34.99
Sold by Savage Island and Fulfilled by Amazon.



Meme - I have a pantry, it's my understairs cupboard but it happens to be in the kitchen so there are shallow shelves along one side. Have to admit it's a total mess at the moment as there is too much in there.

Kidcat - sorry about the silly woman. I hope the remainder of the group can still give you some support, sounds like they'd rather the silly woman left.

Popperwell

Good but expensive...may have to stick with my bottled water, water filter jug and get some water purifing(sp?)tablets...

fuddle

Morning

pops if you click on on the posts you like and want to respond to, then click reply you can do one post with up to 3 other people's quotes in it (I think it's 3). Don't worry about it though, post as best you can and I agree it's difficult when you're catching up and want to respond to all your read.

:eek: about bread, although I did :eek: long ago when the price of a loaf cost £1.75.

Spray oil pops. I can only think it means that frylight stuff. I bought some many moons ago but only ever used it to grease my trays/tins etc. When it ended I just filled it with olive oil. Great mess free, easy way to grease (if not lazy )

pah I hope the HA can get you involved in educating the masses about store cupboards. Just new to the idea myself and now would never be without a store. meme my grandma lived where you live now and I remember her pantry. It was solid, with thick wooden shelves, floor to ceiling, with a big heavy wooden blue door. One thing I remember about it was that it was very cold. If I were to get my own home a pantry will be a must for me. It would probably be cheaper to do than putting wall and floor cupboards in the space.

DD's birthday today She's been up since 4.30am, it must have been purgatory for her waiting until 7am to open her gifts, but I was soooo tired. It didn't help her sister joining in playing 'smoke on the water' at 6.30!

Cheapskate

Morning all

fuddle, that bread looked fab, hope it tasted as lovely as it looked!

Was just writing shopping lists when I heard the thing on BBC about bread going up, but have read so much over the last couple of months re food prices rising this autumn, so wonder if the bread shelves will be decimated today! :rotfl: Have added more flour, sugar, oats, pasta, etc to my list for today, better start my winter stores early while there's food a)at a decent price and b)at all! :eek:

I was born in the late 60s and just about remember the power cuts, hefty food prices, etc. My mum was a SAHM, dad worked away, and mum always had decent stores of tinned and dry goods, we didn't have a fridge, so fresh stuff was bought from the shops as we needed it. We ate a lot of vegetarian food (cheese, eggs, pulses are cheap), and the things she could do to stretch food make the best of us OS-ers look like amateurs! :rotfl:

My pantry/store cupboard is split between an actual pantry, couple of cupboards, fridge and freezer in the kitchen and old FF in the garage. I also store extra dry/tinned things in large plastic boxes over the winter, to save shopping in bad weather. Over the summer I've used up some stuff, still some elderly stuff to use though, and had planned to re-stock in September, but think I'll start today after the doom-and-gloom reports all over t'internet about poor harvest!

Byatt - so sorry to hear about your sister; have sent you a PM.

A xo

Possession

Fuddle - happy birthday to DD.
Pops - you can get non-stick spray at Lakeland but it's not cheap (although lasts ages).
Edit: actually I just looked and can't find the spray at Lakeland now, maybe they don't do it anymore....

mardatha

Interesting to see that stashing and BOBs are becoming more talked about - are we preppers coming out of the closet at last?
I can't understand people feeling ashamed that they have to use food banks - it's the highups should feel ashamed as they are over charging for rent and not paying high enough wages- not the people who are struggling !!
TY monnagran for saying you didn't mourn for your mum - my dad had Alzheimers for 8 years and when he went I felt nothing but relief for him that he was free of it. I'm a Spiritualist and see death differently so I tend to keep quiet on how I feel about it, but I think my husband is a teeny bit shocked because I wasn't devastated at the funeral. In the car on the way I asked for a sign from my mum who passed 25 yrs ago - and a flock of beautiful white racing pigeons flew over just at the moment the coffin was lowered, and I couldn't help it, I smiled with delight, It must have looked bad! The sound of their wings was lovely, and he was the youngest of ten so I took it that the flock was mum and his family taking him away.
I'm having terrible probs with bread, its coming out small and uneven or dense and brick-like. That's with the Panasonic 255, I wonder if I should use it for dough only and then bake it in the oven, but that feels a wee bit of a faff. Anybody got any suggestions ?
We did have a pantry when we moved in but he knocked it out to give me a bigger kitchen. I don't really miss it as now the kitchen is bigger I have tons of cupboards plus a big airy spare bedroom that faces north and is cool.

westcoastscot

Had a wee read this morning and feel I want to explain myself - I was ignoring this issue of implied potential benefit fraud (which is what it sounds like to me), then it was raised by another poster and the response was, imo, disappointing - so I felt compelled to post.
for the record I have no problem with folks stocking up, planning ahead etc -I do that myself, particularly now as I have difficult times coming, but I do think that is totally different to someone stashing goods and money to make themselves eligible for benefits.
Comparing that to, for example, Mardatha stashing her money under the mattress is inaccurate - Mar has said she does this as mistrusts the banks, not so she can claim benefits by pretending she has no money.

I realise my post will possibly offend some, but I work with people who have no choice but to claim benefits, and for the majority of them life is not a game. If people treated the benefits system fairly then maybe we wouldn't have had to see the kind of hoops people have to jump through these days to provide their need.

Well now i've made myself thoroughly unpopular i'll get on with my day.

WCS

Popperwell

fuddle wrote: »

Morning

pops if you click on on the posts you like and want to respond to, then click reply you can do one post with up to 3 other people's quotes in it (I think it's 3). Don't worry about it though, post as best you can and I agree it's difficult when you're catching up and want to respond to all your read.

:eek: about bread, although I did :eek: long ago when the price of a loaf cost £1.75.

Spray oil pops. I can only think it means that frylight stuff. I bought some many moons ago but only ever used it to grease my trays/tins etc. When it ended I just filled it with olive oil. Great mess free, easy way to grease (if not lazy )

DD's birthday today She's been up since 4.30am, it must have been purgatory for her waiting until 7am to open her gifts, but I was soooo tired. It didn't help her sister joining in playing 'smoke on the water' at 6.30!

That made me laugh. That would wake anyone one up...Happy Birthday to your daughter all the same sounds a little like what happens at Christmas...

Possession wrote: »

Fuddle - happy birthday to DD.
Pops - you can get non-stick spray at Lakeland but it's not cheap (although lasts ages).
Edit: actually I just looked and can't find the spray at Lakeland now, maybe they don't do it anymore....

As Fuddle suggested spraying olive oil may do the trick;)If it's needed Fuddles bread looked great...