Preparedness for when

beaujolais-nouveau

Well done, very pleased and relieved for you.

GreyQueen

Thanks Bob. I feel an ASDA expedition coming on tomorrow after w*rk. Can you tell me how much the tealights were and if they are the ones which burn 3.5 hours? I have the Wilk0 ones at £2 for 100 and they do last 3.5 hours because I tested one.

I don't use kitchen roll but there is a regular supply of t.p. tubes but they are too big in diameter. I feel that a little sojourn into my odds and sods supplies might be in order.

Please, keep the tips coming and if I get a good idea, I'll share.

PS. I have just road-tested one of those pasta mugshots things that come in sachets. Not exactly a gourmet experience but edible, longdated and unbreakable, might sling a couple in the BOB for emergency grub.

Does anyone know where to get those really teeny tiny pasta shells? I can recall a pal who is into extreme long-distance hiking in various parts of the world telling me about these. She'd sling them into soups and they're so tiny that they'd cook by the time the soup had warmed.

As well as giving a valuable extra trailfood, a form of pasta that would cook at home on almost no energy would be handy if the power was down and you were cooking on back up suppies. Thing is, I've never seen them for sale although I have seen pix in cookbooks so they're not a figment of her imagination.

Butane stoves in little cases are in Wilko atm for a tenner.

Bob, it's all your fault, I started to look for home made cooking pots to answer your earlier post and got side-tracked into a dozen and one interesting by-ways on the web.

Uh, just had a LBM caused by having a sewing machine on the table beside me. I could fabricate skinny tubes of scrap fabric such as the black nylon lining fabric and run up little draw-string tube bags. Bit of re-purposed cord and a re-purposed sprung toggle and there you have it. My tealight tubes could be hung anywhere (well, anywhere not to warm or in direct sunlight) and you could even have a long enough cord to wear them if you needed to carry a load of tealights discreetly. In a completely-bizarre set of circs, such as post-SHTF tealight smuggling chicanery.

OK, any shortcomings to the idea that you can think of? I have all the materials to make them within 15 feet of this pooter.

ETA Oh well done, 2tonsils, and all the very best for your new life in Thailand.

Allegra

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=conchigliette


You can get even smaller pasta shape in Eastern European stores and sometimes in "World Food" sections of larger supermarkets. "Stelle", or tiny star shapes cook particularly quickly, as do teeny tiny alphabet shapes. With the added bonus that you can amuse yourself spelling out messages whilst stirring your soup.... Er, yeah. Think I'll go back into lurkdom now....

beaujolais-nouveau

In case no one's suggested these yet:

Water glass (sodium silicate) for preserving eggs (as people did during WWII)

and

magnesium sulphate for treating boils. Am using it too to drain a urachal remnant infection, from time to time, and prevent it from becoming a hospital case requiring surgery. May have to ask for antibiotics eventually.

beaujolais-nouveau

lovefullshelves wrote: »

Mummy is fairly sharp with economics and the state of the world but she didn't know this: http://www.infowars.com/usda-agricultural-census-program-is-a-covert-surveillance-operation-to-compile-government-database-of-food-and-farm-assets/

My interpretation of that Presidential executive order is that, in the context of the disastrous grain harvest in the US last year and the fact that backyard poultry keepers have to make a return for the database too, the US government is preparing for food rationing.

In WWII in this country people who kept hens were given chicken feed ration coupons instead of part of their egg ration.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/02/a8435702.shtml

GreyQueen

Allegra wrote: »

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=conchigliette


You can get even smaller pasta shape in Eastern European stores and sometimes in "World Food" sections of larger supermarkets. "Stelle", or tiny star shapes cook particularly quickly, as do teeny tiny alphabet shapes. With the added bonus that you can amuse yourself spelling out messages whilst stirring your soup.... Er, yeah. Think I'll go back into lurkdom now....

:j You absolute star! I have eastern european food stores within half a mile of here! I will source mini pasta shapes (and write funny words in my dinner, too).

He he, now you've delurked so helpfully, you can't go off and hide again............... :rotfl:

D&DD

Bob I have a handle for my cobb oven which would probably fit the bill will have a look see if I can find one cheap anywhere,failing that any grill pan handle would probably work with a bit of a tweak.

Pic of it here http://www.cobb-bbq.co.uk/(S(zyjnzkvuj3x04e3xloashx45))/Products.aspx?class=spares

GQ have you got any old tights?? I never wear them but might work for the tlights? Or the cheapo wilkinsons bags wrapped round and taped into tubes? Approved had some cool pasta tiny stars I couldn't resist


2T remind me have you got to sell the house as well or was it rented?? Wishing you both the best of luck in your new adventures XX OH scrap that question lol just re-read your post

alltrustgone

Greyqueen, re pasta. I have some these tiny shells (Conchigliette) in storecupboard, plus some pasta that looks like rice grains (Orzo) and some miniature macoroni shapes (Chifferi). The brand name for all three is Bevelini. I think they came from either Aldi, or more likely Lidl, from one of their special international food promotions.

Mr T sells the rice type, at least according to mysupermarket. All are good chucked in soup but, sorry, can't recall how quickly they actually cook when its just a handful. Packaging has times for a panful in just boiling water as 8mins, 13 mins (surprisingly) and 9 mins respectively. If I see them in again on special I'll give a heads up if you still want them.
ATG

maryb

you can get small pasta shapes in the baby food aisle but they are overpriced if I remember rightly (some time ago that it was relevant for me LOL)

Beaujolais, where did you get waterglass from? I tried smallholding suppliers and chemists but no joy

GreyQueen

Thanks, ATG, I'd appreciate that.

Well, have just made a sausage skin of black polyester lining fabric and have made a tube (16 cm x 1.10 m long inc seam allowance) , posted a pack of tea-lights into it one at a time and you end up with a heavy flexible snake.

What was the old name for that kinda improvised weapon? A blackjack? I'm going to stop playing for tonight and chill with a peppermint tea, but tomorrow I shall experiment with new homes for the candle-snake.

I'm thinking along the back of the bookshelf, behind the books, should be a nice and discreet place to hide it. Wouldn't want visitors to think I was weird or summat, would I now?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well, some of us will be well-illuminated in a powercut and chillaxing with our candles and wind-up radios, and some people will be running to the shops fighting to get their hands on the last candles in town at probably extorionate prices.

Sleep well, preppers and prepperesses. I shall rejoin you all tomorrow.