Preparedness for when

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Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

After extensive testing I can report that a tin of baked beans is good for up to two years past the best-before date.

But eating 3 million tins, is not good for the ozone layer.

siegemode

Added this to our preps and used nectar points so cost nowt in real money

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3401967.htm








Thanks Bedsit Bob for the stove link, it's been added to my wish list.

As for loo wipes would value or basic baby wipes be the cheapest option and of course multi purpose.
Asd@ 80 wipes 51p and nappy bags 300, 35p (we use them as rubbish bags in the car.)

DawnW

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

What kind of stuff was it?

Canned food is usable, WAY beyond the expiry date.

Likewise, things in jars, such as pickles, jams, honey etc.

I make my own jam and pickles, and it comes without an expiry date :eek: :rotfl:So, there is a big stock in the larder, and we help ourselves to what we like to look of / what suits the occasion. Sometimes it is quite a few years old

Been doing it for more than 20 years, and not dead yet And both daughters, plus daughter in law, also do this. We swap some around, so that we have a variety rather than half a tonne of one sort

Same I guess for home honey producers :question: or is it?

OH used to work for a very grand family, who had pre-war honey stored in their attics :eek: OK, I know 30 years is a long time, but 'before the war' was my parents' era, and I wasn't born. I used to make cakes and help out with the old lady's church functions, and remember thinking it really did not look nice _pale_ and made excuses not to take a jar :eek: Was I mistaken??? Any beekeepers out there?

metherer

The out of date food is packets of savoury rice, pasta in sauce etc.'not throwing them, but going to use them up over next few weeks.

Have ordered a couple of hand powered flashlights this evening for £1 each. They are from thechristianshop.co.uk so if you don't mind christian slogans on the side, they are a good price. 1.99 delivery, by I was ordering a few other bits at the same time so worked out fine.

daz378

oh great eccles on the news as an example of a deprived area ,,, on newsnight.....thinking of doing a TEFL certificate ... not as a full time career but if im made redundant ... the old addy in newspaper or online ... to supplement ones income..... its getting the time off to do a 4 week intensive course though .... stay safe

pineapple

siegemode wrote: »

pineapple, I'm still using 2009 flour without probs with no multi legged critters invading as yet (touch wood)

Wow that's encouraging. I have some Einkorn which is too expensive to be throwing away.
PS on an African trip, we bought some bread which turned out to have weevils in it. But we were so darn hungry, we ate it anyway :eek:

thriftwizard

pineapple wrote: »

Wow that's encouraging. I have some Einkorn which is too expensive to be throwing away.
PS on an African trip, we bought some bread which turned out to have weevils in it. But we were so darn hungry, we ate it anyway :eek:

Extra protein! :eek::rotfl:

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Wow that's encouraging. I have some Einkorn which is too expensive to be throwing away.
PS on an African trip, we bought some bread which turned out to have weevils in it. But we were so darn hungry, we ate it anyway :eek:

I read that in the olden days aboard sailing ships, ships' biscuit was often infested with weevils. Noobs would rap the bisuit hard on the table top to knock the weevils out but old hands would tell them not to, as the weevils were worth eating.

I'm finishing up a bag of bread flour with a BB of Jan. That's Jan 2012 not 2013 btw. No bugs, and no flavour impairment that I can detect. And dried yeast in sachets is fine for a couple of years past its BB. I've eated tinned stuff well out of date and am still hear to tell the tale.

Dunno how many cans of food I have opened in my life but I have only even encountered one that was off (tinned fruit) and it made a strange little WHUMP noise and sort of sucked inwards when the top was pierced by the can opener. Contents also looked and smelled iffy.

We just chucked it onto the compost heap.

We have brains to make decisions, eyes, noses, tastebuds. I won't eat something if I think it tastes off, even if the BB is fine, and I won't discard something which appears fine just because there is a date stamped on the tin or packet which is now a tad historical.

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GQ that's because you have that rare commodity called common sense and can apply it to all areas of life with that often unused by joe public thing called a brain!!! Nanny state dictates are in place to purportedly keep us all safe from ourselves but are probably responsible for the general dumbing down of the collective cognitive ability of the entire nation. I wonder if there would be such levels of hardship if people were not forcibly given so much 'good advice' by our beloved parliamentary committees and badly thought through improvement schemes?

I am off on my travels again this morning and will be MIA for a couple of weeks, if I can, I will get online and catch up with you all but I'll probably not be around much until a couple of weeks time, look after yourselves , Cheers Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

Enjoy your travels, concerts and the kitty-cat, Mrs LW.

For everyone else, here's an anecdote from RL as told to me earlier this year by Mrs Magic Greengrocer.

She told me about a lady customer who told her that she'd binned a supermarket-bought pineapple because it was past its BB date. Mrs MG asked her if it was off and was told no, it was still green. So she asked why bin it and the customer repeated that it was past its date.............!

As my mother says when confronted with examples of shockingly stupid wastefulness; some people deserve to be poor.

I was recently on a website called Apartment Prepper, which is worth a look if you haven't seen it. I found it because I need to do my preps in very small quarters. Anyroad, it was going on about the BB dates on bottled water and it seems that sealed bottled water has an infinite shelf life, although it is not recommended to store it next to substances which might be giving off fumes such as oils etc. And plastic water containers stored directly onto concrete are liable to fail.

Righty, must get ready to t'office and breeze out for the day. Have a good one, lovely people.