Preparedness for when

[Deleted User]

Added a few more items to my new car 1st Aid kit.

5 pairs of size XL vinyl gloves, to supplement the 2 pairs of size M latex ones.

How do they expect people with large hands, to wear medium gloves :huh:

100 extra plasters.

2 strips of fabric plaster.

An extra roll of Microporous tape, and a roll of strapping plaster.

2 soluble aspirins.

auntymabel

GreyQueen wrote: »

Sooo, went and discovered that canned Tosspots Basics spuds are now 25p/ can as opposed to 15p and various other bits have gone up. I'm good for tatties for probably a year and will move onto the tins when the HG are over, so I left them there.
.

Still 14p at Mr S. I was quite shocked to see how much they had gone up at Mr T, especially as I had to buy a tin.

GreyQueen

auntymabel wrote: »

Still 14p at Mr S. I was quite shocked to see how much they had gone up at Mr T, especially as I had to buy a tin.

Thanks for that heads-up, I'm planning to wally-trolley up to Mr S in the next few days so may have to get some in. I feel your pain at having to shell out an extra 11p, too, would've stuck in my craw.

Was talking to my Magic Grengrocer earlier this week. He knows I keep an allotment and only buy what I can't grow myself or have grown and eaten already. Anyway, I was mentioning that my spud harvest is well down on normal (and some 50% down on my best ever harvest of 9kg back for every kg planted) because of the very dry weather in June and July.

He told me that it's a poor potato harvest all over and that prices will go high on the wholesale market, which will mean he'll have to pay more to get his. Getchoretatties in now, people.

Bob, blinking glove sizes craze me, too. I'm approx the median height for a man in this country and have large bones. If I put my hands alongside most male friends' hands, mine are as big, if not bigger, and never smaller, than their hands.

Small or medium household gloves are useless to me, and I guess it would be the same for disposable gloves.

You can get specialist plasters to treat blisters, they have them in SuperDroog. Might a packet of them be a useful BOB addition, in case you're hiking a distance? I found them useful last month. HTH.

Right, tea and porridge whilst having a fast cruise around the interwebulator. Somewhere under the idiocy there will be some real news worth bothering with............hidden under the froth designed to distract us from what TPTB are doing to our detriment, I'm sure.

vanoonoo

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm eating porridge every day now; its cheap, nutritious, filling and easy to cook. Mostly with a small handful of sultanas in it, sometimes with stewed fruits. I have frozen my blackcurrants and will be adding them, too, once I've gone past the sultana phase.

morning GQ - how do you cook your porridge - do you do mickeywave or pan and water or milk?

I am sneezing this morning

got my little sy machine from ikea last night cos I have a voucher for £15 off a £90 spend and I took a shopping list from work peeps so my machine ended up costing me only £30 :T

[Deleted User]

auntymabel wrote: »

Still 14p at Mr S.

Likewise at Aldi.

[Deleted User]

GreyQueen wrote: »

You can get specialist plasters to treat blisters, they have them in SuperDroog. Might a packet of them be a useful BOB addition, in case you're hiking a distance?

Already got stuff (including lancets) to treat blisters, in my BOB.

This 1st Aid Kit is for the boot of my car.

It'd be far too big for my BOB.

GreyQueen

vanoonoo wrote: »

morning GQ - how do you cook your porridge - do you do mickeywave or pan and water or milk?

I am sneezing this morning

got my little sy machine from ikea last night cos I have a voucher for £15 off a £90 spend and I took a shopping list from work peeps so my machine ended up costing me only £30 :T

Morning 'Noo.

I put 8* dessert spoons of Tosspots Basics porridge oats into a 6 inch saucepan, add sultanas (prolly about 20-25, just shoot them out of the container) and put in cold tap water.

I don't measure the water, just do it by eye, sort of enough to cover the oats and some over, if that makes sense.

Pop it on the stove on the simmer burner going full blast, stir it when it starts to bubble, then stir until for a while until it has thickened up, into a bowl and enjoy.

There seem to be as many ways of making porridge as there are porridge makers, but this is the one I use. HTH.

* I use 8 spoonfuls at home as my desserts spoons have quite shallow bowls. At Mum's I use 6 to get the same result.

VJsmum

I don't weigh porridge anymore but i know that I use roughly 30g. Stir in water to a thin paste consistently and microwave for a minute and a half.

I will then adjust consistency with soya milk. I'm rather afraid to say that I like mine with a spoonful of single cream and golden syrup

[Deleted User]

No salt :huh:

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

No salt :huh:

Nope. Revolting idea, IMO. About the only thing I have to put salt on is chips, the rest of the time I favour salt-free or black pepper or herbs if I need some seasoning for a savoury dish.

If you use very little salt, you become quite attuned to its presence. I'm always astonished at how salty butter and some cheese is, f'rinstance.