Preparedness for when

Perplexed_Pineapple

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Personally, I don't think they are worth the extra.

My local hardware store sells 10", tin plated, Hurricane Lamps, similar to this, for £4.

I've got two, and I have to say, they are excellent.

Solidly built, and not a hint of a leak.

I'll find out the make, tomorrow, when the shop is open.

If you want to be doubly sure, £world sell a 16cm white, ceramic dish, which makes a perfect bund for the 10" lamps.

Thanks, BB, I'll keep my eyes peeled for something similar. I keep paraffin anyway for the Primus so may as well have a back-up lamp, although intention is to use the solar-powered/wind-up first in emergencies. What a lot of posts today! We have loads of elderberries around here so any good recipes would be appreciated
Spent part of today in town and found a new outdoor shop I hadn't seen before - prepping manna, loads of stuff and could spend a small fortune I don't have but did pick up some half-price trekking socks, bugging out for the use of :rotfl:
Haunted the charity shops too but nothing useful today.
Right, off to stimulate my liver enzymes..

maryb

cheers!:rotfl:

homesteadchick

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

Homesteadchick - WE have loads of elderberries ripening near here and I've been wondering if I could do any thing with them. Have you a recipe?

Ofcourse my dear! ;-)

It's easy!
Pick as much as you want, with stems and all.
Lay them out on a flat surface outside for an hour or so to give inhabitants a chance to move on, then carefully rinse them all.

Then comes the labor intensive bit: remove stems!
Gently heat berries in a large pot with a splash of water to stop them burning, until they are all soft and broken up.
Then push them through a sieve to hold back the skins and pips.

The juice gets transferred into another pot, and add sugar.
I use about 2:1 ratio.
2 litres of juice, to 1 kg of sugar.

Heat untill all the sugar is dissolved, giving it a gentle stirring. Then bring to a rolling boil and let it boil for a minute or so.

Decant (while boiling hot) into clean bottles or containers.
Seal and let it cool.

Drink it diluted with water like squash or cordial.

Very healthy stuff! Great during winter sniffles and sore throats, and it tastes pretty darn good too!

pineapple

Margaret54 wrote: »

Sorry meant to add the Kelp I am on I bought from Holland and Barratt. They are called Sea Kelp and there are 250 tablets in a container and if you paid a penny extra you got another container of them too. They might have been £5.99? My dh bought me them so trying to remember the price.

I used to go to a gym and had shifted a fair amount of weight but had reached that 'plateau' . The gym owner recommended a number of kelp tablets over the course of 3 or 4 days to kick start my metabolism. It was several at a meal and crushed - disgusting! I'm sure it would have been unhealthy long term but it was a short term 'one off'. The amount varied meal to meal/day to day and sadly I can't remember the 'formula'. :mad:
I say sadly because it worked like a dream and I was able to sail on to my goal.

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Discussions about health supplements and dangerous ingredients remind me of a health decision I took about a year ago:

That was to stop buying milk in plastic bottles. What's that you say? All milk comes in plastic bottles nowadays? Not if you order it from the milkman:

https://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10205&item=611239&backLink=ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp%3fsection=10205&beginIndex=0

Yes, I know it's flaming expensive, but a search for Bisphenol on the web gave me the incentive to pay the extra.

My parents stuck with their daily milk delivery in glass bottles thru thick and thin, although it was much more expensive.

Then the dairy started to only be able to do doorstep deliveries 3 times in 6 days (Mon-Sat) instead of each one of those days, and then they switched from glass to the same kind of plastic bottles as the supermarket (but at almost twice the price).

Sooo, the convenience was lost, the glass was lost, and then they screwed up my parents' billing a couple of times and this was the final straw. My folks are very on the ball with money and honest as the day is long and took grave exception to accusations that they hadn't paid. A 40-year arrangement was thus ended and they pick up 4-pinters as and when from Icelandia in town or the supermarket.

I'm one of the Kelpies (if you know a bit of celtic myth that name raises a smile) and aren't sure if I'm getting a benefit or not yet. I seem to have started menopausal symptoms in the past few weeks so, with various other medical conditions and that, I might be worse off without the kelp.

Anyroad, I'm coming to the end of the first bottle and will toddle up to the health shop for some more today. Not exactly busting the bank and if it's turbo-charging some of my fellow ME-ers like Mardatha, I wants me some of that.

Today's plans involve a bit of c.s. foraging after work and I may loop by the bike shop to see about a carrier for my new (to me) pushbike which doesn't have one yet. Incredibly limiting, although there is a very fine wicker basket on the front. If I'm hauling a load of shopping, or other stuff, I like to be able to distribute the weight front and back.

Have a good day, my lovelies, GQ xx

Shropshirelass

Thank you Margaret for advice about kelp, I will get some on Saturday when I will be doing some shopping near H&B. Think I should also invest in some cod liver oil capsules too as me ol' bones are getting creakier as the days get shorter.:D

We had a lovely day at Bodnant Garden near Llandudno yesterday, beautiful weather, late summer flowers and some trees starting to change. Looks like the weather will be changing too, but still hopeful for a good autumn. Now have a few jobs to do before the weather gets seriously bad...

I would prefer milk in glass bottles too, but difficult to find it, no delivery here so we use UHT, in cartons - have not heard anything bad about them. Years ago I had friends with a farm, and used to get milk straight from the cow, usually in a bucket covered with muslin. In the summer you could skim the cream to use on puds etc. (in the winter the milk was not so rich) we didn't realise how blest we were.

Hope all are enjoying the last of the summer, and getting on with lots of prep plans.:wave:

mardatha

I've stuck with Solgar kelp from Amazon, because at first I was dubious and went for a good well known make, and Solgar is that. I think the most dramatic kelpie is Shegar, but for me it's lifted me out of the depths of ME into normal life. And my hair is growing faster and looks much healthier.

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mardatha wrote: »

I think the most dramatic kelpie is Shegar

Is it furlongs ahead of all the other brands?

Perplexed_Pineapple

Just a quickie (!),
I spotted this Kindle download on Amaz0n that is free today and may be of interest:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Seeds-Emergency-Heirloom-ebook/dp/B00DFUPO2Q/
You don't need to have a kindle, you can download their free kindle app to read it on a PC.

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You'll see from the shops that I frequent and post about that I am a Cheapskate!!!!! Today we went to B&M and they have tins of haricot beans, not in tomato sauce but plain for 29p. They have Ainsley Harriot cuppasoups for 59p a pack of 4 and they have the chicken variety of savoury rice for 50p a pack, all good store cupboard staples if you have a B&M anywhere withing reach, Cheers Lyn xxx.