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  • Home Bargains have a small wind up lantern, just 4 LED bulbs but the light they give off is actually enough to read by. For £2.99 I am impressed. Make is Expeditions. If they have any left when I get there again I will pick up another couple. Only bought the one in case not worth it.

    For anyone that does want a fishing kit they have a beginners set with rod, reels, hooks floats etc everything to start fishing. I think price was £7.99.
    Need to get back to getting finances under control now kin kid at uni as savings are zilch

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  • I have my dehydrator on - using 5 trays for apples and apricots, tomorrow will be doing onions, carrots and celery( never tried that) and will all be put in kilner type jars and put away. Will use the full 10 trays I have for them.

    Never done veg and fruit together in case of taste attaching to something.
    Need to get back to getting finances under control now kin kid at uni as savings are zilch

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  • vanoonoo
    vanoonoo Posts: 1,897 Forumite
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    I think grapefruit counteracts some medications so be careful with who and how etc but I am impressed with how much it can be used for! great product for those that can use it thanks for the links!
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  • ginnyknit
    ginnyknit Posts: 3,718 Forumite
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    Yes Vannanoo, just remembered Mum cannot have grapefruit as she is diabetic and it bu**ers up her meds.

    Made 3 jars of blackberry jelly the other day and it set beautifully, made 6 jars of strawberry jam and its runny so back in the pan it goes :mad:
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    Saving every single penny.
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  • ginnyknit wrote: »
    Thats very interesting katieowl, some of his items seem very expensive don't they? Domesday preppers was very interesting last night, the jarring and canning looks good.

    nice to know someone else watched this when i made a comment and a thread about it i got the feeling of being shuned lol and ran back to lurckers corner
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  • meher
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    at no point have I pointed and/or jeered at anyone, merely expressed surprise and to some extent distaste at some of the posts. As long as I am not breaking any MSE rules, I believe it is my right to do so. :) In the same vein perhaps some posters should take their own advice and ignore posts they dislike, such as mine and not accuse others of lacking a sense of humour or being intolerant. :)
    I read something on topic and felt I should share this because, like you I'm not a fan of apocalypse of any shape or form, albeit I don't feel the need to control or micromanage peoples views on it specially when it doesn't hurt; it is their coping mechanism, not necessarily intended to be distasteful as you see it.

    Also I'm not a fan of the buzzword here and now; it is just a fatalist philosophy, imo.

    So I did a bit of reading to understand this preparedness trend from a different light instead. Because quite often, as in this case, the problem is not with the person jeered at, rather with the person who is jeering. So what I read was that perhaps we should find this as a passing phase, and see it as an extension of a camping trip or something like that. It is times like these that we figure out that we get vitamins from pine needles and dandelion tea, pain relief from Willow or Popular bark, for instance. We learn to do things differently, we change our own behaviors, we change our own lifestyles, unwittingly; eventually we conquor our fears as those fears don't exist anymore because we human beings, adapt. So these are threads to learn all you can, and practice what you learn, not strictly about preparedness in it's literal sense. It is in times of pressing needs that we learn to be more resourceful and may be best to leave the thread to evolve.
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    edited 14 September 2012 at 9:46PM
    On doomsday preppers a lady was extending the shelf life of eggs with mineral oil (rubbing on the shell). I have read up more on extending the shelf life of eggs and apparently baby oil is mineral oil with fragrance and will work well. Has anyone tried this ?
  • On doomsday preppers a lady was extending the shelf life of eggs with mineral oil (rubbing on the shell). I have read up more on extending the shelf life of eggs and apparently baby oil is mineral oil with fragrance and will work well. Has anyone tried this ?


    i have not tried this but it did shock me when she fed it to her guests and said the egg were so old
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  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    we eat old eggs here anyway!

    Just crack them into a cup before adding them in case they are off!

    I've heard they can keep for months and months with various treatments...
  • They used isinglass during the war
    http://www.cooksinfo.com/preserving-eggs
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