Preparedness for when

mardatha

Husband says sweets were rationed until 1953 but I dont know..

Wyre

mardatha wrote: »

Husband says sweets were rationed until 1953 but I dont know..

I shall have to ask my Mum what she remembers about rationing.

maryb

Just finished reading "Lights Out" that someone linked to a few pages back. Fun read but like most US prepper fiction there's a lot of guns.

I was reading it before going to sleep last night. OH is - how shall I put it? - not exactly a quiet sleeper, and one particularly loud blast woke me up. First thought that went through my sleep addled head was "That's an armour piercing snore":rotfl:

Wyre

Argh postman has not long been, and he has brought me my new debit card. Fantastic, I needed it as the old one had been used sooo much it had worn the back through to the void strip. What I am not happy with is is that it is a contactless card! Any ideas how I can prevent myself accidently paying for stuff I had no intention of buying as it reads it twice or something?! *sighs* Why is life never easy?

RAS

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

All the more reason to get heritage seeds now before they succeed in banning them which they tried to do earlier this year with an EU [STRIKE]diktat[/STRIKE] directive

Agreed. It seems that learning how to save your own seed and maintain it is alost an act of civil disobedience now.

Good this is that it is possible to save several varieties of many by rotating several different ones over the years. This year was Carlin peas and Tommy's cucumber. Really like the latter as it keeps fresh for two-three months uncut.

westcoastscot

Hi,

Been reading along and racking (is it wracking or racking??) my brains - seem to be having a week-long senior moment - was there not something at the beginning of rationing where you weren't allowed to stockpile? or were people discouraged from stock-piling? I know it was certainly frowned upon.

I'm enjoying Tudor Farm - don't suppose many of us would like to time-travel back but its good to be reminded of things we can implement into our lives now to re-connect us. I'm not totally convinced that medical advances are all for the better - I know, I know, says she who takes life-saving medicines for arthritis - but I wonder if I'd have got it if I'd stayed crofting?? who knows how many of these medical conditions are brought about by lifestyle or life circumstances??

Mar haven't forgotton your pm - still trawling my brain for info!!!

Welcome to our new friend - always good to read new ideas

Ginny fingers crossed to get to celebrate - am sure you will!!

WCS

dandy-candy

Wyre wrote: »

Argh postman has not long been, and he has brought me my new debit card. Fantastic, I needed it as the old one had been used sooo much it had worn the back through to the void strip. What I am not happy with is is that it is a contactless card! Any ideas how I can prevent myself accidently paying for stuff I had no intention of buying as it reads it twice or something?! *sighs* Why is life never easy?

Mines contactless and it has never accidentally paid for anything, don't worry. In fact I love "pipping" it now and get disappointed if shops dont have contactless machines!

Hollyberry

AT - hello & welcome :hello:

Daz - congratulations. :j

All the chat about vacuums has reminded me that I now have a stash of those to rival any collection of baked beans & loo roll. We've been sorting out things at home since my mum died, and I finally got into the butler's pantry last week...only to find a princely 4, yes quadruplet vacuums (one a carpet cleaner) tucked away in there! My mum had always been taught to keep a good store cupboard, so I think she'd just extended the principle a little further there. Bless her heart! Anyway, I now have one on each floor and the carpet cleaner back in the pantry, meaning that I don't have to haul Henry up 2 flights of stairs each time I do the top floor. (So that's one excuse for a lack of cleaning gone!)

Now, what to stash in the butler's pantry? It's very hot (heating pipes run through it), so I think it's more paper goods and equipment than food. I've yet to get to two enormous cupboards at the back of the pantry, so there may be more treasures in store.

mardatha

Does anybody know the best way to store lentils and barley? Is in the bottom of a fridge ok?

Memory_Girl

Cooked or dry mardatha?

Cos if dry then in a jar in the store cupboard is fine - as long as they are dry and kept away from beasties you can store them a long time.

Used some of my barley today as we were testing the soup chapter of the new book. My Editor had never even eaten barley before ... think he is a convert now.

If he was impressed at the soups he really needs to pop back over when I am doing the "sweeties" chapter LOL

MG