Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

After my long stays in Sweden I got used to a Scandinavian breakfast of crisp-bread and cheese. So as part of my plan to cut my food bill I looked into the idea of making my own crisp-bread. It was the long low cook to dehydrate the crisp-bread that stopped me looking into it any further.

Then as I was watching youtube videos and someone mention dehydrating their own food and after looking at a few more it mentioned how much you could save over ready made dehydrated meals meant that I started to look into the idea of a dehydrator. So if I did get one then it would make the crisp-bread and even bran flakes possibly a viable idea. It will also make the meals for Norway a doddle. I can experiment with all the food that I do to find things that work.

Taking dried fruit will also be an option. I can get the cheese locally. I can make shortbread for snacking on as well.

Cake4brains

Hi, hope I'm not butting in with useless info but I recently found this thread and I am lurking (but about 500 pages behind). I saw this free kindle book on Amazon and wanted to share. Sorry if its already been posted

The Essential Guide To Prepping : 45 Survival Tips For Beginners - David Pearson

Hope someone else can link, cant get it to work for some reason
HTH

Frugalsod

Try just copy and pasting the info

greenbee

Frugalsod wrote: »

After my long stays in Sweden I got used to a Scandinavian breakfast of crisp-bread and cheese. So as part of my plan to cut my food bill I looked into the idea of making my own crisp-bread. It was the long low cook to dehydrate the crisp-bread that stopped me looking into it any further.

these only take 20 minutes http://mortgagefreeinthree.com/2011/10/crisprolls/

Hollyberry

westcoastscot wrote: »

Hollyberry yes we have a serious dairy and egg allergy, and then minor allergies which we can cycle around but tend to avoid mostly. I have to say that partly due to the habit of cooking most everything from scratch and partly due to living somewhere without supermarkets (one smallish co-op only plus a petrol station tesco) we don't eat much tinned food. We routinely have baked beans (heinz only), tinned tomatoes - cheapy ones, olives, tinned tuna in oil, tinned ham occasionally and tinned corned beef likewise. We can eat Fray Bentos S & K pies but rarely do they're almost £2 here and tiny! The only tinned soups we have are heinz oxtail - we like it for gravy with sausages!, and mulligatawny which we keep for emergencies.
We're kind of used to it now - we eat meat 4 - 5 times a week, pulses the other 2 or 3 days and loads of veggies/fruit and lots of baking!

Your store cupboard must look very similar to mine...although I wish I'd got to try one of those FB pies before I was diagnosed. For tinned soups, I have Mr W's Love Life versions as a lot have no dairy or gluten, but I guess they're not easy to come by where you live. I never thought of Heinz Oxtail & Mulligatawny - I'll check the labels. I get to a stage where I don't expect to be able to eat something, so I don't bother looking.

I probably cook from scratch 4-5 nights per week - meat, fish or veggie - and usually a jacket or something else pingable on the others when we are home. I don't do a great deal of baking - most gluten free stuff is pretty dry and uninteresting, so I tend to save the calories for something naturally gluten free instead. And as my bestie pointed out the other day, I eat an awful lot of rice cakes!

westcoastscot

Yes we eat a lot of fish - youngest is a fisherman - but like you I tend not to look as find it disheartening to hear of something and not be able to have it. Cheaper alternatives are not usually any good - tomato sauce, baked beans etc. We were wheat/gluten free for three months when he was younger and it's really difficult!
Have you been gluten free for long? I find you get good at it really quickly, but if you're fairly new to it i've a load of recipes given to me by the dietician eons ago that i'd be happy to dig out for you.
Shall look in the city for the Love Life soups - we like to keep a small stock plus stove etc on the boat in case he can't get home - the boat has excellent cooking facilities but it is never clean enough for him to use - allergy-wise that is.

Frugalsod

I have heard that Quinoa is a good gluten free alternative. At the moment I am using it like couscous and adding things to it.

Hollyberry

westcoastscot wrote: »

Yes we eat a lot of fish - youngest is a fisherman - but like you I tend not to look as find it disheartening to hear of something and not be able to have it. Cheaper alternatives are not usually any good - tomato sauce, baked beans etc. We were wheat/gluten free for three months when he was younger and it's really difficult!
Have you been gluten free for long? I find you get good at it really quickly, but if you're fairly new to it i've a load of recipes given to me by the dietician eons ago that i'd be happy to dig out for you.
Shall look in the city for the Love Life soups - we like to keep a small stock plus stove etc on the boat in case he can't get home - the boat has excellent cooking facilities but it is never clean enough for him to use - allergy-wise that is.

Thank you for the kind offer about the recipes. :A I will have a furtle through my list of things I wish I could still eat, and PM you to ask about specific recipes that may be on the dietician's list.

I've been diagnosed and gluten free for about 2 years now, and lactose free for 18 months. The latter has had more effect on me overall; my guts are *so* much happier now (any more would be TMI ). I can empathise with your son regarding the cooking space; I have the luxury of my own toaster, but still have to be vigilant with an untidy OH who makes a lot of crumbs everywhere...and that's with him trying to be careful for me. Must be very hard to work things out on the boat.

Soup-wise, you could also look out for the Amy's kitchen brand for him- expensive, but they are full of things like beans and rice, so pretty filling. Mr O delivers them, so they may be in Mr W too, although I've not seen them in our small local branch. Have you seen the Ilumi packet meals which are available online? They are not cheap, but the website has loads of offers (I've just had an email offering half price for new customers spending £25) and they are both shelf-stable and delicious. I can imagine them working out well on a boat. Very quick to heat and eat.

mardatha

We haven't got Ocado or Waitrose up here, I have never even seen one!

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

We haven't got Ocado or Waitrose up here, I have never even seen one!

One of my Spies and Informants tell me that Waitrose is fully of harrassed middle class yummy mummies with 5 enfants in tow and visually- impaired pensioners who re-end The Informant's automobile in the car park outside the store. When they went in to see if the shunt-and-run driver had been captured on store CCTV, the assistant told them gaily that this happens all the time.

Hence The Informant's rather jaundiced report.

I am trying to get tomorrow evening organised via text with pals and am about to go stark raving mad. If they don't make up their bliddy minds about the venue/ time soon, I'm gonna throw my toys out the pram and sulk at home.................:rotfl:

ETA More tangled txting! Grr! Am heading towards hypo and well p'd off. Have txted last pal to say ring me. If they CBA they can bliddy well get on without me, I'm too exhausted to waste my time faffing about like this. Oh for the olden days without instant communications when you'd make an arrangement days/ weeks in advance and bliddy well stick to it. Unless you had a broken leg/ note from yer Mum.

Excuse my ill-temper, I'm just overtired and waiting for meds to kick in. I remember why I don't like going out; it's sooooo much more hassle than staying at home.

Double GRRRRRRRR!! With knobs on!!! Exits to the tea kettle muttering darkly......