Preparedness for when

westcoastscot

jk0 YS is yellow stickers - apparently this is something that is used in supermarkets to denote reductions. I'm not a craproll member - I don't do team sports :rotfl:

Greyqueen hats off to ya for continuing to attempt a social life - gave up ages ago and think that instant messaging/texting etc is the spawn of the (grammatically incorrect) devil!!

Hollyberry thanks so much for those tips - shall look them up online. Our grocery bill is always higher than most but that's just the way it is. I quite like Waitrose - there's one in the west end of Glasgow that I use very occasionally and the fruit and veg is always lovely. Its difficult with cross-contamination - when he was wee we all adopted his diet to safeguard him, now two of us eat eggs and cheese, but still store and cook it separately. He's 21 now and had his diagnosis confirmed at 3 so lots of experience in adapting and creating recipes.

I'm looking forward to my trip city-wards next week - I get to shop myself in an actual real supermarket - with trollies, and musak and queues. :rotfl:

WCS

Karmacat

Awww, GQ, glad you're feeling better - you're amazing, and your friends are lucky to have you

mardatha

Grey Queen - they can sort their own bloody arrangements pet. You switch phone off and go and drink and eat nice sweeties.
I've had a bit of a day meself and am so knackered I can't even be bothered to eat.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Grey Queen - they can sort their own bloody arrangements pet. You switch phone off and go and drink and eat nice sweeties.
I've had a bit of a day meself and am so knackered I can't even be bothered to eat.

We're getting there, pet, thank you. One pal is booking stuff as we speak. Apparently I don't go to the cool movies or I'd know this particular cinema needs to be pre-booked on a Fri night, lol.:rotfl:I just rock-up and take my chances and there's usually me, about a dozen other and the usher.

Mar, we're both ME-ers of long standing and you'll feel more rotten if you don't eat than if you get a small amount of nutritious something down your neck. Try to eat, and take care.

Thanks for your lovely comments, everyone, you're a bunch of stars, every one of you.

:beer: And we have finally achieved organisation - one indian restaurant and one movie booked by oldest friend. I may live thru the experience. Ach well, seems like everyone else IRL can have their moments, so I'll just smile wryly and admit mine.

Chilli will soon be ready. I find red meat helps my mood as well as my strength (apologies to wandering veggies).

ETA: interesting article over on ZH right now likening the present situation to Kafka's The Trial. The comments have some very superior posts in them - worth checking out.

westlothianlass

Hi all

Thank you thriftwizard for the fermentation book recommendation, I will purchase a copy nearer payday.
Been a rather exhausting day so had a preppers tea aka fray bentos pie from the stores. It had been an age since I had one, double bonus as I could pretend I Was rotating my stock and practising rather than just feeling like a lazy mare and I enjoyed it.

GreyQueen

westlothianlass wrote: »

Hi all

Thank you thriftwizard for the fermentation book recommendation, I will purchase a copy nearer payday.
Been a rather exhausting day so had a preppers tea aka fray bentos pie from the stores. It had been an age since I had one, double bonus as I could pretend I Was rotating my stock and practising rather than just feeling like a lazy mare and I enjoyed it.

Fray bentos pies are a guilty pleasure for some of us. I couldn't make a meat pie for £1 and one pie does me two meals, with hg tatties and veg. I keep schtumm about my FB pie vice IRL.

Funny how they're for sale all over the place but almost no one admits to eating them, hey? They can't all be sequestered into Armageddon Cupboards.

I have eaten two bowls of chilli and a pear. Feeling good. Have used stock cupboard items and £2.20 of beef mince (500g) from my indy butcher and there will be plentiful leftovers.

And, when I have digested a bit, I get to go to the underbed storage larder and rotate some of the tinned tommies outta there and replace with cartons. Life is full of fun if only you know where to look.

My little flat is amazing; I know what's stashed here, in terms of preps and water etc etc but there's nothing much unusual on show. Well, barring the firesteel on the top of the desk and an arrow made into a biro, complete with flights, which I got a little prize for being the bestest rookie at shooting baubles at archery club before Xmas.

Everyone has one of those at home, don't they?!

Karmacat

One of the freebies on kindle: "Problem One: Zombies Ruin Your New Pink Sneakers". I'm way outside their target demographic, but I just love this title

ALIBOBSY

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Oil is the big issue just look around your house, even if alternative sources of power generation get up and running how many items sat in your house are made from or by machines and materials created from oil or oil derivitives. You are talking going back to items being made from natural sources so wood, metal, stone. Shipping stuff from overseas will become so expensive the so called cheap imports won't be cheap any more.

Do I get a job as resident psychic lol. Just been watching "tonight" who are showing how jobs are coming back to the UK as the chinese production is now not much cheaper than the UK (and in some cases the same price) and buyers are now as interested in quality as price and the UK tends to be better quality, plus UK production is quicker to respond to short term changes and/or small production runs, plus not having the several weeks of waiting for the stuff to be shipped around the world.

So I suppose we may just get another financial boost, though probably not a big boom I think, before things finally go for good.

Although thats only if the banks don't mess it all up for us again in the near future lol.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

BTW anyone watch the programme on BBC 4 last night. Called something like secret histories-britains oldest family businesses.

Sort of a cross between who do you think you are and a history programme.

Last night was a butchers shop, I can't believe it never occurred to me that prior to fridges the way to keep the meat fresh was to transport it right to the market stall "on hoof" and slaughter/butcher them right there in the middle of the street.

Ali x

elona

jkO

We have been talking it over and decided to leave home early the morning of the funeral, drive to relatives house, then to crematorium, drive to country inn for a meal and think we have found a B&B only a couple of minutes from there to stay the night.

Fingers crossed everyone else has not had the same idea.

GQ

Glad everything got sorted out and have a good time, you deserve it.