Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Si_Clist wrote: »

Does anybody else here grind their own flour?

Nope, but I get mine from the windmill and it's lovely organic stoneground wholemeal flour. They've been milling on that site, water and wind, since before Domesday. The experience obviously pays off as it's lush. Bread so nice you don't even need butter or anything on it.

Daffs have all opened and are fine. Yesterday afternoon when I got them for 5p they looked fit only for compost. Whacked 3 inches off the stems and jamjarred them. You've either got greenfingers or you ain't.

DawnW

nuatha wrote: »

I tend to carry lots of ingredients and far fewer ready meal type things. (Though do have a stash of FB pies)
I remember Sophie Grigson saying her kids complained there was no food in the house - just ingredients. So we aren't the only ones.

My kids always used to say that too :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thriftwizard

Does anybody else here grind their own flour?

From time to time, Si Clist. I have a hand cranked grain mill which looks very much like an ancient mincer. I know it's much healthier & tastier fresh-ground, but to be honest I'm usually too short of time & end up using flour from the Mill just like GQ. But I retain the capability, and do some every now & then to keep my arms in practise!

Frugalsod

Si_Clist wrote: »

Does anybody else here grind their own flour?

I am looking at the idea of getting a bag of grain for milling small portions in my Kenwood milling attachment, so I could make granary loaves.

D&DD

I'm still kicking myself for missing out on the Lakeland deal when they discontinued their hand grain mills never thought to use my kenwood grinder tho Frugal many thanks for that idea!!


Nuatha I'll post the recipe for the pasta sauce later How's your dear lady wife these days??


Hoping all the poorly peeps are still recovering well


Beautiful day again today so lots going on in the garden just nipping out to the garden centre with OH *I must not buy any plants/herbs/shrubs/trees* .....:))

Si_Clist

thriftwizard wrote: »

From time to time, Si Clist. I have a hand cranked grain mill which looks very much like an ancient mincer. I know it's much healthier & tastier fresh-ground, but to be honest I'm usually too short of time & end up using flour from the Mill just like GQ. But I retain the capability, and do some every now & then to keep my arms in practise!

Ahah! Is yours by any chance The Atlas Plate Grinding Mill? If so, we've had its twin here for the last 25 years or so, complete with the kibbling plates

We originally got ours because we were sick to death buying stale organic flour from supermarkets which still had 6 months date on it, and then we discovered spelt grain.

And then we discovered that there's precious few places that sell spelt grain in anything other than dinky little packets. We only know place does it in 25kg sacks :sad:

Butterfly_Brain

Wonderbox PDF and instructions here
http://www.iwillprepare.com/cooking_files/Wonder_Box.htm

mardatha

At last a decent day here. Warm sun but coldish wind, seems to be coming from the north. But nice as long as you're working or moving. Too early to put any seeds in really I think, but I might try the syboes in a tub and see how they go. Dying to get ON with it lol - I blame you lot for talking about gardens 2 months before I can start mine.

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ALI I found a tutorial on you tube for making a wonderbox and looked at wonderbag pictures and descriptions on the web and just made it up as I went along. I had a piece of material 100% cotton and big enough to make a 40" circumference, cut two pieces the same size, found the exact centre of the circle by folding it and marked a circle the size of my le creuset pan + 1", sewed that first and stuffed it with the contents of an old bean bag my DD didn't want any more then finished the sewing to seal the circle. We then marked the rest of the circle into 8 equal sized segments and sewed them one at a time leaving 3" openings to stuff each segment and sewing them closed as they were finished. We then turned the edged in and made a tunnel in which we put some paracord to make the closure at the top. He Who Knows had some cord fasteners like you get on fleeces and we put one of these on the tied cord to keep the bag closed. The only other thing is a lid the same size as the bottom circle of the bag which is filled with beads then kept separate and put on top of the hot pot and its contents as you seal up the bag to cook your dish. It's a useful gadget. Hope that helps. Lyn xxx.

Charis

nuatha wrote: »

That's got me tempted to try and break it.
Though I've just realised why they may have item limits - when I used to work in the trade, shops had huge warehouses with many lines being delivered weekly at best. Now supermarkets rely purely on the shelf stock and daily deliveries. Any order more than 24 hours ahead should be able to cope regardless of the quantities (however that assumes some intelligence in the system.

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You're probably right. My Sainsbugs order had a comment on it that if you wanted more than a certain number of an item to contact them. Bottles of water are restricted to I think five or six per customer but that may be to prevent the delivery drivers getting a hernia.