Preparedness for when

greenbee

pineapple wrote: »

The only way I could keep that little lot intact would be to lock it all up in time release capsules

Marmalade keeps, but jelly babies and chocolate need to be eaten almost immediately...

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I like porridge the Scandinavian way with a little knob of butter and a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar, food of the Gods that is!!! Sorry MAR!!!

greenbee

I have my porridge with seeds and sometimes fruit. No salt, but hopefully marginally more acceptable to Mar than syrup and sugar.

GreyQueen

S'OK, Mar, I am on the side of the godly; I make my porridge with water and oats and that's it. Righteous stuff.

Individual bakewell tarts suffer from the same short shelf life as chocolate, I have always found.

sb44, I have bookmarked that for later perusal, thank you.

My flat is a short stroll from the shrubbery (knee-high shrubbery, I like it nice and low to preserve a free-fire zone :cool:) and really big spiders sometimes make the mistake of crossing the threshold in autumn and appear in the hall. I say mistake, because my flat is part of the territory of the Tribe of Pod, pods being the nickname off the latin name of those spindly daddy-longlegs style of spiders.

Which, although they look as if they're harmless, will actually eat other spider species. Hence me having a protocol in place to capture the big ones with a glass and shoot them back outside. I'm saving their lives, I hope they appreciate it.:rotfl:

Doesn't do a lot for my nerves as I'm an arachnophobe, but I can scoop stray pod spiders out of the bathtub barehanded for some reason.

My squirrel genetics are happy, as I have 7 jars of beetroot pickle in the cupboard and another pan of them on the stove now. I also have one beetroot too darned big to fit in the pan, so will have to roast that, which will be a lifetime first. *wanders off on t'interweb to check timings and temps for sugar-beet caliber red beet.*

* Gas 6 for 45-50 mins***, apparently. You can also faddle around with extra virgin olive oil, maldon salt flakes and sprigs of fresh thyme. Well, you can if you like, I haven't got all that fluff- it will be massaged gently in lard**, spinkled with dried YS thyme and chucked in an enamel casserole dish which I wombled from the bootsale. Bringing cookery websites down to my level.

** this is a lie for the purposes of humour. I shall be using vegetable oil.

*** this is a big !!!!!!, I shall give it an hour.

greenbee

GQ - I know it's a radical idea, but have you thought about chopping the beetroot up?

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

GQ - I know it's a radical idea, but have you thought about chopping the beetroot up?

Yeah, but I want it cooked and you can't cook beetroot chopped up, all the juice comes out and you end up with pastel pinkroot, which looks very anaemic and loses the goodness.

This one is 1 kg in weight and 10 inches long and fits in the big oval casserole dish (just about). We'll now have to wait for BedsitBob to get in from work and take the bit about size and serve us some innuendoes for dessert. It's a tough job but someone has to do it.:rotfl:

OK, enough procrastinating, I better stop playing with beetroots and cook my supper.

greenbee

I roast beetroot chopped. It works fine.

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

I roast beetroot chopped. It works fine.

Too late now, it's in the oven, I shall bear it in mind for next time. Just sat down after prepping a vat of chili con carne, mainly from storecupboard ingredients. Oh, and YS mince.

Ooof, life is tiring, that blessed cold is still trying not to leave me.

moneyistooshorttomention

Karmacat wrote: »

:j:j:j I like this! I have something called Zero something or other, which is basically lots of herbs and flowers in a commercial liquid, which smells mostly of lavender, its specifically a repellent, doesn't kill them - sploosh it on them, and they really do run a mile. I use it on the big'uns that hang on to the door hinge or something


Definitely. Herbs, spices, balsamic vinegar, toasted sesame oil, that sort of thing too


I'm not eligible ... my business partner will investigate, I'm sure, as he *is* eligible, and lived abroad for a long time so he doesn't have the full number of years for a full pension. I'll report back

Gotta have my "real" coffee (strength 5) - and...errrm...yep....standards in my larder are extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar......

Okays....just maybe the advertisers have convinced some of us that some things are "Us" and "What sort of life is that if we cant have the things that are Us by now?":cool::o:rotfl:

'Tis powerful stuff most probably:cool::rotfl: - as I do know that a day where I have had to put up with "Stuff that ISNT Me" - like Ugly (translation = not my taste)/Conforming to the crowd/etc" can be coped with so much more easily if I can walk in my front door and get on the kettle for said "real" coffee/pull out the corkscrew for the wine and whack on a bit of my music and soft lighting, etc, etc, and reassure myself that the "World is a reasonable/reasonably comfortable place to be after all...honestly....."

Yep...today was a "!!!!!! am I being expected to put up with re NHS standards front?" day" etc etc....and its a "Wheres MY sorta stuff?" the second I got in the day stuff and much googling later as to "how to sort it all out..." and the coffee/wine/music/soft lighting and confidence has been restored that "I Can Deal With This".

Guess that's what a lot of SHTF stuff is on a dead basic everyday standard - ie sitting down and thinking "Someone somewhere has expected me to put up with rubbish standards and thought I would do so...." and Getting Our Act Together to make ourselves feel human again - and then work out how to get our (normal) standards after all that...

daz278

Question the local authority as had contractors on our block since march replacing kitchen and bathrooms(thank you) but also insulating and changing the facade of the block , this work may go on until mar/april 16 are we entitled to disturbance allowance ... for works over such a long time ? some of the residents including me have signed a petition to the local MP..... do we have a chance