Preparedness for when

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Count me in I'll bring the canapes!!!( if I can't find one of those the nearest to it'll be a can 'o peas!)

Take your can of peas, drain, mix with a couple of spoonfuls of yoghurt and some finely chopped mint leaves. Mash with a potato masher (or crush with a fork for the posher version) spoon onto slices of fresh baguette and then sprinkle with some of Ryanna's dehydrated feta. Turns your peas into a canape

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Droooolie, droolie that sounds sumptuous!!!!

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Given that it was 'Back to the Future' day yesterday and they were having the great debate on the TV about what of the predicted developments had come to fruition in the years up to 2015 who would have predicted then that we would be having this particular debate on here about reduced incomes and how best to feed, clothe and shoe your families and keep them warm on a reduced income should your job have disappeared overnight as it has for our friends in the Steel Industry?

I'm fairly sure that was one of the main subjects of debate in the '40s - the Beveridge report and subsequent election of Atlee's labour party and Nye Bevan founding the NHS.
And even with a war raging and its aftermath I think there was more optimism about the outcomes then I've heard anywhere in the last 15 years.
It doesn't suprise me that there is a lot of looking back to how people survived and thrived under the genuine austerity imposed by WW2, when it seems that most people would pull together and co-operate for the common good, rather than the fairly divisive version of society that we currently have and the artificial imposition of "austerity" by a government which has no sense of the common good.

My favourite cut of beef has long been shin, it was the cheapest cut of beef and needed long slow cooking (or a pressure cooker) it seems that almost no where sells it as shin anymore, its now diced and sold as stewing steak. So my favourite frugal meal as a child (hough and chips) is no longer frugal.
Last nights tea was lentil soup followed by garden fruit crumble and custard. Made because it was the comfort food that I fancied, but a filling meal (and lunches today) that cost pennies. Much of the frugal foods of our previous generations have become trendy and therefore unaffordable as a regular part of our diet. Hopefully neck of lamb and pulses will escape the attentions of celebrity chefs for a while yet.

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Droooolie, droolie that sounds sumptuous!!!!

If you want to be really posh, then frozen petit pois. Natural soya yoghurt makes it vegan and replacing the baguette with corn tortilla makes it gluten free - this version was one of the canap!s I served at our wedding, it really is delicious and happens to be low cost as well.

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There's a lot of mileage in a bacon/ham/pork knuckle too as a very reasonably priced source of protein. I cook lentil soup with a bacon knuckle in it instead of stock cubes, it flavours the soup wonderfully, you get the goodness from the cooking in the soup and then you have lots of beautiful cooked ham to make things with, you can make quiche, chicken and ham pie by adding a couple of cooked chicken thighs, ham omelettes, ham, potato and bacon hot pot and any scraps left at the end can be cleaned of gristle etc. and whizzed up with some butter, seasoning and mace and made into potted ham which if it's put into a sterilized small jar and the potted meat covered with melted butter/lard will keep for a good 3 weeks in the fridge. The knuckle bone can be hung in the bird feeding tree and the starlings love it so no waste whatsoever, and not much outlay as they're usually under £3. I buy ours from a local farm shop where they breed grass fed fattened beef and goats for meat and you have to drive through the free range chickens who are always pottering about in the car park!

GreyQueen

Sign o' the times. Just seen three rough-looking geezers out on the street peering into a carrier bag. Quoth one to the other; there's £30's worth of meat in there, mate, yours for a tenner.

It's theoretically possible that it wasn't stolen from Tosspots nearby, but I doubt it somehow. Didja ever think to see the day when joints of meat had security stickers on them and supermarket wire baskets had to be tagged like high-end electronics to stop them going walkabout?

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'TO SERVE MAN' book title from one of the Naked Gun films that starred Leslie Nielson.........It's a cook book!!!!!...food for thought perhaps? or perhaps not!

Karmacat

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Given that it was 'Back to the Future' day yesterday and they were having the great debate on the TV about what of the predicted developments had come to fruition in the years up to 2015 who would have predicted then that we would be having this particular debate on here about reduced incomes and how best to feed, clothe and shoe your families

I'm within 20 points of a payout on you gov finally :eek: and this morning's survey asked if I'd rather live in the real or fictional 2015

Erm, the fictional one, please. I want a hoverboard

jk0

Poor Mr Hitler had to make do with a very frugal supper in WW2. This had me in stitches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xCIlvL19o

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

I'm fairly sure that was one of the main subjects of debate in the '40s - the Beveridge report and subsequent election of Atlee's labour party and Nye Bevan founding the NHS.
And even with a war raging and its aftermath I think there was more optimism about the outcomes then I've heard anywhere in the last 15 years.
It doesn't suprise me that there is a lot of looking back to how people survived and thrived under the genuine austerity imposed by WW2, when it seems that most people would pull together and co-operate for the common good, rather than the fairly divisive version of society that we currently have and the artificial imposition of "austerity" by a government which has no sense of the common good.

Austerity has never worked under these circumstances and it is only a matter of time before we are facing the same dilemmas as the Greeks are now. That is why I am concentrating on cutting my cost of living as much as possible, before my income falls.

nuatha wrote: »

My favourite cut of beef has long been shin, it was the cheapest cut of beef and needed long slow cooking (or a pressure cooker) it seems that almost no where sells it as shin anymore, its now diced and sold as stewing steak. So my favourite frugal meal as a child (hough and chips) is no longer frugal.
Last nights tea was lentil soup followed by garden fruit crumble and custard. Made because it was the comfort food that I fancied, but a filling meal (and lunches today) that cost pennies. Much of the frugal foods of our previous generations have become trendy and therefore unaffordable as a regular part of our diet. Hopefully neck of lamb and pulses will escape the attentions of celebrity chefs for a while yet.

My local butcher sells shin, but much is made into mince. It is not the cheapest meat but minced up and bulked out with lentils and pulses and it becomes affordable.