Preparedness for when

milasavesmoney

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVeM5pnCkc

There are some interesting YouTube videos on which canned food lasts the longest.

Cappella

Thank you for the links milasavesmoney

I don't take much notice of use by dates on tinned goods, I'm from the generation who remembers the time before any foodstuff had a 'use by' label, and the derision of my mother at the thought of tinned stuff 'going out of date' but I'm quite careful about rotating stocks. Some things still slip through the net though. Last week we ate a tin of pineapple slices in juice marked 'April 2012' and we suffered no ill effects; the tin hadnt rusted and was fine inside but it had fallen behind the wine rack under the pantry shelf.
I need to audit my stocks again though; we've spent three months now eating mainly out of the freezer and the pantry and a much larger stock up than usual is needed after Aprils income hits the bank account. I've been saving 50p pieces for the same length of time towards a tinned goods spend. Time to open the jar and reap the benefits

GreyQueen

I have no problem about eating date-expired tinnery either. As always, common sense should be applied to all circumstances.

I've only ever encountered two tins which had developed a fault in my entire life. One was a tin of fruit at my parents home - Mum showed me that the can had distorted slightly so we weren't going to be eating it, but when the can-opener pierced the top, there as a soft whumping noise and the lid of the can sucked inwards sharply.

Last week I was looking at a slightly-expired tin of peaches and could see that there was a distortion around the top of the can (well, the top of the sides, if you get my meaning). Like a twisting stress-line in the metal. Never saw that before and wasn't prepared to risk a gippy tummy so opened it and pitched the contents into the food waste bin.

Weather seems to be stuck on the same cold rain/ sunny spells rapid cycle same as yesterday but I prepped allotment soil for seed-sowing yesterday, so will bliddy well go up there and sow them. If I get wet, tough.

As my late granny used to say when she thought children were being whiny about not wanting to go out in rain; yer neither sugar ner salt.

Translation; you won't dissolve if you get wet.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

As my late granny used to say when she thought children were being whiny about not wanting to go out in rain; yer neither sugar ner salt.

Translation; you won't dissolve if you get wet.

:j I love it!

Trying to think what I'm doing on a preparedness level, and the answer is "not much", to be honest I'm still all about house maintenance and clearing - though that does mean that if any rellies needed to descend on me for any reason, they'd be able to get through the door, at least

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I've been watching the news this morning and watched the interview with President Obama (for whom I have the utmost respect) a couple of times, he seems to be promising change rather than threatening it in regard to the UK staying or leaving the EU. While I appreciate that the USA IS a very large and powerful presence in all aspects of planetary life I feel his efforts would have been much better directed towards encouraging OUR politicians to tell us the TRUE facts over staying or leaving so we can make an informed choice come polling day. All I've seen so far is rhetoric and vitriol ridiculing the points of view made by the opposite camp and am no further forward in actually understanding the truth, if there is one!

It would appear that the USA place so little importance on the trade with the UK that they would sideline us for 10 years as 'punishment' for leaving the EU I believe he quoted 44% of trade from the EU was with the USA which by my meagre mathematical skills I do believe leaves 56% of the rest of the world for us to do business with if the American Nation no longer requires our produce. IF what the UK is and does is of little importance to the USA then perhaps we'd do much better in terms of the agreements reached if we traded with the rest of the world instead? Time alone will see the outcome of the referendum and time alone will tell if trade agreements are forthcoming won't it?

Karmacat

Absolutely. I was reading in the Guardian online yesterday that the EU and America don't have a trade deal anyway ... which kind of defeats Obama's point. I really wish he hadn't waded in, as you say his influence could have been used to push for honesty in the debate. I'm disappointed in him once again, I had such high hopes. Silly really.

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Not forgetting that, by the time we have left the EU, he will no longer be President.

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Hilary Clinton who could possibly follow him is saying exactly the same thing! I don't know if Donald Trump actually knows that the UK exists, but I expect he'd be even more drastic and promise us far greater grief than NOT making a trade agreement!

greenbee

Trump is planning on building a wall round the US, so I don't think it matters whether we're in our out... we're foreigners

Commonwealth countries aren't particularly keen to get back into trade agreements with us again, as we treated them really badly when we joined the EU originally. Since then they have set up lots of trade agreements of their own, so our options may well be somewhat limited...

GreyQueen

Obama running his mouth will probably be counter-productive to his public intention; putting people's backs up and getting them more inclined to vote Brexit. Or maybe that was the intention?

This country has been bowing and scraping to the US for 70 years. We think we're in a 'special relationship' but US politicians tend to think Israel when they hear those words. We just ain't that important here on Airstrip One.

Face it; the UK is a client kingdom of the USA. But the US Empire is in a terminal tailspin, their government is bankrupt with the Saudis holding the note on their debt and their population is declining into destitution.

And if they threaten to give us less favourable or no trade deals, so what? Anything brokered in DC will be in the best interests of American big business and the worst interests of everyone else, inc the regular folks back in the US.

We are not a major manufacturing nation. We are no longer the workshop of the world. Shipping agricultural commodities and finished groceries to Europe and shipping identical things back again is an exercise in futility and an enormous destroyer of the environment and of quality of life.

The USA is a country which cannot even control its own borders, which cannot even pay its own bills, where whole cities are flipping bankrupt and where people actually die for want of basic healthcare because they are poor.

And Obama and Clinton, H are people who could both usefully be tried at The Hague for the things they have done thus far, never mind what they might do in the future.:mad: