Preparedness for when

[Deleted User]

If it is at all possible to leave both threads running people could decide where they feel is most appropriate for each individual. Mary started the newer thread in all good faith and quite a few new folks have joined it already, it looks to be a good natured and friendly little thread, I hope it grows and thrives and that it helps all who post there. This older thread has it's supporters and contributors too, it holds lots of useful information as I hope the newer one will in the fullness of time, many of us would be sad to see it closed and time will tell if both are needed. If no one reads or contributes to one or the other for a period of time we'll know it's not needed, if both continue to be used and people keep posting in both it perhaps justifies keeping them both open. Hope that's some help, Lyn xxx.

pollyanna_26

Agree with Lyn . As zippy says plenty of room for both and should keep everyone happy .
Night all - I need sleep .
polly

zippychick

I agree. All please themselves - everyone happy. No one is doing any harm.

if the group using this thread want it closed and a new one of *this* thread then let me know if i can help out

Zip

milasavesmoney

zippychick wrote: »

I agree. All please themselves - everyone happy. No one is doing any harm.

if the group using this thread want it closed and a new one of *this* thread then let me know if i can help out

Zip

:hello: That's exactly what Maryb was trying to accomplish because this thread had gotten so large. It was mentioned and supported by many posters to close this one and start a "new" this thread. Are there no longer any forum board rules as to how long a thread can be? That was the concern and the reason for starting a new continuation one while asking that this one be closed.
Perhaps you could clarify the rules for us?

Doveling

Thank you Mila.

That's exactly what I thought, plus people were being told what they could post about and were leaving the thread anyway.

Maryb kindly put all the useful links at the start of the new thread so all the knowledge from this thread is easily accessible.:)

Don't see what the problem is

Perplexed_Pineapple

Evening all. No need to change the thread IMO if the length of this one is ok with the forum moderators and the IT team. Just looking through today's posts about food and while Vesta curries have a nostalgic place in our hearts, much better is available now. For any budding curry chef can I recommend Anjum Anand's I "heart" Curry which has been out for a few years now but got us through a few years of "austerity" cooking with some tasty lentil (daal) and vegetarian recipes as well as some curries that work well with cheap cuts of meat, slow-cooked.

milasavesmoney

Doveling wrote: »

Thank you Mila.

That's exactly what I thought, plus people were being told what they could post about and were leaving the thread anyway.

Maryb kindly put all the useful links at the start of the new thread so all the knowledge from this thread is easily accessible.:)

Don't see what the problem is

Doveling I PMed Zippy and expressed all of your points (before you posted) this because I felt the same way. I'm hoping the two are combined and we can get back to business instead of this nonsense. No one has the right to dictate what is discussed as long as we follow forum rules...which no one was breaking. It's best to just look the other way for a few days and let the discussion change to one that is more along the lines you enjoy. Feelings don't get trampled on that way.

Perplexed there is a schism that needs to a healed so there is a problem. It should be simple but so far no love.

[Deleted User]

I enjoyed reading the nostalgic posts about vesta, lol. My family still could not afford them and instead we carried on eating good hm meals from scratch. We had a vesta once, I remember it now, like cardboard. Was that the beginning of the downward spiral, when ready made food became the shtf?

I started reading my new book last night and heartily recommend it. It weighs a lot and has lots of substance in it, lots of words and is a mine of in depth information about cultures and fermenting of all types. Called `the art of fermentation` by Sandor Katz and is just under £20. Already I am resolved to go back to the fermenting days of my childhood. If I say that my dad was from Polish peasant stock then you will know where this comes from. I grew up on fermented milk and potatoes and real, not pasteurised, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, home made wine etc and to this day I am very healthy and not on any medications

Fermenting is preserving without electricity and is real shtf stuff. I made mead once, without any yeast and we all know that apples on the ground start to ferment quickly. I have seen birds staggering soon after the apples fall from the cider trees behind my house

So I need to make a little space in my kitchen, find a dark corner in a cupboard. Kefir grains are ordered from ebay, I have the other equipment in day to day use. kilner, cloth cover, wooden spoon, sieve. I am not going low fat milk this time, am getting full cream organic and am aiming for kefir that will be nice mixed in with berries and a little granola for breakfast. I can make ice cream from it and use it for hm scones. I won`t be drinking it neat but will use it as a main ingredient and can see it satisfying that hungry mouth feeling that I get, not really hungry but want to eat. Mouth hunger is my downfall

Good luck with the other thread, each to their own, this thread is home to me and has been since it started this thread and the tough thread. Thanks to this thread I have the water stored in water butts and also the water filtering/purifying bottles so I could survive without mains water. I have stores of dried and tinned foods and the means of cooking without electricity and so on. In 2010 I was snowed in for 6 weeks and we had power cuts, thanks to this thread I was comfortable for the whole time, even down to having hobbies and things to do

jk0

I guess Vesta curries would be ideal 'end of the world' food, as I'd have thought they never go off do they? Not sure I'd like this flavour though:

mardatha

Same here kittie and you got me into proper prepping years ago on this thread, before that I'd just been a normal country woman with a good store cupboard for emergencies. I was snowed in 6 weeks too in winter 2010, we had snow on the ground frozen for 5 weeks after that and at one point it was four and a half feet deep.. like the winters of my childhod. My wee avatar is my 5 foot high coalbox in that winter.
jk0 aia'm glad squirrels are good for something!