Preparedness for when

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Stay safe 2T, Cheers Lyn xxx.

missrlr

well something strange is about to happen and I am not sure what. Odd things are afoot, both in the general populous and in the environment round here, not sure I like it but shall keep my head down and get on with my business and hope when TSHTF I am below fall out height, or at least don't get is straight in the eye.

Doglet was unwell again this AM, so stayed in bed and was very cuddly then I had to brave the world of work. I am currently trying to write the TO DO list for work as I am sure I am going to forget something - there are quite a few deadlines coming up as it is end of year for us at the end of the year ..... it all has great possibility for TSTHTF quite spectacularly.

DH has been replaced by a helpful alien, he has been restocking the cupboards from the stores in the loft but what he hasn't done is update the stocks list .... never mind I reckon I can work it out from the cupboards so not to much of a drama.

Right back to work and stay safe everyone.

pineapple

It looks like my freezer has bitten the dust. Repair or replacement - both expensive! Plus it's the integrated kind - not that easy to get at to try diy fixes.
I'll be eating rather a lot over the next couple of days - can't see good food going to waste. That's my excuse anyway...:)
I was running it down for a defrost anyway. All I had was a bit of home made bread, some butter, some veg (home grown or bought fresh) and a couple of mutton chops.
Heck I remember the days when we didn't even have a fridge - let alone a freezer. How easily 'luxuries' become 'essentials'! Perhaps it's time to look into salting, drying, pickling.....
Meanwhile - what's in your freezer?

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Too much PINEAPPLE - much too much!!!!!

thriftwizard

Meanwhile - what's in your freezer?

The best part of half a pig, a 22lb turkey and a 15lb goose bought whilst prices were low, some sausages, mince & chicken, apple puree and quite a lot of pumpkin (I'm probably the only person who sees the day after Halloween as a culinary/Freegan opportunity) rosehips, sloes & elderberries. Oh, and a little butter & cheese in case of emergency. Well, thats the outdoor one - the little indoor beastie has frozen veg, ice, bacon misshapes, HM cheese sauce & HM stock in it.

Conditions would have to be really bad before I couldn't get to a supermarket, though; they insisted on building one more or less at the end of our road.

Hope your freezer is sorted rapidly, one way or another, Pineapple; it's scary how much my frugal strategies depend on mine.

mardatha

What's goose like? Who sells it?

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Meanwhile - what's in your freezer?

I opened the [STRIKE]tomb[/STRIKE] err freezer door and saw strange and wonderful things; 2 cooked FB pies, clingfilmed, 4 lots whoopsied Anchor butter, huge brick of Jus-Rol, 2 portions of stewed pears, a portion of salmon, lots and lots of sandwich bags with carrot batons, broccoli, h.g. broadbeans and peas inside, and 1/3rd of a banana bread loaf. Oh, and 3 blocks of mature cheddar bought this week on a Buy 2 get 1 free deal at T0sspots.

Nothing terribly exciting but it's a wee tabletop freezer of only 50 litre capacity. I play Tetris with the contents regularly......

2tonsils, hope you stay safe in the storms and that your neighbours and friends do as well.

Am turning a batch of over-ripe bananas into more banana bread, some of which I shall feed to the family at the weekend. Smelling very lush in the kitchen at the moment. I shall also be turning some mince from the butcher into a vat of chili, which I shall try to make slightly-less thermonuclear than the last two batches.

Been horrified at the pictures of the flooded parts of the country, literally sheets and sheets of water everywhere. Lovely weather for ducks but heavy going for the rest of us. Lots of people will be having stuff rot in the fields, too. I saw a field with those giant roly haybales in it all awash. Yeuch.

And to think that in the drought of this spring I was contemplating sourcing a 3rd water butt for the allotment shed so that I could run a diverter hose off the other 2 so wouldn't run out of water - hah!

Mar, your shed is looking increasingly-enticing. "My" river is slightly up and had quite a lot of debris in it and is very muddy coloured which always happens when there's been heavy rain upcountry. Will have a little tidy in my bike shed here at the flats to make sure that there is nothing on the lower rack which could be harmed by a water inundation.

Did anyone read about that person who protected his home from water ingress by using plasticine in the frames etc? I bethought me of the air bricks which lead into the cavity wall on the river side of the flat. They're just above ground level. Wondering the most economical way to get my mitts on a quantity of plasticine to stop those up if the river tops over.

There's no gas boiler in the flat, btw, and these bricks just lead into the cavity not into the rooms themselves, so I won't be risking gassing myself. Would only look at caulking them temporarilily if the water was about to come in.

What has come home to me after listening and reading to those flooded is how very fast water can rise, scarily-fast. Which brings home the importance of having preps pre-positioned for access and preferably above the water mark, so that you can grab-n-go or grab and run upstairs, for those who have an upstairs, that is.

Read about one shopkeeper who heard rushing water and it was coming in through the KEYHOLE and at such speed that it quickly caused a flood indoors. If there was ever a man who needed gaffer tape or a wodge of plasticine, it was he.

ETA Mar, goose is very greasy, not to everyone's taste. Specialist butcher/ farmer's market, big soopemarket? If times are really tough, let me know and I'll nip over to my hometown where the rivers are infested with Canada geese. They roost at night on the grassy riverbank, be a peach of a job to nab one.

maryb

Grey Queen there are lots of recipes on the internet for home made playdough, would that work do you think?

maryb

Mardatha, Lidl usually has goose before Christmas very cheaply. However because there is a lot of carcase to meat it doesn't go that far. A smallish one will only do one meal for a family of four (think of the Cratchits in a Christmas Carol) and a bigger one may not fit in your oven

Don't know if Lidl are doing it this year as we've decided to go back to turkey having got over being sick of it. It's tasty but treat it like pork and serve it with sage and onion stuffing and apple sauce. Ignore all the recipes that tell you to roast it for ever - it will be cremated dry and tough. Do it like any other large bird 15 mins per lb plus 20 mins. But stab the skin with a fork all over and pour a kettleful of boiling water over it in the sink before you put it in the roasting tin. That helps the fat to drain out. Save the fat, it's delish for roasting tatties. In fact you need to spoon off the fat a couple of times while it's cooking as there will be a lot of it.

meme30

Thriftwizard:- 22lb turkey :eek: how long will you cook it for? and blimey, you must have a big oven! :rotfl:

Greyqueen:- When we had cavity wall insulation done they sealed up the airbricks by filling the holes with clear silicone.