Preparedness for when

valk_scot

Beetlemama wrote: »

When DS was little, we gave him all sorts of things to eat, no matter whether we ate it or not, because I know half the aversions we have are because we were trained to have them, I won't eat black pudding (or anything icky) and DH won't eat steak and kidney pie because he was brought up to think of kidney as "offal" lol - which it is, but to us it was put on the table as "dinner", I still think its weird he won't eat it but he regards it with the same horror as if we are eating stomach or intestines.

Does he eat sausages? What does he think posh sausages come in then? And re black pudding, meat of any sort has blood in it anyway .

Caterina

As children we were given all sorts of foods, meat, offal, tripe, snails (really!). A Sardinian speciality is a type of rotten cheese with maggots. It is actually delicious! Even though I ate the cheese, maggots and all - still do but pick out the maggots these days! - I could never ever eat offal, it made me gag.

I remember having to leave the house and going to eat at my Gran's when my mother cooked kidney, or liver and onions. I refused meat even as a little child and my mother had to give it to me disguised in sauce. It was not a conscious decision, I just could not stand it. I would eat chicken and pork but not beef. Lamb was not what you call it here, the lamb we ate was baby lamb, a few weeks, even days, old. Here what you call lamb we would call mutton, I never liked it because of its strong smell.

We were never fussy children and were fed the same as the adults from very early, but the meat thing was always a combat for me, same with milk, my mother would force feed it to me for breakfast, with broken breadstick (I still physically gag and shudder at the thought) and I vomited several times until she realised that I could not take it. Maybe I miss the enzyme to digest it, as even now it makes me sick. Not yogurt, or cheese or cream though, which I have always eaten.

Also, part of becoming a vegetarian for me was due to witness so many animals being killed, when I was little. One moment we would be playing with the piglets in my Gran's farm, the next moment we would witness their killing, screaming and bleeding all over the farm yard, with the dogs licking the blood. Interestingly, it did not affect my brother or my sister, just me. Go figure the workings of a child's mind.

Re. Black pudding, we used to eat it as pudding! Because in Sardinia it is made with pig's blood mixed with cocoa powder, sugar and candied peel!

Gigervamp

valk_scot wrote: »

Re fussy folk, I was thinking of when the 2010 snows were hereour taste buds changed quite dramatically, we were all craving sweet foods and fatty stodge like dumplings.

Yes, I noticed that. I normally only have a sandwich at lunch time and a main meal in the evening and I rarely snack. But back then, I had porridge for breakfast too and I also found myself snacking a lot too.

mardatha

Re kale. Dear god. Fodder it is - animal feed !!:eek::eek::eek:

suburbanwifey

meme30 wrote: »

It's all true 'little things please little minds!'. We were passing a camping shop and bought a wind-up lamp which was in the sale. Box said one minute winding will give 20 minutes of light. It broad daylight and yes, we wound it up for 1 minute and it's still on. Thats an hour and a half later, we are so impressed! And do you know what? we are going to do it all again when it gets dark! just because we can :rotfl: ....shaking head at small life and easy pleased!

So sweet and just like me and my OH. He came home from work to find that our new Kelly Kettle had arrived. Did we boil the kettle (normal one, in the kitchen) to make a cuppa? oh no! We both headed outside into the garden, Kelly Kettle on concrete, making a little fire (took a while! we are novices) and sat happily watching our little fire in the base of the Kelly Kettle heating our water. My iPhone was taking lots of pictures for Flickr and he spent most of the 20 minutes on his knees (in his lounge pants) on the concrete with his backside in the air (I tried not to worry what the neighbours would think lol) as he kept blowing on it as we liked the huge flames

We made our cuppa, it was around 45 minutes after he got in and it tasted so good

Yip, same as us, daft as brushes and enjoying playing with new toys lol

mardatha

If TSHTF then we'd all be doing far more hard work - so maybe look at the Victorians and what they ate ? Which suits me as I like proper food lol -meat & two veg... and pudding

Popperwell

Originally Posted by meme30
It's all true 'little things please little minds!'. We were passing a camping shop and bought a wind-up lamp which was in the sale. Box said one minute winding will give 20 minutes of light. It broad daylight and yes, we wound it up for 1 minute and it's still on. Thats an hour and a half later, we are so impressed! And do you know what? we are going to do it all again when it gets dark! just because we can :rotfl: ....shaking head at small life and easy pleased!

So many to choose from that are poor so getting the right one can be difficult so any information what to buy appreciated...do you get a reasonable amount of light from it?

Beetlemama

Caterina wrote: »

As children we were given all sorts of foods, meat, offal, tripe, snails (really!). A Sardinian speciality is a type of rotten cheese with maggots. It is actually delicious! Even though I ate the cheese, maggots and all - still do but pick out the maggots these days! .....Re. Black pudding, we used to eat it as pudding! Because in Sardinia it is made with pig's blood mixed with cocoa powder, sugar and candied peel!

this is exactly my point, if you're given it young, with a hearty introduction of "Wow this is great, you gotta try this!" you're more likely to eat it with a completely open mind and enjoy it, but presented instead with "omg look at that! that's disgusting, go on I dare you to eat it...." no kid's putting that in their mouth, lol.

I'm sure the cheese is lovely, but I got my prejudice before any happy maggotcheese experience so I am unlikely to ever experience it, but you never know, ship wreck survivors are always talking about how excited they were to catch fish with big eyes cos the eyes were full of fluid (pass the bucket please), in an extreme situation I reckon we'll all learn to eat anything we can find.

Re: The pig killing, oh man they know you're coming for them before you get there. My Granddad-in-law (first husband) in Calabria walked down to that sty every day two or three times, but the day he killed them, they were screaming before he was out of the kitchen. It's pretty traumatizing.)

also Re: "Posh sausages" lol no, not in this house, no sausages actually, no-one really likes them, but if we did have them you can be sure they'd be Value or Smart Price or just plain old sawdust

HariboJunkie

Just wondering what anyone's contingency plans are for a. If the shtf while you are away from home and can't get back quickly and b. if something happens to your home while you aren't in it and destroys your stockpiles and equipment?

Are these scenarios that we simply can't plan for? Maybe emergency stuff should be kept in sheds or garages if possible?

Caterina I think you need to weigh up the odds of something happening that would mean you would be forced to eat meat. If there was something I couldn't/wouldn't eat for any reasons, particularly ethical ones, I don't think I'd be reintroducing it to my diet just in case of an end of the world scenario.

Gigervamp

HJ, from what I've read, a lot of the hardcore preppers have supplies buried in secret places.