THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

jk0 wrote: »

Sorry to hear this Jojo. Could you try ebay? If it's electric, they are quite easy to install yourself. Just four screws into the kitchen unit usually. Then slide it out with a helper, change over the wiring, and slide the new one back in before securing it.

I wouldn't mind doing that in principle, but I have suspicions about the competency of the people who built and installed everything in the house - there have been a lot of issues with sloppy and even dangerous workmanship (including killing the original oven because they'd put a standard, non heat shielded length of extension lead, rather than rated oven cable on and then pinned it carefully between the obviously hot oven and the base of the cabinet - the engineer who replaced that told me I was lucky the RCD worked, and then made a point of checking the circuit for free - and needed to rewire it as the live was waving around inside the isolation switch _pale_ ). I've also had an astonishing number of appliances go poufft in there, although that could be a combination of the magic touch of the OH, the age of the good things and the cheapness of a lot of the newer things. :cool:


I'd need to be sure that the circuit is suitable for all ratings of domestic ovens available, as I wouldn't want to buy one that is too high for safety, after all. And, because I'm a naturally cynical person, I won't touch anything unless the entire house is dead electrically speaking - it'll have to all be off at

Sockets
Isolation Switches
Individual Circuits/RCDs
The entire house, lights and all.

- before I'll pick up a screwdriver. Which means waiting until next weekend, as I don't get in until after dark now.

At least I'll have been paid by then, so can think about it some more. I don't have the mental energy for it with how busy work is this week.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

None of us should be eating sugar at all, never mind a diagnosed Type II diabetic

Trouble is, most foods (even fresh fruit) contain some sugar.

fuddle

Bob the sugar in fruit is different. GQ has been educating me about sugar. She's the sugar BOSS Sugar can cause the same damage to my liver that alcohol did to my Mam's. Sobering - pardon the pun.

30 years ago when I was a kid my friend was diabetic. She wasn't allowed to leave the house without a pack of fruit pastels in case of hypo (I think) so would it be sensible in terms of blood sugar levels to prep with the same train of thought? I dunno. That was 30 years ago and things have moved on I guess.

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I used to keep a couple of 150ml cans of Coca Cola with me, but since I've been taken off the Gliclazide, I'm advised I don't need to carry it any more.

GreyQueen

Yup, BB is right about fruit containing sugar. Fructose. Table sugar is sucrose (half fructose). If you eat a piece of fruit, the fibre slows the absorbtion of sugar by your liver, which has to process fructose. If you drink fruit juice, widely regarded as a healthy habit, you're necking the equivalent of half a dozen pieces of fruit, minus their beneficial fibre, and that fructose load is hitting your poor liver like a runaway train.

Don't believe me? Get one of those glass fruit juicers, a regualr size glass you might drink OJ from and a net or oranges. Now juice them and see how many it takes to fill the glass. No way would anyone siddown and eat a dozen oranges or apples in one sitting but, even if you did, the fructose + fibre would be less bad than drinking the juice. _pale_

Fructose is processed by the liver in exactly the same way it processes alcohol and the damage, seen on scans/ slides is indistinguishable. Oh, and your struggling liver will have to do something with the frutose and that something will be to shove it into fat cells with a one-way ticket, unless you produce certain enzyme signals to pull it back out again. Signals which won't be created while you're running on sugar.

And about 80% of processed foods do contain added sugar, particularly ones marketed as low fat. The answer to that is pretty straightforward and one I now practise myself - leave them on the shelf and head thee over to the veggie aisle.:cool:

moneyistooshorttomention

jk0 wrote: »

BTW, you guys may know that I am electrosensitive. This very interesting youtube clip came up yesterday, with even some stuff I was not aware of:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bdU_uw2Dc


Over an hour, but it had me riveted.

You must be getting some of the same "feeds" I am - I've got it saved to watch later.

mardatha

Funny, one thing I never liked was fruit. Apart from strawberries, I like them. Other than that I never eat fruit at all. Bleugh!

fuddle

I'd love to know your ancestry Mar. I think you have Inuit running through your blood

mardatha

Very possibly lol. I do like the cold and the winter... Hmmm.
Wonderwhat polar bear tastes like?
penguin on toast?
Hmmmmmmm.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Very possibly lol. I do like the cold and the winter... Hmmm.
Wonderwhat polar bear tastes like?
penguin on toast?
Hmmmmmmm.

Dunno Mar, but if you try one, whatever you do DON'T EAT THE LIVER. It contains very high levels of vitamin A, even the Inuit don't eat it - levels which are very dangerous to us humans. Other than that, I expect the meat would be rank, the meat of carnivores usually is.