THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ivyleaf

Respect, GQ :T

So pleased to be well enough to cook a roast dinner for OH and me tonight :j Last time I tried to cook chicken a few weeks ago it made me feel so ill every time I looked at it that i'm sorry to say it ended up in the food waste bin

GreyQueen

Blimey, that gammon still wasn't quite cooled by bedtime, and I stayed up untl 11 pm especially. Is now prepped and all bar two slices (today and tomorrow) are frozen. 13 thick slices, each enough for a meal, working out at 12p/ slice.

I have cut the rind fat off, put it in a tubbyware in the fridge and will put it on the allotment birdtable when I head up there.

The birdies have learned to keep an eye on said table, as I put cutworms and chafer grubs up there when I find them when digging. They had one away from there on Saturday, so quick and I never even saw what kind of bird nabbed it. Organic pest control, I love it.

elona

mardatha

If I don't want to go out but want something sweet I make a couple of pancakes and have them with lemon and sugar or jam on them.

There is a recipe somewhere for cake in a mug that is made in the microwave. Year ago I used to buy a "basic" sponge mix for about 17 pence and bake it in the microwave and the dds gobbled it up.

If you want to use conventional cookery then bake a sponge in one cake tin and slice in half vertically, spread with jam and sandwich together to make half a cake.

I am lucky that I have a good bus service and also a couple of shops a few minutes walk away but don't always want to go out in the cold and am trying to resist cakes etc.

mardatha

Thanks elona . We can relax, I hit Aldi this morning. One walnut & coffee cake and one Sultana . That will do me for ages.
Oooooh and some syrup sponge puds...

maryb

Our elder DD is looking to buy her first flat. We told her to hang on after the Brexit vote and it's beginning to look like we were right. For the last couple of months the estate agents have had to work a lot harder and be nice to potential buyers instead of saying 'there's a viewing at 10 am next Saturday, register for it (along with two dozen others)'

But now we are beginning to see prices slide significantly. They had reached silly heights here in suburban South East London. £400,000 for a small two up two down, £380,000 for a two bedroom flat, that sort of thing.

She looked at a flat that had already been reduced from £380k to £350k last Saturday plus another one at £380k. This morning the estate agent phoned to say the £380k vendors would probably take an offer of £350k

We've told her to hang on until one that is just right comes along. Doesn't look like she will lose by it.

But it's horrifying to think that if she had bought six months ago when she was despairing about 'living in her parents' basement' then by now she would have lost a big chunk of her capital

ivyleaf

That's good then, maryb. I hope she finds just the right place

Still a crazy amount though, isn't it! When we bought our house (well, a share of the equity) in 1983 it was £36,500 ( for the whole house, I mean). Wages haven't gone up by anything like that amount :eek:

maryb

When Osborne solemnly warned the country that house prices would fall if we voted out, was I the only parent who punched the air and thought 'yesss!!!'?

I do feel sorry for people who may end up in negative equity. But it's a different market now from the early 90s and if people have to move for work or changing circumstances, then they can at least rent out their property

GreyQueen

I'm neither a parent nor aspiring to have my own mortgage (too old and too ill) but I was air-punching at the thought of falling house prices, too.

If they halved, it'd only put them back where they were a few years ago and such an event would be very beneficial to so many young (and not so young) people.

I'm feeling very pleased with myself; knocked off work, bustled home, changed into scruffs, grabbed pushbike, went to Liddly, picked some lottie verg and did a dump run with couch grass. And, on my way back into the block, managed to accost a gas engineer to fix my hall radiator.

A pin got stuck. It's a brass gubbins under the knob (oo-err, missus). Took him about 1.5 mins to switch it out for a new one and voila! a radiator which heats up.

Been flawlessly clear and sunny all day today, temps dropping fast and some worried looking brass monkeys were seen outside checking their bits.

I'm cooking me tea; YS cabbage, with homegrown tatties, with a slice of YS gammon, with a side of homegrown beetroots and there will be a rice pud with a cast-off pint of milk from a pal.

Livin' the dream........... :rotfl:

jk0

Anyone else still putting washing out? I seem to be the only one round here, but it's been a lovely day here. My washing was out from 9am to 3pm, and got dry enough to go on the clothes horse. About 80% dry I would say. Even that is preferable to tumble drying in my view.

boddy

My BOB bag became very useful today. I got home from the doctors to find next door with a large gas leak. I could smell gas when I turned into my front street. So the gas guy said I needed to open some windows, grab what I needed and get out. I was out for a few hours but went to a friends. I was grateful for what I've learned on here. I keep a BOB bag by the side of my bed.