THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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I remember wonderful fenland celery that came covered in the black soil they grew in being available round Christmas time in the greengrocer, took a bit of scrubbing to get it clean but Oh the flavour and parsnips and sprouts that had been frosted and tiny mandarin oranges that were full of pips but full of flavour too and unwrapping coxs apples from their newspaper where they'd been stored and how they smelled so intensely appley. Veg and fruit back then in the 1950s wasn't cosmetically selected for it's looks but in season and even soft tomatoes and cracked eggs and 'frying mushrooms' that had gone a bit floppy were eagerly purchased by housewives with families to feed and not much of a wage coming in. Also we could go to the bakers at 5 15 in the evening and buy bags of 'stale cakes' and 'stale bread' specially on a Saturday when there was no such thing as Sunday opening except for the little corner shops. In this age and time of plenty where we can import anything we want from anywhere in the world and 24 hour shopping 7 days a week and on the internet, in society with so many rules about the food we eat, how it looks, how long it can be on a shelf, how it's packaged and stored, with the abundance of choice we have.....we can still bemoan the fact that there is no spinach and courgettes are £1 each in January in the UK.....I find it frankly SAD and a bit BATTY!!!

mardatha

Agree with you Monna and MrsL. Younger yuppies will scream and faint and have meltdowns... older bats will just quietly go and eat something else :rotfl::rotfl:

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Nargleblast

Winter salad reminds me of a very nice side dish - shredded cabbage (white or red), a little bit of shredded onion, a bit of grated apple. Mix together, dress with a bit of salt and plenty of lemon juice. If you want, as an alternative, use only a tiny bit of lemon juice and mix in a tablespoon of real mayonnaise. Quite refreshing.

karcher

mardatha wrote: »

Agree with you Monna and MrsL. Younger yuppies will scream and faint and have meltdowns... older bats will just quietly go and eat something else :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: That clearly makes me an older bat too :rotfl:

I find it farcical this hysteria about a dearth of iceberg lettuces, broccoli and expensive courgettes....anyone would think the earth was about to stop turning!!


ETA I do think the Media are to blame for stirring up panic than is reality.
Most people would just think, Oh there's no iceberg lettuce so buy something else..or those courgettes are expensive, I'll give them a miss.... Media fuelled panic is a scourge of modern society...

*...wanders off muttering to herself*

Cappella

I love winter salad

mardatha

I think we're breeding a generation of halfwits, aided and abetted by the media. Gawd help them when the S hits the F, because I won't have the time or patience to do it.
I've got a lot of books about Victorian, Edwardian, and early 20th century life - and the difference in attitude is enormous. People then seemed so much tougher and far less silly. If the average housewife now (me included) was hit by WW2 rationing, imagine what a pig's ear we would make of it. And I know some of us will say no no I'd manage fine! - yes ok - but for how long? They had to do it for years and years.

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MAR I think humanity despite appearances to the opposite would shout and complain and find someone to blame BUT when all that has been done and they are hungry enough would knuckle under and make the best of what they DID have because the alternative that is starving isn't an option. If the choice wasn't there in the first place we'd all be content with much less than we currently have wouldn't we?


What would you do if we had weather events that reduced and damaged food crops all round the globe, say a massive Krakatoa style volcanic eruption that put up the dust cloud and blocked the sun so that we had very little food available? I believe the last Krakatoa eruption changed weather patterns for 4 or so years. The world population was very much smaller back then and some folks must have made it through or we wouldn't be here today so how would you cope in a situation where the non availability of many foods was a constant situation that carried on for years not just a few weeks?

mardatha

I just feel for the children in families where the mother is a halfwit
In the event of a Krakatoa or if Katla kicks off again (and she is still rumbling away) I'd be fine, because what we eat is so limited anyway. I'd be more in trouble if they made it law that we had to eat strange foreign exotic stuff like courgettes and avocadoes :D

ivyleaf

I did read on another forum that people doing Slimming World diets are a bit panicked because the diet plan that suits them best suggests a salad for lunch every day.