THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

I cooked up a giant vat of Chilli con carne and froze some single portions for the Idle Piece to take back with her later today to see her through the end of term. (washing done, my credit card taken shopping, food cooked - she thinks it was worth coming home but now she wants to get back to the partying)

I decided to dig out my pressure canner and put the rest of the chilli up in Kilner jars. I have got room in the freezer but I find that I need to practice canning periodically otherwise I forget how to use it. And it's useful to take some on holiday with us so we have got at least one easy meal, whereas frozen isn't so transportable.

I'm on a roll now - I've also taken the meat off the chicken we had on Sunday and I'm boiling up the carcase. Then I'll reduce the stock down until it's really thick and can that as well while I have the canner out.

Don't you feel really pleased Mrs L when you look at all those jars? It's really satisfying, isn't it?

DigForVictory

Blimey - by coincidence I was required to produce All My Kilner Jars last night (the spring lidded ones have been snaffled for Himself's storage purposes) but I am inspired & encouraged to put my startling fleet of assorted vintages of jar into use.
Strawberries? Not much I can do with the glorious tiny little ones - not least as the pickers eat 90%. Dehydrate, perhaps?
Once the edible hedge gets fruiting however, red currants, white currants, tayberries, raspberries, blackberries, goosegogs, jostaberries & even the boring hedging produces something pectin rich to help boost the set. Although I've two young apple trees planted with that in mind as well.

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

Ivy, the veg we eat is broccoli and cauli and turnip. I find cauli and brocc too hard to grow, and when I did grow turnips they were tough and horrible. So I gave up on the veg plot I think.

What about salad type things? Even I can grow a bit of lettuce or spinach. For singletons like me buying a whole lettuce is wasteful, plus spinach can be expensive. This way I have some fresh greenery all summer with no nasty pesticides. Plus there are ways of freezing spinach. Am also growing plenty of herbs plus runner beans for me and the snails. :mad:

jk0

Guess how I was able to 'refrigerate' my Actimel yoghurt drinks in my (hold) suitcase on the plane to Berlin without comment from airport security?

I put them in a padded bag with a frozen tub of Bertolli. It worked brilliantly, and when I got to the hotel I just transferred them to the minibar.

mardatha

Pineapple I meant to do salad stuff and also the green stuff but forgot:o

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Pineapple I meant to do salad stuff and also the green stuff but forgot:o

Would that be the k k k KALE?!

Nargleblast

mardatha - if you get through a lot of yoghourt, start making your own (1 small pot natural yoghourt as a starter, a litre of UHT milk and a little dried milk powder to thicken it). Costs a fraction of shop-bought yoghourt, and you know what's in it!

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Here's a radical idea perhaps.....the old prepping thread actually contains(along with a great deal of light hearted banter and instructions on how to sharpen your toothbrush in case of Zombie attacks) a vast archive of experience and 'how to's' and information both practical and relevant to a sustainable and self reliant life under changed circumstances from those we live in today which might be forced upon us out of the blue by the actions of 'the few'. It seems to me that with life becoming more unpredictable and less secure in many areas it might be a good idea to extract the relevant knowledge and have it all in an easily accessed form for everyone's use rather than having to plough through the whole of the extremely long thread to find a relevant piece that you are looking for. Anyone think this might be a) useful, worth doing C) actually do-able???

Karmacat

I spend a lot of time downloading things from the web (all sorts of places) and making pdfs ... not just for tshtf, but the reality is that my web connection is kind of dodgy, and I don't feel I have very secure living conditions, even though I own my own home ...

One of the things I've done is copy a few days worth of posts from this thread (and I must have done it from the one you're referring to, as well, MrsLW). I certainly wouldn't mind contributing to that as a proper project. Its huge - maybe commit to doing 100 pages?

ivyleaf

Not sure what type of change of circumstances you are thinking of Lyn?