THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Wow Generali, you're a long way from home - we don't often see you down here
The thunder & lightning this morning knocked out our wee local radio mast and it's only just gone back on. First time in my life I've heard continuous thunder - we thought it was a plane in trouble over us but it was thunder. Fantastic lightning display too
Power was on and of a few times but chez nous we hardly noticed..

TiredTrophy

Is there a recipe for jelly babies? What is an acceptable alternative when they run out for ever?

greenbee

Jelly baby recipe right here...

https://kitchenoverlord.com/2015/10/01/hey-whovains-do-you-want-a-jelly-baby/

TiredTrophy

Does this work?:)
Slightly reluctant to try to find the mould when I live here in "abroad" where stuff ordered online is taxed or lost....but I do want to try and am concerned for Mar....

Doveling

It says to use Kale juice to make the green ones :eek:

greenbee

Doveling wrote: »

It says to use Kale juice to make the green ones :eek:

Do you know how long it took me to find the perfect recipe? :cool:

mardatha

I hate you lot! :eek::eek::eek:

TiredTrophy

I think i would prefer the green one to taste of lime...one can take this too far...by the time kale has survived the pigeons, burrerflies and white fly, it's precious! I trade it with m y smoothie drinling neighbour for ouzo......
Thanks very much for the recipe, I'll try it out in an icecube tray first.

pineapple

Just on the zombie apocalypse again, I am pleased to report that the zombie apocalypse is alive and well in my part of Cumbria.
I hadn't been here long before I realised that everyone in the local town looked 'the same'. Indeed there only seem to be half a dozen surnames in circulation :rotfl:
If you are brave enough to drive on the back roads - which are barely a car's width, you will, unsuprisingly, hardly meet with any traffic. If you do, it will usually be a local farmer who will give you 'the stare'.
It's the sort of place which features in many an American horror movie. You know the sort of thing - group of tourists arrives in a backwoods place and get picked off by the sinister looking locals one by one........ :eek:

DigForVictory

The whole canning malarkey appears to be current in the US, so much so I got an email from the food storage made easy folk who have a free webinar (I think that's a sort of lecture via website rather than youtube) here
The have two books they recommend (no idea if they make a profit on that) - the "Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving" (Ball being a manufacturer of the kit involved, a sort of American Kilner?) & one Daniel Gasteiger's "Yes You Can! And freeze and dry it too" said to be step by step & well illustrated. (Sounds great fun & reviewers are firm that actually there's a bundle more than just canning like how many beans to plant to feed four and how to triage the situation when you freezer breaks down as well as "tips" that come from hard won experience.)

And while it's an American site, so some translation is called for, just reading this encourages me to have a look at my kilner jars & ponder what to try.

However the vacuum sealer thingummy arrived yesterday & Himself is all keen to give it a go. (How to recruit the OH? Get a Gadget! Then control what foodstuffs flow into his experimentation area & stay tranquil when he pressure packs the let-us-hope empty tea cup)