THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

jk0

I think this is one way that Brexit could actually be to our advantage. If the UK government said it was going to maintain the £85k guarantee regardless, I think we would all be a lot happier.

fuddle

Please may I ask those of you who dehydrate garden produce how you store them once dried?

thriftwizard

I keep mine in glass jars with a tight seal, Fuddle; either one of my vast collection of Kilners, a Douwe Egberts coffee jar or a large glass jar with tight-fitting screw top. Seems to work well!

ivyleaf

The trouble with Douwe Egberts jars as far as i'm concerned is that I can't get the lids off

culpepper

I use ordinary screw top jars but sometimes vacuum seal dehydrated goods in sealer bags..especially if we are going to use them when camping.

fuddle

Much appreciated, thank you. Glass jars it is. I already have many but they're in use. I shall accumulate throughout the winter.

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culpepper wrote: »

but sometimes vacuum seal dehydrated goods in sealer bags

Not great for very long term storage, as plastic isn't an oxygen barrier.

jk0

This might make you guys chuckle:

You may remember some months ago, I mentioned that both my & my mother's doorbell were ringing early in the morning. Whoever was doing that seems to have given up due to my entreaties.

However, this week I have been even more scared by a weird flash on my landing when I go out to use the WC at night. I just worked out the cause this morning: My new smoke alarm has a small red LED that flashes about every 10 seconds.

When it's pitch black, and I am half asleep, that little LED seems ever so bright.

mardatha

jk0 that sounds like my hubby. I'm of somewhat a spooky (aka weird) persuasion, and get the blame for a lot of things I haven't done.
One night I was talking to my granny. Who has been dead since the 60s but I talk to her a lot, as you do. There was some family problem at the time, and I said to her if I'm doing the right thing, gimme a sign. And make it a real sign, something I won't miss..
Soo....we have a cooker hood extractor fan that hasn't worked for over 20 years, switch is too stiff to move and when it did move nothing ever happened. That next morning the RV came to wake me up white as a sheet, looked as if he'd seen a ghost..
Handed me my tea and said "Have you been doing something?"
I said meee? noooo! whyy? And he said he had got up at 5.30 as usual - it was winter so pitch dark - went to the loo, heard a noise and saw a light in the kitchen. The cooker hood was whirring away, complete with lights which had never. ever, worked since we got it second hand.
And I didn't help meself when I said "oh magic, that'll be my granny". :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:




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Shropshirelass

I love the story about your granny fixing the extractor fan Mardatha. We had an old fashioned radiogram that used to turn itself on when there was no one in the room. That was seriously spooky too. In the end I turned the sound very low, so it wouldn't disturb us.