THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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Oh yes Lesson Learned, it's very un-us isn't it? it's the store room which doubled up as my indoor pantry shop being now completely empty apart from boxes and the babys cot that feels the most odd, if I run out of something I now have to go to the shop, really strange. Never mind M'dear it will all be worth it when we're in our respective new homes and unpacked and can have that 'Isn't it nice to be stocked up again' conversation here won't it? Are you still on for the 29th like us? it's going to be a very l o n g week here until they come for the contents, we're almost finished with packing and most things are sealed in and unreachable and I'm really surprised at how easy it's been to manage on very limited equipment...there's a lesson to be learned from that too isn't there? xxx.

nannywindow

GreyQueen enjoy your garden trolley, but you could always use it as a bogey cart too :rotfl:. I can just imagine you barrelling downhill shouting wheeeeee :rotfl:

We are thinking of getting a vacuum sealer ? Has anyone got one, is it any good and does it get much use ? I don't want to buy one only to leave it in the cupboard to gather dust . Thanks.

GreyQueen

nannywindow wrote: »

GreyQueen enjoy your garden trolley, but you could always use it as a bogey cart too :rotfl:. I can just imagine you barrelling downhill shouting wheeeeee :rotfl:.

That's exactly the sort of thing I would do. I was once on the upper deck of one of those huge speedboats, just me and the driver, yelling WHEEEE!!!!!!! as we bounced across the waves with dolphins in our bow-wave and the lower deck full of pukers.


Just spent an hour on the allotmentino, shifting 4 barrows of grains. There was more to be had but the strength was lacking. Also had nice chats with several lottie pals (and three fresh-plucked tomatoes as a gift from one of them). Lovely evening here.

Cappella

I've had the most aggravating day.
Do you remember me posting recently about wholemeal pasta going decidedly 'off' and wondering if it was because I'd stored it in sealed glass jars on a windowsill in the recent heat wave?
Well I've just thrown out 2kgm of pasta, a 1kgm jar nearly full of bulgar wheat and 1kgm of couscous stored in the same place, in the same way. I ought to have checked at the time. Never occurred to me there might be an issue with my other jars though. The pulses are fine, the cereals were not fine. So the food waste bin is chockablock and I'm cursing myself for not going right back to basics and checking best/worst storage places for glass containers as opposed to plastic.
Total waste of money and resources. Sigh. And I call myself a prepper. Ha!!!
Isn't it funny though how some days it's just one thing after another. Today the milk in my morning tea was sour, I've been taken to task by my lovely daughter for being a negative nancy (quite rightly, but it still stung a bit) and I dropped an opened tub of yogurt on Tolly this evening when I opened the fridge.
I'm hoping it's just ' one of those days', and that the universe will be happier with me tomorrow:rotfl:

GreyQueen

((((((((Cappella)))))))))) it does sound like one of those days. Sometimes, it feels like it would've been better to go back to bed after the sour-milk start (and my experience of a day with such a start is it doesn't tend to get any better).


I did wonder when you posted about the glass jars whether they were forming condensation in the sun on the windowsill. I've known this to happen even inside jars of completely dry things like buttons, so it's possible that was the cause of the dry goods rotting.


I do know what you mean about the annoyance of the waste of food, I hate tt when that happens to anything of mine.


In those circs, I just say to myself; No one died or was injured in the making of this disaster, learn from it and move on.


I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice; I make brnad-new-to-me mistakes all the time, tho.

Cappella

GQ said

I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice; I make brand-new-to-me mistakes all the time, tho.

Me too GreyQueen
Thank you. I needed that smile :rotfl:

GreyQueen

My pleasure, hun.


I once read that life is about 90% monotony interspersed with 5% joy and 5% terror. Mine manages to be about 50% contentment, 30% joy, 10% oh chyte and the remaining 10% seems to consist of a series of pratfalls/ metaphorical banana skins and oh-gawd-will-the-earth-just-swallow-me-now-I -can't-believe-I-just-said-that moments.


Righty, I am now orfline and having a herbal cuppa and some time with my book. Love and peas to all tonight, GQ xx

Living_proof

In answer to the question about a vacuum sealer I have one. I long hankered after one but they were about £80 and then one day (everything comes to she who waits) I saw a totally brand new unused one at a car boot sale for £5. It even had the plastic cover on the plug, a Foodsaver no less. It was used regularly until about a year ago when I stopped eating animal products, and for meat and fish it was great - really prolonged the freezer life of these. I am going to resurrect it now and use it to long term freeze some veggie meals and I recently bought the vacuum rolls and bags with an Amazon gift voucher. They are rather expensive, but you avoid freezer burn and loss of flavour and therefore waste. I do wish the bags were as easily purchased as they are in the States, and if you do buy one make sure it is a really good one, as the Lidl ones and cheaper varieties certainly don't seal as well. I t hought I had done so well with my bargain purchase and then a friend found the upgraded super dooper Foodsaver at a car boot and the stallholder thought it was a George Foreman and let him have it for £1.50!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

We're in SHTF territory.

FIL had a (2nd?) stroke at the highly advanced age of 65, having not sought medical treatment the first time, so we're halfway across the country facing the prospect of the OH moving out of home and into a place with FIL on discharge to keep him out of the Care System (mainly because he'd most likely refuse all medical treatment and stop eating permanently if anybody tried to shove him in a home).

I've got to go home next week for animal related duties and work the following week, whatever happens.

But at least we have air mattresses with us for sleeping on assorted floors in the meantime, as I bought them for working at the festival we had literally just stepped off the train from when the text came through. And my superwarm clothing and sleeping bag.

Trouble is, I'm out of meds now, I can't get replacements down here because they're specialist hospital only items and I can feel my joints starting to flare. Dammit. Not prepped enough for that.

Elona_2

Jojo

Could you contact the people who prescribe and explain the situation and get an emergency script?