THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

elona

I used to store tins of fish but tried some recently and they make me feel sick as do poached eggs which I used to love. I now have tins of tomatoes, beans, veg and soups as well as pasta. rice and noodles etc.

I have been using up things from the freezer and cooking meals to freeze for dds and want to be able to use up what I have and then restock, A lamb stew is in the pressure cooker and I want to make maximum use of it to save electricity and time.

The forecast of colder weather makes it more important to have basic stores in as well as tealights etc for possible power cuts or disruptions to deliveries.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm stocking up my store cupboard again and have found that Morrisons are doing smaller tins of cooked pulses for 50pish enough to feed two for one meal with other things. Thinking along the lines of possibly having no electricity and therefore no way of 'keeping' extra portions of food the smaller tins would let me cook and use at one meal which would be sensible.

I get the smaller tins whenever I see them. It reduces the times when I go into the kitchen 4 days later to find that Himself has massively overcatered and the resulting lifeform is acquiring sentience in the SC or microwave. Mind you, I've also chucked away about a tenner's worth of food found festering in the fridge this afternoon. I am NOT happy about this, especially with the superduper expensive freezer being a mere five foot away.

Mind you, I did drag him out to the shops to pick up loads of veggies and things that I will be portioning up and freezing in about half an hour - once I've popped round the corner to pick up some cat food and more freezer bags - and, because Lidl was a bit busy, he froze like a flaming bunny under a beacon, so I had to worry about him freaking out and abandoning me with too much shopping to carry alone rather than swiftly mealplan with what was a good price. Every question was answered 'No' - Would you like chicken? Sausages? Mince? Could you go and pick something for dinner? Would you like to stop off at the pub on the way back? [strike]to shove off and stop acting like a three year old on my time?[/strike].

Honesty, when the Zombie Apocalypse comes, he's going to be the one who gets me bit by freezing and needing to be rescued. :mad:



Wish I wasn't teching a gig in the Midlands tomorrow. I really don't fancy a 5am start in the first proper chilly weather of the season in a ropey venue with an idiot lead singer patronising me by showing me how to coil cables again.

DigForVictory

Me, I have a family meeting with fraught siblings after a 6am start & a 3 hour train journey - and my consolation is that I know my train home leaves at 4:41.
It's going to be a long day, but the things we do for love and a peaceful world...

Says she thinking how many packs of noodles have we? Lots, good that'll make a quick & easy supper when I get back in tomorrow.
Some days I prep to get through the next 48 hours!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Yay, The top drawer of New Posh Freezer is completely full of meat and fish in portions, the second one full of fruit + an entire single dinner of leftover meatballs and pasta that would have been left to fester + a big box of fish fingers for when Himself gets a hankering for a fish finger sandwich, the third is full of veg and the fourth with ice, ice packs and space for freezing individual portions of HM soup.

If he can manage to get to the 100 pennies shop 1/4 of a mile from here on Monday as I've asked, he should be able to manage buying some containers of the correct size if they have any (not fussed whether they're cylindrical or square, they're only there to give the soup a shape whilst it's being frozen in a bag before being tipped out to sit proudly labelled). One trip, one job. [mutters darkly about being able to get a three year old to follow longer chains of instructions].

1 load of flour, yeast, salt and water in the BM on the go and supplies for the gig/tour bus are ready, along with some oats soaking for porridge at OHMYGODEVENTHESPARROWSARESTILLASLEEP o'clock. I just about held my tongue when I saw the food he's packed for the day - mine is a high protein sandwich, fruit, an unrefined cereal bar with nuts and a smoothie for the inevitable slump when I've been on the go for 8 hours - his is a ham sandwich he probably won't eat, a packet of crisps, a can of fizz and a huge bag of M&Ms. I expect all that will be touched is the fizz and sweets. He wonders why he doesn't have much energy, keeps on saying he must be ill. And I'm the one who gets told to lose weight almost every time I cross a medical professional's path :mad:


Oooh - he's decided to do the washing up. Not bad going for a week, seeing as I actually did it whilst cooking dinner, but there you go. He's waving a sponge at the countertops instead. Which I've also already done, but I'm not complaining.

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elona wrote: »

as well as tealights etc for possible power cuts or disruptions to deliveries.

For lighting, you could get one of these.

£4 from Home Bargains (brand is NITLITE ULTRA BRIGHT COB LED COLLAPSIBLE LANTERN), and a pack of 10 Readycell AA Batteries (lantern takes 3, which last a good 8 hours) cost about the same.

540 Lumens/36 watts, which is very bright.

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I read an article the other day, about the potential effects of a No-Deal Brexit.

While food variety might be reduced a bit (eg. French Cheeses and Wines), I don't think we're going to be left hungry.

To my mind, probably the biggest risks is going to be the electrickery supply, given how we rely on inter-connectors to Europe.

Karmacat

Thats a good point Bob, there could well be issues there.

moneyistooshorttomention

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I read an article the other day, about the potential effects of a No-Deal Brexit.

While food variety might be reduced a bit (eg. French Cheeses and Wines), I don't think we're going to be left hungry.

To my mind, probably the biggest risks is going to be the electrickery supply, given how we rely on inter-connectors to Europe.

Worth someone's while then to check out whether there is some cross-border type of law that would still apply when it comes to Brexit - whereby we (as a country) had the right to "sue the pants off them" if an "essential to life" (ie our electric supply) got disrupted....

(Well that's the back-up plan I guess in case a "You don't sell us yours - then we ain't going to sell you ours" - ie whatever-it-is that they want from us didn't work out).

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The gas pipeline runs through Ukraine from Russia and that is also a potential for being a problem if the Russians decide to shut off the supply. A perfect storm in the making if we have a problem with EU owned utilities companies at the same time as a Russian shut down. We would need heating, lighting, cooking, street lighting, storage alternatives to name just a few things not a scenario I view without trepidation.

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

whereby we (as a country) had the right to "sue the pants off them" if an "essential to life" (ie our electric supply) got disrupted....

Suing them (even if such an option were available in law) wouldn't solve the immediate problem of electrickery shortages.

The loss of the inter-connectors wouldn't shut the country down, but could lead to rolling region, short period (mostly during high demand times) power cuts, much like we had during the miners strikes in the 70s.

I've just had a look and currently (at this off-peak time), we're consuming about 29 MW, of which a little over 1.5 MW is from France and the Netherlands.

Of course, in the event of disruption due to Brexit, we would probably have to export power (most likely the total possible, which is 500 MW) through the Irish inter-connector to Northern Ireland.

Adding that to the lost capacity from France and the Netherlands, gives us a total lost capacity of 3,500 MW.

Not that we use the total capacity from the French and NL inter-connectors. Indeed, sometimes the inter-connectors are used to export power to France and NL.