Prepping for Brexit thread

AndyCF

fuddle wrote: »

I think you're just used to marg Andy. I grew up with wrapped butter and continue to find it ample as I age through the years. It's all just preference I guess.

I don't buy that much Marg either to be honest!

I've not had any in for a few days now. I do plan on getting some next week at some point when I do my 'larger shop' , I may see about a small pack of butter this time.

I tend to use it for putting a knob/blob of it into a baked potato or if I have a large bowl of mixed veg I sometimes find a blob in there is nice too.

I don't tend to get much bread these days. I did like those 'thin' square breads but they are a bit too expensive so I tend to settle for a small wholemeal sliced loaf or if I can find nice ones a 6/8 pack of wholemeal cobs (find as in 'find locally') , lack of supermarkets within sensible walking range limit me a tad.

D&DD

Blimey I go out for the day and you lot have had a party


Primrose I have a few US Food storage books and one common theme for replacement is oil in baking. They usually advocate using dried beans soaked overnight then cooked til very soft.
You then mash them and substitute them for the equivalent amount of oil eg 1 cup mashed beans = 1 cup oil


I only have a few baking recipes that use just oil so have never experimented but I feel I should just to see if it actually works!!


I also store NIDO milk powder as it is said to be better to drink and bake with.It's full fat and non instant so takes a bit more work but I think it's worth it.


You can make buttermilk with dried milk just as easily as fresh and you can start sourdough (everlasting yeast some call it) off pretty easily.


Sugar is easily swapped with honey etc as a sweetner but it's harder to sub for baking cakes! In the war they tended to use veg eg carrots to add moisture and sweetness during rationing.


Yoghurt can be started off easily with an existing batch and a warm cupboard/flask (or an easiyo!)


A lot of things I've seen, for example cheese ,which they said may be a bit short we have our own producers or to be honest I will probably just get an extra block in as cheddar has a long date and I can alwys freeze it likewise butter etc.


I am fortunate to have my teeny garden so have planted up some crops so we have a bit of fresh stuff *in case* and I have tried to store our harvests in a variety of ways this year eg jam,purees,fruit leathers,pie fillings and dehydrated for the fruits and dehydrated,frozen and precooked into freezer meals for the veg. That way hopefully we have a few different options for use.

GreyQueen

Andy, sorry to shock you, but the marg tubs (and other tubs, trays and pots) don't usually get recycled even if you put them into the recycling bin. The MRF will be baling these low-value plastics and selling them to the waste-to-power industry (they're being burned). Often in the Scandinavian countries. Going rate is about £70/tonne, much better than up until a few months ago, they'd be paying to have them taken away.



I'm a butter nut, happen to consider margarine to be the work of the devil, yucky stuff. I'm pretty comfortable with unwrapping the butter brick and popping it into the pyrex butter dish. Widely available 2nd hand for about £1, which is what I paid for mine.


A convo with the 'rents about the 99p butter stash saw them buy 10 blocks in their town. They're not into prepping, but a 50p per block saving isn't to be sniffed at.


Today, I have added some more tins of tomatoes, beans, soup and jars of olives into my personal stash. Will continue with such habits on each and every shopping trip. Some unfortunately folk don't know where their next meal is coming from, and I have been as poor as a church mouse in earlier years, and don't like to be one of them.

AndyCF

GreyQueen wrote: »

Andy, sorry to shock you, but the marg tubs (and other tubs, trays and pots) don't usually get recycled even if you put them into the recycling bin. The MRF will be baling these low-value plastics and selling them to the waste-to-power industry (they're being burned). Often in the Scandinavian countries. Going rate is about £70/tonne, much better than up until a few months ago, they'd be paying to have them taken away.

Does not actually surprise me. I read a while back one council at least was 'seen' emptying the recycling bins into the 'regular landfill' area despite saying they did not, they were seen at it. Another I read about said something about having too much recycling so they ended up admitting putting it to landfill.

I think 'as long as I do my part' in that it has gone into the correct place, aka not into a bin bag in the black bin, then it is out of my sensible control.

I could write a huge post on environment actually, but that is unfair on this topic. I did post something about it elsewhere on this forum though a while back.

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm a butter nut, happen to consider margarine to be the work of the devil, yucky stuff. I'm pretty comfortable with unwrapping the butter brick and popping it into the pyrex butter dish. Widely available 2nd hand for about £1, which is what I paid for mine.

I guess that would work well, although I had a vague idea of using one of those plastic lunch boxes with a sealed lid, the ones with the blueish lids usually seem half decent quality. Then again its plastic on food so Pyrex may be better, or some form of white/grey ceramic. I should amit here I also keep my bread in the fridge too, partly for space reasons.

GreyQueen wrote: »

A convo with the 'rents about the 99p butter stash saw them buy 10 blocks in their town. They're not into prepping, but a 50p per block saving isn't to be sniffed at.

That is true. Good price.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Today, I have added some more tins of tomatoes, beans, soup and jars of olives into my personal stash. Will continue with such habits on each and every shopping trip. Some unfortunately folk don't know where their next meal is coming from, and I have been as poor as a church mouse in earlier years, and don't like to be one of them.

Nothing wrong with that I always try to keep a few tins in! Regarding 'other folk' I can concur with you, I've also been there, and it could well happen again too.

Primrose

D&#8517 wrote: »

Blimey I go out for the day and you lot have had a party


Primrose I have a few US Food storage books and one common theme for replacement is oil in baking. They usually advocate using dried beans soaked overnight then cooked til very soft.
You then mash them and substitute them for the equivalent amount of oil eg 1 cup mashed beans = 1 cup oil

This sounds very close to the wartime recipe for mock marizipan on wedding cakes where mashed haricot or similar beans were mixed with almond essence. The only problem was apparently that it rapidly set like concrete and you needed a hammer and chisel to smash through it !

Hope things never come to this. I'm rather partial to keeping a block of marzipan in the fridge to carve off a sweet snack occasionally . Far cheaper than buying expensive marzipan crafted apples and pears in posh chocolate shops !

Blue_Doggy

Primrose wrote: »

I'm rather partial to keeping a block of marzipan in the fridge to carve off a sweet snack occasionally . Far cheaper than buying expensive marzipan crafted apples and pears in posh chocolate shops !

:rotfl: Snap! That is my favourite secret sin! I daren’t even buy marzipan blocks as it is so delicious to take a slice and cut it into cubes to have with a cup of coffee.

Regarding butter wrappers, they are excellent for wrapping/separating meats such as chops or sausages in containers in the freezer. Also for lining cake or loaf tins when baking.

silver-oldie

GreyQueen wrote: »

Re saladings, I eat a lot of salad, as in twice on most days, which is likely to change over the winter months in the future, but it is very much what one can call a first world problem. I also eat plenty of locally grown veggies, including ones available in the winter months. The leek crop is looking splendiferous up on my lottie snd the chard plantation, which exists 365 days a year, is wonderfully productive.


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Been reading along and saw your earlier post about growing chard, but can't find it, never grown it myself.
What varieties of chard do you grow, do you need a lot of space?

Would be grateful if anyone cold suggest anything I could plant in the garden now.
Thank you

Primrose

I grow a variety of Swiss Chard called Fordhook Giant which has large green leaves. The "Coloured Lights" varieties with red and yellow stems have a more earthy flavour I find, which is not to everybody's taste. This is quite a winter hardy plant. If you sow some seeds now, especially under cover, you might just get a small crop over winter. Keep the seeds well watered. The plants die back a little over the depths of winter but resprout splendidly in spring before finally going to seed.

You probably won't find Fordhook Giant variety seeds in garden centres but if you Google them you should be able to find a supplier. In my view it's the best reliable variety to grow. it's similar to spinach in appearance but much more hardy and doesn't bolt like spinach does. The small young leaves can be used in salads.

Honey_Bear

GreyQueen wrote: »

My understanding is that 15% of our dairy products had to be exported to the EU and they had to import 15% of ours.

I'd be very interested in a source for this information.

euronorris

I'm actually surprised to find someone who likes marzipan! I didn't think they existed! lol I can't stand the stuff, personally. Never have been able to. I also don't like thick icing, so I'd pick that off a cake and leave it (whereas DD - 3 - would do the opposite if I let her).


Personally not a fan of chard. Had some multi coloured swiss chard seeds in a 'wonky veg growing' pack thing that we were gifted for our anniversary last year. Grew it earlier this year, and it took off well, and doesn't require a lot of space. But, it was not to my taste, so we ended up uprooting it in favour of things we do like. But as a salad green, it doesn't take up a great deal of space.