Prepping for Brexit thread

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We love marzipan too, it was one of the biggest pleasures when we lived in Germany to be able to afford the Lubeck Marzipan regularly. If you want to be really naughty then marzipan grated into your breakfast porridge and topped with some cherry compote really IS the food of kings.

I was asked what would be growable by way of winter saladings in a greenhouse if they were planted now. I will address my tired brain (very disturbed night) to the matter but I know the asker of the question reads with us so I wondered if we could jointly come up with ideas for what will a)germinate now and b) actually grow on through the cooler months to the point of being able to harvest usable vitamin filled leaves. Many thanks in anticipation xxx.

MandM90

You can sow lambs lettuce in autumn for a winter crop. I believe it'll even be fine in the ground under some little fleece tunnels when frost hits.

Have got a basket full of stuff to buy to put in the loft: tinned tomatoes, pulses, cat food, loo roll, beans...etc. Need to come up with a sensible way of keeping a buffer up without letting anything go off.

Was a bit disturbed with the retracted bit of Yellowhammer on fuel. Am glad the hospital is within walking distance!

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Write the use by date on the front and on the top of all the packs with an indelible marker pen and store them longest at the back shortest at the front, go through once or twice a year and use up any getting close and replace them with fresh but put them to the back when you store them.

euronorris

Don't forget good old cress. Super easy to grow, on a windowsill, and an easy way to add some vit A and C to a meal.

Primrose

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Write the use by date on the front and on the top of all the packs with an indelible marker pen and store them longest at the back shortest at the front, go through once or twice a year and use up any getting close and replace them with fresh but put them to the back when you store them.

Good idea to write Use By dates on packets of dry stuff before putting in storage, especially When stored in a place not readily and regularly accessible. Also, if you have a computer diary with a recurring or "bring forward reminder facility" jot some reminders there too.

I used to buy large quantities of packeted dried butter beans for soups and stews which have to be soaked overnight before cooking. They would lurk at the back of a food cupboard for far too long and go rock hard; then no amount of soaking and cooking would make them palatable. Similarly dried peas and split peas remain like bullets. Now I find tins of ready cooked butter beans are far more convenient.

D&DD

I did an august sowing of the following some as advised by Mr Dowding and others as a 'oh well what the hell I have the seeds anyway' trial


Spinach Medania
Lambs lettuce
Corn salad
chervil
Coriander
Rocket
Multi sown turnips,spring onions, radish
I bunged in some carrots and some mooli and also some pak choi and mustards.
I did kale as I forgot to sow any earlier and leeks *embarrassed smiley*
I also have flowers on my autumn cropping broad beans whoop!
I put in some lettuces (Grenoble red and freckles and another I can't remember which said sow til September)
Some lipstick,magenta and orange fantasia chard.
And some beetroot and peas,mange tout (Rodney) and climbing beans...ooh and some raab broccoli.
I think that's everything??


Of all these sowings there's been no duds and so far I've pulled some radish,the spinach and leafy green stuff is just about big enough to pick soon,beans etc are climbing well as are the peas (all tall varieties,which I'll just use for peashoots if they fail)


Peashoots is another thing you can grow now as are the windowsill things such as all herbs and mustard,cress etc.


HTH xx

Farway

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If you want to be really naughty then marzipan grated into your breakfast porridge and topped with some cherry compote really IS the food of kings.

Now I have to try that, I love porridge and cherry jam / compote & marzipan, sounds like a heavenly match

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If you want to be really, really naughty then grate in the marzipan and chuck in a fair handful of chocolate raisins instead of the cherry compote.....just saying!

Blue_Doggy

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If you want to be really, really naughty then grate in the marzipan and chuck in a fair handful of chocolate raisins instead of the cherry compote.....just saying!

:A:A:A Now that’s what sets the angels singing, Mrs Lurcherwalker :A:A:A

I expect grated marzipan and chocolate-covered liqueur cherries might be over the top? Except for Christmas breakfast maybe? (As a change from croissants à la Paddington and champagne?)

DigForVictory

Just by chance paracetamol & cold remedies (including whatever makes coughs stickier so you can shift the buggy mess out & whatever stops them, so the rest of the house can sleep) are at the top of my shopping list today. I was away training, it was a Long Day as with travel I started at 4 & conked out at 11pm. Result? My immune system decided to let in a sneeze & a sore throat. Happily (so far) this is liveable with but my colleagues are looking a little wild-eyed as it seems I sound quite a lot worse. Antihistamines & multivite are also on my to ensure we have list.

Tech causing problems - dear gods yes. I love humans - they make fascinating wonderful things but to make truly flat out how-did-we-manage-That often includes at least one computer. (I'll make Brexit the exception that proves the rule, I think.)

I'd like to get more veg seeds but I can hear Him Indoors rolling his eyes (minimum) at the thought, largely as I already have 3 biscuit tins of packets and saved seeds and he's rounded up the wad of envelopes of odds & bits that were peacefully accumulating by the PC (dry & likely to stay that way & I Knew They Were There - he's since 'tidied' them & Uh Oh.)

Yellowhammer - fair play, the team laid out All the Problems they could think of. I am massively unsurprised it wasn't released in full anywhere as Cassandra never did thrive.

Tubes of cheese? Miword, I've not eaten that since student days but yes indeed - a shelf life that we goggled at since it was Next Century. Will get a couple & see how the young cope, but will also try to get a couple more bags of the really nice flour. Peanut butter they "went off" but it has other uses.

Oats are wonderful - says she who sneaks handsfull into mince dishes - early so they mop up the juices & flavours & colour. Can't see them cooperating with a curry but that's where lentils come in, along with a dash of red food colouring to lend curry cred...

While there are goats in the farm behind us, there will be some milk. You've heard of the film the men who stare at goats? Aye, well, we're a family at whom goats come & stare, mostly as we'd shove handfuls of the fresh grass from our side through to them.

Food rioting - avoid by food prepping. Really. There are No Prizes to be gained by being involved in a riot & if the NHS is as short of kit as rumour suggests in the event, I wouldn't want to be among the walking wounded herded there either. Cleaner & safer at home.

We have discussed what to do in the event of a riot in the past (and covered the essentials on how to get out of it) & even forecast needing to protect allotments although I hold by guerrilla gardening as 90% of the population wouldn't recognise a potato getting on with growing if they saw it "out of context".

Rarely have I been so glad not to be on HRT etc. (Yet!) As for hypertenstion, I think Not Watching The News is helpful. Makes Have I got News for You & Mock the Week a little surreal but worth it for slightly lower blood pressure without pills. Green tea, eh? I have a couple of boxes bought by teenagers in a hurry who didn't check it as mint...

Blimey. Christmas breakfast will be Different chez Dig this year. Largely as they'll have cereal as usual while I eat the marzipan.