Prepping for Brexit thread

D&DD

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

if we can't have strawberries in December

Then I'm in deep doo doo Mrs L lol everyone knows why!!!!


No, seriously I have already broached the subject with DS3 and he has been trying other fruits and tbh he will also eat plums,grapes,raspberries,nectarines so hopefully he will be able to find something if it all goes to hell in the proverbial cart..


He's asked if we can bottle/can some as he's keen to do more now he's learnt how but I'm not sure the texture would be ok for him??
He's not overkeen on tinned fruit because of this and prefers fresh.
Something to think about again IF it ever happens

cuddlymarm

In the seventies powercuts, three day weeks etc I was still in junior school but my mum never seemed to struggle with shortages of bread etc. We ate what she prepared ( often cooked on the fire) and having soup or cheese on toast by candlelight was quite exciting. We lived in the country so maybe we were better off because there was access to wood so we didn’t go cold.
These were much simpler times though and I’m not sure how happy people would be without access to what they are used to now.
Hopefully we won’t need to find out.

MingVase

Will be the opposite way round for me cuddlymarm. In the 70s I was a young mum in a tower block, now I'm deep in the country with a fully-prepped house. Apart from the freezer we can survive without elect as we use coal and Calor gas. We all just have to find the best way round things that we can

DigForVictory

Have exhumed my Gert & Daisy cookbook (a charity shop find where they apologised for charging me £4!) and there on the back is an advert for Oxo. I'll just take the Celestial Hint!

Husband asked "What has he done today?" as he turned the news on. Riffling through papers, I'm a bit more stressed by this timely article on the Good Friday Agreement. It's getting a bit brinkmanship & that is no way to behave around those recovering from the Troubles.

[Deleted User]

Whatever happens or doesn't happens the biggest problem for me is experiencing how almost half of the entire population of great Britain are behaving towards the other half. There is more vile hatred and absolute calculated aggression and vitriolic attacking in all forms of the media and I know I will never forget that no matter how much things settle in the aftermath of what may come. I have for the first time in my life become distrustful of fellow humans unless I actually 'know' what they hold dear I do not pass any opinion of any kind no matter how hard pressed in a conversation. I really think that the deepest of divides will take more than a lifetime to resolve if it ever can be resolved and that is the greatest sadness.

In the immediate future I think being as set up as it's possible to be in all areas is really as much as anyone can do and the areas are individual choices so we'll all have gaps but one of the most crucial things to forge now is a community of like minded friends and neighbours to support each other and help each other through any adversities (and there HAVE to be some) that the current divided nation WILL inevitably have to go through.

dreaming

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Whatever happens or doesn't happens the biggest problem for me is experiencing how almost half of the entire population of great Britain are behaving towards the other half. There is more vile hatred and absolute calculated aggression and vitriolic attacking in all forms of the media and I know I will never forget that no matter how much things settle in the aftermath of what may come. I have for the first time in my life become distrustful of fellow humans unless I actually 'know' what they hold dear I do not pass any opinion of any kind no matter how hard pressed in a conversation. I really think that the deepest of divides will take more than a lifetime to resolve if it ever can be resolved and that is the greatest sadness.

In the immediate future I think being as set up as it's possible to be in all areas is really as much as anyone can do and the areas are individual choices so we'll all have gaps but one of the most crucial things to forge now is a community of like minded friends and neighbours to support each other and help each other through any adversities (and there HAVE to be some) that the current divided nation WILL inevitably have to go through.

Please don't let the vcal minority lead you to believe that we are all at daggers drawn with each other. If you read the papers, or watch the news, it does seem like that but i my experience here is still more good than bad in the world. In fact, in a strange way the frustration and confusion about Brexit is giving many of us a common purpose - whichever way you originally voted. I do despair of the politicians (expecially the "bigwigs") who believe that catcalling silly playground jibes accross the floor of the House of Commons will not lead other more impressionable people to behave in a similar way but on the whole everyone I know is able to either discuss the situation calmly, or agree to disagree and get on with life. Amongst the various groups I attend I know there are several people who voted the oppposite way to me but we still remain on good terms. As is often the case, it is a small minority who take it the extremes - often for their own purposes which have nothing to do with Brexit - who get the publicity. The rest of us who are just going about their everyday lives trying to do the best they can get overlooked.

unrecordings

DigForVictory wrote: »

It's getting a bit brinkmanship & that is no way to behave around those recovering from the Troubles.

Westminster has always had that extra ambivalence to Ireland going back several hundred years. Take a look at some 20th century maps for instance, until recent years maps of the UK only included Northern Ireland and ignored Eire as if it simply didn't exist

Anyway, looks like we're bribing Hungary to veto an extension, so that's Boris' trump card (excuse the pun) - oh joy...

monnagran

DFV, I am pea green with jealousy over your Gert and Daisy cookbook. I remember listening to them on the radio, (we still called it the 'wireless' then) and Mum had their cookbook.
Unfortunately my mother could have given Marie Kondo a run for her money, and the cookbook disappeared in one of her clearouts.
I managed to rescue the Stork Wartime Cookery book but dear Gert and Daisy vanished for ever.
No one else seems to remember it and even A*a*z*n denies any knowledge of it.

You are one lucky lady.

Blue_Doggy

D&#8517 wrote: »

Then I'm in deep doo doo Mrs L lol everyone knows why!!!!


No, seriously I have already broached the subject with DS3 and he has been trying other fruits and tbh he will also eat plums,grapes,raspberries,nectarines so hopefully he will be able to find something if it all goes to hell in the proverbial cart..


He's asked if we can bottle/can some as he's keen to do more now he's learnt how but I'm not sure the texture would be ok for him??
He's not overkeen on tinned fruit because of this and prefers fresh.
Something to think about again IF it ever happens

I think most recipes for bottling strawberries involve covering them with syrup, and they would become somewhat soft. It might be worth seeing if your son could eat a good quality strawberry compote in which the berries are whole. There are also tinned strawberries on the market (Pr*nces brand, there may be others) - have you tried them at all?

D&DD

Thanks BD yep tried the tins he's not a lover of soft textures so we are probably going to struggle a little but fortunately he's of the age where you can reason with him now!!
He has made some strawberry jam as a standby and today we're turning our white strawberries into a compote so hopefully if it happens he'll survive lol.. I have memories of the last bad snow and trudging thigh deep to sainsburys trying to find some,at least it won't be that bad now he's grown up.


Here in South London/Surrey having lots of trouble with Amazon at present with out of stock stuff on both their fresh and the 2 hour prime deliveries is anyone else having this or is it just here???
Amazon warehouse I can literally see from our window and the Morries round the corner is where the prime stuff arrives from..