Prepping for Brexit thread

ivyleaf

that sounds a good idea lyn.

BTW, re Brussels sprouts - one day at work we were talking about Christmas dinner and a colleague said firmly "You have to have sprouts at Christmas, even if you don't like them. It's the law."

unrecordings

ivyleaf wrote: »

that sounds a good idea lyn.

BTW, re Brussels sprouts - one day at work we were talking about Christmas dinner and a colleague said firmly "You have to have sprouts at Christmas, even if you don't like them. It's the law."

Except under a brexit government they'd be re-named 'freedom sprouts'

Primrose

I am rapidly losing the will to live with all this Brexit stuff and now we have six weeks of General Electioneering running up to the shortest day and darkest day of the year.

The GP surgeries will be overflowing with patients suffering from depression. I wonder who the pressurised GPs can turn to when they are suffering from the same symptoms . Certainly not their MPs for sure!

Heaven forbid we end up with a hung parliament and the circus starts up all over again.

[Deleted User]

One at least can ring her Ma and talk it all over and I listen and empathise and that seems to make her feel better! mind she loves the job and the patients she deals with so it's not often that she gets her stethoscope in a twist but if she does, Ma chats are the best way to level out the world xxx.

unrecordings

Primrose wrote: »

I am rapidly losing the will to live with all this Brexit stuff and now we have six weeks of General Electioneering running up to the shortest day and darkest day of the year.

Heaven forbid we end up with a hung parliament and the circus starts up all over again.

I'm going to be banned from answering the door again - just like every halloween (my own fault - I let slip my plan in 2016 just as my radiotherapy hair loss was at its worse. Parents would be outraged, chocolate would be binned. The police might have been called... (Even a discrete 'sorry we're all dead' note in the porch is verboten this year)

As for a hung parliament, sorry, I think it's as inevitable as a prepping for brexit 2020 thread

DigForVictory

ivyleaf wrote: »

one day at work we were talking about Christmas dinner and a colleague said firmly "You have to have sprouts at Christmas, even if you don't like them. It's the law."

Absolutely. When held out for sale loose, I buy one per head, & hide them in the freezer. The sales staff at my local supermarket look & grin but I suspect I'm not the only law-abiding, tradition-upholding, food-waste-avoiding shopper. Besides which, they whizz into soups easily...

unrecordings wrote: »

I'm going to be banned from answering the door again

Round our way, you indicate if you are "at home" by displaying a pumpkin. I went off to Scouts & came back to find the house looking cold & empty - but the usual lights & action were behind closed doors & drawn curtains to conceal occupancy.
One of our young leaders had such amazing face paint, her visitors had forgone the sweeties in favour of selfies!

I've been given £20 worth of vouchers, just the only place I'd spend them is Iceland or Farmfoods. (I should be [am] grateful, but I could do so much more with the cash...)
Any suggestions? There's an Iceland locally & a Farmfoods within range, just we loaded the chest freezer a fortnight ago..

unrecordings

Iceland do a lot of dry goods/household - In their Food Warehouse shop here in Sheff they still had the £8 for 8 rolls of Plenty kitchen roll this week, and they sell Walkers shortbread. Probably plenty of other small food related xmas gift options in there too

As for sprouts, all year round if possible: Boil them 70's style, drain slightly so they're still wet (I cross them too). Try to avoid eating them all, cut in half and fry with that pork chop that's nearly ready, adding some of the sprout water back in to taste...

boultdj

Dig, check out the tinned stuff at FF, not sure if it's still on but there was 2 6pks of Hinze cream of soups for £5, I use them as sauce base's as OH is fussy.

Greenglockenspiel

I am a sprout lover and eat them all year round bought frozen when out of season. They're a good source of folic acid, I believe.


I'm actually quite glad of the latest extension. Means I an eat up some of the stock over the next week or so before we move house - a good practice run, plus fewer tins to move without worrying!

ancientofdays

I love sprouts and my family doesn't so they are given one each with Christmas dinner for traditional reasons and I get lots. If I offer even a single sprout on any other day they look at me with horror, as if I'd given them worms.

We keep a rolling stock of most things apart from fresh veg. The only thing my OH has really stockpiled is a specific type of loo roll but that's because our uberfussy adult son has a loo roll preference and OH thinks it might be about to be discontinued. So now we have over 150 loo rolls. Bogmageddon.