Prepping for Brexit thread

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ancientofdays wrote: »

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.

Given my peripheral neuropathy (numb fingers) the correct LR is essential to stop me really starting the day badly if you know what I mean. To avoid having to send Mrs Un out to the supermarket with cattle prod & riot shield after brexit we doubled up our usual purchasing when the offers were on from last October (2018 - blimey, that long ago...)

Everytime I venture into the [STRIKE]executive bathroom[/STRIKE] downstairs toilet, I'm now reminded of Empire State Human, by The Human League. Actually the lyrics pretty much describe how my oedema is going at the moment, let's just say I'm getting taller laterally...

Primrose

Am surprised so many people dislike sprouts. They are actually delicious raw finely shredded and used as an ingredient in coleslaw. Also good in a mixed vegetable stir fry.

fuddle

My mum boiled the leaves off the tightly closed little nuggets of sprouts. The house smelled so bad. All we were left with is mushy lumps that tasted like a human parp smells.

I hated sprouts until DH showed me how to cook them - roasted with bacon. I love them these days. I'm yet to grow them however. I get the plant and the small startings that just never ball up. Third time this coming season and I'm growing on my property. They will be watered and fed and mothered! I'm desperate for my own sprouts over the Winter Solstice.

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Primrose wrote: »

Am surprised so many people dislike sprouts. They are actually delicious raw finely shredded and used as an ingredient in coleslaw. Also good in a mixed vegetable stir fry.

Pickled is good too. During my pickling phase a few years go I pickled the nozzles (don't ask me where the name came from). The nozzle in this case being that 1/4" bit of stalklet at the base of the sprout that's left when you really need to go to town removing the damaged outer leaves. One, on a bed of houmous on something like a Nairns oaty biscuit - lovely

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fuddle wrote: »

I'm yet to grow them however. I get the plant and the small startings that just never ball up. Third time this coming season and I'm growing on my property. They will be watered and fed and mothered! I'm desperate for my own sprouts over the Winter Solstice.

I hope you're eating the leaves - they taste fantastic. My sprouts never develop past the marble stage so I just grow them for leaf, plus when they top out, those little sprout tops are divine (like miniature cabbages)

fuddle

The leaves are rabbit food and I don't begrudge them the food because they go into the manure that feeds the plant in the first place. I love a good cycle.

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fuddle wrote: »

The leaves are rabbit food and I don't begrudge them the food because they go into the manure that feeds the plant in the first place. I love a good cycle.

If I could get the cat to eat sprout leaves I would, she just goes for the small mammals (except squirrels, there's something a little strange going on there)

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Is anyone actually still actually prepping for Brexit? I still have supplies but have run down loo rolls and soap and that kind of thing and there doesn't seem to be the urgency to keep up amounts that there was three years ago. I am a prepper for the unexpected in any case so we always have at least one extra of most things we need as a matter of course but the urgency because of the uncertainty over just what Brexit might bring seems to have gone completely over the past few months. We seem to be in perpetual turmoil without anything actually changing and I can't take it seriously any longer, in fact feel rather bored by the whole thing. Anyone else feeling this way?

Nargleblast

It will happen whenever it happens, Mrs LW, and in the meantime we'll just carry on with our lives, keeping a sensible storecupboard. I am also bored with the parliamentary shenanigans, so they can just let me know when we're definitely leaving the EU and I'll review my preparations then.

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
I must admit I’ve run my stores down, mainly because we’ve had to move out to have renovations done. Any spare money is in Xmas mode at the moment. I will rebuild my stores once I’m home, but mainly as a good store cupboard in case of unemployment, bad weather etc. I thoroughly fed up of the B word and the government in general. All this election is more MPs trying to grab power for themselves and once it’s done chances are we will just go back to the squabbling with nothing changed.