The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Brambling

If you're a meat eater cook a chicken and/or a gammon and use for salads and sandwiches. Make salads using pasta, rice, couscous, lentils, buck or bulga wheat add loads of chopped raw veg and fresh herbs cubed feta and chickpeas if you like them olives.  Pomegranate seeds or apricots work if you like sweetness.  

CJRyder

For anybody struggling with the heat, we opened our loft hatch and leave it open during the summer. With open windows on the floors below the temperature noticeably drops by about 3°C thanks to the circulation. It was 25.8°C in DD's room at 11pm-ish the night before opening loft, dropped to 22.5°C after (toddler so we have a gro-egg).

Toonie

Van_Girl said:

What dinners are you planning, I need some ideas. I'm really bad at summer food!

Tonight we are having gammon steaks with pineapple and loads of salad. We also have Chinese style pork belly (cooked in air fryer), DP will have his with rice, I'll have mine with more salad. My online shops had cheeses, crackers, more salad, pork pies, eggs, chicken pieces, and a gammon joint. The gammon will be done in the slow cooker and used as cold cuts. The chicken in the air fryer and had with salad and bread. We also decided we wanted a few things where we could just have nibbles and crackers.

MrsCD

Tonight we had little gem lettuce, grated carrot, chopped cucumber, hard boiled egg, sliced ham and cous cous made with vegetable stock and sweetcorn. A drizzle of ranch dressing to finish off and an ice cream for pudding!

Si_Clist

Gosh.  It looks like we're way behind the times here.  All we ever eat at any time of year is fish and chips*, chicken casserole, bacon, Quorn sausages, chicken sweet & sour, tinned chicken in white sauce, bean bung-it**, and leek pie or egg and bacon pie according to time of year - all with spuds/rice and veg if appropriate!

(*Chips = homegrown spuds, washed, cut into chips and done in the oven just as they are)

(**Dried beans, bell peppers, chicken bits , chicken stock and whatever else is hanging about, all bunged in the slow cooker and done for a few hours)

PS  I had to Google "ranch dressing" ...

newlywed

Roasted some veg last night, parsnips broccoli carrots potatoes, with a Turkey thigh in the slow cooker.

so meals will be Turkey fajitas, salads with ham/boiled egg/Turkey/falafel etc, maybe spag bol as there’s mince to use.  Planning to avoid the oven now. 

CJRyder

Question with regards to 1cal spray oil - Is there anything in it to make it spray better? Just wondering about refilling the bottle with regular oil when it's empty.

Made a big batch of kidney beans. Currently cooling before they go into the fridge. That should make a good few meals.

-taff

I tried it once refilling with oilive oil, It just dribbled out. I think you need a less viscous liquid for spraying, which is why they're suposedly only one cal, most of it is extra water emulsified with something else.

MrsCD

Si_Clist said:

Gosh.  It looks like we're way behind the times here.  All we ever eat at any time of year is fish and chips*, chicken casserole, bacon, Quorn sausages, chicken sweet & sour, tinned chicken in white sauce, bean bung-it**, and leek pie or egg and bacon pie according to time of year - all with spuds/rice and veg if appropriate!

(*Chips = homegrown spuds, washed, cut into chips and done in the oven just as they are)

(**Dried beans, bell peppers, chicken bits , chicken stock and whatever else is hanging about, all bunged in the slow cooker and done for a few hours)

PS  I had to Google "ranch dressing" ...

I'm afraid ranch dressing is one of my few vices! I buy Paul Newman's because I like the taste, but also because the profits go to charity. 

ariarnia

prepping question. does anyone have an advice for prepping for regular hot spells? 

reading the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62205059 the expectation is that extreme weather (heatwaves and very cold winters i guess) will become more common and they say that by 2050 they think we'll have heatwaves every other year. 

i don't know about you, but i hope to still be alive and in this house in 28 years but i don't know what i can do (realistically) to make things more comfortable. 

cold is relatively easy. we've got a log burner, plenty of logs, gas central heating and regular boiler checks, double glazing and check for drafts, and more than the recommended amount of insulation. plus smaller things like heated throws, hot water bottles, warm clothes/layers and warming foods/ways to cook other than the mains. 

hot is harder (i think). ceiling fans maybe, but i dont' think we're going to install air conditioning... i'm thinking black out blinds and i'm also wondering about external shutters (to block the heat before it gets inside the walls). 

then there's the equivalent preps about hydration. keeping packets of rehydration (hangover) powder and in winter checking we've got cool clothing made from natural fibres and keeping cool packs int he freezer (for heat exaustion)...? 

any other suggestions for what we could do for the long term?