The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

The more I watch & read of the Rugby & Tokyo’s advice, the more impressed I am by how they are giving the visitors good prepping advice - go high, with food water & charged phones, keep in touch with family & so on.
Watching their team wade out, I was startled they hadn’t followed the standard Tokyo advice - “leave before it gets above your knees”. Hoping they manage to keep their infrastructure running!

[Deleted User]

I'm feeling the need for the reassurance of checking all my equipment today, the further down the road we go to the end of the month the more I need to feel in charge of at least this aspect of life. No one can cover for every eventuality but the most obvious ones I can imagine are hopefully all in hand now.

Zentimes

I'm doing a freezer stock take again today, and am hopefully going to make the late season raspberries into raspberry coulis and raspberry vodka, so that'll free up freezer space for other things. Discovered I am totally out of bleach (how did that fall through the net!!) and have a shopping delivery today. Tinned supplies are in good shape, am getting in shorter life perishables like flour today.

mardatha

I've got more Italian espresso in here than Italy has :D

unrecordings

mardatha wrote: »

I've got more Italian espresso in here than Italy has :D

I used to have a little Bialetti by the side of my bed, I rigged up an old electric iron as a hotplate - it was very effective. Simpler times...

D&DD

Haha much the same here Mar at least we'll be able to function!!


Most of my prep atm is towards gearing my parents up for Mum's surgery so I am prepping their freezer currently with stuff my Dad can just throw in from frozen.
He's actually a great cook luckily but his Parkinsons makes things a little tricky for him in the kitchen so if I can cut out the prep work he's fine with the actual cooking,although he still cooks enough to feed an army (he was a cook in the forces)


I've made up lots of bags of julienned carrots,runner beans,swede,carrot discs and chopped onions to make his life a bit easier.
Did a few twice baked potatoes,cheese and potato pies and a sausage toad.

thriftwizard

Oh dear! Today I did a non-perishables run to L!dls, to make sure stocks are high to cope with any potential upcoming political mayhem and also pick up a few festive items. I went to put them in the Armageddon cupboard, but it was really rather full. So I had a good look at the contents...

Despite the fact I religiously rotate stocks as they come in, there was stuff in there that had gone out of date. Changing tastes meant they just hadn't been used up & replaced, but they'd continued taking up space in my cupboards anyway! So there's a point worth making; it's worth doing a full audit from time to time, because there may still be things hiding in there that will never actually get used.

I've offered them on the local recycling group; just waiting for the slew of "how dare you patronise the poor" emails... that said, the last lot (a couple of years ago, just after DD1 went veggie) were snapped up by someone who cooks for the homeless. Fingers crossed she's still around.

jk0

Ha! Happens to me too.


Last week I ran out of semi skimmed for gf's tea, so she agreed to have 'long life'.


Obviously, not that long a life, as it had gone black and smelt vile.


(It was dated 2014. )

thriftwizard

Thanks for that, jk0; made me feel much better as my "earliest" date was November '16, and that was some sauces that I'd bought from the local "past it's sell-by" merchants so were out of date from the word go anyway! The girls loved them, but then discovered how easy it is to make your own. Now I just await the day when they find out how easy it is to do the washing up afterwards...

DigForVictory

thriftwizard wrote: »

Now I just await the day when they find out how easy it is to do the washing up afterwards...

May I gently suggest you do not hold your breath? As the lads were OK til one moved out & now they're playing "Wasn't Me" & he's sharing with two other bachelor types & no-one's admitting to as much as a teaspoon...
I do hope daughters are more cooperative? Still, sons decided being able to cook was a chick magnet (well, I married a good cook) and so they're passably competent, but oh the washing up...