The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

Does anyone know/hold a strong view on
tinned milk powder.
 I have a tin of Nido milk powder, it has in storage acquired a ding to one side but the seals seem intact just the date on the bottom says 2014. Would you try it?
<asks she thirstily>

[Deleted User]

YES! you'll know as soon as you taste it if it's turned and if it has and you have a lemon or some rhubarb (something acid) you could still reconstitute it and make Paneer Cheese which would give you a protein source.  Waste nothing is good. no?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

jk0 said:

elaine241 said:

 Will our tenants be able to keep up with their rent if their jobs disappear?

I am a little concerned also. Most of my tenants are carers, so hopefully they will always find a job.

I suggested on landlordzone that anyone whose tenants asked for help, should maybe let tenant pay 50% of rent for the time being, as there will be benefits in due course with some allowance for the rent. Then when tenant is employed again, I would ask for 125% of rent until the previous debt was paid off.

If you did that, I'd suggest you don't make it official, as any claims for housing costs would be calculated on what you are taking, not what you should be charging/receiving.

Thriftygifty

Thanks for everyones support yesterday, with home births and tiredness etc (hopefully it wont happen).  DH is back on track now and in the same mindset as me now that we don't have the leisure of time to wait to get more organised, he went to homebase yesterday and collected our garden supplies that I reserved earlier in the week.  

ONLINE FOOD ORDERING - I've had various emails from supermarkets, the one that I got this morning from Morrisons was slightly concerning though,

"Doorstop rejections & substituted items Again, due to social distancing, we are temporarily not accepting returned or rejected items at your doorstep. Please refer to our Help Hub to find out what to do."  - I can not find anything on the Help Hub

I can't see anywhere about the price difference though and if we would have to pay it if the product was more?  It also says to amend your order up to 48hrs before and if you do it later it might be cancelled altogether, where as my order for Monday is still saying online it can be amended up until the night before. Their help section is beyond useless.  

I'm finding this online ordering impossible as no idea what the heck will arrive if anything and what we will be charged. 

[Deleted User]

Such a lovely thing just happened, we were in the garden and the young mum who lives in the bungalow behind us called over the fence to see if we were OK and has offered to shop for us whenever we need things as she is now working from home as her little 2 year olds nursery is shut.  She's offered to shop for the whole of her road as they are all older folks and will pick up prescriptions for us when we need them, community spirit is beginning to show itself and is a gleam of light in amongst all the darkness of fear over this pandemic.

nannywindow

We too are feeling some lovely community spirit. Our next door neighbour's fence blew down in the wind this week, but as she is now in a home and her son is over 70, has cancer and isolated (as are we) no one was available to fix it asap.  We would have done it but her side gate is locked and the fences are too high to climb over, plus we are no longer spring chickens. Cue 2 lovely strangers from the house at the back of hers arrived and sorted it out. We thanked them and we have passed this kind deed on by text to her son.

dandy-candy

Theres two elderly widows on our street who i visited on monday and gave my phone number saying please call if you need anything. I was worried they wouldn’t but one did call and i picked up some tinned soup for her. While i was hanging out my washing my immediate neighbour called to me. She is married and although they are elderly, they do have relatives close by who i assumed were shopping for them. She said they had some deliveries planned so was ok in that regard, but just missed having someone to talk to. We had a good chat through the hedge and as we both garden we will have more chats i’m sure.

i have heard of a few people planning on getting out of London during this outbreak. Some are people originally from other parts of the country who are going home to mum, but one is someone who has rented a holiday cottage for a few weeks. I can’t help thinking this is a bad idea, it might well spread it far and wide. 

DigForVictory

There’s quite a lot of (frankly, reasonable) concern about holiday makers & second home owners disrupting local effective self isolation measures. I’ve heard a senior Welsh politician daring to suggest some folk should stay where they live & not bring their money, their trade, their custom until the virus has burned out. I have some sympathy with that - the hospitals are going to be busy anyway without inadvertent health tourists.

I scrapped my car today- it’ll make distancing (we’re not yet in full isolation) a lot easier. I hope the apprentice will be allowed to take some time off but currently he reckons working & learning with folk who’ve travelled from Portsmouth and Inverness is OK. He’s not quite put 2 & 2 & his diabetic dad together. I hope he doesn’t have it calculated for him - the jokes about 2020 being a bit duff cut rather close to the bone.

I’ll mix up a pint of the dented Nido milk and try it. I reckon if it’s OK in my tea, we’re fine! And if not, cheese-making time.

Thriftygifty

Prepacked chicken and pork etc it states use within a month once frozen....realistically how long is it ok to use it for?  I'm finding myself thinking about my Nan these days a lot she would be in her late 90s now, we lost her a couple of years ago now and for the last few months she was in a nursing home, I cant imagine how difficult that situation must be for the residents and workers, I hope the supermarkets are rapidly putting measures in place for food deliveries. 

[Deleted User]

I would take very little notice of 'use in a month' if it's been frozen within it's use by date, it would probably be slight deterioration from its best that warning will be for, making sure the product is at it's peak to maintain the 'quality' the manufacturer/packager intends it to be.  I would think if it's frozen it's stable and I would be happy to eat it.