The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

Am very glad of my store cupboard as i have knocked out my back. Painkillers as prescribed by doctor and a hot water bottle over the sore bit. Ouch when i try to move. Been like this for 2 weeks and 2 days. If I didn,t have a store cupboard i might starve. The wind is howling and the BBC weather says it is 59 mile an hour and I can well believe it.So even if I had been fit I wouldn't be venturing out.

Owwww!!!!!! That's a miserable amount of time to be poorly. Thank goodness for storecupboards and here's wishing you recovery very soon.


I haven't got a vacuum sealer but will definately be squashing the cores of TP tubes to make them a bit more storecable.

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I'm going put some 'futures' into herbs, spices, stock cubes and flavourings, gravy granules, sauces and ketchups, things to enable us to use virtually the same ingredients but turn out very different tasting dishes from them. I know in wartime people weren't hungry but the sameness of the foods available led to boredom and on a limited range of stored foods being able to ring the changes would do something to lessen that.

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Yoo-hoo ! :kisses3:

In December I had one of those coupons although it was £10 off £70) and I used it for the next weekly shop combined with getting some goodies for Christmas. What with the £10 off and using my Nectar points (most carried forward from 2017) I paid about £14.00, which was very decent

Layering offers can be a wonderful thing!

GreyQueen wrote: »

Owwww!!!!!! That's a miserable amount of time to be poorly. Thank goodness for storecupboards and here's wishing you recovery very soon.

I missed how long Grunnie had been ill, good catch GQ.

jk0

Grunnie, have you got any anti-inflamatories? Diclofenac works like magic for me, but it's only on prescription nowadays.


I had to order some from Cyprus recently for this reason.

jk0

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5947213/economy-energy-on-the-brink


This really annoys me. I signed up to a 2 year fix in June, (and obviously paid a premium for the privilege.) Now I'll be billed whatever someone likes until I can switch again.

Living_proof

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm going put some 'futures' into herbs, spices, stock cubes and flavourings, gravy granules, sauces and ketchups, things to enable us to use virtually the same ingredients but turn out very different tasting dishes from them. I know in wartime people weren't hungry but the sameness of the foods available led to boredom and on a limited range of stored foods being able to ring the changes would do something to lessen that.

Do you have a dehydrator Mrs. LW? You can make powder out of anything you have dried - onion and garlic are the obvious, mushroom, celery, leek, tomato, beetroot, carrot, ginger etc. and also fruits like banana, pineapple, orange, lemon and so on. A little powder goes a long way in both taste, and sometimes colouring. Also there's no waste as apple, tomato skins, pineapple cores etc. can all be dried and powdered. I have bought a dozen or so little spice jars which will be ideal (charity shop or car boot sale, needless to say!) and hope as you say it might relieve the boredom of endless bland salad, pasta and rice dishes etc. I think the trick is to powder a small amount at a time to retain freshness and apparently the Krups type coffee grinders are the best at it. I wish I had known this years ago when my children were small so I could have snuck in spinach powder, etc. and added fruit powders to yogurt "without the bits".

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Yes I do, I have a 9 tray Excalibur and that is an enlightenment of an idea, many thanks.

Cheapskate

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Try Asda.

https://groceries.asda.com/product/candles/george-home-100-pack-white-tealights/1000003249717

Thanks, Bob, Asd@'s much closer then the other place! However, I might be able to put off buying any, this week at least. I de-cluttered a couple of bags of OOD meds/first aid supplies, and found a shed-load of tealights underneath - hurray for tidying! :rotfl::rotfl:

A xo

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I'm having a bit of a clear out, so I'm taking this opportunity to replace my stored drinking water.

That'll give me 100 litres of fresh water.

DigForVictory

What are you storing it in, Bob? I want to store but the 2l bottles seem too flimsy, & I've no idea about their BPA status.
That said I wasn't able to find a water Bob in the UK (OK Amazon now have them but sheesh what a price for a one shot usage)
I quite like the collapsible 20l "canteens" but do they stack & how many high is considered safe?

(Where's a Mormon when you need one?! They do food and water storage for three months for the whole family as part of their faith. Whenever I want a fresh faced, neatly pressed beaming young enthusiast on my doorstep, all I get are Witnesses...)