The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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Boazu, I enjoyed your walk. Couldn't go for one myself but it was lovely to read, thanks for sharing it.

My sympathies to those with longterm fatigue, I know how frustrating it is since having bronchitis 4 yrs ago when just having a shower wiped me out and daily activities became mountains to conquer. As a consequence, I developed anxiety-related breathlessness which usually manifests when I feel overwhelmed and means I find myself sitting down more often, just to regain calm. Hopefully in the Spring, I can build up courage to take proper walks.

My thing this lockdown is to help DD, assisting with home schooling and giving her a break. Like many others she works FT from home, high pressured job, with 2 DC to homeschool also. My living alone means we are bubbled, so the DGC have been here often for childcare/homeschool and it's been an eye opener for me as to the amount they are meant to get through. Apparently in the first lockdown it was 'do what you can'  but now there's registration, some live classes, and always lots of tasks.

Onebrokelady

Thriftygifty said:

Onebrokelady, I oddly smell smoke and cigarettes occasionally not from covid but I do have cineus problems, I can't smell quite a lot of normal things, yet when I was pregnant I could smell everything it went into hyper drive.

The weather is awful here today quite depressing. I think I may be having a midlife crisis and thinking to much. 

That's interesting,I have had problems with sinusitis in the past so I do wonder if it's caused a longer term problem 

Onebrokelady

pollyanna_26 said:

Onebrokelady said:

Does anyone remember !!!!!! Strawbridges series It Not Easy Being Green with his first family, I loved that show 

I loved "Its Not Easy Being Green" with himself ,first wife and the sons. I have the book! Never took to The Chateau far too faffy . His first venture was real down to earh self sufficiency and I watched it over and over.

pollyx

It was really good wasnt it ,I loved how inventive he was 

Onebrokelady

Si_Clist said:

Just popping in in passing, with a bit of news that I guess Doris won't be sharing with the nation next time he's on telly ...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/one-in-three-covid-patients-in-uk-readmitted-within-five-months-20210118-p56v33.html

This was mentioned on the news very briefly a couple of weeks ago, I think they should publicise this more to make people aware that there is also a long term cost to this virus, everyone thinks if you survive that's it you're done but sadly that's not the case for a lot of people. Even people who didn't require hospital treatment like me have been hit hard with this, I was ill in October and I'm still struggling with it now, I have to admit I'm not the healthiest person around as I'm about a stone over my ideal weight and although I am active day to day and walk all over the place I don't do any formal exercise but apart from that and having Fibromyalgia I'm not a high risk person and should have recovered fairly easily, there are going to be a lot of long term effects from this 😟

Onebrokelady

cornishchick said:

well, I have told work I am not well enough to come in till next week at least, and even then I will be sticking to my contracted hours of just 5 a day. 
Interestingly enough I had a call from my GP last week and not remembering much but seems I have signed up for a treatment trial,, I am getting to test an inhaler for treating the C19 symptoms. 

That's good to hear 😊 I was prescribed an inhaler wen my symptoms didnt ease up, i have to use it twice a day and I really notice if I don't use it 

greenbee

Floss said:

GQ, I'm with you on missing the sunshine walks due to WFH full time 8am-6pm since early March last year, keeping the NHS running behind the scenes. It's not even possible to get out at lunchtimes due to supporting urgent meetings and providing cover for colleagues who are off sick. 

Hopefully the weather will be kind to me next week as I have a few days off...s0ds law that it rains while I'm off & is sunny while working 🙄

I feel like you about this - glorious sunshine today but I bet it rains when I can actually get out during daylight. At least I can look at it though. 

silvasava

Mary B,  let us know how your Kimchi turns out. A neighbour of mine was South Korean and used to make Kimchi and Sushi, her homemade ones were the only ones I liked

MingVase

I don't know what kimchi is but it's giving me heartburn anyway

Went a very short walk round the village green this morning, was nice to see blue sky for a change. Some snow still lying though.

I've juest realised this has nothign whatever to do with Prepping though

elaine241

maryb said:

I wonder what the craze of this lockdown will be?  First lockdown everyone went mad for baking but I'm not sure there's a trend showing up yet.
Personally, I'm trying out fermentation.  I dabbled in it before but I found that kefir and konbucha give me heartburn.  But DD2 has developed a real taste for pickled flavours and particularly likes kimchi.  So I had a go this week.  I ordered some gochugaru flakes off the big river shopping site and sliced up Chinese leaves, radishes, carrots, a couple of turnips and spring onions. I already had garlic and ginger plus soy sauce.  The Chinese leaves were much easier to massage with salt to get brine out than ordinary sauerkraut cabbage and it made plenty of juice.
I'm doing it in a quart size Kilner jar with a silicone lid which allows the gas to escape.  It's certainly lively - quite a bit of juice escaped the first day or two.  I had a taste and it's lovely, I'm really looking forward to trying it in a couple of weeks time.
If it works I think it's quite a useful technique to add to one's preps - it's a good way to preserve vegetables without using electricity for canning, freezing or dehydrating.  In fact it probably adds goodness from the beneficial bacteria 

I now want to have a go making this!! You have started a trend!!

Have you got a recipe I could try? or give me the proportions of cabbage etc you use. Do the radish have to be the mooli ones or will anyone do? I have normal kilner jars but if gas needs to escape I will have to think about what I can use safely. I have garlic, ginger and soy but the gochugara flakes are beyond my pantry atm! I wonder if you can get the seeds for the pepper/chilli? 
Sorry for all the questions but I am definitely giving this a go!

maryb

Elaine, I ordered the gochugaru off Amazon but I know there are recipes around which use red chillies.  I think the gochugaru tastes a bit more like hot paprika than fiery chilli.  I used a recipe from a fermentation course I did with e5 bakehouse which is where I learned to make sourdough.  But I think the thing all recipes have in common is that you need to use 2% salt by weight of vegetables.   If you are using soy sauce, that has salt in already so the e5 recipe adjusted for it by weighing the Chinese leaf and radish and calculating the weight of salt but not the carrot and spring onions

Daikon radish is good for kimchi but on the course they just used ordinary English radishes and leeks instead of spring onions.  

It’ll take about three weeks to ferment so I’ll let you know how it goes.  The pickling juice is yummy already