The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

Thriftwizard's cousin, seemingly. And perhaps not All Texan Widows, just the "latching" sort.

After all, there's nothing too wrong with having to fend the ladies off gently when they plead with you to say almost anything & croon over "that English Accent!"

It's just when one of them keeps sliding her arm through yours & saying "we" that suddenly dear old soggy Blighty begins to have a certain restrained appeal, where several years conversing about cricket pass before someone suggests you put both families out of their misery & propose... (And even then there is a faint possibility that what they are suggesting is a Game Of Scrabble.)

(A much loved uncle eschewed matrimony by dint of graceful obedience to duty & hightailing it back to his law firm in Edinburgh whenever things were advanced faster than he could cope with. When his legal secretaries & the rest of us family unanimously approved the lady, [miracles do happen!] he was served on toast. I was a bridesmaid.)

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I was most impressed by Greta Thunberg who featured on the morning news today and spoke such sense regarding climate change that I listened properly rather than letting it drift by. She said if your house is on fire you don't sit down and discuss insurance claims and plan the rebuilding with an architect, if your house is on fire you first try to put the fire out! and that makes so much sense I think that making sure we actually HAVE a future to prepare for is the biggest item on the agenda NOW and for years to come, not just for ourselves but for our children and their children and their childrens children. We have a responsibility to each do what we can do to slow climate change by making changes to our current lifestyles and doing many things differently, and we also have a responsibility make those in political power listen to our voices and act to make those necessary changes happen. I don't mean by blocking off parts of cities and being a nuisance but by leading from the front and making and living the changes that we ALL must make for survival. I will be looking at our lifestyle under the microscope to see how we can make less impact on the planet and to see how we can reduce our carbon footprint and the first change will be to consume much less animal based food. I have some good vegan cookery books and am going to be using them to keep us fed as deliciously as I can and that's my mission from now on. What will you do?

DigForVictory

I need a cookbook to coax omnivores with meat teeth onto almost veggie food without it being too obvious.

Or really easy, fast, flavoursome fast food they can learn to cook that just happens not to contain meat. I need a curry-in-a hurry sort of cookbook!

Or 200 things to add to noodles that fill the inner teen. Eyeing the gaping voids where the teenager has made a plague of locusts look indolent, persuading him to go for vegetables may be trickier.

-taff

How about a massaman curry but without the meat? Lots of potatoes instead, maybe fried tofu too....

Whitefiver

I'm a confirmed meat eater, particularly when it comes to barbecue season (I know, not exactly environmentally friendly either!), however, one of my absolute favourite meals are home made veggie burgers.


Our "recipe" began life as one for chilladas, but over time has morphed deliciously into a mashed bean feast. Happy days whenever these are on the menu.



There are recipes galore on the web, give one a try and just keep experimenting.
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Our original recipe was probably something like this one

DigForVictory

That looks a wonderful family cookbook & seriously good eating! I may find myself chomping on the Veggie side yet!

The livestock? More difficult but has to be worth a try.

machasraven

have a look at secondhand online book shops there are 100s of veggie, student and old style cookbooks.

mardatha

There is no way in hell that I'm about to start eating leaves for anybody! At the age of nearly 70 I can happily munch on for a few years yet with a clear conscience. YEUGH!

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Oh go on Mar, harness yer 'inner slug' and start chomping the green stuff.....you know you want to!!!

mardatha

LOL MrsL - I feel enough like a slug without having to embrace the lifestyle ty! :D Consider my inner slug fatally squished