The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Happy_Sloth

GaleSF63 said:

Happy_Sloth said:

I see BBC News is reporting that we should expect a food crisis in the next 12-18 months. 

This should be fun... no only does no-one have any money, prices across the board are going up but they are trying to send the idiots into panic buying mode again.  

Personally i always have a good stock, i'll maintain my stock incase there are problems but panic buying causes more problems than it solves. 

Well, if the BBC are reporting to expect a food crisis we will have one! Because people will panic-buy again. And we won't be able to tell what's real and what's been whipped up in the media. 

yep exactly! 

euronorris

Re ordering of lfts online, you have to try several times through the day. I did that on Tuesday and managed to get some at around 8.10pm. Hopefully you can get some trying at similar time tonight?

Toonie

Thanks everyone, it's really appreciated. I remember using Tell Us Once for my Mum last year (we've had a rubbish time of things in the last 18 months) so have told DP about that. I'll get the meters read on the weekend when we're over and we can sort that out, thanks for the tip.

DP was back at work today and yesterday I had an injection in my knee so thought I'd spend the day relaxing in the garden. I set  up a comfy camping chair and brought my sketchbook out along with a coffee and spent several hours enjoying the sun without taxing my knee which was lovely. I also started making more plans for the veg beds and I'd love to have a go at a container of spuds this year.

Suffolksue

when I registered my husband’s death last year ( by phone and online ,as I’m sure you’re aware ,the ) Tell us Once Service was flagged and emailed automatically  it was a godsend ,even our extremely inefficient council reacted and the singles discount was applied immediately to my council tax 

newlywed

Well… I never thought of using the slow cooker to reheat…

reheating things with the microwave does seem to make them go cold more quickly than the hob.

must try the jackets too.

ZsaZsa

Happy_Sloth said:

I see BBC News is reporting that we should expect a food crisis in the next 12-18 months. 

This should be fun... no only does no-one have any money, prices across the board are going up but they are trying to send the idiots into panic buying mode again.  

Personally i always have a good stock, i'll maintain my stock incase there are problems but panic buying causes more problems than it solves. 

There’s difficult times ahead and it’s unsurprising that people might be nervous or panicky about it, it doesn’t make them idiots. Even if everyone just puts a couple of extra items in their shop (which I think is quite reasonable) it can cause supply problems

Living_proof

newlywed said:

Well… I never thought of using the slow cooker to reheat…

reheating things with the microwave does seem to make them go cold more quickly than the hob.

must try the jackets too.

I thought the very same myself and as someone who owns 5 slow cookers dating over 50 years I am really surprised not to have thought to do this but will try it out from now on 

euronorris

I've bitten the bullet and gone ahead and ordered a 25kg sack of bread flour. Having it in stock means we are more prepared for any grain shortage affecting the bread supply. Ordered from a mill. Interestingly, their website states they have a high volume of orders at the moment, so there is a delay in delivery (which is fine for us). So we're clearly not the only ones prepping right now!

Si_Clist

euronorris said:

I've bitten the bullet and gone ahead and ordered a 25kg sack of bread flour. Having it in stock means we are more prepared for any grain shortage affecting the bread supply. Ordered from a mill. Interestingly, their website states they have a high volume of orders at the moment, so there is a delay in delivery (which is fine for us). So we're clearly not the only ones prepping right now!

I just checked the mill we get ours from and they say the same. Rather surprisingly though they don't seem to have put prices up since we last ordered.  Bet it won't be long before they do!

FWIW we've just finished another 25kg bag of wholemeal spelt flour and for the first time we didn't bother splitting it up.  Instead, we took a chance and just sat it in the kitchen and rolled the top down as we used it.  Nigh on three months later the bag's now empty and the experiment was a complete success!  And bear in mind that's wholemeal, which is reckoned to go stale at least twice as fast as the stuff that's had all the goodness taken out of it ...

euronorris

Yes, I went for the Mill as they were still reasonably priced, even with delivery factored in. The local place wanted close to £39! I would buy 25 1kg bags, over several supermarket shops, before I paid that!