The Home Front meets Covid-19

boultdj

Basketcase, I've not got an oven, just a halogen, used 'em for year's, you need to add the extender ring for most thing's, and find out fan oven times for any recipes. hth

jinny

Ive always done a menu and shopping list.  Im grateful i am a bit of a squirreler. Not hoarding just extra. I always have say 4 tins of beans tomatoes and the like.  When i use one i will buy one to replace then rotate.  I'm running low on flour sugar and have no cheese. Im absolutely terrified when i go to a supermarket.   My younger son the superhero has been going for me n his bro.  Eating more than i should got to get a grip on that.  Im usually at my oldest sons during the day and we both don't bother eating much.  Happy with just an evening meal. I do like a supper tho.  I brought them up on my own so I'm quite good at making do with what i have in.
the boys still like my “hard up soup n bun”  it was made sometimes with just a slice of bacon, split peas, tinned carrots, diced tatties if i had them with chicken oxo cube for stock
Like they say, most women can make something outta nothing lol
stay safe x

jinny

Me again
It might be too far for some people but i have a master shopping list on my iPhone notes
and im thinking of doing a food inventory freezer larder fridge ect
JEEZ i must be bored.

Pyxis

jinny said:

PYXIS
No garden i live in a block of flats 3rd floor.  I have a balcony room with Juliet style french windows. Cant drip them over the rail as it would drip over the neighbours window.   Im doing ok tho once they drip drain i can put them on the airer in the balcony room. Its south facing so the sun when we get some dries it canny.  Its a bit like a conservatory only upstairs.  Gets too hot sometimes and i live oop north.  Also i  wear stuff that don't need ironing.  lm going to top n tail the sheets n duvet covers to save washing them.

You know i remember  there was only wash day on a Monday years ago.  

Could you hang them out dry, though? I was thinking that air-curing them without washing them might work if the weather is fine!

I did a test once, with a top that failed the sniff test around the under-arm area, but after hanging it outside in the fresh air for a bit, it passed the sniff test with flying colours!



And yes...... regarding the once a week washday........ my mum, even after she got a top-loader machine, only did a clothes wash once a week.
Let’s face it, most clothes aren’t dirty, just a bit sweaty, so shouldn’t need more than a bit of a rinse, if air-curing is out of the question.

And I’m sure this has been mentioned a thousand times, but we didn’t even have a full bath more than once a week! The rest of the time  it was a top and tail in cold water or with a boiled kettle-full  in the basin!

Many’s the time, as a teenager, I had to wash my (long and thick) hair at the kitchen sink with  a boiled kettle or two and a jug.



😂😂 I did laugh, once, over 25 years ago, when my early teens children and I were in  a holiday flat that only had a bath with ordinary taps, and my daughter couldn’t work out how she was supposed to wash her hair! 😂😂
(She soon got told!)

needmoney

@jinny this made me smile "a strong cuppa across me lips."   and your hard up soup sounds lovely.

Pyxis

Talking of making something outta nothing, (Jinny) , I’m about to try a concoction  of chopped kale, garlic, chopped broccoli stalk (!), mushrooms and chopped cashews and pumpkin seeds, (the latter need to be used up sharpish!) 😁😁

I’ll let you know how I get on! 😁😢

MoneySeeker1

LOL at the hanging on the washing line to air bedding.

My adaptation on that might be an experiment with squirting washing-up liquid all over the sheets and rubbing it in and then just waiting for the next bit of rain to fall - it shouldn't be long in this area....

Hence my normal way of washing is to wash in my washing machine (which is a washer only) and then hang over the clothes horse that is going to have remain sitting in the way somewhere or other in my little house until I have the money to add a porch that I will put it in. Thankfully my washing machine wrings washing pretty dry anyway - and hence I get away with not putting things out on the clothesline to get rained on. But it could well be a thing - to use that rain and deliberately put things on the line in the circumstances if worst came to worst.

herlig

Knitted swimwear had to fit tightly to the body so knit with a negative ease. It also needed to be knit at a tight gauge while needing to stretch to get it on.  I'm thankful that such a logistical knitting project won't be needing during lockdown. Small mercies? 

jinny

PYXIS
Yes agree not everything needs to be washed.  My older son I do his laundry for him cos he wouldn't bother.  I usually spray hoodies n trackies with watered down white comfort.  Pass the the steam iron over them . Don't think he notices.  His flat will be a tip but I'm just not thinking about it.  It will clean up eventually. 

Pyxis

Pyxis said:

Talking of making something outta nothing, (Jinny) , I’m about to try a concoction  of chopped kale, garlic, chopped broccoli stalk (!), mushrooms and chopped cashews and pumpkin seeds, (the latter need to be used up sharpish!) 😁😁

I’ll let you know how I get on! 😁😢

Well, my something outta nothing worked! 😁

Ok, I added an onion, plus a potato that needed using up, and it was a bit bland, so I chucked in some roasted red pepper pesto, then bulked it out with some pasta....that way I have a second meal of it tomorrow with the rest of the porridge cheese sauce!

Oh, and I chucked in some chia seeds for a bit of protein!

Whilst it wasn’t cordon bleu, I reckon that at the moment I’m eating for health, rather than for pure pleasure, and I am full up! 😊