It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

weenancyinAmerica

little money: 

You might want to keep the ingredients for Dr. Kellogg’s Magic Elixir (really it is called Rehydration Fluid) for when someone can’t keep any food down and is getting dehydrated:

·         1 quart of water

·         ½ teaspoon salt

·         2 tablespoons white corn syrup such as Karo® syrup

Mix when needed. Add equal parts Seven-Up® - the kind with sugar, not the diet version. Start the patient with a tablespoon of the mixture and a tablespoon of Seven-Up®. Then increase the amounts as the patient can tolerate it. Keep refrigerated until used. When the patient no longer needs it, get rid of it. (Dr. Kellogg was the doctor who prescribed it for my sister when she was ill, and we named it after him.) This is from Time to Be Prepared: Emergency Preparedness on a Shoestring (my book)

sammyjammy

littlemoney said:

Just recovering from a bad stomach bug which entailed getting emergency medical advice after 12 hours with my head or bum in the toilet. The doctor asked if I had any rehydration sachets or imodium. I didn't. He prescribed them and an antisickness pill. The only problem them was finding someone to collect it. I was so bad he offered to refer me to A and E. I declined with the option change my mind if I got worse.

Hope you're feeling better x

sarahj1986

I am very lucky to have studied A level history and WW1 and WW2 featured heavily but also the interwar years “the road to WW2” I think the unit was called. German hyperinflation , the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression and so forth. 

I shall watch the videos though as I always like to learn more 

CKhalvashi

sarahj1986 said:

I am very lucky to have studied A level history and WW1 and WW2 featured heavily but also the interwar years “the road to WW2” I think the unit was called. German hyperinflation , the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression and so forth. 

I shall watch the videos though as I always like to learn more 

You may be interested in Half as Interesting on Youtube in this case, it breaks down quite complex issues into bite size chunks.

Youtube is actually quite a good place for free to learn something new. I've used it for learning quite technical stuff over the years, normally after baulking at the cost of something to get someone else to do this. Specifically thinking coding and other technical things that it's good to know.

Jellytotts

But the bullet and defrosted the chest freezer today. After a good sort out and restock of the fridge freezer, a big trip to the compost bin with some very old courgettes and beans (3years is too old for my liking on frozen veg), there was just one cool box full of bread that I couldn’t accommodate.  It will stay safe in the cool box until needed over the next few days and I’m hoping to keep the freezer turned off for as long as possible (it was defrosted, wiped out and wedged open this afternoon, stored in the garage).  We worked out it costs £82 a year to run so needs to be worth the effort of turning it back on.

General_Grant

Jellytotts said:

But the bullet and defrosted the chest freezer today. After a good sort out and restock of the fridge freezer, a big trip to the compost bin with some very old courgettes and beans (3years is too old for my liking on frozen veg), there was just one cool box full of bread that I couldn’t accommodate.  It will stay safe in the cool box until needed over the next few days and I’m hoping to keep the freezer turned off for as long as possible (it was defrosted, wiped out and wedged open this afternoon, stored in the garage).  We worked out it costs £82 a year to run so needs to be worth the effort of turning it back on.

This month I finished a bag of frozen peas with a use by/BB date of October 2019 so almost at the 3 year point (or beyond if you are thinking of date frozen).  They were fine.

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
As there’s only two of us we only have the fridge freezer now. I keep my freezer full but not too much expensive stuff, only having one trays worth of meat and fish, with the rest bread, frozen veg, tubs of leftovers etc. That way in case of power cut the unspoiled meat etc will be eaten up first.

Wednesday2000

We go through a lot of handwash as we have three pets. I usually buy Simple handwash and you can get 250ml for £1. My husband went into a £1 shop and he found 500ml of Simple shower gel for £1. I'm making the swap over!:)

Jellytotts

General_Grant said:

Jellytotts said:

But the bullet and defrosted the chest freezer today. After a good sort out and restock of the fridge freezer, a big trip to the compost bin with some very old courgettes and beans (3years is too old for my liking on frozen veg), there was just one cool box full of bread that I couldn’t accommodate.  It will stay safe in the cool box until needed over the next few days and I’m hoping to keep the freezer turned off for as long as possible (it was defrosted, wiped out and wedged open this afternoon, stored in the garage).  We worked out it costs £82 a year to run so needs to be worth the effort of turning it back on.

This month I finished a bag of frozen peas with a use by/BB date of October 2019 so almost at the 3 year point (or beyond if you are thinking of date frozen).  They were fine.

It's more a case of this years courgettes and beans have started producing so I've no need for them/refreshing stock.  Some of them looked too freezer burnt to be of use too.

sarahj1986

CKhalvashi said:

sarahj1986 said:

I am very lucky to have studied A level history and WW1 and WW2 featured heavily but also the interwar years “the road to WW2” I think the unit was called. German hyperinflation , the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression and so forth. 

I shall watch the videos though as I always like to learn more 

You may be interested in Half as Interesting on Youtube in this case, it breaks down quite complex issues into bite size chunks.

Youtube is actually quite a good place for free to learn something new. I've used it for learning quite technical stuff over the years, normally after baulking at the cost of something to get someone else to do this. Specifically thinking coding and other technical things that it's good to know.

I’ve just had a quick look. I’ll definitely watch some of these. I’m very strange with my YouTube videos. I watch a whole range of things on there, some guilty pleasures like tours of train stations :-D

Technical as you say it’s useful but if I’m cooking or baking something new I find it’s useful for that too.