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

Siebrie

So..... I had to go to the Radiology Department to get some more pictures of my thumbs, wrists, elbow, and head (I had a nasty fall with my bicycle two weeks ago), and dd1 (14) was baking cookies. She has done so before, and knows how to make the dough and work the oven. The cookies were just going in when I left. When I came home, half of the cookies were eaten and the oven was still on at 170C, with the door open! It had been on for nothing, with an open door, for about an hour! Those cookies are very expensive!

tooldle

Floss said:

tooldle said:

I used to work in the packaging industry and had a direct relationship with Heinz. It is a low volume product. Heinz make product for other labels. Consider the volume of products such as baked beans, ketchup or tomato soup against salad cream, and there is a massive difference. 

Your former employer may not have made as many labels / bottles for Heinz salad cream as for ketchup or beans, but there is a difference in the volume of salad cream 1 person can put onto salad (approx 15-25ml depending how generous one is) against a portion of beans or the amount of ketchup puton chips / burgers / bacon sandwich or used in cooking. Also, this may be a shock but Heinz are not the only manufacturer.

Oh and being a "low volume product" is not the same as being "not a popular product" !!

Being part of the supply chain and an expensive component of that chain, discussions at our meetings often included market insight. My ex employer did not supply labels or bottles. 
In the food industry low volume product is a non popular product. 

General_Grant

weenancyinAmerica said:

Our local high school taught Latin - for their textbook they used Winnie Ille Pooh. I still have a copy of the book. Well, Winnie is a classic also isn't it?

Reminds me of a Monday morning in the autumn of 1972.
A colleague was complaining bitterly that he was the only one on time and the rest of us were really very tardy.
We then found that he hadn't noticed that the clocks had gone back to GMT on Sunday morning.
So, why had he not noticed?
Answer:  he'd spent the whole of Sunday teaching his young son Latin, aided by Winnie the Pooh.

Flugelhorn

Good old Winnie ille Pu

Elisheba

weenancyinAmerica said:

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)

Even easier as I've not seen corn syrup for sale over here,

1/2 teaspoon salt
6 teaspoons sugar (any will work)
1 litre of boiling water

Mix together, drink as and when.  You can add fruit juice to make it taste nicer.

Florenceem

There are lots of YT videos about making family cloths.to save buying toilet paper. Years ago - there weren't mass produced rolls of toilet paper. I don't remember bits of newspaper on a nail. People may shudder at using cloth but what if it comes to having money for food or TP or it isn't available.

Katiehound

Florenceem said:

  I don't remember bits of newspaper on a nail.  

I remember squares of newspaper at an elderly relative's house
I also remember that awful shiny stuff Izal- but it was excellent for playing on a comb like a kazoo!! Oh yes, there was Bronco- but it wasn't anything to do with the wild west!!
I wonder when soft TP became the norm?

Florenceem

I think soft Tp started in 1940s/50s. We had the shiny stuff at school in the 1950s/60s.

littlemoney

Elisheba said:

weenancyinAmerica said:

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)

Even easier as I've not seen corn syrup for sale over here,

1/2 teaspoon salt
6 teaspoons sugar (any will work)
1 litre of boiling water

Mix together, drink as and when.  You can add fruit juice to make it taste nicer.

Thanks. Much easier to do. I will write it down and hope I remember where it is the next time. I hope it will be a very long time before I do. Day 5 and I still have no energy.

JIL

I saw Heinz salad cream in a shop today for £3.65 in a 605g squeezy bottle.  There wasnt much else left on the shelves. I was so shocked I took photos.