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

euronorris

That blanket is going to be amazing @pennib !! You must show us the finished product when you are done

As always JackieO, you sound like a wonderful grandparent and I bet Christmas will be wonderful.

I make very basic grilles cheese on the frying pan (so not really grilled). Just find it's less mess this way and uses less energy. Butter the outside of the bread, lay slices of cheese inside, top with a slice of bread that has also been buttered on the outside, fry gently until cheese starts to melt, flip over to brown the other piece of bread. I often use cookie cutters to make shapes in the bread before buttering, like Christmas trees or Easter bunny's, sometimes just big stars. Found this enticed DD to eat one time when she was poorly and its stuck since. I dry off the crusts and blitz, and keep for other creations.

-taff

Woolsery said:

No need, I'll absent myself from the thread now.

Yesterday I mentioned a video I'd seen which described in very broad terms how I'm feeling, especially the frustration of having no obvious way to push back against the profiteering which has gone on over the last few years.

No need for things like that. If you're ever reported, you will be banned for a couple of weeks and your posts deleted and that hasn't happened so....I think people do have to realise that being offended by someone else's opinion isn't a recipe for posts to be deleted. Racist stuff, fine, stuff that makes people uncomfortable, not so fine.

I think nornally this prepping thread is about practical prepping, food, money in all their forms, not about how it came to be necessary to prep or how world events came to be..

I read conspiracy stuff and just ignore ofr the most part, but again, it;s called conspiracy theories to add a touch of the crazy to it when really, they're just all theories.

In the end though, we are no longer a society who protests or gets annoyed or does much about anything any more, except when you mess with our tea, then we will get annoyed. [ tea could be anything poeple think is thier right btw]

YorksLass

pennib - That blanket is going to be fab but I'm not sure I'd have the patience to sew it all together!

-taff

Also, @pennib if you have a lot of blue and some yellow, you could do a row in the middle, sand and sea, or blue above, sky, etc etc. Would look fab.

Woolsery

-taff said:

Woolsery said:

No need, I'll absent myself from the thread now.

Yesterday I mentioned a video I'd seen which described in very broad terms how I'm feeling, especially the frustration of having no obvious way to push back against the profiteering which has gone on over the last few years.

I think nornally this prepping thread is about practical prepping, food, money in all their forms, not about how it came to be necessary to prep or how world events came to be..

I read conspiracy stuff and just ignore ofr the most part, but again, it;s called conspiracy theories to add a touch of the crazy to it when really, they're just all theories.

 Thanks for your kind comment and I agree this is essentially a practical thread, not a place to ruminate on how we reached  a point where prepping seems essential. The road there leads to politics, and we all know how divided that route is.

I also take your point about theories, conspiratorial or otherwise, and with a science background my view is they're working hypotheses. They stay as theories until supported by data, so someone else is fully entitled to hold different ones. There's plenty of data now, if not an overwhelming desire on the part of media to make some of it better known; hence a mismatch in what people may hold to be true. That also may lead to problems. However, discussions about theories isn't what this thread is about either.

So, we're left with prepping and I've done that as much as I can. Currently I'm rebuilding my polytunnel wrecked by Eunice, chopping up firewood and supporting a couple of people who didn't do so well in the big giveaway....not as well as Am*z*n and co anyway....but there I go again....too much anger! It is a self-imposed abstention and hopefully I'll cool down eventually and pop in again.

As dear Mr Grace used to say in that sit-com the BBC would never broadcast now: "Carry on everybody, you're all doing very well!"  I mean that most sincerely folks....and not in the way Hughie Green used to say it, for those with long memories!

wondercollie

euronorris said:

That blanket is going to be amazing @pennib !! You must show us the finished product when you are done

As always JackieO, you sound like a wonderful grandparent and I bet Christmas will be wonderful.

I make very basic grilles cheese on the frying pan (so not really grilled). Just find it's less mess this way and uses less energy. Butter the outside of the bread, lay slices of cheese inside, top with a slice of bread that has also been buttered on the outside, fry gently until cheese starts to melt, flip over to brown the other piece of bread. I often use cookie cutters to make shapes in the bread before buttering, like Christmas trees or Easter bunny's, sometimes just big stars. Found this enticed DD to eat one time when she was poorly and its stuck since. I dry off the crusts and blitz, and keep for other creations.

Your grilled cheese sandwiches are what North American restaurants serve as Grilled Cheese sandwiches with fries.   If you want true comfort food, you have the sandwich with canned tomato soup.

The most important thing is you use plastic, OK, processed cheese slices.   Real cheese just isn't right somehow.

In high school, because I wanted to become a Home Ec teacher I was required to do two cooking classes for the uni requirement.   One involved quantity catering.  So for a semester we had to work short shifts in the school cafeteria.   I must have fried 3000 of those grilled cheese sandwiches.   They were the cheapest lunch option.

euronorris

I can't eat cheese myself, but DD and DH both love it. They aren't fans of the processed slices though, so if I used that I think they might disown me haha. Does make a great, cheap lunch or dinner though 👍

pelirocco

pumpkin89 said:

I'm a bit late to the thread but thought you might be interested to know that the shortage of salad cream is down to a poor harvest of mustard seeds.  Likewise, most mustard condiments (especially Dijon) will be in short supply this year.

I wondered why Frugal Queen  in France said they were limited  to buying  only 2 jar of mustard

JIL

We had tinned tomato soup with cheese on toast for lunch yesterday. I bought the hein3 soup for 10p per can as it was BBE july.  Its ages since I had cheese on toast and I had forgotten how nice it was. 

pennib

Just wrote a long comment and it was deleted as 9 characters to short. Kept adding still couldn't post. Anyone know why?