Simplifying Life

mary43

I really ought to get some bottled water to store..........I remember one Boxing Day getting up and the water was off due to a leaking pipe further up the road. We had no warning and only found out by ringing the emergency number for the water company. No water to boil for coffee........... Water was off for quite a few hours too. Any fruit juice we had quickly vanished so OH opened a bottle of wine.....................lol

Pixie_Sue

http://the-creative-spirit.blogspot.com/

who I have mentioned before a while back (not for moneysaving reasons - as its not that sorta blog -

Ho ho ho my dear friend... it's surprising who's hanging around and lurking (I Don't make a habit of it... honest) lol.

No... I don't suppose I have done any money saving tips on my thread.... now theres a prompt. However I suppose after being married and destitute most of it for 20 years till my husband died in 1999. Getting married at 18 and now being on Tax Credits rather than sit on my A*SE due to being partially sighted.... well I suppose it's more a habit with me and something I've always 'had' to do.
The only difference now I suppose is I actually get a kick out of it rather than heel a pauper :rotfl:

And now I've F*I*N*A*L*L*Y found my way to logging in will try to pop in more often.

Anyway, just wanted to say hellooooo all Good to be here.

The Purple One xxx:beer:

Charis

ceridwen wrote: »

Noted Charis:D - just one leetle query re that - how to prevent the added "protein" appearing after a while.

Do you think if I transfer the rice to plastic storage containers (bearing in mind your comment re disintegrating bags) that it would be safe from "visitors"?

Well, I know that the visitors arrive via eggs in the product. Only occasionally, of course. One tip I picked up to eliminate flour weevils before they happen is to put the bag of flour in the freezer for 48 hours, take out and allow to dry before putting into an airtight container. (The dampness is due to condensation when putting the cold flour onto a room temperature worktop.) That way the little darlings never hatch. I reckon it would take a good long while for your bag to disintegrate but they have started to make biodegradable food bags. I put my stuff in plastic boxes, still in the bag if I can. Then if anything climbs in, it can't get at the food

Charis

PS I got two 25 litre water canisters from the Countrywide store near us yesterday. I got a very funny look from DS, who already thinks I am a little batty, until I pointed out that a couple I know well (and most of Gloucester)had no water for a fortnight last summer, due to the flooding of the pumping station. Phew, that got me off the hook.

I've ordered a stash of beans, to get into a more veggie frame of mind and to experiment with a slow cooker recipe book I picked up for a fiver last week. DS won't like beans, his idea of a meal is a pile of meat garnished with half a lettuce leaf. Wonder if I will get away with chilli-non-carne...chilli hides a multitude of things so well.

Charis

I have even been toying with the idea of getting a bike. Probably not a good idea until I lose some weight. Maybe I should keep out of the sun. All this fresh air is going to my head.

ceridwen

Pixie_Sue wrote: »

http://the-creative-spirit.blogspot.com/

who I have mentioned before a while back (not for moneysaving reasons - as its not that sorta blog -

Ho ho ho my dear friend... it's surprising who's hanging around and lurking (I Don't make a habit of it... honest) lol.

No... I don't suppose I have done any money saving tips on my thread.... now theres a prompt. However I suppose after being married and destitute most of it for 20 years till my husband died in 1999. Getting married at 18 and now being on Tax Credits rather than sit on my A*SE due to being partially sighted.... well I suppose it's more a habit with me and something I've always 'had' to do.
The only difference now I suppose is I actually get a kick out of it rather than heel a pauper :rotfl:

And now I've F*I*N*A*L*L*Y found my way to logging in will try to pop in more often.

Anyway, just wanted to say hellooooo all Good to be here.

The Purple One xxx:beer:

..and I bet that has given Martin the shock of his life (well...in a pleasant way of course!) to see just where a link to his website sometimes turns up one could say "in the most unexpected places"

catznine

On the "livestock" problem with rice, I seem to remember my Mum rinsing the rice first before cooking it, we lived in Singapore at the time and "visitors" in our food supply were a regular happening!

DH normally buys the 5kg box of rice from Costco every 3 months but last visit the shelf was empty so instead he came back with a huge 20kg bag!!!!! I can see I will have a lot of rinsing to do! The bag is beautiful though!;)

I too seem to have collected a large supply of pulses, pasta etc., but have decided that by stocking up only on some "core" ingredients I should manage to find places to store it all. We could well be living on lentil curry and rice for a month and a day though!:rolleyes:

ceridwen

Well - thats what I've taken to calling my style of food/household shopping - want 1 now/take 4. Thats me now nearly finished with the mega-initial food stocking-up and everything is sitting in neat rows (in best before order - newest at the back) in what I have now designated as my food cupboards. The carousel (which I was using for my main food storage) has been ripped out - and I can get my hands on that darn mould on the walls at the back at last to clean it off and repaint that bit. I will be using the carousel cupboard floor for crockery/machinery type things now - dont like the thought of foodstuff being in that cupboard (as I cant get at the mould thats bound to be there on the wall beneath bottom shelf level:eek: ). So thats my interim solution for best use of my kitchen - whilst I wait for that pension lump sum in time to come and that kitchen gets ripped out (the rate its going it will probably have completely fallen to bits by then:cool: ) - and I will probably be designing a very different style of kitchen to what I have now. It would certainly help with my "future kitchen" if I was able to have use of my dining room for extending kitchen activities and storage into - I'd love a Welsh Dresser in there and that would help a lot with kitchen storage and with cupboards in the alcoves that would be me nicely sorted - oh well...sigh...I'd already designated that room as meditation room basically...so thats not to be...as thats my personal order of priorities (but other people could do that perhaps to help out with the teensy kitchens many of us have).

Will have to get myself well stocked with cleaning materials next (currently still on the Ecover - as I just plain havent found the time yet to buy stuff to make my own up).

So - I'm going for the "one fell swoop" way of operating myself - as that is what suits me best and I have a bit of spare money for doing it all at once. Obviously, we all do what suits us (and our finances) best - so it may be that it is only possible to do it gradually - in which case perhaps it might be best to "Think 6" for instance (as in buy 6 of the stock-up items per week each week until well-provisioned) - so the weekly shopping list could consist of what one requires right now and an additional 6 items. Just a thought...

mary43

Hello all........and welcome pixie sue
Well haven't you all been busy by the look of it...........me, not so I'm afraid except for OH buying loo rolls like they're going out of fashion !! Lost count now but he reckons...........buy 'em cheap........same with a lot of stuff he's shoved to the back of cupboards I've noticed ! Cant afford to buy too much at the minute......purse won't open that far, so we're getting just a bit extra and tucking it away (except dreaded loo rolls that have now taken over the spare room along with my christmas pressies !)

Well, life could be so much simpler if it wasn't for the 'powers that be' could it not..................everything arranged for new young person, i.e. family contact, extra education sessions...........till lunchtime today when I had to re-arrange one support worker (second time this week) due to the 'managers' changing contact dates to suit themselves..........re-arranged it as soc.worker sat here and she then informed me of another change the following week !!! Involving same support worker !!:eek: So, tonight I have to phone and re-arrange it all over again.................I think the general idea is to give me no time to have a 'life' for myself !! So, today am seriously fed up with the beauracrats we're obliged to put up with in the name of 'better run departments', better organisation where kids are concerned (not !) and the selected hearing the necessary bodies seem to have when kids needs are discussed.
Sorry..............bit peeved.............must snap out of it. Now I've had small rant I feel a small load lifted.
On the positive side, made more birthday cards for the residents at mums care home..............having commited myself to it I feel a sort of compulsion to fill the kitchen table with paper., card and glue !!!!:rotfl: But it's fun and I feel I'm giving a bit back to the care home for looking after my mum so well.

Oldest lad fell down the stairs this morning (he said) and felt that was a good reason not to go to work till he got a phone call telling him there was some work in town he could do so, off he went...........sort of 'limping' as he quickly remembered what he'd said and went out the door....................lol

Keep up with the storing and stacking............I'm making note of what we just might need....................:j

ceridwen

Theres me thinking "Think this is what Mary means by 'men in suits'". Och well..such is life...tomorrow is another day. I'll leave you to that list-making:D