Prepping for Brexit thread

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Yes they do FUDDLE but they sometimes start to bulk up when they get some rain, particularly maincrop potatoes.

Thanking people is a personal choice, I thank most because I appreciate their input and it only seems polite, but that's just me.

One thing I haven't seen on the list of things to stock up on is instant mash which is really useful as a carrier for flavours of things you don't have much of. DD1 is involved with D of E at the school she teaches at and it's one of the things they suggest for the expeditions and she adds in tomato ketchup, baked beans, grated cheese and it makes a quick and tasty meal with energy value for the next part of the trek.

Decades since I had Smash, is it still going or is there a fancy new one? I need potatoes to live even more than I need milk.

humptydumptybits wrote: »

Decades since I had Smash, is it still going or is there a fancy new one? I need potatoes to live even more than I need milk.

Ugh. Vile stuff. I'd kill people with my bare hands before I lose real spuds.

Disclaimer: not really.

I'd fight them, though.


Despite all the advice from experts that it's not a good idea, I shove green and sprouting spuds into the garden on the offchance that they grow (I vary the location and don't pester them at all, usually getting at least a few meals for free that way).

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New thing to think about. Pest control.

I've just thrown out far too much cash in the form of baking ingredients - flour, dried fruit, etc - because Himself didn't realise that my glass jars were for protecting our foodstuffs, not for decoration and as a result, the packets he'd left open were full of moths.

He's now scrubbing the cupboard, washing sticky jars and has promised he won't ever do it again, especially when I showed him (nicely, you catch more flies with honey than sugar - or in our case, more Mediterranean Flour Moths with a six month old open packet of Rich Tea Biscuits, three open bags of four, two types of sugar and some dried fruit :eek: than you do with nice sealed glass jars :cool:).

Apart from the obvious of threatening to make him eat things with bugs in if he ever does it again, keeping stuff in the intended sealed/moth proof storage/keeping the cupboard cleaner, are there any ways that don't involve poisoning myself with chemicals I don't want in the house as they also kill the handy spiders that live around my window, along with occasional lost bees and other pollinators?

I buy Sainsbugs instant mash, its fine if you add a good bit of butter. I make them into duchesse potatoes (one just couldn't possibly eat plain peasant mash mash darling, could one)

I found 'oatly' milk ok in tea, and I like a strong tea with no sugar. I was quite surprised, after trying almond/soya et al. Just the normal oatly, not the 'barista', that was like drinking cold porridge!

mardatha wrote: »

I buy Sainsbugs instant mash, its fine if you add a good bit of butter. I make them into duchesse potatoes (one just couldn't possibly eat plain peasant mash mash darling, could one)

I love duchesse potatoes.....my other posh potato dish is Potato Dauphinose. And I'm quite partial to colcannon.

Oh stop it. :rotfl: