We are now past the original brexit date and looking at halloween with the appropriate horror.
Those of us that gathered a buffer/stockpile/stash of food and household items or anything else is there anything that prepping has taught you? Foods that are better than others to gather? Foods that are great in recipes and add extra nutrients? Household items that you've appreciated having a supply of for times of illness, bad weather or lack of funds?
My own tips are as follows:
•Long life milk (Moo skimmed and semi skimmed are the ones I've tried along with Tesco's own label) are great in tea, hot chocolate and for making bechamel sauce
•Macaroni cheese is the ultimate brexit comfort food dish. Throw in some frozen chopped spinach to make it more nutritious or finely chopped broccoli if you like it (I don't). For further tastiness add passata, chilli, and anything else you fancy. Sure, it's no longer technically macaroni cheese but you have a quick and easy nutritious dish.
• grate and freeze cheese for ease of use in dishes like the above
• butter is suitable for freezing and the freezing process does not alter appearance or taste
• frozen courgettes and peppers can be roasted and added to homemade tomato based pasta sauce
• tofu is suitable for freezing
• always keep a loaf in the freezer
• cereal lasts 2 days in our house so we need to buy much more than originally thought
• tinned rhubarb makes a great crumble and is cheaper than fresh
• make use of supermarket offers on non-fresh or household items such as detergent and cotton wool and toiletries
• stock up on nappies if you have a child in them-they are made in Belgium I believe
• oats are cheap and great for breakfast, cookies and flapjacks
• Paul Hollywood's bloomer recipe is a good basic recipe and makes a very tasty loaf. I added poppy seeds to the top
• stock up on anti freeze as we'll be going into winter
• tinned potatoes work great in some recipes
• multi vitamins will help make up for any deficit of fresh fruit and veg
• there's no such thing as too many toilet rolls
• the library frozen food system is an excellent use of space
• tinned mushy peas are delicious
• tinned mushrooms are fine in pasta bake
• garlic paste is a store cupboard essential as is chilli purée
• cereal usually contains added vitamins so is great for children, the elderly or anyone with a chronic condition that might be in need of the extra
I'm sure there's lots of others too.
Credit goes to @bellinisurge for her calm and excellent posts on this subject and encouraging posters to get what they can afford, can store, and will use.
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SistemaAddict · 28/07/2019 13:43
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