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by mushroom
Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:39 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Replies: 10
Views: 667

Re: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!

Thanks all... well tonight is a large tin of Cassoulet (bought in a French supermarket when on holiday!) with a BBD of 2018. If I don't come back tomorrow, you'll know the botulism got me :lol: :lol: In all fairness though Cassoulet is a great prep... tin of beans, lentils, sausage and chicken all i...
by mushroom
Mon Mar 21, 2022 7:09 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Replies: 10
Views: 667

Re: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!

Yes, all best before. Thank you! Now more than ever I don't want to waste food!! I've really upped the veg growing for this year. Grow every year but trying to do it on a much bigger scale this year. Also buying some different pastas / pulses and rice in bulk, so hopefully between the two will have ...
by mushroom
Mon Mar 21, 2022 6:36 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!
Replies: 10
Views: 667

Cardinal Sin of Some Unrotated Stocks!

Just going through a few shelves that haven't been checked on in - ahem - quite a while! While I'm very used to using tins which are out of date by up to a few years depending on what they are etc... what is the received wisdom on glass jars and bottles? These are factory sealed jars - such as hot d...
by mushroom
Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Flash Sale of MREs
Replies: 14
Views: 1481

Flash Sale of MREs

Just a heads-up... I just got an email from The Prepper Shop. They are having a 48 hour flash sale of MRE main meals - all at £1.50. No affiliation - but I've just put an order in - so now mine is secure, I'll spread the word!! :lol: :lol:
by mushroom
Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:32 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Acorns
Replies: 17
Views: 4352

Re: Acorns

I'm going foraging to the same place again this year - but I think I'll leave the acorns alone! I'll stick with blackberries, elderberries and rosehips... I think a Vit C tonic will be much called for this year instead of acorn coffee! I never made the beach nut butter - but I might even revisit tha...
by mushroom
Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:24 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Acorns
Replies: 17
Views: 4352

Re: Acorns

I made some acorn coffee and posted a thread about it in 2015 - I'd just been on a foraging course with Ffyona Campbell (she who walked around the world in the 80s!) It was a HUGELY time consuming process. The result looked like coffee but had it's own very distinctive taste. It's not something I ev...
by mushroom
Fri Nov 30, 2018 11:02 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: How are you preparing for Brexit?
Replies: 217
Views: 38456

Re: How are you preparing for Brexit?

Just got my Mogul Gravity Water filter set up and sorted and run a couple of lots of water through it... tasted my first glass this morning and it seems to be working a treat! Water has always concerned me as very few people have space to keep enough of it - and while I have purifying tabs / ways to...
by mushroom
Sun Nov 25, 2018 12:38 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: How are you preparing for Brexit?
Replies: 217
Views: 38456

Re: How are you preparing for Brexit?

I'm taking a muti-strand approach! I have no idea what to expect at the moment so using the old adage of prepare for the worst... hope for the best. It has the POTENTIAL to perhaps be the biggest thing we need to prep for in recent times... POTENTIAL. So, I'm very lucky in that my house is old and h...
by mushroom
Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:27 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Importing "prepper" food & import duty?
Replies: 20
Views: 5290

Re: Importing "prepper" food & import duty?

A couple of years ago I ordered some jerky / long life meat snacks etc from the USA for my preps... I really wouldn't bother again. My order was only worth £15 as I was intending keeping it under the threshold for Customs taxes & VAT. With the exchange rate, it worked out at a few pence over the...
by mushroom
Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:47 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: Over focussing on the obvious Medicine supplies
Replies: 30
Views: 11821

Re: Over focussing on the obvious Medicine supplies

I recently saw an online video of tick removal using peppermint essential oil. Ticks hate it - put a couple of drops on the tick and within 30 seconds the tick crawls out!!

Anyone seen or tried this method?