What Preps are you doing this week

[Decaff]

:lol

[nickdutch]

been working on my fitness.. lots of hiking. Exploring the local area, practicing my map reading and generally enjoying being outside

Thats the same as me really, but its been, for me, more about refining my skills. I started the fitness thing relatively recently (only a few years back) and have been assembling my home gym bit by bit. Have more or less enough stuff and now have been studying more about how to make the workouts more effective and to do the whole body bit by bit. Its gonna take me years to get "fit" (what ever that means is relative to whoever you speak to), but learning more about general fitness and building up a habit of cardio plus muscle workouts is still very positive anyway. It can be time consuming, but whilst you are waiting for the lentils to cook, or for the advert break on Tv to come to an end, doing some dumbbell workout can be a good move.

I see it as being more about health maintenance rather than fitness (the two things seem to be different as "health and fitness" are often lumped in together, but a lot of people who are interested in "fitness" seem to also be interested in steroids, which ain't all that good for the long term health, and anyway, that involves taking one liver toxic drug and then taking another liver toxic drug to counteract the effects of the first liver toxic drug. After a while, that seems rather crazy when maintaining good health into old age is important.

[FEISTY]

Decaff - what are apple nuts? I googled it, but they described them as being possibly used as buttons . I am none the wiser. Whatever they are - do they keep for a long time?

Sorry FEISTY, it should have read "apple, nuts" rather than apple nuts I need to make sure I check before posting more often I think! many apologies.

Its granola to add to yoghurt and i think you can make it into cereal bars too.

Just checked my receipt for the price and it seems they didn't charge me for it!!!

Ah, alles klar ! Cheap is good, free is better .

[nickdutch]

Stocked up with enough olive oil to do me for lamps if need be and naturally food purposes for a while. got my tesco order in and still have to stack it all, but that will come

[FEISTY]

Stocked up with enough olive oil to do me for lamps if need be and naturally food purposes for a while. got my tesco order in and still have to stack it all, but that will come

How do use olive oil for lamps and does olive oil keep long term?

[ForgeCorvus]

Stocked up with enough olive oil to do me for lamps if need be and naturally food purposes for a while. got my tesco order in and still have to stack it all, but that will come

How do use olive oil for lamps and does olive oil keep long term?

Simplest one my Google-fu can find


Storage: A little research turns up 18 to 24 months at room temperature ( 80F is given, that translates as 26C !!....... Cold-blooded these Yanks ) and up to 2 years in a sealed container (avoid air, light and warmth for maximum storage life)

[FEISTY]

Stocked up with enough olive oil to do me for lamps if need be and naturally food purposes for a while. got my tesco order in and still have to stack it all, but that will come

How do use olive oil for lamps and does olive oil keep long term?

Simplest one my Google-fu can find


Storage: A little research turns up 18 to 24 months at room temperature ( 80F is given, that translates as 26C !!....... Cold-blooded these Yanks ) and up to 2 years in a sealed container (avoid air, light and warmth for maximum storage life)

Still figuring out the fiddly bit of exactly how to fit the wick, but what I did find is that apparently rancid oil burns better and longer than fresh, so wondering ... if we put away a shed load of olive oil, a batch of wicks and some large jam jars ... would it still work in, say, 10 years' time? Inedible, of course!

[grenfell]

I've got a bottle of olive oil in a greenhouse that's been there for a couple ( well probably five or more) of years now. I haven't tried tasting it but it still smells ok so I'm not sure how long it takes to go rancid. It has frozen solid on a number of occasions .
I've used vegetable oil for lamps before using a strand from a mop head for a wick.

[nickdutch]

I've got a bottle of olive oil in a greenhouse that's been there for a couple ( well probably five or more) of years now. I haven't tried tasting it but it still smells ok so I'm not sure how long it takes to go rancid. It has frozen solid on a number of occasions .
I've used vegetable oil for lamps before using a strand from a mop head for a wick.

Olive oil is the one to use for indoor lamps. The flame is actually quite good for what you get. Keeping olive oil in stock is good because you get a dual use. Cooking (what you will mainly use it for) and lamps when you need them.

On another note, my butternut squash seeds that I took from a supermarket butternut squash, have sprouted and are just about to go beyond seedling stage and so I have planted the best ones out to be the plants for the harvest time crop.

Seriously, with pumpkin and squashes, you don't need to buy the seeds, the cost of them is included in the price of the veg you buy, cos the fruit/veg (or whatever they are) have the seeds in them.

[tolerance]

Hi guys and girls...

Been a busy few weeks so hardly been online hope all is well.

Purchased an amazing book the other day about Edible plants and it is safe to say I am hooked.
I am learning slowly although it is certainly going to take some time.

Pot Marigolds are my favourite to eat so far although none of it tastes to nice raw. I think it is a useful skill to have in a SHTF scenario though.

P.S don't tell the neighbour but his daisy heads are delicious


Other than that just been keeping on top of things and stocking up and rotating on the usual food stuffs and water storage.
so yep things are good at the moment hope all is well....

Toodle pip....