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@MikeLA well so far just been doing silly stuff with these as i am trying to figure out what knives can do multi jobs if you get me , i know so many say i carry a knife for this a knife for that but for me i like a one does all type knife , so food prep has been the big one in the kitchen i have...

Cheers for the info that is what i am ging to do i have been looking for a good sparks as well hard work getting trades people here not sure why we pay cash for everything . I think the manual switch over is the way to go because it would only be in the event of a major power out that it would...

@Decacraft cheers mate yes the gennies are smaller quieter ones again for onthe move in the prepared world if you understand that . I would buy a biiger one for the home i have been looking online at the switch overs and as mentioned on here you can have a manual switch over , i think it needs...

@Decacraft thank you for the advise I do understand your points , we do use a lot of led battery lighting now with sensors ie staircase is just one place they are great . I do have a gennie honda eu20i and a eu10i again as we are prepared people we like ot have bases covered , also cooking...

OK folks sorry i have just found this thread and have a few question that may well have been answered before on threads but as most will know but now our name sort of tells you about us , we refuse to give in to illness love our garden and when the health allows we love days out . We are...

Well i am so glad more people are trying to plant the plants our bee's and moths and butterflies need not to mention the other little bugs . We have been planting lots of the old primroses because they look lovely under the silver birches and come on well after the wild garlic and other ground...

@Stew i like that , i was toying with a hay box after watching wartime farm but never tried it i know the idea but i always wondered if i could use old insulation board make a nice tight fitting box like yours heat the pan to boiling hold it there for 15 mins then put it in the box which i...

@Paul_B yes my wife has thrown in the old tom soup to a bolo before today if we do not have any sauce made in the freezer , see we use to can or jar it but one year had a huge batch go furry in the jars so now we make the batches as and when the freezer has room and put in to the little take...

I do tend to rush hands on cooking when i throw a stew together i put it on 1 or 2 and walk away lol , i just never got it right with risotto but i might have ot try i always see it and go wow looks nice and as whe have huge stocks of it ,i must try to make other dishes . Cheers mate

I would love to be able to say i can do a risotto but if you ask the wife i have tried a few times but it either ends up stuck to the bottom of the pan no matter how much i watch and stir or it ends up as a soup lol yup she refused to eat that one . Isthere any sure fire way to get it right...

@Paul_B fully understand where your coming from i grew up in the miners strikes times but i was also looked after by nuns at a very young age and many a time they would pin me in my chair as a 4 year old and force veggies in my mouth holding nose and forcing my jaw shut making me swallow oh yes...

@Toddy Oh yes the pressure cooker does get used lol shhhhhhhhh , the wife has me do ham hocks in it and the meat falls off the bones , but i do sometimes svae the chicken carcasses in the freezer then do 2 or 3 depending on size in the pressure cooker i never thought of saving it as a jelly but...

Well i like the thread the ideas are great the wife and i have to watch spicy food i owuld like to try but well long story short health says not a chance lol . Our fav is onei have just done Chicken Carcass Stew The name tells you it we keep our chicken once we have had it roasted, i tend to...

Wow well i can say i have never had emails from temu other than to tell us our orders are out for delivery but i guess some do get hit up by the emails i guess we are lucky . @FixSwords sorry not intending to offend and i to like mora but for the heck of it i orders when the wife ordered her...

OK folks justa little more on Temu , i have been ordering a fair few of their cheap knives and i can say the copy mora/hulftors are great i have been trying to break one and i do mean trying i even used it yesterday in the garden and was hitting it with a hammer to split some cherry wood chunks...

@TeeDee sorry to hijack the thread a bit but great to know where others are getting their stuff it gives your more ideas of what to put together , i am looking at making more dried meals mainly for the purpose if the wife has her way and we get a new camper i can put together some dry meals that...

@ONE not a vulture mate we all love a bargain it is a shame a business in this industry has failed but more will follow , only yesterday my neighbour told us his firm he works for is in admin and we are talkign a huge business garden centres and also reclaim yards so you go figure when those...

@MikeLA i know i only got the email today what a shame , in these times if these sort of shops are struggling to make ends meet well it tells me something when more people are moving to try and be prepared if shops selling this stuff struggle then well the averange person is goingto struggle...

@SaraR we are looking at their other stuff , it is just working out the water the meal ratio , i filled a domio jar with 1 cup of veg and then boiling water after around 20 mins it was good to go but i am also working out if we add in pasta or something to make it a meal pouch how much water , i...

Ok i hope it is ok to post this here but just got a email telling me Bushcraftlab are having to close due to the cost ofl iving crisis , just wanted to let others know what shame we are lossing these shops .