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Batch cook and freeze works for chilli, Bolognese sauce, stew/casserole, soup and some part mades like homemade burgers, meatballs etc.
I feel like I am in a house share with 2 adult sons at home who have chosen to cook for themselves most days so I feel your pain.

Being aware of which groups might not feel happy about you is key. As a white female I felt really quite uncomfortable walking around Tooting on a Friday afternoon being stared at by men in their morace.sque Friday best. Also not a good place to be visibly gay of any race. General crime is a matter ...

Living with 2 lodgers means limited time in the kitchen at peak time. I could cook during the afternoon I suppose. Might try doing it a bit more. I used to make a curry, but not done it for ages. I make my own pasta sauce, and also baked beans, because the beans in ready made tins all seem to be hi...

Cooking from scratch is the only real way to control what is in your food. Our household needs to avoid wheat, gluten, corn and all derivatives as well as controlling salt.
The one silver lining is that I only need to store base ingredients to get a huge range of meals.

Not an an official preppers meet but does seem to be full of people with the prepper mentality is the Wilderness Gathering which now runs mid August in Kent.

Salt is fairly well demonised these days due to it's well known ill effects on blood pressure but it can go a long way toward making dire food edible. My Dad was a teen in WW2 followed by 15 years Navy during which time he was fed some pretty bad meals. His solution was to smother everything in salt...

One of the thing I stock is salt.Not so good for the blood pressure but very useful if you want to salvage the contents of your fridge or freezer by old fashioned preserving in salt or brine. I may run into trouble if it is high summer but the rest of the year it should let me keep a lot. The Curing...

I have had a few things go over but not too many. I dont worry about mylar but do have a good dry steady temperature. Dried yeast now lives in the fridge and even then only has 18 months shelf life. If SHTF I think the best bet will be a continuous sourdough starter. Ditto for yoghurt starters. Drie...

Water is a definite weak point here. No real space to store the amount needed for 4 adults. I keep enough for short outages or to allow time to access supplies elsewhere. If there is a very very bad outage then it would be down to the filters and boiling to keep us hydrated and making use of the wat...

We have enough to provide extra calories for several months but it is really hard to match stored food with family eating habits/demands. I learned a lot during the pandemic when we did a huge bulk buy from a catering firm and then found out just how much oil/lentils etc we really use in a year. Som...