What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[Decaff]

Been a big fan of Urid Dal white lentils for "bread" making (they are used in India to make popadum and make a nice waffel) Discovered that if I grind it and then soak it overnight first before adding the baking powder and other ingredients, the waffels I make a brilliant.

that sounds tasty! Can you post measurements if you get a chance?

Also got an air pressure oil sprayer to use instead of a cooking spray as cooking sprays disintegrate the surface of non stick pans (so it is said). This makes cooking my lentil and chickpea flour based pancakes much easier too.

I agree about cooking sprays, they ruin my baking tins and trays and it burns on too, I've resorted to grease proof paper, much cheaper than replacing tins and trays all the time! Let us know how it works out with the new sprayer.

Chickpea flour pancakes / crepes are fantastic on a budget to make wraps and are a cheap healthy protein source food in their own right.

[Yorkshire Andy]

its Mot'd et all but just not fully road legal yet.. and i want to cast my eye over it so im satisfied its safe

well goes to show a good eye/ ear is worth having....... doing the coolant change could hear a hissing noise under the bonnet the brake servo vac hose has a hole in it.... so that's added to the list of to do.....

with this storm hammering us took the chance of been down the workshop to run the generators up to make sure they are happy to start lights have dimmed a few times but nothing abnormal .. yet

[Arzosah]

Nick, another one here who'd like the proportions of that urid dal recipe, please.

I'm using up my stock of dried chickpeas, and then not buying any more, I've been thinking about managing to cook in a grid-down situation - and dried chickpeas once soaked have a really long cooking time, even longe than kidney beans. And I can get all the chickpea micronutrients I need from gram flour, so thats the route I'm going to go.

[MissPrep]

I use Pyrex instead of baking tins & trays for the most part, as they seem to last forever.
The chicken roaster I use is over 20 yrs old & cleans up like new.

Would like the urid dal recipe too please.

I'm currently working on the last phase of being completely debt free forever after my ex left me with a mountain of it, some of it only turned up in the last couple of months & now have £5,001.87 left to go.
I'm also slowly starting to change my stock of food, I've definitely got more than 6 months worth of everything except water & milk to hand (I'm mostly prepping for poverty) but when I started trying to build up stocks I went for quantity over quality so I'm rotating out the value 55p tins of mince with the more expensive but tastes better versions when on sale & so on.
For household & misc other items I've got a years worth of stuff.
Got to say, the 'stress' I feel about my supply of toilet roll dropping below a years worth is not at all the same as back in the day when I had a couple of weeks at most.

I bought my mum one of those little camping stoves, 4 tins of gas & a battery operated light for Christmas at her request.
Both my parents are delighted with it.
Lately they've started worrying about powercuts & being snowed in for some reason.
My mum has now built herself up a couple of weeks of easy one pot cooking meals - guess my 'just in case' cupboard impressed her!

It's been nearly 2 years since I joined this site, just been looking back & surprised to see what a difference that time has made to the way we live.
I actually earned more in the late 80s than I do now, but I'm better off in terms of quality of life.

[Deeps]

I use Pyrex instead of baking tins & trays for the most part, as they seem to last forever.
The chicken roaster I use is over 20 yrs old & cleans up like new.

Would like the urid dal recipe too please.

I'm currently working on the last phase of being completely debt free forever after my ex left me with a mountain of it, some of it only turned up in the last couple of months & now have £5,001.87 left to go.
I'm also slowly starting to change my stock of food, I've definitely got more than 6 months worth of everything except water & milk to hand (I'm mostly prepping for poverty) but when I started trying to build up stocks I went for quantity over quality so I'm rotating out the value 55p tins of mince with the more expensive but tastes better versions when on sale & so on.
For household & misc other items I've got a years worth of stuff.
Got to say, the 'stress' I feel about my supply of toilet roll dropping below a years worth is not at all the same as back in the day when I had a couple of weeks at most.

I bought my mum one of those little camping stoves, 4 tins of gas & a battery operated light for Christmas at her request.
Both my parents are delighted with it.
Lately they've started worrying about powercuts & being snowed in for some reason.
My mum has now built herself up a couple of weeks of easy one pot cooking meals - guess my 'just in case' cupboard impressed her!

It's been nearly 2 years since I joined this site, just been looking back & surprised to see what a difference that time has made to the way we live.
I actually earned more in the late 80s than I do now, but I'm better off in terms of quality of life.

Quality of life is what its all about, I'm in a similar position financially, I'm the 'poorest' I've been in a long time but I don't think I've been happier. There's no '1 size fits all' when it comes down to this kind of thing, its whatever works for you. Good luck getting rid of the debt, we're still chipping away at stuff too.

[Brambles]

I feel your pain MissP. I was left in a similar situation by my ex. Negotiating payments to service someone else's debt really stuck in my craw! But it's done now and I'm debt free and enjoying having spare cash while my ex is still floundering in money woes of his own making. So keep plugging away it will come to an end.

And to add I'm also the 'poorest' I've ever been but better off and I'm certainly happier.

[MissPrep]

As long as he never comes back, it's worth every penny!
Happen to know he went home to live with his mother & she's welcome to him.

Was way over £100,000 of debt at one stage (not including mortgage which was interest only so 0 equity), but I managed to dodge some of his debts by handing our house back to the mortgage co as a shedload had been attached, so I feel like it's nothing now - will have this last bit gone before the end of this year.
For the past 6 years I've been living on around 40-50% of whatever income I get, so I'm going to feel loaded once I have it all for me & my 5 year old.
Planning on saving 25% from then on, so we'll have more day to day & I'll build a safety net at the same time.

It's definitely a preppers life for me - happier, healthier, less stressed & better off.

[Hamradioop]

As long as he never comes back, it's worth every penny!
Happen to know he went home to live with his mother & she's welcome to him.

Was way over £100,000 of debt at one stage (not including mortgage which was interest only so 0 equity), but I managed to dodge some of his debts by handing our house back to the mortgage co as a shedload had been attached, so I feel like it's nothing now - will have this last bit gone before the end of this year.
For the past 6 years I've been living on around 40-50% of whatever income I get, so I'm going to feel loaded once I have it all for me & my 5 year old.
Planning on saving 25% from then on, so we'll have more day to day & I'll build a safety net at the same time.

It's definitely a preppers life for me - happier, healthier, less stressed & better off.

You could still have a debt from the mortgage as handing a property back does not cancel a debt.

[MissPrep]

No debt I have to pay left from the house; he had literally run off in the night so I dealt with the mortgage co. alone.

The debts that were attached were in his name only & nothing to do with me, so without the house followed him not me.
I did get advice about the situation because it turned out he'd been operating his business under my name listing himself as my employee without my knowledge to the taxman, whilst telling everyone else it was his business, so I had to get professional help to get that mess sorted.

The mortgage co listed it as settled about 5 years ago on my credit record & were ordered by the judge at the repossession hearing not to pursue me in any case - I was the only one who turned up & they were really nice to me considering the situation.
We had a realistic conversation about the problem with the many tens of thousands he already had attached to the house (which all turned up in the 6 months before he ran off), which meant even if I could manage to pay the mortgage, I couldn't transfer it into just my name without paying all his attached debts off first & the fact he could keep adding new debt attachments to it in the years it would take me to clear those debts as long as his name was on the mortgage.
I've never heard from them since handing it back & they've known where I lived all this time.
I think it helped I was completely honest with them about my situation & was also heavily pregnant by that time.

My credit record is a bad joke, but that's my problem & I live a non credit life nowadays; not that I ever used much credit in the first place.

[sniper 55]

No debt I have to pay left from the house; he had literally run off in the night so I dealt with the mortgage co. alone.

The debts that were attached were in his name only & nothing to do with me, so without the house followed him not me.
I did get advice about the situation because it turned out he'd been operating his business under my name listing himself as my employee without my knowledge to the taxman, whilst telling everyone else it was his business, so I had to get professional help to get that mess sorted.

The mortgage co listed it as settled about 5 years ago on my credit record & were ordered by the judge at the repossession hearing not to pursue me in any case - I was the only one who turned up & they were really nice to me considering the situation.
We had a realistic conversation about the problem with the many tens of thousands he already had attached to the house (which all turned up in the 6 months before he ran off), which meant even if I could manage to pay the mortgage, I couldn't transfer it into just my name without paying all his attached debts off first & the fact he could keep adding new debt attachments to it in the years it would take me to clear those debts as long as his name was on the mortgage.
I've never heard from them since handing it back & they've known where I lived all this time.
I think it helped I was completely honest with them about my situation & was also heavily pregnant by that time.

My credit record is a bad joke, but that's my problem & I live a non credit life nowadays; not that I ever used much credit in the first place.

What a gentleman, sounds like your well out of it.