What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

[tco-lincs]

Am trying a free calorie counting app for now, Chronometer. Still using Calorie Counter as well, til it expires. Will see how I go. Wasn't quite ready to lurch into the unknown and not track calories. Obviously there's a slight learning curve, but I've added all today's nosh, and it's within 60 calories of CC, which isn't bad for the amount of time I spent. I probably used slightly different weights or methods. I had to click to get rid of the paid bit twice, but I believe you can use it free indefinitely.

I use CC as a meal planner, and that serves to guide my shopping list.

Did laundry and a bit of light gardening. Lovely sunny blue sky and light breeze.

the best free calorie & macro app i've found is myfitnesspal. Its free to use, i've used it for years for counting macros and its very rare to find a product barcode not on its system

I did see that in the article I found Chronometer in, so I might give MFP a try today. I'd like to keep using CC, just don't really want to fork out £40. CC is better for salt, but I am comparing a paid app to a free version.

The free MFP under nutrion shows you all your sugars, fats (seperated by type) and your sodium levels.

[jennyjj01]

A few hours up at the allotment this week. Site inspection due and I need to do more. Last year I got a 'notice to improve'.
Cleared some ground and popped in some spuds. There's already onions and courgettes on the go. Peas are sprouting in lengths of guttering, at home. Tomatoes barely sprouted. Very slow.

For the last few years, my onions, peas, strawberries were choked by annual weeds and by bindweed. This year I'm experimenting with mulching with grass clippings from my lawn and with cardboard collars to try and suppress the weeds. I hope the grass clippings stay put if it gets windy.
Hoeing and weeding are too much of a chore. You never see farmers hoeing the darned fields, so why should I?
Looking to supplement my Mora knife, which I keep misplacing. 'Two is One and One is None'
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[Frnc]

A few hours up at the allotment this week. Site inspection due and I need to do more. Last year I got a 'notice to improve'.
Cleared some ground and popped in some spuds. There's already onions and courgettes on the go. Peas are sprouting in lengths of guttering, at home. Tomatoes barely sprouted. Very slow.

For the last few years, my onions, peas, strawberries were choked by annual weeds and by bindweed. This year I'm experimenting with mulching with grass clippings from my lawn and with cardboard collars to try and suppress the weeds. I hope the grass clippings stay put if it gets windy.
Hoeing and weeding are too much of a chore. You never see farmers hoeing the darned fields, so why should I?
Looking to supplement my Mora knife, which I keep misplacing. 'Two is One and One is None'
.

A Mora's not the sort of thing you want to keep mispacing. You don't want to get done for illegal carry, or it to fall into the wrong hands. If it's somewhere on your allotment, maybe just wear the sheath on a belt? Just remember to take if off when you go home.

[Frnc]

Remembered that with Calorie Counter you can still add 5 items a day if premium runs out. That is actually doable. I did try the other two apps, but CC is very good, and what I'm used to. Then I can always revert to premium if I want. You can do 5 items by combining extras into a meal. Eg breakfast, lunch, dinner, booze, snack including yoghurt.

[jennyjj01]

A Mora's not the sort of thing you want to keep mispacing. You don't want to get done for illegal carry, or it to fall into the wrong hands. If it's somewhere on your allotment, maybe just wear the sheath on a belt? Just remember to take if off when you go home.

Misplaced in the garage at home gets used for non allotment jobs

[Frnc]

A Mora's not the sort of thing you want to keep mispacing. You don't want to get done for illegal carry, or it to fall into the wrong hands. If it's somewhere on your allotment, maybe just wear the sheath on a belt? Just remember to take if off when you go home.

Misplaced in the garage at home gets used for non allotment jobs

I know feeling. My decorator's the worst. He misplaces stuff and freaks out. Feels like he's suspecting me. I want the job finished!

[Frnc]

Cut the lawn and watered some plants.

First bike ride of the year. Managed 40 minutes - not too bad. Didn't do much last year, so bit out of shape. Main obstacle is saddle pain. But I was knackered after 10 minutes, going up a slight hill.

Bike's been customised a fair bit, but possibly my favourite addition is a wing mirror attached to the end of my handle bar. It has grips that go upwards, and it's fitted where they bend up. I feel way safer turning right and overtaking parked cars.

[tco-lincs]

Bit of a mixed weekend..... start off with the good. My solar backup plug is now working so should there be a power outage I now have a 20kw battery that I can feed to the most vital of appliances. My main gate is now usable again as I have braced it as a temporary fix. Finally slowly adding more water to my preps with each Tesco shop.

The bad is all lawn related, my ride on mower belt drive has snapped and requires an engineer to visit and fix....

[Kiwififer]

Ouch! I’ve been cutting the grass and I’m away to start trimming up the communal spaces the council don’t want to touch but cause kids to walk on the road. Don’t get me started, Edinburgh Clowncil are as useful as boobies on a bull.

I also need to get patio cleaner today and the hose for my Karcher washer needs replaced. That’s before I start painting my fence again, it also needs fixed as part of it broke two years ago and my neighbour propped it back up with batons (the posts are in his side so I can’t really do much about it. Of yeah, new shed needs a coat…

A busy few weekends coming up.

[GeraldTheBonzai]

Busy few days. As well as having some long walks out in the country, am in the process of relaying a garden path. Various beds have been dug over and composted. Tomatoes and other stuff went in this weekend.

Down side is self and SHMBO are shuffling around this morning like a couple of zombies. "The joints giveth, and the joints taketh away..."