Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

@Shaz51, I know when our area got summer flooding, the worst food storage problem we had was things going mouldy from the humidity. Closely followed by the rodents that bred up. I assume the humidity is something you'd be used to dealing with though? All the best, hope the possible cyclone fizzles.

Thank you @outlander

@Appleblossom one of my favourite flowers.

What I've heard is, although the bulbs have been cooked and eaten in survival situations (e.g. during WW2 occupation), they really don't taste fantastic, and at any other time their flowers are much more enjoyable.

Here's some made from icing instead.

Yes @Smc It was a throw away line ... I am from dutch stock and this is in part probably a way of me processing all those stories as a small child and feeling guilty as an adult about not having to eat them. It was a way my extended family pushed our legitimate needs away. I took it all very seriously as a child and read Anne Frank probably a bit too young too. Part of my story is losing too many people in peacetime in the lucky country. Invisible and invalidated as self or in grief.

Looking at their beauty is helping me at the mmoment.

Here they are pictured with poppies.

Trust it all works out ok for you @Shaz51

The biggest problem we have with flooding, because town is prone to flooding and being cut off, is that every time we have a wet patch everyone goes stupid and you cant buy bread or milk because it is sold out... this is despite the fact that there is always a minimum week of notice and extra stock is brought in to cater before a real flood.

@Appleblossom, sounds like a more extreme version of "Clean off your plate- there's starving children in [insert country here] who would eat that..." Maybe it's a kind of survivor guilt.

Perhaps a way of dealing with it is to think that eating the bulbs saved lives- focusing on the positive angle instead of the negative? I certainly know of one very caring man, a friend of my husband's grandfather, who ate tulip bulbs to survive the occupation of Holland. Possibly he wouldn't have been around to achieve the many good things he's done in his life if it wasn't for that.

If tulip bulbs means your parents survived, and therefore your family exists, then in the middle of the hardship they did the world a favour.

@Smc, @Determined, it makes me laugh when a cylone is coming and people go and buy milk and food to fill up their frezer and fridge up --- ammm really and you know we are going to have no power !!!!!!

Hello @outlander, @Appleblossom, @Faith-and-Hope,

Hey @Former-Member

Hello @Shaz51 🙂

Nice to see you this afternoon, has your town sold out of bread and milk too?!!