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Severe Winter Weather: ESSENTIAL PREPARATIONS, TRAVEL ADVICE, DRIVING TIPS & CLOSURES

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  • #482
    Rougies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Rougies


    Duggie2012 wrote: »
    People that put bread in the freezer......ugggghhhhhhhhhh

    It's one of few foods that's indistinguishable from freshly bought bread once thawed. We buy bread once a week, you can ugggghhhhh me all you want :P


  • #483
    sadie9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭sadie9


    If you are referring to the windows themselves. What I did once in a draughty house is get some folded lengths of kitchen paper, dampen it/wet it a bit and sort of squash it into the spaces you can feel are draughty. It dries and then will stick there fairly well.
    Curtains obviously and tuck the curtains up onto the windowsill.
    Check the floor where the skirting board meets the floor, if there is a gap and a draught there, fold newspapers into strips and slide them into the gap.


  • #484
    Duggie2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭Duggie2012


    Rougies wrote: »
    It's one of few foods that's indistinguishable from freshly bought bread once thawed. We buy bread once a week, you can ugggghhhhh me all you want :P
    :)


  • #485
    Keithchap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭Keithchap


    Duggie2012 wrote: »
    Exactlyyyyyyyyy


    Not if you leave it outside :-)


  • #486
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Flashback to 36 years ago

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843556-snow-causes-major-disruptio


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  • #487
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Deedsie wrote: »
    Anyone have a worse morning commute than me tomorrow? Leave home at 05:25, walk 2km to bus stop to get an expressway bus to Portlaoise. Gonna be chilly.
    I've to fly to Southampton, drive to Stansted and fly to Bilbao for work on Thursday.

    :(


  • #488
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Monkeynut wrote: »
    i have a press full of soup, beans, spagetti hoops. and a freezer full of crap all collected and left there over the last few months. i think ill make it through this. :P

    does nobody else have these things in the press?

    I have a full tray of canned tuna, 15 packs of microwave quinoa, 10 packs of vermaceli noodles, 6 boxes of 18 eggs, frozen broccoli and chicken, baby food....... And most importantly.... Frank's hot sauce lol


  • #489
    fritzelly
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    italodisco wrote: »
    I have a full tray of canned tuna, 15 packs of microwave quinoa, 10 packs of vermaceli noodles, 6 boxes of 18 eggs, frozen broccoli and chicken, baby food....... And most importantly.... Frank's hot sauce lol

    Are you a student?


  • #490
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    PukkaStukka wrote: »
    Flashback to 36 years ago

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843556-snow-causes-major-disruptio

    See those people who didn’t buy bread in that huge queue?

    That could be some of yez on Saturday.


  • #491
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Are you a student?

    LOL no,

    I eat 12 egg whites and 1 yolk a day, 4 chicken breasts, a pack of turkey mince, 2 cans of tuna, a cup of broccoli, quinoa for carbs, rice cakes and a banana, Frank's hot sauce to make the chicken bearable lol

    I don't believe in using protein supplements, I rather whole foods as a fat and protein source and only use supplements when I'm extremely tied for time.


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  • #492
    BorneTobyWilde
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    kingshankly wrote: »
    I’d imagine most people have a freezer

    Hard to fit 50 sliced pans in a freezer though.


  • #493
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Hard to fit 50 sliced pans in a freezer though.

    Well you could fit 2 bodies into one of those lengthways freezers so you never know


  • #494
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    italodisco wrote: »
    LOL no,

    I eat 12 egg whites and 1 yolk a day, 4 chicken breasts, a pack of turkey mince, 2 cans of tuna, a cup of broccoli, quinoa for carbs, rice cakes and a banana, Frank's hot sauce to make the chicken bearable lol

    I don't believe in using protein supplements, I rather whole foods as a fat and protein source and only use supplements when I'm extremely tied for time.

    Now if only you had time for the gym :-p


  • #495
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Hard to fit 50 sliced pans in a freezer though.

    The trick is to take it by surprise


  • #496
    shane.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭shane.


    italodisco wrote: »
    LOL no,

    I eat 12 egg whites and 1 yolk a day, 4 chicken breasts, a pack of turkey mince, 2 cans of tuna, a cup of broccoli, quinoa for carbs, rice cakes and a banana, Frank's hot sauce to make the chicken bearable lol

    I don't believe in using protein supplements, I rather whole foods as a fat and protein source and only use supplements when I'm extremely tied for time.

    Good on ye, but’s whats this got to do with the weather?


  • #497
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,681 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Hard to fit 50 sliced pans in a freezer though.

    A lot of people buying today were just doing so instead of having to go out later in the week to do so. Didn't see many people actually buying massive quantities, the shops were just much busier than normal.

    People don't want to be out on the roads if there's snow. They aren't expecting the end of the world.


  • #498
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    A lot of people buying today were just doing so instead of having to go out later in the week to do so. Didn't see many people actually buying massive quantities, the shops were just much busier than normal.

    People don't want to be out on the roads if there's snow. They aren't expecting the end of the world.

    Also I’m sure delivery’s of fresh food will be affected


  • #499
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    shane. wrote: »
    Good on ye, but’s whats this got to do with the weather?

    Nothing. Surprised you'd have to ask such a question.

    I had replied to another poster who listed what's in their press at home as supplies, unsurprisingly someone thought my food stocks were a bit minging. I thought a response was warranted.

    Apologies for any distress caused x


  • #500
    smallgarden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,845 ✭✭✭smallgarden


    The running out of bread and milk is probably due to people doing their weekly shop today instead of spread out over the week. It's 4/5 days of groceries squished into one day


  • #501
    gabeeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭gabeeg


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    A lot of people buying today were just doing so instead of having to go out later in the week to do so. Didn't see many people actually buying massive quantities, the shops were just much busier than normal.

    People don't want to be out on the roads if there's snow. They aren't expecting the end of the world.

    Ah but there must have been a tipping point, where people were walking into half-empty shops and going bananas.

    Hopefully these marginal conditions will reveal themselves as the front passes us.


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  • #502
    shane.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭shane.


    italodisco wrote: »
    Nothing. Surprised you'd have to ask such a question.

    I had replied to another poster who listed what's in their press at home as supplies, unsurprisingly someone thought my food stocks were a bit minging. I thought a response was warranted.

    Apologies for any distress caused x

    Maybe you should stock up on a sense of humor too:D


  • #503
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭screamer


    smallgarden wrote: »
    The running out of bread and milk is probably due to people doing their weekly shop today instead of spread out over the week. It's 4/5 days of groceries squished into one day
    Indeed.... The townies had the place emptied...whereas the more rural shops were actually pretty well stocked. A big shop is something most people who live rurally do...so we are better stocked. Townies tend to shop every day or every other day.


  • #504
    NAGDEFI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    gabeeg wrote: »
    Ah but there must have been a tipping point, where people were walking into half-empty shops and going bananas.

    Hopefully these marginal conditions will reveal themselves as the front passes us.

    Speaking of bananas i couldn't find one in Portlaoise..


  • #505
    NAGDEFI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    dermiek wrote: »
    Am I reading that right? That's 108 eggs

    :eek:

    Must be Tadgh Furlong or Sean O'Brien:D


  • #506
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    shane. wrote: »
    Maybe you should stock up on a sense of humor too:D

    Shane how can anyone have a sense of humour knowing that snowmagedon is approaching


  • #507
    NAGDEFI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    gabeeg wrote: »
    I don't doubt your story, but Portlaoise is a rather large area to have covered in a day.

    Alright, I do doubt your story.

    I only went to Aldi, Lidl and the local Centra:)


  • #508
    gabeeg
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    Large Funeral wrote: »
    I only went to Aldi, Lidl and the local Centra:)

    Its statistically relevant so.

    You're back in the game. Good job.


  • #509
    italodisco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Large Funeral wrote: »
    Must be Tadgh Furlong or Sean O'Brien:D

    Trust me 108 eggs a week (the majority just the egg white) is quite easy. I'll be sitting with my feet on the couch on Thursday morning eating a huge omlete watching the blizzard take hold!


  • #510
    NAGDEFI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    italodisco wrote: »
    Trust me 108 eggs a week (the majority just the egg white) is quite easy. I'll be sitting with my feet on the couch on Thursday morning eating a huge omlete watching the blizzard take hold!

    You'll be well able to shovel snow anyway;)


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  • #511
    Dank Janniels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Dank Janniels


    Im having trouble with my windows too. I replaced the seal with some foam tape seal stuff but some windows seem to be warped- the wooden window itself.
    Iv put some old clothes against them and put tape on the edges, probly will take off aload of varnish but feckit its baltic!!

    Single glaze windows too btw


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