not get 'emergency' food

[McHappyPants2012]

like frozen roast potatos, frozen chips ect.......what emergency would require a frozen potato

[sickandtiredofitallagain]

a potato famine?

[AMumInScotland]

How about being snowed in for several days?

[D0oinMeCleanin]

The rice for the curry goes wrong because DH forget to rinse it and over cooked it. He had to send dd1 to out to buy rice from the local takeaway. She bought egg fried rice with onions in. He doesn't like onions wouldn't have happened if he'd read the instructions on the rice we'd had emergency frozen chips. He could have just done those instead. Apparently.

[CoffeeDog]

My mum has a HUGE cuboard full of tins of stuff she will never eat... just in case of emergencies.
They have also just bought a massive american fridge frezzer and stocked it full of stuff... just in case
There is only 2 adults that live there..... and they live in leafy Surrey

The kids love it as they always have milk lollys and jelly ;) unsure as to why you need to stockpile jelly

[boredandrestless]

I am a food hoarder.

My freezer and cupboards are always chocka (despite my best efforts fridge stuff seems to vanish as soon as I put it in there). I have a normal sized fridge and a half sized freezer to keep me from going too crazy with the food hoarding. It's not even that I tell myself it's for emergencies, I actually feel panicky if they are not full. My sister is also a food hoarder - we both remember being hungry as children, and I vividly remember my mum crying whilst trying to figure out how to get her shopping list to match the small amount of money in her purse.

[Sidge]

We eat frozen chips occasionally - not an emergency but because there is no way on this earth I am using a deep fat fryer.

I do have emergency bread, milk, pastry and pies in the freezer in case the zombie apocalypse comes.

[ChippyMinton]

It's for when you unexpectedly have a house full of hungry kids or adults with the drunken munchies.

Or it snows.

Or you can't be bothered to go to the shops.

[NormaStanleyFletcher]

Frozen chips are not emergency food. They are eminently sensible.

[Bunbaker]

Last winter when it snowed, the only shop within walking distance ran out of just about everything (I live in a rural area). We live on a hill, but have access to public transport, but last year we had no trains for 5 days and no buses for about 3 days. I was jolly pleased that I have a breadmaker and plenty of stuff in the cupboards and freezer. We did run out of fresh veg though.

[4madboys]

my emergency foods are stuff like tinned soup and beans etc they are for the 'emergency' of when i cant be arsed to cook, probably like tonight as dp came home from work, late, was only in the house 2mins before the phone rang and he has had to go back into work again!! he now wont be home till kids are in bed.

boys all requiring bath and hair wash, ds2 needs his hair cutting (do it with clippers) AND i need to pack as i am going away first thing tomorrow) as well as do all the usual stuff like pack ups and homework blah blah blah, i was mentally banking on the fact that dp WOULD BE HERE TO HELP and now he isnt so its tinned soup and crackers for dinner.

[LadyClariceCannockMonty]

The kind of emergency where you want roast potatoes but can't be arsed making them from scratch although to be honest for some of us that's not an emergency but a permanent state of being.

[Ephiny]

I try to always have some 'extra' food in the house, in case I'm unexpectedly working from home or something, or something comes up and we don't have time to go shopping. And if you're going to do that, it makes sense to have something that keeps well, like frozen foods.

Though I never heard of frozen roast potatoes, that sounds a bit odd! But I guess no more strange than frozen chips when you think about it...

[whomovedmychocolate]

DH loves frozen chips

Last year I was trapped in the snow for eight days without access to shops. Now we've moved to the city we do not have a big store (still have to walk uphill for several miles to find milk though!

[4madboys]

oh and we have bread and milk in the freezer, as we go through a hideous amount of it and its always good to have some for the times we run out.

[Itsallgonetitsup]

I used to think this until my husband was away on deployment and I was ill with flu. The kids needed feeding regardless - it was easy to ask a 10yo to carefully open a tin of spuds or put a tray in the oven.

My emergency supplies also came in very handy the past 2 winters when we have been snowed in - as in stuck in our village. Once supplies ran out at our local shops, we had to use the emergency food.

[HappyCamel]

I'm a food hoarder too. When we all got ill befitting Christmas I didn't shop fir three weeks and we hardly dented the stockpiles

My reasons are

1. growing up with the bare essentials of food because we were poor
   
2. my mother's abject loathing anything sweet or otherwise unnecessary
   
3. I hate shopping
   
4. I often want to produce dinner in 20 mns or less, sticking frozen potato wedges (I draw the line at chips) in the oven means I can concentrate on fresh meat and veggies
   
5. frozen food isn't full of chemicals to keep it "fresh"

[Sidge]

Well obviously we don't eat frozen chips occasionally.

We cook them first.

As you were.

[ReduceRecycleRegift]

my emergency food is tinned/dried stuff. Emergency frozen food is a flawed plan IMO, cause the emergency could include no electricity!

We needed it last year when we were snowed in

[aldiwhore]

I have emergency stashes of all kinds of shoite food. Not for actual 'food emergencies' because I can't think of many that we've had, but for general 'can't be bothered peeling' days.

Or if I'm ill and DH is working. Much easier to shove a load of hard shapes into an oven dish than make from scratch (which I usually do) and when I'm feeling ill its nice to have Aunty Bessie to take over for 20 minutes.

[Bunbaker]

"Emergency frozen food is a flawed plan IMO, cause the emergency could include no electricity!"

I have a gas cooker

[4madboys]

yes but it wouldnt be very frozen if there was no electricity!

[ReduceRecycleRegift]

what I mean is it would have to be a short emergency because melting defrosted freezer food wont last that long. Cans and dried will last through a longer spell

[gladders]

and a gas freezer???

[ReduceRecycleRegift]

plus, whenever you wanted to defrost your freezer you'ld have to eat up a load of emergency food first. Or never defrost if there are no emergencies