Government advice to keep in some supplies and order of importance

Keeping red pesto for an emergency seems very MN for some reason 😬

Given that nobody seems sure what we are being told to prep for (including the Govt I assume) then isn’t it a bit pointless? Should we have enough supplies for a week? A month? Ten years?

You have made a key point there.
Threads keep coming up that the government have advised about preparing for emergencies, but the threads don’t refer to the government advice, and any posters have their own thoughts on what the emergency could be - often going the whole hog to war.

But the campaign website refers to emergencies such as your house is on fire, a power cut or flooding
For a fire check your risks, smoke alarms and make
sure the family knows how to evacuate
Allow for a few days without power (they also point out that you may not be able to cook or heat water)
And they refer to looking up local risks such as flooding

prepare.campaign.gov.uk/get-prepared-for-emergencies/

I thought we were told to prep for bad weather.

Oh see that makes sense - so prep in general instead of ‘stockpile everything chaps, we’re all doomed’ 😬

Well you can't mix the green one with the Tesco 48p pasta sauce for a start. I made 1.5kg of pasta with one jar of pesto, jar of 48p sauce and some tins of chopped Tom's when ds uni mates stayed over.

Now that WAS a emergency! But I was prepared. Never buy four teen boys Dominoes. You live and learn.

This has prompted me to buy more USB mobile plug lights. £7 for 20 on Ebay. Stick them.in a power bank.

My adult kids have 'borrowed' my power banks for thier holidays...
We have some tins, not many as we are moving and running down supplies.
No water, but plenty of wine and gin, l guess l will just drink.
We however have a good supply of toilet roll, not sure what good that is if toilet flush.

Exactly. My kids and dh don't put things back. Hence more bulbs. Buy cheap power banks. Hide the decent one for you. Survival of ge finest.

Get a bucket and pour from.hright yo flush loo with less water. My kids don't flush half the time. Do it would be business as usual

I don't have much store cupboard food essentials because I'm never sure what to buy - I've got some tinned fruit and beans and always have rice & pasta in the house and a little tinned fish. I make my own bread. I could get by for a couple of days I think, although I wouldn't be feasting.

I have an electric heater now anyway (thanks cost of living) and plenty of warm bedding and clothes.

In the last year I've stocked up on some bottled water, purification tablets, spare batteries, a torch and small lantern. I have a couple of power banks and a wind up radio - I've written down the bandwidths for key bbc & local radio stations too.

Have a tiny garden so no room for even one water butt. Try to keep petrol tank in car full so I can manage if there is a petrol rush. I also have a camping stove & gas canister.

I'd run out of loo paper and toothpaste pretty quickly I think but otherwise I could probably manage 3 days without power or water. What I don't have is a grab bag which I've started to think is a good idea given the number of wildfires this year!