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To stockpile 72 hours of supplies

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seriouslessness · 27/03/2025 13:23

..in case of disaster or attack. A new preparedness strategy inspired by Nordic countries and Germany, who already do this.

Is this something you already do, or will do?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/stockpile-supplies-72-hours-disasters-attack-eu-tells-citizens

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minnienono · 27/03/2025 15:54

I’ve got at least a couple of weeks worth of food at any given time though would get boring quickly however I don’t have bottled water stored, I do have a large hot water tank so that could be used for a few days if we didn’t shower

JasmineAllen · 27/03/2025 15:54

GuessingGownaGoGo · 27/03/2025 15:48

72 hours without teabags could turn me quite nasty to be fair

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Fair enough, I'd not thought about that 😂

blobby10 · 27/03/2025 15:52

Good idea about the water but I don't have space for storing loads of stuff and the last time I bought plenty of water I forgot about it and it was past its Use By date before I realised. I would assume we won't have electricity so freezer stuff would be no good. I could use the gas cooker in my caravan as mains gas would likely be gone too so could heat stuff up for a while - maybe I ought to get a spare gas bottle just in case!

Nn9011 · 27/03/2025 15:50

Most countries (including UK) have always recommended you keep 3 days of supplies including bottled water. It's not just for war, but it's in case something happens your water supply or some storm happens and we can't get to shops etc..

TheJoanCollins · 27/03/2025 15:50

3 days! I have enough tinned food to feed the whole street for weeks. I can’t guarantee that is all in date, but if the s**t hits the fan and the zombie apocalypse materialises, you are all more than welcome to pop over to my place for dinner. Please bring wine.

Waterweight · 27/03/2025 15:48

Smallmercies · 27/03/2025 13:38

Also I have 2 edible cats 👀

They may view you the same though...

GuessingGownaGoGo · 27/03/2025 15:48

JasmineAllen · 27/03/2025 14:26

What !!! That's only 3 days FFS!!!

IMO you'd have to be that way inclined to kill someone for food after only 3 days.

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72 hours without teabags could turn me quite nasty to be fair

JasmineAllen · 27/03/2025 15:47

EdinburghTimezone · 27/03/2025 15:06

You never know on the internet, but I thought that was a joke. In Family Guy (I think it was) they had an episode where people started eating each other at lunchtime of the first day they were locked in somewhere!
I don't think it would happen in 3 days but there would be some level of civil unrest pretty soon if resources were cut off due to some crisis. Look at New Orleans - looting and theft almost at once, and violence against weaker people.

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Looting and theft, while I don't condone it is understandable for food, supplies etc. I'd happily raid a pharmacy for my family if need be. But killing someone is a whole different level !!!

Happyspendingthedayinthegarden · 27/03/2025 15:46

In the run-up/down to Brexit I stocked up on things like pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned potatoes & veg, yeast, flour, long life milk etc as I was concerned that supplies would be disrupted. Boy were my (elderly) mother & me glad that I had when lock-down happened a few months later as the shelves in supermarkets were suddenly completely devoid of these things.

My DH teases me that I keep enough loo roll & general supplies to keep us going for at least 3 months. 😂

whatf · 27/03/2025 15:44

I don’t have much in my house. The 4 of us would be pretty much starving after about 5 days. Oh well. I’m not sure I’d actually want to survive some sort of apocalyptic situation.

JustMeHello · 27/03/2025 15:44

If there is a huge disaster I'd rather die quickly tbh. A few days worth of loo roll and tinned fish isn't going to improve things much.

suki1964 · 27/03/2025 15:43

LaurieFairyCake · 27/03/2025 14:41

Everyone keeps saying water 🤔 I can’t imagine a scenario where the taps ran dry. I’ve never bought bottled.

A huge swathe of Ireland was without water for days during the January storms - no electric - no pumping

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PrettayGood · 27/03/2025 15:41

My husband’s food shopping obsession would finally be justified. I reckon we’d have enough for a month at least.

DopeyS · 27/03/2025 15:40

My sister is very much screwed if anything happens as usually doesn't have one meal in the house. I'm gluten free and when there are offers often stock up. Also I really like sweet treats and buy them and then freeze/leave in cupboard. I could probably do a few months, although not with veg. By the end it would be down to the really weird stuff that's lurking 🤣

Wilfrida1 · 27/03/2025 15:40

Yes, I deliberately keep a whole lettuce in at all times, should keep my family of 4 going.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 27/03/2025 15:39

I’m stocked for three days.

But really, what happens after that?
Do I really want to survive nuclear apocalypse?

I don’t think so!

DrPrunesqualer · 27/03/2025 15:38

BatchCookBabe · 27/03/2025 15:36

😆 Those cows are gorgeous! 😆 🐄

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Aren’t they. I found another image but it made my stomach churn.

I think I’ll post it anyway
Here goes

milk cow GIF by Lil Dicky
PleaseDontFingerMyPouffe · 27/03/2025 15:36

LaurieFairyCake · 27/03/2025 14:41

Everyone keeps saying water 🤔 I can’t imagine a scenario where the taps ran dry. I’ve never bought bottled.

A few years ago, the area where I lived was severely flooded. While my house was on high ground so remained dry, the local water supply was contaminated so the whole area had to buy in water. For some it was just a few days, for others though, a few weeks.

BatchCookBabe · 27/03/2025 15:36

DrPrunesqualer · 27/03/2025 15:34

Agree

so……bread flour and yeast
plain flour and bicarbonate of soda

to get over the bread issue

oh and see image …..for the other

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😆 Those cows are gorgeous! 😆 🐄

BatchCookBabe · 27/03/2025 15:35

Butchyrestingface · 27/03/2025 15:33

There's one in Edinburgh too - recently renovated. We'll be grand.

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Beowulfa · 27/03/2025 15:34

Is 3 days worth of food and some extra bog roll really "stockpiling"?

I lived in a houseshare once where there was a mystery bottle left over from a party; wrapped in cord (pirate ship style) with no label. It was freely available at every party afterwards but remained unopened. I often wondered how far into the apocalypse we'd get before opening it in desperation.

DrPrunesqualer · 27/03/2025 15:34

BatchCookBabe · 27/03/2025 15:22

72 hours stockpile?! 😂

Your thread would have made far more sense @seriouslessness if you'd said 72 days!

I live deep in the sticks, and no-one comes here unless they live here (it's not a through road to anywhere,) and we keep at LEAST 2 months of supplies 'stockpiled.' (Some stuff we have 4 months stockpile, some even more!) I'm a little bit of a prepper, and always have plenty of everything (apart from fresh obviously - like milk and bread - as you can't stockpile that!)

But I'm not a bit of a prepper because I think there's going to be a war or something catastrophic, it's because we run out of stuff sometimes here (in the nearest market town) and it's often several weeks (or more) before some things are back in. DH and I even have a 2-3 month stockpile of our meds, as sometimes they don't have them in and they can take 2-3 weeks to get in!!! Plus, as I said, we live in the sticks. You learn to stockpile living very rural, and not just 72 hours worth! 😆

Agree

so……bread flour and yeast
plain flour and bicarbonate of soda

to get over the bread issue

oh and see image …..for the other

Hungry Cow GIF by Oberstdorf
BoredZelda · 27/03/2025 15:33

I lived in rural Scotland when I was younger. It was normal for us to have 2 weeks worth of supplies in as sometimes in winter we couldn’t get anywhere. It’s a habit I still have 40 years later.

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