Do we actually need to get two weeks of food in?

Sounds great. The nation giving itself carbon monoxide poisoning from using camping stoves unlikely to be approved for indoor use indoors.

Has the recent Iranian conflict caused you to exist on tinned food from your stockpile? I haven’t noticed anything different in any shop I have been in.

People are either misremembering or misrepresenting what happened during Covid. The shops never ran out of food. They ran out of certain products, mainly pasta, and tinned and jarred products.

What sort of Russian cyber attack would close every single shop, takeaway, pub and restaurant? Maybe one on the National Grid, but even then the major supermarkets would have generators. If the generators were down we’d be in a national emergency.

Living close to a supermarket is not enough if the supermarket runs out of food is it?

I have for over 40 years had a decent stock of food, toiletries, loo rolls, washing liquid etc.

When covid hit me and DH did not have to go to a shop for over a month which was great.

At present we probably have enough food to last a good 6 weeks, probably longer. In our freezer we have bread, milk, vegetables, fruit, home made meals such as curries, shepherds pie, chilli, soups, bean burgers etc. We also have quite a lot of pasta, rice, different types of beans, nuts etc. Tinned tomatoes, baked beans etc.

I just think it is sensible to have at least some stock of food

Has the recent Iranian conflict caused you to exist on tinned food from your stockpile? I haven’t noticed anything different in any shop I have been in.

People are either misremembering or misrepresenting what happened during Covid. The shops never ran out of food. They ran out of certain products, mainly pasta, and tinned and jarred products.

What sort of Russian cyber attack would close every single shop, takeaway, pub and restaurant? Maybe one on the National Grid, but even then the major supermarkets would have generators. If the generators were down we’d be in a national emergency.

You know, don't you, that millions of Brits live in areas where these have all disappeared, driven out of business by the supermarkets?

If you don't, I strongly recommend you read Tescopoly.

You’d be pretty crazy to use a camping stove indoors..

Sounds great. The nation giving itself carbon monoxide poisoning from using camping stoves unlikely to be approved for indoor use indoors.

Which town or city has no butchers, bakers, greengrocers or corner shops?

You are either really clueless or just deliberately obtuse.
Supermakets don’t have generators.
Covid, Iran war are examples to learn from illustrating just how close we came to running out of essential supplies. They highlight how our just in time economy isn’t set up to handle major shifts in supply or demand.
”We’d be in national emergency” Yes, that’s exactly what we are talking about.

Have you really not noticed any differences in shops at present? Most of our local supermarkets have quite a few empty shelves, lots of empty spaces where foods should be and quite low stock of items they do have

There is no greengrocer within 10 miles of where I live and that is including 3 towns

Many supermarkets have generators. It is just wrong to say otherwise.

We did not run out of essential supplies during Covid. Everyone was storing them at home instead of on the shelves, and the fresh food never ran out.

If there is a national emergency where the whole country cannot access any food the shops would not be allowed to remain closed.

So you don’t understand the concept of supply chain disruption then.
Ordering the shops open doesn’t guarantee they would be supplied does it.

The food that is already in the shops is not going to magically disappear.

Do you understand that the food in the shops gets bought and taken away by the customers, and then it isn't in the shops anymore?

It's not like a play shop where someone pretends to buy it and just puts it back on the shelf.

You seem not to understand that if more food can't get to the shop, then there won't be anything to buy.

I thought we only needed a few days of food stockpiled? Which people could get from the shops.

It’s very unlikely any emergency will come with a finish date. People will panic, descend on the shops and buy as much as they can.

Also, there is not enough food in the shops for everyone to buy even ‘a few days’ worth - the shop stock control depends on a normal number of purchasers each day and restocking overnight.

If there is a major emergency affecting food to the shops, the shelves will be bare within hours and there is likely to be literal fights over who gets what.

I have no idea how likely such an emergency is but for a few hundred pounds (including food, water, radio, camping stove etc), I can stay safely at home with sufficient food and water to give the government time to get emergency supplies in place. I think it’s worth it. You are quite entitled to feel otherwise.

You have a few hundred pounds worth of tinned/long life food?

Which town or city has no butchers, bakers, greengrocers or corner shops?

It’s very unlikely any emergency will come with a finish date. People will panic, descend on the shops and buy as much as they can.

Also, there is not enough food in the shops for everyone to buy even ‘a few days’ worth - the shop stock control depends on a normal number of purchasers each day and restocking overnight.

If there is a major emergency affecting food to the shops, the shelves will be bare within hours and there is likely to be literal fights over who gets what.

I have no idea how likely such an emergency is but for a few hundred pounds (including food, water, radio, camping stove etc), I can stay safely at home with sufficient food and water to give the government time to get emergency supplies in place. I think it’s worth it. You are quite entitled to feel otherwise.