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

The trade route through the Suez canal to Europe..

Can’t change the car now he not purchased it last month 🫣

Might add some packet sauces to my shopping the just add water types. I used to buy them way back. Handy, cheap and easy to add something to a boring meal if we all end up skint 😅.

That’s a thing to be prepared for. If you end up on the breadline being able to cushion as best as possible. Not just zombies or war.

UK is likely to feel it a bit more than us in Scandinavia, we have relatively low dependence on fossil fuels. But it’s not good.

Unemployment is a very sensible thing to prep for if nothing else.

Yes. Keep your eyes on this for developments.

This is shaping up to be a perfect shitstorm.

Also see 'anything from China'.

So how much do you think we need to survive? I suppose in the event of a few days of power and water cut caused by extreme weather most people would rather be able to drink the amount they are used to drinking rather than the bare minimum survival ration of water.

There was also something on the news today about how Russia appears to have been testing a new system designed to disable undersea cables without cutting them like before, without leaving any evidence.

So the could quietly disable infrastructure..

That’s really how most of my prep as such works but will obviously work great in most situations.

What if next month we had no money and had to survive on what’s in the house till a new job / benefits kicked in.

Mainly because I grew up in a house that was surviving on benefits only. Lamb roll stew with tinned potatoes and piss water liquid consistency, those weird turkey joints from Iceland that looked like a blob of meat, £2 boxes of 24 burgers with frozen seeded buns. I mean we survived but I’d rather always be stocked up to try and avoid that situation myself. Provident lady at the door 🫣 the mutual man and a neighbour who did catalogs.

Which is a lot.

The underwater cable thing is quite concerning on its own. It’s why it stupid that as a country we are so dependent of others for so many things.

Farmers fields being turned into housing and solar farms. No new water reservoirs for years despite growing populations. Shutting down and dismantling our gas storage.

It’s actually really worrying news.

Here I know some farmers shut down their farms and rented their fields out to festivals. They said they make more money on having a big festival for one week during summer than they do farming!

Quite.

It’s tough out there for famers. So I get why some diversify

We camp at a working farm so they have given up two fields for us campers and they have converted some old barns into rental cottages. Subsidises the farm to keep it ticking.

Our local farm has been holding apple picking / pear picking days £10 a car full of people pick as much as you want. Which is crazy when you think about it but it must be more than the shops are willing to pay for around the same quantity. They do their own butchering, cheese, milk and ice cream and offer bbq hosting. Make some amazing sausages if I do say so haha.

That is a bargain with the apples!

I wonder why they don’t make their own apple cider instead to sell..

I’d guess getting the liquor license.

They do apple juice and use the apples in their sausages and burgers.

Though maybe it’s something they have in the pipe line and haven’t told us yet.

Apple cider is a big thing where I live, it’s mostly alcohol free (well 0,3 or something..) and many farmers make their own local cider.They are really nice most of them.

Isn’t it interesting how @ducksterr started this whole thread, but has not engaged in it even once?

Very similar to all the other 5 threads about this subject, where the OP is oh so worried, but never actually returns to their own thread.

I have an absolute shit creek emergency box under my bed. Off the top of my head there is a big bag of pasta, passata, chopped tomatoes, large bottles of water, cat food, paracetamol, sanitary towels, toilet roll, super noodles, long life milk, tea bags, tinned peaches, tinned potatoes, tinned tuna, baked beans, Batteries, water purifying tablets and a small amount of cash tucked in there for essentials if we can get out. We are campers so have a camping gas oven, kettle and torches and candles and we have hot water bottles and weighted blankets in the winter anyway. All my stash is cheap own brands just added on top of my weekly shop here and there so it doesn't add up too much in one go. I do try to live by the mantra of replacing anything used in the cupboard immediately when funds permit. None of this is tin hat wearing stuff, it wouldn't last long in a huge emergency but you just never know what's around the corner, power cut, flood, snow, Illness, etc.

@SparklingTurquoiseOcean wet wipes? Great if no water.

In homebargains the other week they had deodorant wipes for 49p so I grabbed some for the bathroom for anyone who feels a bit stinky when visiting also in the camping cupboard because I don’t like aerosols by the tent. Could be good in a stash.

I bought those individually wrapped wet towels/flannels a couple of years ago. They are great when traveling, but I can’t find them anymore on amazon. You can wash and reuse for other things too if you want. Truly great.

Just checked, they are called Challenge state, premium face & body toilettes. A life saver when out. Will google.

It’s these ones if I google, but sadly can’t find any similar.

zambia.desertcart.com/products/49550503-individually-wrapped-adult-wet-wipes-large-face-and-body-wipes

They look good. We have a wholesaler that gets really random things in day to day so I’ll keep an eye there. It’s like the random middle isle of Aldi 😂