AIBU to think my friend is overdoing emergency stockpiling?

what does ‘goes rank’ mean? how does this manifest itself?
as in degrades?
because it is in plastic? does it smell badly?
I have a couple of 5l flagons from Tesco when it was 99p, now
something like 1.50£ so do you think I should open it?
We had nowhere cool to store anything like water, even the
solid garage floor was warm.
I will be miffed if its gone off, I could have been watering salad
and fruit bushes with it in the drought!

We had a brexit box before Covid.
It was literally a small box with medicines and tinned tomatoes.
We added a few hand sanitisers during covid!

This thread has made me think that I should make sure we have lots of colds and flu medicines for the winter. Not just for armageddon but it's so handy if you are ill to not have to go hunting for them.

You’re on the thread if you would like to go back and read to know more…?

Just hope any food among this gets eaten and not thrown away. Wasting food I view as criminal.

I stopped using them shortly after Covid because I had had a subscription for quite a while but when my delivery was due I got emails saying that due to unprecedented demand they didn’t have any to send me. I felt they should have reserved some for their existing subscribers rather than sending it all out to new ones. Even if they’d just sent me a 4 pack instead of 48.
Same with Ocado actually, I’d had the same delivery slot for over a decade then Covid hit and I couldn’t book a delivery at all. I get they had to prioritise their vulnerable customers but to not be able to book any slot at all for months was ridiculous.

We have some stores but it wouldn’t last long. Basically we have what’s in the kitchen cupboard then three boxes of tins in a storage cupboard. As well
as a big box with pasta, rice, noodles, oats, flour etc, milk powder. When what’s in the kitchen cupboard runs out we replenish from the boxes then new shopping goes into the boxes. It doesn’t require too much thought and means we never run out of anything. There’s nothing in there we don’t eat normally except the milk powder but we use that for cooking or making yoghurt or ice cream when it gets near the best before date.

These are my thoughts....at some point you have to eat it as food is astronomical 😱

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but some people including me are preparing for possible (not inevitable) power issues, extreme weather, cyber attacks. Some of us do it anyway if used to power issues in bad weather or in very rural areas. I personally am not talking all out war and a Walking Dead lifestyle as if it went on that long all bets are off, really.

So when you see people proudly showing their food stores, and saying they have enough to feed the family for a year (or two), how do they manage the storage? Do they eat the oldest stuff and replace it with fresh, or do they chuck it when it reaches 2 years old, or do they just keep accumulating more and more. I don’t fancy living off 2 year old food to avoid wasting it.

before covid I signed up to a toilet paper subscription company… which I over ordered their giant boxes.. and when Covid hit I had about 200 rolls of toilet paper…

I know the one you mean. I had a sub there well before covid and have always got over 100 rolls stashed. They were mentioned a lot on threads here during covid. I reckon they at least tripled their subscriptions during that time.

There was that underground city in Turkey that someone discovered when doing some work on his house. Mind boggling

I haven't a thing. This thread has made me think I should.

My husband is a bit of a conspiracy nut so Im surprised he hasn't mentioned doing this.

Maybe like a Narnia wardrobe but under the ground..?

Underground facilities? What kind of facilities?

I have around 8 months supply of food and water and underground facilities off
-grid if needed. I think it's just being prudent and hope others prepare similarly. Good luck to everyone!

Oh okay, how come ?

The government has recommended having 3 days food and water in.

I think having a camping stove is sensible and thought most people did.

Why would most people have a camping stove?

We don't camp, nor do most people.

We do, however, have a firepit/small barbecue and loads of charcoal.

I think some people get really into prepping. And you never know how handy it would come in.

Before Covid me and my DW started a stockpile and I cannot for the life of me remember why we started, it wasn’t Covid but Covid hit and it came in so handy, the work we do means that we were getting a lot of requests for food and a lot of charities had shut temporarily while things were up in the air and we ended up donating a lot of it to our employers so when a food parcel was needed we could give a few cans out to tide people over.

We never restocked but think we will again now we’ve been advised to, but we don’t have the space to have much of a backstock now we’ve moved

I have around 8 months supply of food and water and underground facilities off
-grid if needed. I think it's just being prudent and hope others prepare similarly. Good luck to everyone!