If something HUGE was to happen ..

[MaDuggar]

... how long could you survive with what you have in your house right now?

Do you have any tins/bottled water etc put away in case of a emergency?

Have been frealing myself out reading some wacky conspiray sites (all baging on about something huge happeneing in the next 2 weeks) - Im not be;lieveing it, but it has made me think that one day there could be an event and I probably would only last a week with my store cupboard!

No food but we wouldn't care.

I have:

Half a bag of flour.
Some dried lasagne sheets.
Half a bag of frozen mixed veg.
Most of a jar of smooth peanut butter.
A small jar of sardine and tomato paste.
Most of a bag of pearl barley.
Quarter of a bag of soup mix.
Three pints of milk, approximately.
Some worcestershire sauce.
A small block of cheese
An apple
A banana
Some baking margarine
2 large candles
One and a half boxes of matches
A medieval replica axe.
A replica sword
A lightsaber that goes whummm whummm and is quite hard, but can't actually cut anything.
Three toilet rolls.

Well ... guess I'll finally have to test out the theory that fussy children will eat anything once they get hungry enough ...

I have a lot of jam (went a bit mad on the preserving front this summer) and 14 fruit trees. But my town is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so it's not going to be a target of anything. When we were all paranoid about nuclear war I always felt glad to live in inner London, as in the case of a nuclear strike I would have been dead. Much the best outcome I think.

I once knew a conspiracy theorist. He really was quite insane. You could talk to him for about 5mins before it all came spewing out. I think that people forget how incredibly difficult it would be to carry on a large scale conspiracy. But then I am a risk manager and studied the Middle East way back in university. I totally belong to the cock up school of thought when it comes to things going wrong.

3 months maybe. If I knew from the beginning and made recipes that would stretch out.

We have a lot of wine, and cases of water too. The wine rack is almost full, and it holds 100 bottles. Plus hard liqueur which we don't drink, plus dh has two things of wine going atm, as he makes wine.
He is the reason the freezer is filled to the top with food and we have so many cans. He is a shopaholic.

My son is laughing at me...I think I will not think about the end of the world, may as well not feel sick my last living days.
At least this took my mind of my bad hairdressing experience tonight.

This thread is so good, I'm going to come back tomorrow - er, later today - and read it all. That's if the apocalypse hasn't happened by lunchtime; if it has, I'll just stay in bed.

The chap who does everybody's small building jobs in my Mum's village is an apocalyptic conspiracy theorist. He's got a bunker stocked with all that survivalist stuff. I remain mystified as to why he's so keen to make more money, when we're all going to die in February 2012 (last time I checked). Shouldn't he just put his feet up and polish his weapons for the coming 15 months? Funnily enough, he's a conscientious builder who makes things "to last" - paradoxical, no?

I definitely do NOT want to survive the apocalypse! Just think of crawling out of your bunker, terminally bored with lentils and corned beef ... to a world populated by politicans and high-ranking civil servants, who are the only people with genuinely workable hideouts.

Maybe I'll put a box of wine, chocolate and cheese straws under the bed - and die comfy

So, I see the world hasn't ended quite yet!

Itsguyagain "just put his feet up and polish his weapons" snigger

Are we still here then?

While you lot aboden on the bus im going to make very good friends
with the farmer at end of the lane he has food animals and a collection of guns

The good friend s will come under me making a sacfice by cosing up to him on acount of his erm gun , nothing to do with the fact that he is absolutely gorgeous of course

I'm still here. No zombies.

Eek! Just saw one of the late-night updates and I see the Appocalypse has been brought forward to the 6th. Or are we still sticking with the 14th theory?

May I also extend a warm welcome to Titsalinabumsquash who has decided to thrown her lot in with the MN busmobile.

kungfupannda - Thank you! I hope i shall be of value i have vast amounts of Past and Lentils and one very lazy, tender young Cat.

We have a shop near us called the Trading Post and its a cheap no fills shop and everything is just stacked with tins from food to ceiling, we could loot there easily or we could just camp there...

Lol i read Busmobile and Bum - mobile.

The Radio 4 Today programme appears to not be as we usually know it . They claim there's a NUJ strike. I think we know better, don't we?

I am losing track of The Plan. Where are we going? What is the itinerary?

YOu guys do know Im in north Scotland - pick me up first please!

Justguyagain
and Swiss. We all have bunkers.

Why dont you plan to have the terminus of the MN bus in Geneva. I have quite a roomy bunker. If we move all the junk out.

considers asking nice farmer if you lot can park the bus in the barn ,THe cost of this is my dc keeping you company while I keep said farmer happy ,Things I do for Mn

I have a leatherman tool, two bottles of whisky and had a bowl of leftover taco mince. When the mince is gone, I shall catch and barbecue the pigeons that land on my balcony.

Is there a rule that we can only loot Mumsnetty things? There is an Asda near me, which would be very convenient for looting, but if it is a requirement, I shall stick to looting Waitrose, Boden and Berry Brothers and Rudd.

Can anyone suggest a good place to loot a shotgun? I insist on having a shotgun as I am awesome against zombies when playing Doom 3.

Minor problem with the itinerary - we were supposed to be moving house today but it got pushed back into next week. If the appocalypse comes before we move we will be in London, otherwise we will be in Bath. Maybe I better refuse to move until the appocalypse has happened.

Hassled - "AIBU" section is still active. I don't think we need to panic about the end of the world just yet.

Have read this thread with rising terror! DH flies out to the Middle East for 10 days tonight leaving me to fend for myself and the DDs in the apocalypse! AIBU to think he is an arse?

I have fire steel, leatherman tool, several Oh-fuck-rucksacks and camping gear, but no iodine tablets. Does anyone have iodine tablets?? I can nick the rest in a looting frenzy as I have a large collection of pushchairs we can use as trollies.

why do we need iodine tablets? Im beginning to realise I am not knowledgable enough to survive the apocolypse :(