right, I've got a box of matches, and loads of wooden furniture (unlike the philistines in Te Day After Tomorrow, I will not be burning books, no matter how desperate!)
What pisses me off, is that where I lived with my ex, was a house in the countryside, with a real fire place, and therefore lots of wood chopped up ready. and loads of trees, too, if necessary.
We used to get power cuts, too, so we already had plans for this - we had hundreds of candles and firelighters and kindling and matches and lighters (he's a smoker)
We had masses of dry goods in the cupboard too. and a veg patch, and chickens
So now I've left him - when I left, his mum chucked out all my dry goods because they were out of date!!!! wtf! how to dry goods go out of date! (and they were all in jars, too, so it's probably the original contents that were out of date!)
the house i live in now has no chimney, as it's 1970s. We have no dry goods, and not very many tins (because we can't really afford to do a nuclear shop very often)
Last time we watched TDAT, I worked out a plan for heating - he used to have hot air heating, and there is a vent that goes right down through the house, so I would take that out, and because it's mostly made of fake wood, we could burn it. it's between the kitchen and the lounge, so we could hole up with the settee nearest to the fire and the other stuff round, then we'd also have access to the kitchen.
We'd have to barracade the front part of the kitchen using the old kitchen units.