@DetailMouse
Sigh. First, a bit of forward planning is not the same as panic buying. If everyone had planned ahead and kept a decent stock of loo roll in, no one would have been queuing for it.
Second? I ve said (repeatedly) I'm not talking about war reaching our shores, but countless other ways our lives could be affected long before it reaches that point (and let's hope it never does).
Fuckwits who can't read 
Agree. Lots can’t read.
In the past I have had
-all my benefits stop for no reason and no explanation and it took 3 weeks to rectify.
Having a little cash and extra food in the house buffered the impact of that.
-been made redundant out of nowhere and had to wait a number of weeks for both the redundancy and jobseekers to kick in.
A little bit of cash in my house and extra food buffered that again.
-been so ill I couldn’t leave the house after emergency surgery.
Extra food helped reduced the stress of that, again.
- 2020 lockdowns everyone went crazy. I couldn’t get a food delivery for 5/6weeks and DC has sen and couldn’t cope with the extreme rules.
My well stocked pantry meant we could eat with items supplemented from the corner shop (bread, milk, apples and sweets) where DC could comfortable and safely wait outside.
I still keep a well stocked pantry. Eg I buy my tea for the whole year in one go because it’s half the price and teamaggedon sounds horrific. I keep in extra rice, pasta, tomatoes, noodles, baked beans and mixed canned beans with canned sweetcorn, cans of sweetcorn and peas and tuna plus some condiments and spices/seasonings. It’s not fabulous food but it’s filling food.
We grow veg here and know what wild greens aka weeds we can eat from the garden. We do eat them in good times too, makes weeding seem much more worthwhile. I cycle through my pantry; it’s a working pantry. So the goods I store are goods I eat on a regular basis along side fresh fruit, veg and meat but I could survive off what’s in there if I had to.
It takes time to build a pantry like this but it’s not difficult and it’s not wasteful if done right.
I don’t stock water but do have water purification tablets in the house. Funnily enough they were purchased as sterilising tablets for our thermos flasks (removes the ick taste if you can’t wash them out quickly or forget) but can also be used to sterilise water too.
We harvest rainwater for the garden.
We reuse everything we can to lessen our environmental impact but also save money and hone repair/upcycling skills.
I have savings and try to save a chunk every month.
I live frugally but spend money where it counts.
All of these are prepper skills but all of these are also common sense from an environmental point of view, keeping your self secure thorough joblessnesses and other short term crises (a hungry mind is a fragile and careless one) as well as making sure you’re not a burden when things are harder for other people.
I’ve been poor, homeless, hungry and desperate and I’m not planning on going there again so build buffers and redundancies into my home to hopefully mitigate the risks of the above. They’re not fool proof but my chances these days are much much lower.