We need to have enough tinned food and bottled water to be self sufficient for three days

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There’s a thing in the Times about the Prepare campaign - people need to be prepared for risks like localised flooding, another pandemic, a mass cyberattack which cuts off the internet, disruption to UK space systems that affect GPS signals, conflict and nuclear attack.

I must admit that my first thought was that there are countries in the West Indies who have these sorts of rules - mainly in case of hurricanes. It probably would be useful to have bottled water if we had flooding and the mains water would be turned off. Am a bit horrified by the mention of nuclear war but perhaps this has been overly highlighted by the Times.

Have you seen this? What do you think?

I passed an MOD convoy carrying nuclear warheads yesterday so maybe they're onto something...
(Mostly joking. In seriousness, it's probably not a bad idea to have a few days worth of stuff in the house. But I assume most people do anyway? I don't go to the shop every day!)

Honestly I can't imagine only having 3 days supplies - what if you get sick and for some reason can't get a home delivery shop?

I think it's an excellent idea for everyone who can do it, but of course it won't help anyone who can't afford to have 3 days food, and they are likely to include a lot of very vulnerable people.

We should probably have the bottled water given the state of our tap water supplies. Your area could be infested next.

It just makes sense to do this anyway. I think people did quite a bit of stocking up for things like the credit crunch, Brexit fears, Covid, and it becomes a bit of a habit.

I've got 2 full freezers and lots of tinned and dried goods and could manage for 2 months if I had to but I've only got 1 x 5 litre large water and about 10 small bottles. DH has just remarked we'd have to drink wine because we've got more wine than water. 🤣

I always have at least two weeks of food in. Can't imagine shopping daily with kids. I have also got 6x2l of water in the car after our area lost water for days. Your always OK to get water eventually but people was queuing for four hours the first day it went off. I have a disabled son so I don't have the luxury of not planning for things going wrong

We only shop once a week so three days would be no hardship. As long as the power stayed on we could do three months. Possibly longer.

I've lot of gin. That could be handy during an apocalypse!

What use is an extra tin of beans going to be if we're getting nuked?

I can understand stocking up in case of flooding etc. But surely if nuclear war breaks out we're fucked anyway?

Better not happen till at least when I get paid the end of the month. I'm like old mother hubbard lol

I got plenty of vodka for a few days 😆

I don’t like it. Feels like they know stuff we don’t :(

I would assume no electricity so frozen food might spoil and be no good.

Don't forget the loo roll.

The bottled water is likely due to more contamination as pp said.

What use is an extra tin of beans going to be if we're getting nuked?

Nothing

Makes me feel strange
But I might get some stuff and keep in shed?

Have you seen my cupboards? You cant open them for risk of Lidl's special weeks (greek, spanish, italian, take your pick) tins and bottles all falling out

I'll be dining on those anchovies and fancy popcorn for years

@EeewDavid I don't think they know anything. They're completely clueless.

Jeremy vine covered this today. Was interesting. The civil service guy he had on was retired government defence. He said no way this has come out in may for no reason. November yes. May no.

Something more to it.

@hjrl - what does this mean ? what is the significance of May ?

He said no way this has come out in may for no reason. November yes. May no.

Well if he said it, it must be true.

If something is happening in the summer why have the GE then?

Very normal advice here in Sweden, people are encouraged to have water, tinned food, torches, medicines and cash available, just as a precaution. Fwiw I think they’re trying to prepare people for possible attacks / sabotage on infrastructure, rather than military attacks of the kind seen on Ukraine and Palestina.

Me too llus sliced lemon on the freezer. Lesson learned from lockdown.