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?

Centurions?? 😜
I'll see myself out.....

I don't know why people fixate on toilet paper when it comes to the apocalypse. In the event of an apocalypse, what you wipe your arse with after going to the toilet is the least of your worries

It feels like Tories are trying to convince us that we are going to have unrest and catastrophe if Labour will get to power. So we will need to prepare medicines, tinned food, bottled water, batteries…

Yes this is it I suspect. They’re trying to unsettle everyone enough to think they better stick with the status quo.

Since covid I always have a well stocked kitchen and wouldn't starve but maybe I need to me prepared with water as I don't usually buy bottled water.

I remember getting a 'preparing for emergencies ' leaflet through the door some years ago. It was much the same advice as now. I recall buying some extra bottles of water but that was about it. Always have things like cereal, bread and biscuits so figured I could eat those if the electricity went off for a few days. I've no space for more than a maximum of a week of ready to eat stuff really though.

I know where I'm going in the zombie apocalypse.

Once I have gin the world can burn around me and I won't care. 🤣

Brexit, and the pretence that global events are the cause of shortages. And the Tories having the utter audacity to suggest they are not the ones responsible for our foreign policy, water supply and energy security.

I’m not sure what I would need a ‘go bag’ for, highly unlikely to be flooded here on the top of a hill!
I always have a well stocked larder and freezer (for years we lived miles from the nearest shop), candles, matches, camping gas, fuel for the wood burner etc so we would be fine for probably about 6 weeks? I do have bottled water, not enough, but there’s a fast flowing stream at the bottom of the hill and DH has water purification kit. Plenty of food for the dog too.

I hate the insinuation from Sunak that there is an impending disaster, he’s shit stirring and whisking up trouble. At least it shows his true colours, the smug git.

I'm another with plenty of food supplies but not much water, mainly just the small bottles to take out when it's hot so not much, never mind, I generally have several large multipacks of Pepsi Max in.

We also have several different water filters as DH is quite an outbound type and chlorine tablets.

I’m in Switzerland, this is official government recommendation here as well. We have 6 Liters of water per person (not quite enough, I know) and our general “stock” of food would last us for about 3-4 very uninspiring days.

I also make ensure that I have a small “additional stock” of my personal (daily) medication. It’s usually between 4-7 days. That is something I would strongly encourage anyone to consider.

Water, medication and potentially baby formula are the most important ones, tbh

We once had our water supply tainted with bacteria (not due to intentional or foreign sabotage, just human error). This kind of guidance is quite sensible imo 🤷‍♀️

they are very useful when / if during medical emergencies and longer hospital stays.

Its been the advice in Finland for a long time. The most likely cause for needing the supplies is extended power outages, so 3 days is about right. 3 days also gives the government time to organise distribution of supplies is they are needed longer than 3 days (though of course, I wouldn't expect the UK government to manage that in 3 months, let alone 3 days)

This site gives info about what supplies are really needed https://72tuntia.fi/en/

I always make sure we've got enough food for several days at least, and have a few large containers of spring water but we also have a spring nearby we could go to to fill up.

I once had a week long power cut - no power, no water. We predicted it (because the weather was so shit and there had been a couple of shorter power cuts already) so had filled up a massive barrel full of water which we used for drinking, and flushing the toilet with, and luckily had wood fire heating so we didn't freeze and could cook. Horrid time but did teach me the importance of being prepared.

what tinned food?
baked beans?
something that doesnt need to be cooked?
tuna?

@SlothsNeverGetIll
thank you for your reply, still,
in the country, by May all supplies were depleted, summer replenishing,
stocking the freezer, by the end of SEPTEMBER - logs delivered,

oil tank filled, matches, batteries, no gas in the countryside,

this is how we had to think ahead,
no use waiting until November in fog, cold, perpetual rain, when the coal merchant and oil supplier would be overstretched, with estimated 3week delivery dates.
Winter encompasses November, his comment does not make sense in this context.

It could be the overload of the National Grid and if Putin escalates he is likely to try and mess with our energy supplies. Bring down the National Grid so no electricity- so supplies which don’t need electricity to cook/heat up etc might be useful. 3 days to get it up and running - maybe? No facts to support this, it’s just a thought.

Regarding the Northern Lights, I was speaking to DH about this and he said one of the reasons we are all seeing them now and they are on the news is because many more people can, you need to take photos to see them properly and only recently have phones and cameras that everyone has been capable. Twenty years ago only keen photographers would have had this equipment and all most people would have seen in UK was grey wispy bits

I can't imagine having just 3 days supplies, to me that feels very risky. But I'm a person that over thinks and likes to be prepared for every eventuality. I've recently down sized to a tiny 2 bed so things are a bit up in the air but I've got a whole load of obedient to cook with. 8kg of various flour, 3kg sugar, dried eggs, dried milk, extra tea/coffee/hot chocolate. Half a dozen tins of beans, beans and sausages, 6 corned beef, smash, 12 packs of noodles and a few kgs of oats/rice. I have a camping stove and a water filter so I think I'm ok but would definitely like to improve my supplies with more candles and lanterns, newer power packs, medical kit etc.

In my old house we regularly had power cuts that lasted 2-8 hours and I still had kids to feed .. I'm also long term sick and get ill very easily and can't always get out. So for me being prepared mates sense but with all this cut backs, over stretched infrastructure and feeling of impending doom I am definitely going to take a few extra steps

Three days of supplies and having things like candles in will help people cope with the worst of the most likely emergencies to give the authorities (not the government, the emergency planners who've been quietly working away for decades ready to respond when needed, eg flooding, power cuts etc) space to set up larger scale assistance.

Its not intended to be enough to get people through nuclear war, just give them a bit of resilience so they don't riot in the shops because they've suddenly realised there isn't enough to go round when everyone is panic buying.

It's clearly preparing for the switching of the poles.

Thing is most of those things will last more than 3 days, so all it does is mean everyone comes out together on day 3 to panic buy.

It's probably for cyber attacks, Covid type scenarios or the water incidents, you probably wouldn't need the whole stockpile just certain bits of it depending on the incident.

Anyone reliant on prescription medication is going to be screwed, as they will only allow a month at a time, so no good if your prescription is due.

I don't even have 3 days worth at home. I go shopping most days to get what I need. I hate waste and I only use stuff like flour once in a blue moon as I don't bake so I don't keep anything like that in. I don’t eat tinned food really either! I'd probably get very hungry in an emergency 😂

Probably got enough food to last 3-4 weeks. Run out of milk? Cappuccino sachets, fruit tea bags, squash, booze. Then could make porridge in the sachets with water.

This doesn't make any sense on its own.