If you had 24 hours notice of being housebound, what contingency do you have in place right now?

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Not a prepper or covid thread.

But as someone who is guaranteed to get snowed in on the rare situations if it snows. I'd never be rushing to shops the night before. We have never bought food for that night daly and I was a tiny bit surprised by the clip of the nurse crying in her car when she found the shops bare. I'd havea tin of beans and bread in. I'm not smug or rich. I just have 4 kids. Three with sen. There's no time to shop daily.

So. I always had a few tins in. Some paracetamol, ibuprofen. Bread in the freezer. Possibly a weeks worth of food at any given time. It costs what it costs and cost is no different if I go once or week or two or monthly. I'm rural so buying locally is a two mile plus walk to a expensive village shop. Car daily would be very expensive in petrol.

At the start of lockdown I could not get my sons favorite noodles or loo roll for love nor money. No amount of begging because he is severly disabled got us either. Ie relying on good will proved to be nieve.

So since then I have two weeks of loo roll as a minimum. I have ten packs of his noodles. I normally have one carton of Oat milk ( but not any more I'm getting slack). One bottle of Calpol. In addition to what we always had pre lockdown. If it snows I'm fine. At any time. I could kick back with zero panic for a week easily. Week 2? I'm eating pasta and tinned tomatoes.. there would be no milk for tea and coffee. Week three I'm eating loo rolls if they have lasted.

So. I guess the question is, how many people wouldn't have a few days to worth of everything they need if there was a snow storm? After lockdown did anyone change their shopping on the day habits? Even running my freezer bare makes me slightly worried - id never risk that when it could snow.

My friend works next to a Asda so pops in the way home every day. But she also has food in the house.

We'd never get snowed in

We took ours camping when they were small, and it was amazing what they would eat once they could see nothing but fields for miles, they were hungry and beef and tomato pot noodles were all that was on offer!

We did get snowed in once and walked to a local shop for milk and bread. We always have a good store cupboard of foods though, so could manage for a while. It's fresh milk that I'd miss, but we do have tinned milk in which can be reconstituted. We have a breadmaker, so could make bread too.

We could probably last three weeks without a problem as long as the freezer was ok.

We’ve had it before where we’ve all suddenly had to be inside for a few days. We’ve got enough in the cupboards and freezer. If it came to it, we have family who could come, or an online shop

I'm on B road and it's mega busy so you'd think I'd never get snowed in. But it's hilly, rural and even this year with 1cm of snow 20 cars got stuck on the hill all night. It's one big hill so no escape either direction.

My kids do eat anything too. But noodles after school was part of my disabled sons calming routine. He went back to school after a week.

I’m always prepped. We went without power for five days after storm Arwen, and were cut off for three days completely during the “beast from the east”. When Covid TP shortages happened I saw it on tv and thought, damn, that might become a problem but by the time I needed to buy more TP the shortages had been sorted out. I am very rural, but provided the water and the freezers were still available I would be able to cope for a good couple of weeks without even noticing and probably a couple of months before I really began to worry. It’s six miles to my closest small shop.

We're blessed to have a cellar and access to excess provisions to stock up on. I grew up in rural US so I feel uneasy not being prepared when we had times of weeks on end in snow without access to grocery stores. Nothing crazy, but we buy our meat once a year and have a few chest freezers so plenty of prepped meals and frozen homegrown food. I'm not a canner so I find freezing works for us. We have dry goods like pasta rice, cans, and loo rolls and toiletries stocked up too. I don't love it but we have some UHT milk too, it's better than nothing.

With 24 hours notice, I'd get extra milk and fresh fruit, veg, dairy products and some loo rolls. I can make bread. The main thing we miss when we get snowed is the things you just fancy because you don't have them. So get the snacks and chocolate, and the nice cheese and wine.