What exactly to stockpile?

[Constantrunner]

I am going out this evening to buy food we can eat for three days without cooking. But what? So far I thought,
Tinned sardines
Bread for the freezer
Jam and marmite
Nuts
Wine

What else would you buy? Please don't talk about things you can cook, I just want things that need no cooking but we could live on for three days. Thanks.

Maybe stock up on all of the things that have been mentioned on the numerous threads about stockpiling/preparing for an emergency that are currently peppering MN at the moment.

The one linked above is now on its third thread so there's probably something there that you might like/want.

Yup

also, you can get super small camping gas things for under £20. Like a hob in a case and the gas comes in cans.
very handy for road trips if you need a coffee too. don't have to be a camper.

I love that wine is on the list but water isn't. 🤣

But if it’s things you wouldn’t normally buy they you are unlikely to eat it. You need to just buy what you and the family normally eats and store it.

I genuinely prefer baked beans cold straight out of the tin. I know, I know. They’re better that way! So I have about 2 dozen tins just in case 😅

Sounds alright to be fair

If you have space to have a bonfire you could put potatoes in tin foil and then have tuna and cheese jacket spuds. That would be warming to eat .For the people who like a barbeque there are lots of things that could be cooked .Thinking about it though the gas and electric companies are going to need an income so I doubt they would leave people without those basics. I would be surprised if we were left long without the basics .Cheese and crackers and indoor picnic food would help, followed by a lovely chocolate pudding.

It's the time it takes to get contingency arrangements in place.

If you were buying them by the pallet load, maybe then you would have piles of stock.

Sorry but jar of marmite and tin of sardines doesn’t qualify.

My biggest issue is water as I just don't have the space for the expected amount per person per day. We have around 5-8l in bottled water at home for trips but that's not enough I think. We recently had no water for 1/2 day and I appreciated the bottles to have a drink which wasn't juice/fizzy.

Tab water kept in a container will be ok-ish for washing but I wouldn't drink it and it needs changing quite often, large bottled water is better for storage.

We have a BBQ and always have coal at home and also a woodburner, so have wood all year round. That would mean we can heat water/food at least once a day.

I really dislike canned/jar food or any food I would have to eat cold which I would normally cook but with said BBQ/woodburner I think I would be ok if I can sort out the water storage.

Well yes, obviously, and you'd eat the fresh things you like first, and buy long life things that you like. But if you can't get what you like, and the shit really hit the fan, i think you'd prefer to have stuff you only tolerate than have nothing at all. Stocking up now gives you the chance to buy food you like.

Also, many of us have discovered that it's safer to stock up on say beans and sardines, because we are less likely to give into temptation on a wet friday afternoon and scoff the lot!

I do get that but what if it's Winter time when you have no power? To be able to have a hot drink or heat up some tinned food, homemade soup or make instant noodles & the like would be very useful.
We have a one ring camping gas stove and it has come in very handy through several power cuts due to storms causing power outages and earlier this year our cooker died suddenly and it was a couple of weeks before we got a new one delivered and it was very useful then too. We're thinking about getting another one.

Tinned fruit
Tinned fish
Baked beans/soup
Bottled water
Batteries
Noodles
UHT milk
Rice/Pasta
Toilet roll
Paracetamol/Ibuprofen/Calpol
Spare gas canisters for camping stove we already own

Top of my list plus dog food!

If you have storage issues then the best thing to have is probably water purifying tablets.

When the zombie apocalypse hits you wash out your bath and fill it up.

Take water out as needed and use the purifying tablets on it.

You can also do the same with those plastic storage boxes people use to store stuff in.

It depends. If the electricity goes off then some of the fresh items you'd keep in the fridge or freezer could spoil - so you may buy more items than usual that are sealed/ pre cooked/ don't require chilling etc

I think the best thing to think about, it what is most likely to happen, and what will you want on that occasion.

For me, in my location, my most likely disaster is getting snowed in for a week, without power. So, in those circumstances, a way to heat up food is essential, and if I didn't already have a gas stove, I would buy one.

I always have a week or so of food stored in winter, as experience has shown, that in the above scenario, unless you are in a populated area, no help is coming from the council.

I have prioritised the sort of easy food that the kids will want to eat - pot noodles, pasta, baked beans, soup, rice & tins of curry/meatballs, with tinned fruit and puddings, and a secret box of quality street. It's water that is the hardest thing - need a lot to cook pasta etc.

If for some reason, I couldn't have a gas stove, I'd make sure the freezer was full of bread, and have a lot of cheese in at all times, plus peanut butter, nutella, tinned fish.

@GasPanic If there's a cyber attack on electricity/ water plant doubt we'd get any warning so no time to fill a bath up.

Christmas cake has a very long shelf-life, so my list is:

3 Christmas cakes
Very large bar of chocolate
6 bottles of wine

Might as well be happy if the zombie apocalypse strikes 😂

I haven't shopped but in my cupboards I've got:

Tuna
Water
Coke Zero
Two different types of crackers
Pasta packets x about 3 - I might even have some supernoodles at the back
Beans
A packet of chocolates
Wheetabix
Some bits and pieces in the freezer
A few pieces of fruit

Worst comes to worse and I don't have electricity or my gas hobs, the two packets of crackers, chocolate and dry wheetabix would be absolutely fine for a few days. I think the people who worry most are those that can't see that it's fine to have a few crackers for breakfast or a few chocolates for lunch if there's some kind of problem that means normal eating can't happen.

Can I come over in the apocalypse?

Of course. Can I put you down to bring the cheese and pineapple hedgehog?

Can you use these indoors?

That's fine if you don't want to do that. People who live in flats won't be able to use them anyway. We have got a two ring camping stove which we've had for years that my husband uses for night fishing. He is quite happy to eat cold beans, soup, sweetcorn, etc and does so even when there isn't a power cut. I prefer mine hot.