not get 'emergency' food

[McHappyPants2012]

like frozen roast potatos, frozen chips ect.......what emergency would require a frozen potato

'a load of hard shapes' I think that's how roast potatoes would come out if I tried making them from scratch!

i have a frost free freezer [smug] and a gas hob so my canned food is fine for emergencies, wack it in a pan, turn on hob and heat

I buy and use these products simply because sometimes it's quicker and easier, and sometimes I just fancy them.

I do stockpile rice and pasta and tinned tomatoes, that's like an emergency "oops I've mistimed the shopping and I need an easy meal to make" plus my "bulk buy saves money" thing.

Hi my names QueenofJacksDreams and I'm a food hoarder. I have counts 4 cupboards full of foods - one normal canned goods/pasta one fruit/sweet one for baking and one emergency cupboard. I have 2 freezers a full size upright and a half and half both full and I'm going shopping tomorrow because the fridge is empty

When I first moved in with DH we were both very young and didn't understand money that well so we ended up surviving on £40 a week including paying all our bills and food. We regularly ate fish fingers and buttered pasta for a week after having £10 for food for 2 weeks. DH grew up in a poor household and also panics if we have nothing in to eat so mine is excusable because of our ishoos right?

Is this one of those oh you're so pathetic to use frozen roast potatoes wanky threads?
Like we give a shniy shite when it saves at least half an hour and a load of potato peeling. I've got better things to do most of the time quite frankly.

I have frozen veg that, added to tinned or dried stuff, can make lovely meals. That's emergency food. Chips are a necessity

I have lots of food in tins/dried as an emergency ration though I have a disability and this time of the year particularly I could not be able to manage even getting around the house let alone the supermarket. Its all easy enough for the kids to heat up.
My neighbour thought I was bonkers as she assures me she would do my shopping until we got snowed in for 3 days last year (overnight) and she was due to go shopping that day. I had the sugar,beans,noodles etc to see us and them through till the toad was cleared :)

All my emergencies involve not being arsed to even try and cook properly.

I too hoard. Lots of tins of tomatoes, pasta, rice, mixed beans, lentils. We've been snowed in too. I'm all electric, I had a lot of people knocking on my door during the last power cut. I've made them buy their own camping stoves now!

Being a lone parent from birth stage teaches you to have emergency food in.

You can't always "just pop out for a pint of milk" when it's all on you 24/7. The snow last year made me glad I didn't have to go out for a few days. Go down with flu yourself and no matter how awful you feel kids still need 3 nutritous meals a day.

General Insurance - How secure is any job nowadays/ will the cashpoints work for a few days if the Euro fails? I also keep 1/2 dozen 2 litre bottles of value spring water in the house - at 17p a bottle, they'd be ever so handy if a water main bursts.

One drawer of my freezer is devoted to extra portions of home cooked ready meals in tupperware that can be "pinged" in an emergency. If I'm iever rushed to hospital DS can still be fed his special diet (dairy free) by rellies or neighours for a few days. I have week's worth of tins and packets in the pantry in case of longer emergencies.

I cook on gas but have the ability to cook using slow cooker and microwave via electricity in an emergency and I have a ghilly kettle in case all utilities go down so I can still heat a stew/brew a cuppa. (Look at what ths week's storms have done to large parts of scotland).

Seems totally nuts to me to NOT have a few "lazy" or emergency ingredients in the house but then again I'm not one to order a take away or eat out, nor do I have a 24/7 supermarket bang smack on my door step. WHAT those emergency meal ingredients are wiill vary depending personal preference - frozen roasties isn't top of my list but then again others won't understand my addiction to spinach so it all evens out lol!

I don't get why frozen roast potatoes are so strange...

It's a potato, cut up, coated in some sort of oil/fat and frozen. Absolutely no difference between that, and a home prepared one, other than well, you haven't had to prepare it.

Same with frozen mash. I've got bags of it in the freezer and why not? Look at the ingredients - it's potato and butter. Only you haven't had to peel, cut, boil and mash the spuds. All you have to do is heat it.

What's not to like?

If we want chips they are frozen ones cos' I don't have a deep fat fryer.

The chips are handy if DS1's picky eater mate comes for tea, or when I am ill or when we got snowed in for a week last year and our fresh potatoes ran out.

We always have roast potatoes made properly once a year at Christmas

DH is an utter food hoarder and the habit is rubbing off onto me. Any exciting promotion on tinned tomatoes or chickpeas on the Tesco website and I'm ordering them in multiples of ten.

A family member (to whom I daren't even assign a relational epithet here) once rang to tell his dad that he'd just bought 'a whole term's worth of passata' for a fiver from a market somewhere. As though a termsworth is a recognised unit of measurement...

Yes, that being my point too.

We have frozen chips, because I don't do deep fat frying, but that's not emergancy food.

Our emergancy food is "can't be arsed cooking" food - normally stuffed pasta that can be frozen then cooked from frozen, that's 6 minutes until food is on the table.

Emergency food = preparation for zombie armegeddon. You have been warned.

Mcain's mexican wedges are lovely, great for dipping.

I do not like other frozen chips.

I have tins of Ambrosia rice, Waitrose ready meals, frozen mince meat, frozen fish, veg, tins of soup, baked beans, chicken fillets, stagg chilli con carne etc

Mmmm. Now I want chips. With a big pile of dipping salt.

Frozen chips are the norm here too. Ds turns his nose up at my home made ones (not fried, grilled in the oven with a drizzle of olive oil... obviously far too good and healthy for him :o)

Frozen mashed pots are fab, when we are too tired to cook, out comes the precooked mince from the freezer and within minutes shepherds pie is on the table, or chicken stew from the freezer with mash, a few minutes.

Roasties make lunch for 8 on Sunday possible after we get home from church at a reasonable time. Essential

Emergency food is anything that can be cooked on the gas hob, so just soup and beans

I have frozen homemade roast potatoes - is that OK? I save up the spare ones from doing roasts and bubble-and-squeak them. We do have frozen chips though, I don't like chip-pans.

I too food hoard, the cupboards always have 'reserves' so there is at least one of everything in hand freezer full too so why on earth do i spend so much of my life in supermarkets cos there is 'nothing to eat mum!' ffs you could live alone in my house for 6 months or more with no need for anything except fresh stuff like milk and veg

endoplasmic SPARES.... SPARES...... never heard the like. In my house that's a bit like the tip to save any 'leftover wine' in an ice cube tray to add to sauces .... oh how I laughed at that one

We always have frozen chips. And I have been known to eat uncooked frozen chips.
Can't bring myself to buy frozen roasts though. Or frozen Yorkshire puds.
I have tins and bottled water in my zombie kit.