not get 'emergency' food

[McHappyPants2012]

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

I keep a stock of lentils, dried vegetables, pasta, rice, instant mash, tinned goods and a heap of other emergency food. That being said we also maintain a massivley overstocked freezer as well.

We even have a whole heap of camping kit and spare gas in the shed. And the generator saved our freezer goods nicely when we got snowed in last year. DH even managed to provide power from said genny to our combi boiler to keep the heating running :)

My emergency food is mostly stuff tat keeps no matter what and can be cooked on a camp cooker

Apparently if we had a complete economic meltdown the super markets have only 3 days worth of supply. As it's looking increasingly likely that EU default may happen, banks may fail etc,etc it's probably sensible to have some supplies in, and not just in the freezer, dried and tinned food would be necessary too. No zombies needed, just simple bank failure would do it. I blame lack of system redundancy and just in time supply systems.

Paseeurised cartns/cupboard milk. Cheap to buy, long shelf life.

Best to have cash in the house too.

off subject a bit, but have you seen extreme couponing on Sky, now that's food hoarding!!

I was snowed in for three days 21 years ago when DS1 was aged 2. I had just enough food for him but I went very hungry. I wished i had some emergency food then.

I don't have a freezer, but I do hoard food to a certain just to say controlled by sheer brute force of will extent. If I had any space at all, anywhere in the house, I would have a proper End of the World survival supply room with at least 6 months worth of supplies, but I have to content myself with surreptitious overstock so that DH doesn't laugh and point and make fun of me complain
I have a Cobb, a small bucket barbecue, there's a "brick built shitgrill" in the back garden, and I am currently saving up for one of those big ghillie can kettle things. I have candles, firelighters, charcoal, matches and lighters, dried food, cans of food, blankets and "woollies" galore - not sure why I am so convinced the End of the World will be cold, but if it is, I am prepared!
We have a full set of camping gear too, so I do have some excuse for the gadgets and outdoor cooking gear.

I keep an emergency loaf, frozen veg and UHT milk in, but that's about it.

It's less about being snowed in, and more about me being ill, but now DD is old enough to get the bus to town, which has never stopped running in the ten years I've lived here, is probably not necessary.

I used to be a terrible hoarder, because I had so little money and often ran out that I needed to know we'd always have food in.

I'm hardly flush now, but have enough that I won't run out.

Our emergency freezer food will come in useful when the electricity goes out...oh right...oops...

Hey, anyone else hoard toilet roll? It's a standing joke with DH that I'm not happy unless the toilet roll cupboard is full.

I don't connect having frozen chips in, to the word 'emergency'. So, are you mocking people who use frozen chips, or genuinely interested about why people keep food in the house 'just in case' ?
Apart from all the reasons given above, what about ds turning up with a couple of mates without warning ? - teenage boys are always starving, they'll think nothing of polishing off a couple of family sized pizzas as a snack between meals. You need your 'emergency rations' in for when your dcs are that age.

I do. I bulk buy and I'm not happy unless I have at least 2 unopened 18 roll packs.

My emergency food is all tinned/dried stuff. Frozen food is not going to be much use if the electricity is off.

Pasta (wheat free)
Rice
Canned meat and fish
Canned vegetables and fruit
Oats
Flours (all wheat free)
Oat cakes
Rice cakes
Juice
Milk
Pet food.

I keep fishfingers/potato letters/frozen veg for quick kids meal plus pasta/sauce in cupboard for easy quick meal to feed all of us
in case
a) we can't get to shop - 30 mins walk uphill (no car)
b) I'm ill and need to do something no effort required
c) the veg went off/meat was out of date/bread when moldy/accidentally destroyed dinner and need to feed kids a substitute
d) we can't access any money for some reason (bank error or whatever) so can't do any food shopping

Also have been very poor/run out of money and so can't leave cupboards/freezer empty just in case (though wouldn't have enough for more than a week)

I want this

brightspark.info/collections/bundles/products/power-cut-pack-deluxe

for zombie-related emergencies.

Rhonda I currently have 64 loo rolls! I buy the sixteen roll packs when they're on special offer for a fiver. I stock up, there are five of us and the teenage twins use loo roll instead of make up wipes etc!

SPARE ROAST POTATOES?

I bet spare roast potatoes live next to frozen leftover wine. ie there is no such thing

in a pot next to a rainbow?

I sometimes have spare mash potato because I purposefully cook too much but chuck it in the fridge to have in a sandwich with mustard the next day

That's the one.

I always make too much mash too, so I can sneak it as a snack later with the leftover gravy. That will be the leftover gravy, that I deliberately make too much of, so there is enough to go with the deliberately too much mash.

Wow dawndonna I want to move in with you!

I think the toiletm roll thing is inherited as my gran was the same. Still, you never know when the entire household might be hit with a bad case of the trots and no one able to drive to the shop to get more.

Could cope without food in the house, but not the emergency toilet rolls. Cupboard holds arounds 20 , plus 10 in all toilets if fully stocked, so I am still trailing behind dawn and starters.

Yes indeed spare roast potatoes. I cook too many on purpose. My children don't like them (odd, I know) - so if I allow about 5 for me and about 10 for greedy man and cook 20 - there will be spare, yes?

you must have a tin of salmon in the cupboard, just in case..

I don't even have a freezer now. Had 2 fridge freezers when I lived in my home town. Moved in with dp and somehow the 4 of us manage on a normal sized fridge with ice box? And we mostly do home cooking.

I did used to have things lurking a lot in the bottom of freezers. Now everything gets used.

Oh but we have started a tin/noodle etc... box, for the terrible thing that'll happen soon. Dp read it in the Week.

We always have oven chips, pizza & fishfingers in the freezer and tins of tomatoes, tomato soup, chickpeas and baked beans in the cupboard, plus pasta and rice.

The 'emergencies' are 'Mum cannot be arsed to cook a nutritious meal from scratch to night', generally