Stockpiling vacuum packed food in case of war

[EclecticShock]

My friends husband has bought a couple of thousand pound worth of vacuum packed food in case there of an imminent war... Euro crisis, Syria and Middle east problems... China and Russia power dynamic. What do you think? Is this sensible or deluded? I would have said deluded but I don't want to be dismissive of her and her husband. He does quite a lot of research but not sure it's from valid sources.

Because when the gas and electricity are off, what you really want to do is tuck into a nice cold raw Fray Bentos pie....

There's having ten tins of beef stew and a large bag of rice - and there's several thousand pounds worth of emergency food. He has lost all sense of proportion and yes I would be worried. You can rationalise that some extra food in case of a utility strike / power outage / terrorist attack might be sensible - but the amount he has bought suggests a fixation.

Ten tins of beef stew =@ £2 each. Big bag of rice £10. 10 tins of beans @ £.80 each. Long life milk 10 1lt @£1 each and so on, water, fruit juice veg and fruit in tins, it wouldn't be far off £2k

I have a small stockpile, just in case Greece is thrown out of the euro and we have shortages. No tins of beans, I'm afraid (horrible things!), but a few extra packets of rice and pasta, some flour and a few cartons of UHT milk. Enough for a month or so.

I also have LOADS of jars of tomato juice and apricot jam. This is because MIL grows tomatoes and has an apricot tree in her garden, and doesn't believe in waste, so every last tomato that's not eaten fresh gets stewed up and turned into juice to last for the rest of the year, and the apricots get turned into tonnes of jam. She gives us loads of them.

Actually, if there were shortages, the best thing to do would be to move into MIL's house until it's all over. She has a fantastic vegetable garden, with several fruit trees, she keeps chickens for meat and eggs and she has planted spuds this year, so we'd be fine for quite a while.

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In Switzerland, by law, every member of the population has to have access to a nuclear bunker. @ stateofplay

Do you think this might be displacement activity?

In 1940 my mum lived in East London. She and her sister were invited to stay with friends a few miles east in Essex which wasn't a target because there were no factories and things

There was a huge crater where the end of the neighbour's garden where their Anderson shelter used to be. The Luftwaffe had a habit of dumping unused bombs to lighten the load on the way home. She decided to stay put and take her chances. At least she'd have her family with her. She's 89 now.

DH always says he might have to eat the cats and save their food for when he is desperate @evil

evil?s DH has a point. You could always eat your neighbour if things get bad OP. Bet he never thought of that. Bloody clever clogs