To stockpile 72 hours of supplies

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..in case of disaster or attack. A new preparedness strategy inspired by Nordic countries and Germany, who already do this.

Is this something you already do, or will do?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/stockpile-supplies-72-hours-disasters-attack-eu-tells-citizens

It is much more likely that water supply goes off without warning than not. Even without the threat of an attack on the systems that get the water to your tap. A burst water main can take days to fix depending on where it is. You won't ha e time to fill your pots.
Our water was off for several days a few years ago due to a burst main. The water company did drop water off at various locations but many of these were difficult to get to and carry home without a car.

Yeah, they had to be evacuated eventually.

As I understand it the material to degrade first could be the straps, not the body of the mask, the bit that does the filtering. Given a choice between a technically expired good mask and a blue surgical one, or no mask at all, I'd take the expired good one.

This reminds me of an early Walking Dead where Michonne raids a house for food and comes out squeezing cheese from a tube straight into her mouth.

So it must last a long time and on the plus side Zombies don’t like it 🤣🤣

We would have enough food to keep us alive for 3 days but it would be some random
combinations. At the moment I can’t think of some pasta dishes that we could make.
It’s not financial hardship, I’m just not a stockpiler. I don’t have loads of excess spare space for collecting bags and boxes of stuff ‘just in case’.
As it stands we get a food shop delivered on a Monday with staple items and one of us will go to the shop most days for the rest of the ingredients to make what we fancy that particular day.
Dh goes to the butchers on a Friday so when he gets home later there will be a few days worth of meat. We don’t often do a week of meat shopping as it doesn’t cook as nicely once it’s been frozen. to be honest we have a big freezer and it’s empty except for ice cream, ice packs for ankle injuries and ice cubes for my margaritas 😂
not even a bag of frozen chips!

Offers fishing net and rod and line .
Kicks fishing gnome out if the way

@DrPrunesqualer I bloody love Primula cheese spread, it's so... Cheesy!

Probably have 3 weeks worth if we cleared the fridge cupboards and freezer.

New OS maps also have this information and it’s less likely to have been built upon then.

I know people who are wealthy, got a decent sized kitchen to store stuff, yet hardly any food and other things too. What’s that all about?

Friend lives in a family of 5. I don’t understand why she buys a pack of 4 loo rolls every 2-3 days when it’s cheaper to buy 24 rolls. Think 4 rolls is £1.80. Whereas 24 rolls is £6.50, £3.50 cheaper than buying 6x24. That’s about £100 less per year.

Plus never brings her own bags. That’s another £120 wasted

We have frequent power cuts. The problem with saying you can live off the freezers contents for 72 hours is that every time you open the door, you affect the inside temperature. In a real SHTF situation, then its worth it. But if you think the cut might be temporary then you really don't want to be opening that seal just for one or two meals, and risk the rest of the food.

I reckon I could survive 6 months in toothpaste and incontinence pads because I've got an amazon subscribe and save that went a bit haywire.

When I lived in a capital city our water was cut off with no warning due to a fire. It was 11.30pm on 31st December and NO shops opened until the 2nd January.

Plus I had D&V. It was not pretty.

Fortunately we had stored water to flush the toilet, wash the dishes that we d stupidly left for 1st January, bottles of water to drink and baby wipes to wash our hands.

Since then, DH has never mocked my prepper stores ever again.

My mother always kept a good stock of food in so that's how I was bought up. Due to illness I couldn't get out for almost two months recently, but, I lived out of my cupboards and freezer. The only thing I ran out of was eggs and eventually bread. Must admit I don't buy bottled water, may have a couple of small bottles, but I've got pop and if a matter of life or death I'd scrape ice out of freezer and melt that. I've got battery lights and plenty of nice smelly candles. Even people on a really tight budget should be able to buy an extra tin of something to keep in stock, it soon mounts up. Tin of fruit, you've got food and fluid.

I would struggle even though not utterly skint! Two reasons, tiny kitchen (read miniscule fridge freezer) and I live two minutes from a large Sainsbury's so am in there most days. I wish this want the case though.

I first stockpiled when bird flu happened. This is how we found out there were mice in the garden and mice could eat through plastic. Then Brexit, there was talk of some stuff no longer being available. The cupboard in question is still called the brexit cupboard. Then Covid. This was replenished regularly. It's looking quite bare at the moment actually.
Only my first stockpile included water.

We have a well so could always boil water

I’ll need to order a keg of beer.

“just the one, dear?”

Power will be cut. Cooked them in salt?

@Washingupdone rub with spice mix and wind cure

I’ve started stockpiling tinned stuff and water. Maybe I watch too much tv but I’d rather be prepared.

We have a 300 litre mega flow tank in the garage which we installed as a back up for hot water (it has an electric heater for hot water if our gas boiler fails) but in an emergency this would protect us from a loss of mains supply!

I keep some tinned fruit and rice pudding and dried fruit and nuts for an actual emergency! No need to heat and very calorific! I also have a stockpile of wine, gin, vodka etc…. To keep my spirits up in an emergency!

If there was a nuclear attack I would want to be wiped out in the first phase… but I think my house is just outside the immediate death zone… the radiation though would have me dead within a few weeks as it liquifies cells.

If it was a non nuclear disaster there is a good chance that I would be called into work as part of the civil contingency response.

My main concerns are cyber terrorism and weather, but if it was a weather disaster then I would be required to work!

I always keep a full tank of fuel in my car and the battery fully charged (plug in hybrid) as cars are essentially mini power stations that can be used to charge phones etc… but also to evacuate an area if needed.

My Stepfather ran his car on vapours expressing a theory that putting petrol in the car made it heavier and slightly less fuel efficient! He regularly ran out of petrol though… and his car would have been useless in an emergency!

This reminds me of the time that the Irish government issued all families with iodine tablets, and a directive to hide under the kitchen table, in the event of a nuclear attack...

If you are going to hoard anything it should be water. If there was a serious power failure water would be affected. How much do you have in your house? Good idea to keep a stock and have a water butt.