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's how they get weeded out.

Survival of the fittest 😂

You need a roll of Jiffy foam in a car and store room, to keep warm. It comes in so many thicknesses you can wear it too, as well as insulate.

One place I lived the electricity was cut off, the mains water pump froze and the ground was covered in snow. We had to fill a pan with snow and boil it over the fire. Wasn't that long ago, either.

We’ve been told to always keep tea lights in our cars. I wouldn’t have thought there would be much heat coming off them but apparently there is. Jiffy foam is pretty good. My friends were going to the airport (missed 4 flights) but it was to Florida so no warm clothes! 😅

or dig a cellar! and an ice house whilst you are down there

Been a bumper week in sales on tinned food and dried pulses and pasta in our shop.

It's not at panic buying levels yet but we've seen sales across those sectors more than double in the last week

Depends if you have solar or not!

I love homemade soda bread. Do you make yours with yogurt?

No - not these days. Your cold water supply comes from the mains except in older houses that may not have been converted. The reason is so that the cold supply is not contaminated by things like rats or mice which may have crawled in there and drowned…

You can still boil/sterilise back supply water for drinking though.

I bought a lifestraw bottle years ago, but never actually dared try it! You’re supposed to be able to drink dirty water.

Did you know that jiffy foam can also relieve pain? The body warms it, and it brings blood to the surface of the bone or muscle causing pain. It acts like a hot water bottle, only is much safer.

You may have to change it or wipe the skin, because it does produce sweat when very warm.

I wouldn't do without it. CIDP is an crippling inflammatory of the central nervous system, which causes pain without underlying problems. It saves on the pain killers.

No I had never heard of that. Or even think of having some at home. That is actually good knowledge, thank you.

I bought or restocked a few bits and pieces for my Brexit/covid/winter cupboard on Amazon (UK) and the numbers of recent sales was noticeably higher than usual. So, it would seem that some people are quietly taking notice of the advice.

Really? I find it very hard to believe that any adult would be unable to see that the taps could indeed run dry very easily with no warning.

Burst main
Problem at the treatment plant.
Cyber attack on the software that runs the treatment plant.
Contamination.
Just a few reasons that you could be left without water for several days at a time.

well solar doesn't work unless you also have islanding capability and then even if you do it will probably only give you enough to run one appliance.

unless of course you have a tesla powerwall in which case, sorry (although I rather like the irony of the powerwall saving you from attacks which currently look like they're as likely to come from the mad americans as the russians..)

Dried veggies take up less room.

I had a Tesco delivery half an hour ago and they had no sterilising tabs left of the Fred'n Flo variety and the send Milton fluid instead, at the same cost to me.

Perhaps people are stocking up on them too.

Temu have tiny compressed cloths which swell up when put in water. 50 takes up a very little space. You only use them once, but you would anyway, because washing would take a lot of water you won't have.

Mine all smell and taste of canteen curry. I should probably spend a lot more on them but, then again, it won't matter if they're my only veg option.

Definitely have at least 72 hours worth of relatively fresh food. But I have an entire freezer filled with 3 pigs (obviously if power went we’d have to eat through it all anyway). We have big water containers and water purification tablets (not because we’re preppers but we do a lot of wild camping).

Dh has a few rifles, so in theory, we could take out a few pigeons and rabbits, a pheasant or two. We can fish. If the end times came and push really came to shove, I’ve got 10 chickens I could slowly work my way through. I wouldn’t eat the dog though, and frankly, she’s all fur and bone so I don’t think she’d make a good meal. 😂

I used to live abroad in a place prone to natural disasters. I had to take an earthquake preparedness course for my job. One thing they taught us which always stuck with me was to keep cash in the house. People tend to panic about a month’s worth of tinned potatoes, but a more likely occurrence would be electricity going out, internet/mobile towers going down, and no access to global banking systems so people might need to rely on cash. I don’t tend to be someone who ever has cash, I don’t buy into the paranoia about a cashless society, but thinking about it now, it’s probably sensible to have a small stash that could keep you going for a few days of essentials.

I did hear there was a version with adhesive on one side, to stick to clothing, for athletes, but I have not seen any for sale on the internet.

I always have enough food to do two weeks ( would be weird combinations) because I'm semi rural and have a disabled child.

I also have 30l of bottled water because when our water was cut off, people was queuing for hours until 30 hours in, then it calmed down.

I don't want to rely on someone else saving us in a squeeze as no one helped during covid and I needed specific things for disabled ds.

I have a water butt. Could I just use water purification tablets with the rainwater?

You’d want to filter it ideally to get rid of any particles floating in it (you can use tights) but yes you can use purification tablets or a few drops of bleach (quantities in link up thread))