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Think about what you like to eat. Look at your cupboards, you old till receipts and your old meal plans. What would your meal plan be if you were off camping or were snowed in for a few days?
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Look to buy shelf stable versions of that. So eg tinned mackerel instead of fresh, tinned or long life sachet of chilli con carne instead of home cooked, UHT/evaporated milk instead of fresh.
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What are your dietary preferences/restrictions? Work around those. For example I’m pretty much Keto, but happy to occasionally chuck some beans in a chilli or sliced potato on a hotpot. I would work in more carbs in a crunch situation though.
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Make sure you cover the nutritional bases - protein and unprocessed healthy fat (butter, ghee, olive oil, coconut, oily fish etc). Full spectrum of amino acids if you are veggie. Glucose/starch is a useful fuel. Beware of sugar in the context of food shortages beyond a small morale boosting treat, it can lead to metabolic dysregulation and health issues (longer term scale… Venezuela has a terrible problem with metabolic illness and obesity despite appalling food shortages. No, Brexit shortages won’t “solve the obesity crisis” as I’ve seen mentioned on here). Vitamins and minerals. So good quality meat/pate/fish, frozen or tinned vegetables, tinned fruit in water or light juice (not syrup). Vitamin D, take a high strength supplement and/or regularly get a good 10 - 20 mins of noonday sun from April to September. An A - Z multi is a useful insurance policy.
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Have various options to fall back on, build in resilience. So if the power goes off for more than 12 hours, your chicken kievs, meat balls and ice cream in the freezer will be toast. Solid joints of meat are probably ok up to 24 hours, as long as you don’t open the door. We had a 20 hr cut last summer and it was fine. If mice get your flour/pasta then you also have tins (get mousetraps!). Don’t forget cooking methods. If the gas or electric goes off, do you have an alternative cooking method? Camping stove (USE OUTSIDE DUE TO CARBON MONOXIDE HIGH RISK!), gas barbeque, kelly kettle cook set, solar oven etc etc. If your main kettle is electric, do you have a gas stove kettle (if you have a gas hob) in case the electric goes off?
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Think of prepping in “tiers”, some of which will be in use along side each other, depending on your lifestyle, household set up, assessment of risk etc.
So you’d have a fridge stocked up with your usual amount of fresh food.
A full freezer. Don’t forget you can freeze things like butter and cheese.
A well stocked pantry with the usual things you like to eat, but extended to the timescale you expect disruption to possibly last.
A second pantry cupboard with tins & other long life items, that are lower preference but useful fall backs. So tinned chilli, macaroni cheese, evaporated milk, spam etc.
Ultra long term, you’d get Huel or MREs, or look at homesteading… vegetable and fruit growing and/or lifestock - hens, backyard pig etc.
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Water supply disruption - have the means to filter and treat water. Filtration bag, boiling, water purification tablets etc. Water containers.
Power disruption - power banks for mobile phones/gadgets, spare batteries, battery powered lamps, USB light bulbs, torches, solar/hand cranked charger, wind up or solar radio.
Fuel shortages - well maintained bike and panniers. Don’t forget the roads will be safer without heavy traffic so it will be a viable option!
Safety, health and wellbeing - first aid kit, fire blanket/extinguisher, OTC basic meds, prescription meds, home security, first aid manual or ideally training, home medical encyclopedia, herbal medicine book.
Also don't forget basic toiletries and household stuff - soap, clothes detergent, dish detergent, deodorant, bin bags, toothpaste etc.
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