Show me your stockpiles

[SpunBodgeSquarepants]

Not because I'm keeping a list of who has food for when the shit hits the fan... Just because I'm a nosy bitch.

Here's mine - I started adding to it a few weeks ago. It's only me and almost 5yo DS I really have to worry about so I feel its almost there.

@IDoN0tCare , using kick board space/space under the bath is a prepper thing . I can't see in your house so you do what works for you. Your pantry, your rules.

Here it is the kickboards have been in the garage for 14 years and I have never quite got round to installing them...

Baby carrots. Not a fan of tinned carrots, but they’re good for stews.
Cracking idea for normal times too.

My treats stash. Won't last long to be fair but will be rationed. There are 4 of us (1 adult, 3 children).

My cupboard is pretty full, my freezer is full, and I have 2 under-bed storage boxes with various things: pasta, dried mash, baked beans, chopped tomatoes, UHT milk, garlic paste, chilli paste, passata, gnocchi, custard powder, hot chocolate, tea bags, sugar, cereal bars, rice, tinned fruit, flours. First aid kit, medication, toiletries, loo rolls, candles, matches, dishwasher tablets, laundry detergent, fabric softener, washing up liquid, nappies, baby wipes. Am doing a stocking up shop this week too.

Also vegetable oil, chocolate hobnobs, chocolate digestives, kit kats, condensed soup, dried fruit, golden syrup, noodles, oxo cubes, lentils,

My treats stash. I like your priorities PerverseConverse You can still get the Christmas tubs of sweets on special offer. They’re handy for rationing. I’ve actually stopped buying packets of sweets for my youngest’s lunch box and put some loose sweets in a wee tub for her. She says it’s better because she has more choice.

Reads PerverseConverse’s list and adds candles and boxes to stash, while counting kick boards.

Boxes of matches

@IDoN0tCare I have a big tin of Quality Street that I got in the post Christmas sale. It's good until the end of December so is for Christmas but if needs must...

I have a tub of Pringles and my favourite kettle chips too hidden in my bed drawer.

I have a tub of Pringles and my favourite kettle chips too hidden in my bed drawer.

There’s absolutely no way that would last until Brexit, in my bed drawer. Late night munchies. 😁

One tub of Pringles? I have one or two more. They are my stress relievers, and my tummy unfortunately shows it.

I was not going to do a forward purchase shop, but got distracted in ASDA and things accidentally fell in the trolley. Still forgot the sodding domestos which is what I went for. (Along with milk and bread)

I now have one tin of evaporated milk to try, and lots of peaches in light syrup just like the seventies treat tea. Also got myself rice pudding and a tin of chicken in white sauce, which I used to like and will do for a treat. Ds will probably like it as well. There may be some extra chocolate buttons just in case.

So added kidney beans, baked beans, peaches, rice pudding, chicken and white sauce, chopped tomatoes, chocolate and rice to the stash.

I don't like Pringles so they are for the children. They are the first of my snack collection.

Few bits extra 🤐

I actually think there's something quite perverse in some people's psyche whereby they positively seek a shortage and unrest etc. Nothing would make them happier than cracking open a tin of value soup on a Primus stove whilst hearing radio reports of total societal breakdown.
I mean come on here, first aid kits, matches, sleeping bags? Surely our duvets aren't going to combust? It's beyond ridiculous and I think it's targeting the simple and easily led. If there's going to be a shortage, it won't be in long life milk or even fresh milk. The country is packed to the gills with dairies.

Who are these people who actively seek shortages?

There is nothing wrong with people supporting each other and giving each other tips. No one wants this. Don't be ridiculous.

I think there's something quite perverse in peoples psyche where they are in a situation that could lead to food shortages and they don't take steps to prepare for that as a possibility. Particularly if they are responsible for children.

Nobody here wants there to be food issues. But if there are - and nobody can deny that its a possibility, then we want to be able to make life as normal as possible.

And this country is not self sufficient in dairy by a very long way.

If you know how dairy products get from cow to shop to consumer you will be quite rare.

This country is completely self sufficient in milk production.

But I totally agree that Brexit has ruined forever our dairy industry. Travesty. But definitely no need for milk powders or long life milk.

As it should be. But how does it get to the shops if the roads are clogged up? Assume you aren't old enough to remember the fuel strikes. Or the snow of a couple years ago which showed how vulnerable we are to food supply distribution problems.

And are you seriously going to go to the supermarket if it is full of angry panic buyers who assumed there would be no problems.

The uk is self sufficient in milk. It is not self sufficient in dairy as a whole. We are only 50 percent self sufficient in cheese, only 65 percent in butter, circa 90 percent in cream, circa 70 percent in yoghurt. Defra stats for 2018

littleredprincess’ you are my soul mate. 😁

Just for the benefit of those who think we’re over reacting, I’ll repost this from above.

I don’t care if anyone thinks I’m over reacting, nuts, unbritish, scaremongering or just paranoid. If the wonderful land of plenty materialises, then great, because I don’t have to shop for the following for months. If prices shoot up, then it gives me breathing space. If I or my children are sick, the weather is horrendous, or people start panic buying, then at least I’m prepared. If I don’t eat or go off stuff, I can give it to the food bank

My mum is now considering her stash might not be quite enough yet. When I said about not wanting to be going to the shops if the shit hits the fan she agreed she wouldn't want to be out shopping.

At what point would shortages hit do you think? And when will prices rise?

I think there will be a bit of panic buying as soon as it becomes REAL to people. I’m still being told by people that I’ll never happen. When the official news report is broadcast and people start seeing the first reports of ANY problems, it’ll start. That in turn will leave shortages for those who are not able to do the same. I’m actually collecting a separate storage for those friends and family close to me, so I can give them some bits and pieces. I’m not decimating my own store, but will try to help, without letting them know how much I actually have.