Thread for suggestions for a snowed-in emergency pack

[ItalianLady]

Pet food.
Nappies.
Toiletries.
Washing detergent.
Tinned goods.

Add your own.

We are currently snowed in and it is still snowing.

Chocolate
candles
bottled water

wine

powdered milk

torch
milk
er... crisps

Crisps
Chocolate
Cake
Coffee
Tea
Milk
Toilet roll

Oh and some fruit so the kids don't get scurvy whilst living on the above.

yes powered milk or freezer supplies of milk. Also extra bread in the freezer.

Hot water bottles
Batteries
New clean bucket for storing drinking water

Also ideas for making meals out of the usual cupboard stuff as my food delivery has just been cancelled.

candles, bread flour and yeast, milk (always keep it in the freezer anyway), lentils or yellow split peas for soup, tinned fruit, frozen veg. Honestly, even in the arse end of nowhere where it took a JCB to dig them out twice last year, my parents have never starved. We used to love it as kids, baked tatties cooked in foil in the fire because there was no electricity, fab!

My kids have been eating snow in a cup with squash poured on top. Much cheaper than those 'Ice Blasts' you buy at the cinema.
Do you think it'll do them any long term damage?

Paraffin lamp and fuel in case there's a power cut.

Toilet Rolls

Lighter/matches, storm kettle/camping stove, candles, wind up torch, wind up phone recharger, wind up radio,

all prescription drugs, condoms, tampons or similar

leatherman tool or similar, vaseline

tinned food you can eat hot/cold (baked beans and rice pudding), favourite sweeties, Kendal mint cake

Hip flask

costco do a really good powdered mash

tinned soup including beef consomme as you use that for a sauce

candles(we had a power cut for 6 hours the other night.

biscuits

chocolate

lentil,soup mix(split peas, pearl barley)
smoked bacon(keeps longer)

just made a lovely corned beef stew with an atora suet crust.... with beetroot or red cabbage (yummy)

freeze sausage meat and puff pastry for home made sausage rolls.

get loads of root veg in and make homemade soups.
any out of date bread make croutons/with herbs or garlic.

keep philly cheese with garlic/chives in to put on dried pasta.

make a childrens mousse from jelly and a tin of carnation milk whipped up. its lovely.

i freeze bananas for making banana muffins so it doesnt matter if they go brown.

what have you got in your cupboard italianlady

bread flour and yeast
plain and self raising flour, butter, sugar eggs etc for bisuits/cakes etc..(yummy, plus baking helps entertain snow bound kids!)
torches and batteries
matches
longlife milk
frozen veg
tinned fruit
tinned soup
pasta
tinned tomatoes
fozen mince
instant hot chocolate
Toilet rolls
Sanitary towels (don't leave it till the day you're due on expecting to pop to the shops having only 1 left from last month )
chocolate - lots
wine - lots

Wine.
More wine
Spare wine
emergency wine
Vodka

I buy huge catering size bottles of sweet chilli sauce because that will make all sorts of food taste good. It's great with meat, pasta, potatoes, sandwiches

Long life milk and yoghurts (would not eat until I absolutely had to as am sure they are vile)

Catering size bags of pasta and rice

Tinned fruit, custard, pulses, beans, soup

booze.
cigs.

Everything else can wait till the snow has melted.

Haha soupdragon I like yor thinking. Very important to have emergency wine for when the spare wine has all gone due the wine being drunk. I want to get snowed in at your house

Pesto sauce in a jar and pasta. If all else has gone or frozen in the freezer, this is an easy meal, filling and warm. Better still if you have an onion, red pepper and tin of chopped tomatoes and a tin of tuna/chicken/prawns to add to it.

Soups.
Milk in freezer.
Tea/coffee.
Squash.

Kids pain relief (Dd has ear ache as I type, so glad of Nurofen).
Something for upset tummies.
Paracetamol.
Regular meds; don't run out!

Candles, matches/wind up torches.

all of teh above.

i've got long life milk, loads of salt to grit the steps, toiletries, paracetomal, inahlers, loo roll and a well stocked freezer and lots of tinned stuff

baby wipes

i've filled my car with petrol and it's having a winter service on monday to make sure the brakes etc are ok..

however, we have no snow

@ Lulumaam. Hope you get your brakes checked before your the snow arrives. Mine were supposed to be done by my brother, but he somehow hasn't had time yet...they are ok actually, but I'd feel better if they had been replaced.

Salt.
We couldn't get any normal salt in January, there are 10 steps up to our house, it's lethal. At one point it got that bad I was using DH's expensive sea salt on the steps.
Last week I remembered our lack of salt problem and bought 7 boxes from Lidl for 14 pence each.

makes note must go to lidl

my big asda shop arrived tonight, with 8 tubs of table salt. !!

Good walking boots. I've had mine years and they are a Godsend, not slipped at all so far, and helped push a car out of the way Tuesday night.