What now?

[InShockReally]

U.K. Preppers - what should we do to prepare for the next few weeks/months/years of shit? Or is it all too late?

I have one tin of beans.

Oh - easier said than done I know. Maybe give it a week or two Lois, things are still so unclear right now.

For us, on the one hand our jobs are not secure, but on the other things might get a lot more expensive very soon. So we've stocked up the cupboards over here of vital stuff we'll need, as that's not a bad idea anyway.

And we're crossing our fingers that it might still come to some sort of deal - but that's another ten thousand threads thread.

One tin of beans would be too much for me, I hate the stuff!

Well if push comes to shove, dog food contains everything the human body needs nutrition wise

Although there probably is a reason a dog licks it's nads.

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I'm impressed that you could even contemplate the obvious possibility, gamer.

I couldn't bend that much even if I was minded to.

Heh gave me quite a picture there cozie

My local Sainsburys has run out of baked beans and vodka, clearly the end of the world in Hampshire. Plenty of dog food left on the shelves though, which is good in light of gamerchicks comments.

Dog food! I could cover it in tomato sauce

There's another thread running atm about a bbc radio programme predicting issues with food supply. How much does everyone have stored?

As much as I normally have. As I mentioned upthread, if the CSZ has a full-margin rupture - as it might in the next 5 minutes - everything else might seem, with all the consequences, as nought.

Our beans and a box of popcorn have gone missing, last I saw them the kids were playing shopping with them - a few dys ago.
I fear they know something we don't and started their own plans

Ha!

The trouble with stockpiling food and drink is that you have to choose things that you will actually eat and drink so that you can rotate them if needs be.(And preferably eat or drink them without power.) You might actually have to start amending your diet right now.

I would imagine that lots of us do that already though?

My stockpile would probably be heavily criticised by a real prepper. In the event of imminent SHTF scenario resulting in us being housebound for six months we would be eating very odd combinations of food. However, whilst we all like to joke about zombies and the like, it isn't really for that. It's for times of "disaster" for our family - which could include job loss and food price hikes. I just buy more of everything we use each time I shop (as well as a few long life items that we don't necessarily each much of but would if we had to). As a result I have lots of rice, pasta, flour, spices, salt, sugar, cooking oil, etc as well as things like cous cous, noodles, crackers, beans, pasta sauces/pesto and pastes such as tagine paste and curry paste, sweetcorn and other tinned veg, tinned fish, juice etc. I rotate it by putting the week's shopping to the back of the larder and using the stuff at the front - it isn't difficult really.

If food prices went barmy we would at least have a head start.

plus we can cook and bold water on the log burner if necessary.

That's fair. Especially with regard to the spices and 'supporting' foodstuffs. They're frequently surprisingly expensive.

The thing I'd be fairly thoughtful about, if I were a pet owner, would be pet food, litter, bedding etc. Humans can 'make do' more easily than many domestic animals.