Two week lockdown ? What would you stash?

[BlackeyedSusan]

What would you stash for two weeks worth of provisions? Or a month?

New posters have been asking.

Veteran preppers and Brexit stashers have written many threads that have many ideas.

Breakfasts, lunch, snacks, dinner, drinks, laundry, cleaning, pets, nappies, entertainment, treats, OTC medicines, cash sanpro personal hygiene.

What could you not live without?

What do your family eat?

What would you use as substitutes if you ran out of fresh stuff? Eg would you use long life milk on cereal, or swap to something else entirely for breakfast?

What have you got in the cupboards now? Can you base your meals around that?

What nutrients do you need for a healthy diet? How are you going to provide those? Do you need to have a different plan for different people in your family?

Examples: DD drinks soya milk. Ds has got powdered milk.

Ds will eat last night's tea for breakfast as an alternative to cereal.

Protein comes mainly from tinned beans, lentils chickpeas, with a few chicken curry tins for D's.

I have frozen and tinned vegetables.

Two tins evap milk. 1kg sugar. One block real butter. Vanilla essence. Makes a big batch of fudge.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/2671211/recipe/delicious-homemade-vanilla-fudge

My kids like making it and it's lovely so we always have enough in the cupboards (and butter in the freezer) to make a few batches.

Not life saving but if we went on lock down it would make life nicer.

Making life nicer is a factor people always forget. Especially with kids it's vital.

I have a fussy eater in dd - despite all the lovely organic fruit and veg purées I made for when she was weaning - eyes to heaven/ hands wringing"they promised me that would help tackle fussy eating "- anyway, I digress. That fudge idea looks great.

I have various jarred sauces - curry, pasta - as a kind of shortcut. But breakfast is an important thing to include in any preps. I have pancake mix that just needs water, for example.

Is it the Krusteaz one?

We use that too, always have a bag on the go and a spare. Great for when we get snow and there's no milk or bread for breakfast.

Your list is good. Mine adds:
batteries/power packs
fuel
sterilising fluid
first aid kit (I know you’ve got medicines on but having a set of dressings/bandages/antiseptic/pins always handy)
vitamins
Battery powered radio

That’s off the top of my head.

@SharpieInThe - yep. Despite or perhaps because it sounds like something from the Simpsons!

Speaking as someone waiting for a flight out of Hong Kong right now, I would stock lots of the following:
Surgical gloves
Hand sanitizer
N95 face masks, washable, with spare filters, or failing that regular surgical masks including child size
Dettol wipes
Motion sickness medication that is suitable for children
Antihistamines
Thermometer
Wine, gin and chocolate, or whatever is your little indulgence

Bloody hell @RevolutionofourTime, hope you're out safe and well soon.

Thank you for sharing.

I've just bought an extra bag of potatoes. I'm going to freeze mash and cheesy baked spuds. It'll all get used.

(cue the cross of 'Don't be ridiculous. Someone 250 miles away will have a sniffle and that'll be it').

Pet food
Potatoes/onions
Tinned meat veg fish
Eggs
Tinned soup
Rice/pasta
Chocolate
Porridge oats
Long life milk
Freezer is full of veg/meat/batch cooked meals
Cooking oils/dried herbs/spices
Baking stuff
Usual fridgeful of fresh veg/cheese/salad
Couple extra of all the toiletries we use
Washing powder/cleaning stuff
Medication
Hand sanitiser
Bottled water (2x 5l)
Wind up torch/radio
Water purifier
Solar powered/wind up phone charger
Head torch
Batteries
Matches
Candles

Books, paper, puzzle books, games.
Contact details written down

And a tin opener, scissors, and another tin opener. We'll be scuppered if it breaks.

When you wake up in the morning and find a whole thread you had posted and forgotten about.

Breakfast:
Several sorts of cereal
Soya milk for DD
Dried milk powder.
Dried fruit, sultanas, raisins, apricots
Seeds, pumpkin, sunflower etc

Pasta, spaghetti ( wholemeal)
Cous cous
Brown rice
Crackers of various sorts.
Noodles
Pearl barley
Quinoa
Tinned potatoes
Bread flour
Yeast
Self-raising and plain flour
Wraps,
Part baked bread
Oil
Pizza bases.

Potatoes in fridge

Tinned carrots, peas, sweetcorn, mushroom.
Tinned tomatoes, Passata tomato puree
Tinned beans, baked, black, black eye,kidney,butter, canellini, chickpeas

Dried beans and chickpeas
Dried peas
Dried lentils

Tinned tomato soup ( portion of veg)
Tinned fruit.
Dried fruit as above

Tinned fish, tinned chicken and pies.

There are lots of tinned meats out there to try.
Cheese in fridge,
Chicken, fish fingers in freezer.
Beans and pulses as above

Anchovies, olives, spices, herbs. Stir in sauces and cooking sauces.

Snacks: crisps, biscuits, sweets, chocolate tortilla chips. Cereal bars.

Quick heat: packs of cous cous, add water noodles and cup shots, cous cous. Soups, cupasoups.

Fridge: potatoes, onions butternut squash are long lasting.

Cheese, spreads, butter. Eggs.

Longer term preps.

Cooking outdoors:
Kelly kettle
Disposable BBQ and stand,
Charcoal.
Matches,
Camping cooking pans.
Solar kettle.

Wind up lantern, torches, battery torches, batteries, head torch. Solar power bank.

In the garage I have sheep wool off a fence, dried sticks. Lots of rubbish.

Compost, pots, seeds, tomato feed.

Alcohol.

Definitely. I don't really drink but those who do should have some in.

I do like elderflower champagne though and have got bottles ready, and sugar.

I'm going to freeze mash and cheesy baked spuds.

Can I ask how you do the baked potatoes? Do you cook them fully before freezing and add the cheese before? Sounds like a good thing to have in the freezer. How long do they take to reheat after and do you have to defrost first? I literally have no clue.

The things I would most want in is frozen fish and lots of cheese in the fridge for DS as that is mostly the only protein he will eat, UHT orange juice and milk and loads of cereal, a thermometer (because we don't have one) and increased stocks of paracetamol and ibuprofen as well as strepsils. Also Spatone for me as I get woozy and weird if I don't have it.

And of course stock up my existing Brexit stash with more meal ideas, some extra gluten free things including perhaps some GF bread flour mixes if they exist. Also eggs.

Assuming lockdown was pandemic related then also the gloves, facemasks, dettol etc etc from others previous posts.

I am getting limited on space here so am operating a use it and replace it strategy right now!

@Skyejuly me too. I was hoping for a nice calm Brexit and being able to run the stash down before restocking for potential no deal in December. Fed up of having everywhere full of food.

Added petroleum jelly, topped up on antibac and squash from Sainsbury's so mostly full again. Need some biological laundry liquid, but I do have powder.

What's the petroleum jelly for? Something specific or is it just a handy thing to have?

Someone up thread or another thread recommended it. Use it for chapped lips and hands, sore noses etc. The Sainsbury's version is cheaper than Vaseline.