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?

Echo what pps have suggested, I have loads of pasta, sauces, noodles, rice, tinned foods, cereal, long life milk, potatoes etc plenty of cat food too which I bulk buy when it's on offer.

If shit really hit the fan and we had no gas/electric/tap water I have an emergency stove and fuel tablets so I can still cook, I keep meaning to buy a wonderbag so I could slow cook food. A lighter to light the fuel too.
We have a wood burner but also foil blankets as well as lots of regular blankets and a hot water bottle to help us keep warm if we wanted to ration the wood.
Life straws and water purification tablets so we can drink rain water or river water once all the bottled water is gone.
A wind up solar radio which can also charge my phone or anything else that charges via usb, a wind up lantern and candles for light at night.
Hopefully all that would meet basic needs and help us survive without having to venture out.

Picking up vitamins for the kids today. Did a click and collect in Holland and Barrett, they had deals on.

Reckon if pandemic happens being as fit and healthy as we can will be best. I'd usually be confident in the diet I feed my children but a belt and braces approach won't hurt.

2 weeks?
Some bottled water for drinking, and make sure the rain butt is full for washing/toilet needs.
Dried and tinned milk for some extra, and 1 carton frozen.
Frozen meat (a mix of things - chicken, mince, salmon, prawns, lamb chops, sausages etc, but enough for at least 9 meals) and frozen dinners (spag bol etc)

Jars of sauces that we will eat (curries, pasta sauces, etc)
Rice, pasta, couscous - and my emergency packet of dried mashed potato - I always have a basket of regular potatoes anyway - a mix of roosters, baby potatoes and sweet potatoes, all of which are relatively long life
Tins of tuna, sweetcorn, tomatoes, coconut milk, chickpeas, spaghetti hoops, baked beans
Cartons of fruit juice
Packets of wraps - also relatively long life, and some part baked bread rolls
Biscuits, crisps, popcorn kernels/microwave popcorn to make
Squash, wine, beer, sparkling water

Eggs - at least 2 dozen if I thought I was likely to be stuck at home
Longer life veg - onions, garlic, carrots, butternut squash, cooking apples etc
Longer life fresh meats - bacon, chorizo etc.
Cured/smoked stuff - salamis, smoked salmon, etc
Hard cheese - cheddar, parmesan, smoked cheese etc

Baking ingredients - flour, sugar, butter, etc. Can make bread, pancakes, biscuits, cakes, pies - all both to eat and add variety, extend life of existing stocks, and also to pass the time if in a lockdown situation (so might make a proper cake and spend time decorating it beautifully, not just a basic loaf-cake to eat).

Emergency supplies - cleaning, first aid, antibac bottles, toilet rolls (lots), kitchen towel, bin bags....

Heating and lighting - candles, matches, firelighters, logs etc.

Batteries for torches, make sure the windup radio is working etc

Cards, board games, …..books

Partly my list is about if we were isolated for 2 weeks and needed to stay fed, watered and still sane.

And partly its about if there was a 2 week lockdown and potentially things going off so we needed to depend on ourselves - power, energy or communications grids going off etc.

But decent food, for main meals and snacks, entertainment (be that taking time to create nice meals/baking, computers/tv/movies if still have power etc, or things not needing power like crafting/reading/board and card games/jigsaws etc), and sufficient light, heat and power for that time would be the main things.

And having suitable sanitation - rain water butt for toilets, hand sanitiser, lots of toilet rolls, proper first aid kit and OTC meds (painkillers, immodium, motillium, arnica, antihistamines, cough stuff etc).

We are lucky to have a wood burning stove (although I need to replenish my wood supplies this weekend), a gas powered camping stove, a gas powered BBQ, a couple of solar lights and plenty of candles (we like the atmosphere so never run out ) that would do us in good stead.

The thing most likely to cause us problems is not getting outdoors and thus going stir crazy....if it was a lockdown. So thinking of things to get us moving indoors like yoga/pilates, fabric balls suitable to kick around indoors, and beanbags to play throwing games are also on my list of activities (we have both a lot of different balls including fabric ones and some beanbags).

Bump, for those asking what to buy.

Get a couple of new toys or games in if you have kids.

Chocolate 😂

Playing Cards
Phone and Charger... (mumsnet)
Books
Netflix
Comfy pillows
Paper & Pen

Bottled water - But i only drink that anyway....

Long life milk, Like Cravendale...
Thats the one we get anyway

Partner would be ok as long as he had, Coffee. Sweetner, Cereal, Milk, Fags, books and cds.... Actually he would be in paradise!

Where do you store the sugar so it doesn't ruin?

Plastic clipper lid box.

Just musing that ones' Lockdown stash would be different to ones' Brexit stash.

In Brexit I was assuming that we would get a limited amount of stuff from the shops. In lockdown, one would assume you would need everything in for a month or so.

I’ve just been looking at a few threads and doing some thinking this morning. We had been trying to clear out some older stocks at home in January so a few things we normally have a lot of are quite run down. I know I need wood for the stove. And my meds stocks have definitely been depleted. So, once I get home from another work trip tonight, I need to get out tomorrow and acquire a few things.

I have a few masks from not needing them on a trip to China 2 years ago (we had fears about my asthma coping with the smog- but it was fine). We have a fair amount of anti-bac in various places, but I need to find the small bottles and also get a couple of larger ones for beside sinks. And more tissues. We’ve all had the regular flu jab this year but I have a bout of sinusitis that has persisted for 7 weeks so far that is annoying me so maybe I need to try and see GP to get it gone.

Various meds need restocking. General Pain and flu remedies, Imodium, my asthma and dd tablets.

More loo rolls (my Christmas extras are disappearing).

Ground coffee, water, part baked bread.

My freezer is stufffed just now and a fair amount in the fridge but not a lot of fruit and veg.

Entertainment is reasonable and so are resources if other things happen like power outages etc, we have light, alternative modes of cooking, heat (once I get wood) etc. Could do with petrol in the car.

But I need to make some time to do those few restocks around a pretty full-on schedule.

Although liquid refreshments are fine - I bought 6 bottles of Prosecco as I was in Lidl and had the car at the weekend!!

At least you can die merry...