Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

beaujolais-nouveau

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Another family discussion over Christmas chez NDG. Can or should you eat bacon which is 2 weeks out of date? Pasta which is 8 months out of date? My mother reckoned "yes" to both, but was out-voted.

That's what your sense of smell is for. I agree with your mother.

And if you find weevils in your biscuits, just tap the biscuits on the side of the plate to knock the weevils out and then eat biscuit.

Phirefly

Consider yourselves to have all officially lost the plot. Clearly everyone's been going stir crazy stuck indoors with just crap TV and even crapper relatives as the only alternative to the madness that is this thread.

mizzbiz

fc123 wrote: »

That's about 1000 bottles for us from Lidl...don't think they have that amount in stock. This is why people die I guess....you never get around to buying your 1000 bottles of water as they don't fit in the car and it would bust the months food budget.....so armaggedon comes..and you get caught out.

Can't you just bottle your tap-water?

Believe me if it got to the stage that you wouldn't care too much about a bit of fluoride and anti-biotics that they add :-)

Seriously, is there any reason you can't bottle tap water and store but you can bottled water? I imagine the microbial content is the same since bottled water half the time is just tap water anyway.

amcluesent

I reckon stocking up with food/water/meds won't do much good. The Civil Contingencies Act and unfettered enabling powers (Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act) that NuLabour introduced will see to that.

Using "temporary" emergency regulations, you'll be commanded to hand over 'hoarded' food for communal distribution on pain of being shot. A cadre of very, very dangerous people (Common Purpose) have assiduously prepared everything in advance in readiness to exploit the coming chaos to sieze absolute power.

N.B. It's generally believed that the Met Police have a secret armoury with enough weapons to arm all 25,000 police in London, to be used to control the population after a Nuclear/Biological/Chemical mass-casualty event.

mewbie_2

amcluesent wrote: »

N.B. It's generally believed that the Met Police have a secret armoury with enough weapons to arm all 25,000 police in London, to be used to control the population after a Nuclear/Biological/Chemical mass-casualty event.

Let's hope and pray that another 15% off houses and the closure of Woolies doesn't trigger their use.

nickmason

mewbie wrote: »

I guess if all else fails we can eat Zeno's tortoise.

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T
This made me laugh out loud.

(Although sadly you'd never catch the damned thing)

sb44

I think some people didn't read my first post at the start of this thread.

I was asking about stocking up just in case you or your partner lost their jobs.

Where did all of this ' The end is nigh ' and when the bomb drops stuff come from.

:rolleyes:

It all does make for interesting reading though with quite a few laughs along the way.

:T

BettiePage

Zelie wrote: »

OK, there seems to be some confusion over what food to stock and what not. Naturally people want to stock healthy food but don't seem sure what's classed as fruit and veg. There's actually much more nutrition in basic foodstuffs than you'd think. Consider the example below:

Black Forest Gateaux contains:

Cherries, a fruit.
Chocolate, from cocoa beans, it's a legume which counts as a vegetable.
Sugar, from sugar beet, a vegetable.
Flour, from wheat, it's a vegetable.
Cream, from cows, who eat grass, a vegetable.
Eggs, from chickens, who eat corn, a vegetable.


Hope this helps.

I'd love this post as my sig. Think it's too big though. :T

Kez100

Read opening posts? When did that become the done thing to do?

drbeat

sb44 wrote: »

Where did all of this ' The end is nigh ' and when the bomb drops stuff come from.

That came from the "war store" post.