Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

dopester

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Here's a mad idea. Rather than spending money now on food to stockpile in case of redundancy, why not stockpile the money instead, and then if made redundant spend that on food that's fresh rather than spent months going mouldy in cupboards?

Rather you than me to venture out in search of fresh food, when the angry chav gangs start running amok during the first 6 months - before dying out - after their dole money is abolished and they find there aren't any paying jobs to do anyway.

jennyfromtheblog

Yes, I always make sure I've got a 'tray' of essentials from lidls - a tray being 16 or so tins at a time still in the packaging. - Kidney beans, soups, salad beans, rice pudding, soya milk. Whenever they have got a half price sale on an item I get even more - dishwasher tablets, razor blades etc.
What is it they say - we are 5 days from armagedon in the event of a financial meltdown - if the banks fail or the petrol goes dry and stops deliveries. Im ok for 16 days!!!

Kez100

themanbearpig wrote: »

You've eaten 20kg of pasta in 2 months? Very impressive.
Although the collapse of the banking system was an appropriate time to plan for the worst!

We're a big family!

Last of the turkey pasta anyone?

Cat695

well i guess i would like to offer myself to all the single females out there so we can continue the human race......obviously this is purely for saving the world!

beaujolais-nouveau

sb44 wrote: »

Has anyone started to stock up on basic foodstuffs etc

Yes. I started about two months ago. Reading the papers today, and after all the sales the like of which I have never seen in the last 40 years, I have a feeling that some really bad news about the economy is going to break next week. I have also been buying candles and tea lights by the dozen from everywhere - Lakeland currently has a sale, and my local M&S have discounted their pillar candles.

sb44 wrote: »

I think I read somewhere that you were best to have enough dry/tinned foodstuffs in for up to 6 months (not so much frozen in case we start having power cuts).

Anything imported is going to become unobtainable or very very expensive. As we in the UK import one-third of our food (unlike in 1947 when we hardly imported any food), we are going to notice it very quickly. I was buying vegetable seeds this afternoon.

mewbie_2

Do you think our Y2K stash will still be OK?

flaire

Following the 'Great Floods' of last year, I thought it would be prudent to arrange a small stockpile of tins, dried food, bottled water, candles, batteries, cleaning products and toilet paper (amongst other things). I do live in a flood risk area and while we were unaffected last time...next time we might not be so lucky.

I keep a little stock cupboard diary and rotate and use up and replace items going out of date.

I have about a months supply now.

Kind regards.

beaujolais-nouveau

mewbie wrote: »

Do you think our Y2K stash will still be OK?

I was a bit half-hearted about my Y2K stash and I've long ago eaten/drunk it. This crisis feels different, though.

Kez100

My wine rack is full!

Swipe

Why would someone being made redundant result in a food shortage? Are the supermarkets only allowing employed people to shop?