Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

Sylvan

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Wot and miss out on those lovely shiny tubs?

They look so appealing...

You could stack them all the way to the ceiling, so storage wouldn't be an issue. And there must be a use/market for the tubs when they are empty.

FFM

Yup.
Use a hot poker to make holes in the bottoms and grow spuds in 'em.
Link several together with bits of hosepipe so you can collect lots of rainwater.
Store Dopester's dog food in them to protect it from the meeces.
Store Dopester in them to protect him from the zombie chavs.

Oops, sorry - better get back to the OS board before I get carried away (in a wooden box?)

I've been reading some of the madder posts to DH. He asked whether I'm sure I'm not just talking to myself.

WTF?_2

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

Hmmn, where do you live - can I come and shop where you shop? Flour, bread, eggs, fruit, green vegetables like spinach and watercress, tinned sardines and sweet corn, rice, chocolate, have gone up hugely in price. At my local Sainsburys, the sardines went up from 35p to 42p. Things like rice didn't go up only because of the oil price rise but because the governments of the producing countries set a cap on exports, to help ensure that their own people could buy rice but it didn't always work, and there were food riots in some countries. Also, this has coincided with the problems caused by too much land being turned over to growing bio-fuels instead of food crops.

Anything imported is going to become horribly expensive or unobtainable.

Yeah, food has gone up quite a bit but I don't think it will continue to go up and will quite likely get a bit cheaper in the next year.

Having said that of course, most won't have seen wage rises that kept up with the increases in cost of living so even if it has stabilised, many people are still struggling.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Our diet is going to go retro. Oh no just like the 1970's diet I grew up on.

When a Vesta curry shared between a family of four was a celebration meal.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

that American year's supply of grub takes up 22 cubic feet, so you'd need quite a bit of space for a year's supply for all four of you!

22 cubic feet. *mentally thinks that through*
Just stack it against a wall in a bedroom. Drape a sheet over it.
22 one-feet-cubes could go 5 along the skirting and stack 4 high with 2 in the middle on the 5th row.

A._Badger

Food imported from the Eurozone (much of our fruit, for example) will go up as long as the pound continues to sink against the Euro. Ditto for the prices of any imported food paid for in US dollars.

oldMcDonald

PasturesNew wrote: »

22 cubic feet. *mentally thinks that through*
Just stack it against a wall in a bedroom. Drape a sheet over it.
22 one-feet-cubes could go 5 along the skirting and stack 4 high with 2 in the middle on the 5th row.

Even better, make shapes out of them before hiding them under a sheet - a sofa, a couple of chairs - maybe a footstool, even? Probably just as comfortable (but a lot more hardwearing) than Land Of Leather crap!

Belnahua

GDB2222 wrote: »

You need to stockpile 2 litres of water per day per member of the family. So, how many days do you want to last out for, bearing in mind that you may get eaten by your neighbours just for your water content?

Right, I've taken your advice and stockpiled the required amount of water. Should be okay now.

And I've just discovered there's a basement in the house. Floorboards are weaker than you think.....

oldMcDonald

Why hasn't Dopester posted on here today? I hope we haven't scared him/her off with talk of Dopester casserole!

(Is Dopester a he or she?)

fc123

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Even better, make shapes out of them before hiding them under a sheet - a sofa, a couple of chairs - maybe a footstool, even? Probably just as comfortable (but a lot more hardwearing) than Land Of Leather crap!

That's a good idea, seriously, rather than stack and store, create useful shapes out of the tins and packets. Large bags of pasta would make an OK beanbag.

funkyfunkymonkey

fc123 wrote: »

That's a good idea, seriously, rather than stack and store, create useful shapes out of the tins and packets. Large bags of pasta would make an OK beanbag.

Now you're talking, howabout a water bladder for the water storage problems which can double as a water bed?

http://store.interstateproducts.com/images/pillow_tanks/75k_water_bladder_-_large.jpg;jsessionid=0a010c441f43b05dcf457f37479dbd3fcbd78001ff22.e3eTa3aSaxmTe34Pa38Ta38Nc3j0

FFM