Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

izzybusy23

sb44 wrote: »

Has anyone started to stock up on basic foodstuffs etc in case they or their partners are made redundant?

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).

No.. my parents put me off doing this because of the whole Y2K thing. They stockpiled everything they could get their hands on (yankies, need I say more) as they were adamant the world was going to fall into total mahem and people would be on the streets with guns and rioting and that there would be nothing in the shops... :rolleyes: Funnily enough, they have started doing it again and have started harping on that I should too. Maybe I should listen to them this time?

izzybusy23

mewbie wrote: »

Do you think our Y2K stash will still be OK?

You're on my wavelength today!!! :beer:

wymondham

hansi wrote: »

If it's the end of the world, who cares what we're wearing:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :T :T :T :T

If it's the end of the world I won't be wearing anything (if I'm lucky!!) - we'll get 5 minutes minutes warning won't we?

(just been told by my wife 3 mins is time enough.......)

petcorner

OMG!!!

we are down to the orange & strawberry creams in the Roses tin, the end of the world is definately here:eek: :eek:

dopester

LydiaJ wrote: »

Somebody asked about bottling tap water (sorry can't be bothered to go back and see who it was and quote them). It doesn't work. You can bottle tap water for a day or two, but after that it starts to go green and grow algae or something. Bottled water doesn't do that.

Tap or premium bottled water, probably best if you keep it away from daylight for storage purposes.

SAS Survival Handbook (Home Front section)

Store water in the dark. If light gets to it green algae will develop. Water is bulky and heavy. Do not store it in the attic or it might bring the ceiling down.

Even without advance warning there will be water in the storage tank, heating pipes, radiators, perhaps an aquarium, and the toilet cistern will hold another few gallons - don't flush it.

Central heating water is usually treated with a de-oxygenising agent and a car radiator probably contains anti-freeze, so water from these places is best kept for cleaning purposes. If it has to be used for drinking boil it, collect the steam in clean cloths and wring them out. Then reboil.

Boiled water tastes flat and distilled water has even less taste. It is easy to restore some of its sparkle by putting oxygen back in to it: simply pour the water back and forth from one vessel to another. A small piece of charcoal placed in the vessel whilst it boils also helps taste.

mandragora_2

'A small piece of charcoal placed in the vessel whilst it boils also helps taste.'

Will coal do?

Waterwalker

Any one know how many new accounts have been started at COSCO & MAKRO since the start of November !
If you buy in bulk its cheaper, will not go to waste and saves loads in petrol / diesel.

clobber_2

Rocketing cocoa prices? Belgium bust?


I spy a business opportunity. Ima gonna start me a chocolate stockpile.


(This, like all my other business ideas, is doomed to failure. No matter how big the stockpile, it would last mere hours in my hands. There is a reason i work in the public sector).

Baileys_Babe

oldMcDonald wrote: »

But what if your tongue froze to the ice and you were stuck until you thawed?

What if you don't have a car and had to lick someone elses? And you froze to it? And they came out to the car and didn't notice you and drove off?

All things considered, I don't think this is a very cunning plan, Cat695.

This made me laugh so much I was crying as I told DP, thank you

drbeat

petcorner wrote: »

the cockroaches, if the sci fi channel is to be believed:eek:

Taken from http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/02/23/1567313.htm?site=science/greatmomentsinscience

"we discovered that we humans are much more susceptible to radiation than insects, and will die after a dose of some 400 - 1,000 rads. For example, some people as far as 21 kilometres from Ground Zero at Hiroshima received doses of 1,200 rads - and suffered slow and agonising deaths. But insects turned out to be much more radiation resistant. Wood-boring insects and their eggs were able to survive doses of 48,000 to 68,000 rads with no apparent ill effect. In 1959, Drs. Wharton and Wharton found that it took 64,000 rads to kill the fruit fly, and a colossal 180,000 rads to be sure of killing the parasitoid wasp, Habrobracon.

As a result of all this testing, it gradually emerged that the cockroach is, at least in terms of nuclear survivability, a wimp. The two Drs. Wharton had found in 1957 that it took only 1,000 rads to interfere with cockroach fertility. In 1963, Drs. Ross and Cochran found that a dose as low as 6.400 rads would kill 93% of immature German cockroaches - making cockroaches only six to fifteen times tougher than we frail humans. Sure, cockroaches survive radiation better than we do - but they curl up and die at doses than don't even bother other insects."