Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

fc123

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Biscuits - yes (life without Hobnobs:eek: no way)
Teabags, water and UHT milk - yes
Chocolate (Toblerones) - yes
Dog food - yes (don't want the mutts eating you before you get to the point of thinking about pooch casserole)
Wine.

Anything I've forgotten?

Other way round? You'd have to casserole the dogs for protein.

OldMcDonald..you'll get scurvy...not enough nutrients in hobnobs and chocolate.

GDB2222

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?

mandragora_2

fc123 wrote: »

Other way round? You'd have to casserole the dogs for protein.

OldMcDonald..you'll get scurvy...not enough nutrients in hobnobs and chocolate.

Don't eat the dogs - apologies to my vegetarian son... but it's not for any ethical reasons - I think there's something poisonous in their livers - it did for some artic explorers who took to eating the huskies when all else gave out. Starvation didn't get them, it was the toxins saw them off.

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~kpt/terraquest/va/history/ages/heroic.html

phil_b_2

You can count on threads like this to weed out the nutters. I mean honestly, loading up on extensive food supplies incase you lose your job... ok.

If you lose your job I think your food bill will be the least of your worries. You can eat very cheaply if needs be.

beaujolais-nouveau

fc123 wrote: »

I am getting worried now....but it would only work if you had enough to keep you going until your own crops were ready to harvest...that would take a year? How much food would keep you fed for 1 year? And you can't live on packets and tins and white flour pasta...you'd get scurvy and die of that instead.

I started with rice. Tens of millions of people all over the world subsist on rice, with or without something like fish. I worked how much rice I would need if I had to eat it twice a day for a year, ie 2 ounces x 365 + the same amount for the dog. (My dog has had home-made meals since last summer, after I read the label on the packet of his commercially-made dried dog food and found that it was half rice and included salt - why would anyone feed a dog salt!) Ditto porridge oats.

I would also suggest stocking up the first aid box with liquid Piriton in case anyone in the family gets stung by a bee or wasp. Even the dog can have Piriton (the vet said so), at the child's dose.

Kez100

Ahhhhh...we live near a spring! Always thought of it as a PITA (freezes across our drive in winter) may be our saviour. That and the fact I need to lose a few pounds. Possibly better not to join WW in january but save the fiver a week and spend on the stockpile.

Surely imports will keep coming - those countries need the income? Not arguing it may go up in price, but surely we should still be supplied.

PasturesNew

My mum has always had at least 6 months' food in the cupboards. An old war habit I think. You need a torch to search for a tin of peas under the stairs.

oldMcDonald

fc123 wrote: »

Other way round? You'd have to casserole the dogs for protein.

OldMcDonald..you'll get scurvy...not enough nutrients in hobnobs and chocolate.

Ah, but wine must be full of vit C as it is made from grapes

Snooze

Everyone_above wrote:

[unnecessary worrying/scare-mongering]

!!!!!! is wrong with you people???? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Rob :rolleyes:

mewbie_2

Aren't we all supposed to head for the Scottish highlands? Hope my Tom Tom keeps working. Whatever happens it can't be as bad as changing all that old Cobol code to handle 4 digit years, that was real suffering.