Store cupboard - in case of emergency

ginnyknit

After being housebound during the snow with disabled Dh I decided to have an emergency box but not stockpile as such.

dandy-candy

I like having my larder stocked for so if I get sick or am very busy then I still have enough at hand to feed us for days. I buy the offers too because saving money makes sense! For (very) rare emergencies I do have candles and torches, firewood and coal.
I am rather a fan of American websites and they seem far more "hardcore" when it comes to preps! Not only do they prep for problems they have that we luckily don't like hurricanes, but they seem to prep for a total breakdown of society whether through terrorism, economic collapse or war. They have lists of stocks they hold like water purification systems, generators, money in gold, goods like cigarettes and alcohol for bartering, emergency meds like antibiotics and morphine, vast supplies of tinned and dried foods and sacks of flour to last a year, weapons for home defense - the list goes on!! It's ever so much fun to read all the information and you can glean fascinating facts, but is it necessary really do you think? Anyone here keeping a few "extreme" preps tucked away?

Linda32

Hi, no we don't here. I have a few things in preperation for Christmas but thats all.

I have a weeks worth of dinners in the freezer at the start of the week and they diminish over the week.

I guess if we ate everything we had got and that includes eating the veg on its own in the freezer (assuming thats still working, and we have gas to cook them) then we'ed have enough for about 3 weeks, if we had peas for breakfast that is

Thinking of baking, I have enough butter and flour for a cake but only 1 egg.

We do have a wind-up torch but thats only because we have got it, not bought for any reason. I think it was a present.

Candles - we have citronella ones which you use outside.

Edited to add, medicine, nether of us take essential medicine, we have paracetamol, antiseptic ointment, dressings.

Al1x

I do stock up on beans and tinned food etc when they are on special offer. I'm not saving them up for a disaster though (lol) but I haven't had to buy anything tinned for about a month now!

adelight

Erm, not really. My Dad is mr generator-amateur-communications- antibiotics-enough food to feed the 5000... but I just have a lot of asprin and first aid incase of sudden hangovers or tonsilitis and like to buy special offers.

Fruball

:eek: that makes for scary reading... I guess if you have the space then its a good idea to store up for a major disaster... esp in this day and age

I am a worrier by nature and that has freaked me out a bit tbh!

*quickly rummages in bag for valium and heads off to lie down in a dark room *

dandy-candy

Don't panic Frugal! Sounds like we should all head over to adelight's dad's house if trouble heads our way

Penelope_Penguin

There are lots more ideas in this thread I'll merge this one later to keep ideas together.

lostinrates

I prep quite a lot. Perhaps because some of my childhood was in America and American influenced places, and perhaps because I'm used to things like hurricanes. My mother preps too, and we are from a family very proud of its heritage as pioneers, I always think we are preparing in case we need to found another country I'm in the Health and Beauty Boards ''no more buying toiletries'' because my stockpiling of toiletries won't be most needed in a harsh winter or emergency.

fwiw it WAS really useful last year when we had v. bad snow, and our village was pretty well cut off...though we have a landrover and could still get out! I also once saved a friends bacon when her dogs ate the turkey from her larder on Christmas morning. For serious over prepping we had a spare turkey ...for if people wanted more turkey left overs ...

rachbc

No, but I do think it makes for an entertaining read! I'm all for being prepared for things that are likely to happen, like bad weather or loosing a job but not for every worst case scenario that might ever occur. Having seen and read 'The Road' I've decided I'd rather not survive the apocolypse!