Store cupboard - in case of emergency

David_B_2

bonnie wrote:

According to net weather just looked it will be the coldest winter since 1991 but not until end of january, i doubt.
But didn't they say all this last year. It's to wet and mild for snow.

Yes, our local weather forcast was saying that last year and then blamed the met office when he got it wrong.

They really drive me mad, why bother forcasting months ahead when they RARELY get the weather right for the next 24/48 hours. Personnelly I don't listern to them anymore just take it as it comes.

Sorry back on subject. We always have a enough stuff in the cupboards without going mad and panic buying. The worst I'll get will be, it's not advisable to go out for maybe the next 48 hours unless you really need to, not the end of the world.

lil_me

Someone sugested investing in those camping stoves, but I think I'll wait until I need to. In all honesty if we get bad weather/power cuts I doubt the world will come to a stand still. I have a friend who lived in Canada for a while and they manage fine with weather ten times worse than what we get. Some people are just 'woosies' according to him. I refuse to panic buy, like I said I get warning from Mum if the supermarkets are struggling to get deliveries. I just haven't got the space to stock up.

Reya

One useful item for long-lasting power cuts is a wind-up mobile phone charger. They come with enough interchangeable points to fit most common phones (alas, not mine!) and are relatively cheap at around £6.

iwantoneofthose.com has one here.

susank

I also have loads, pasta, rice, dried fruit, pasta sauces, tins of beans x 5 , tins of soup, tins of cold meat, biscuits for cheese - loads of wrapped cheese in fridge - lasts till february without being opened - milk frozen in freezer in 1pint cartons, bacon in freezer - cooked soup in freezer, cooked mince in freezer - loads of flour etc - so if elec on can do lots, if electric off I have a multi fuel boiler that I can cook on if necessary. I have a tilley lamp and candles too and oil filled lamps which were my mothers so it will be fun - I am north scotland and used to this.
Also have an old fashioned telephone which can plug in instead of these modern ones which need electricity.

csarina

In the winter we always carry a bag in our car with two fleece blankets and a couple of cushions, the boot has an old quilt in it we can put under the wheels of the car to get purchase on the road, and a shovel. If we are going any distance, flasks of hot water and a small cool bag with emergency supplies, ie chocolate, cereal bars, cup a soup, tea bags and coffee.

Having lived in a country district I always have a good stock of tinned stuff plus long life milk, pasta, a bag of spuds in the garage, flour, for bread and cakes and pulses for making soup, rice for both pudding and savoury rice dishes. We have a gas hob and I have a kettle in the cupboard, my pressure cooker can come in very useful if we have a power cut, I can cook a whole meal in it if I have to, using just the gas ring. Hot water bottles.......all heating is powered by electricity these days, so a fleece blanket and a hottie can keep you toasty.......candles and matches.........I have quite a few meals in the freezer so I think if it got really bad I need not go shopping for at least 2 weeks. Its unlikely we would be cut off, we live on the outskirts of a large city, I prefer to be organised, just in case........

moogiegirl

If you have young babies it maybe worth stocking up on a couple of packets of nappies and some milk/food.

lil_me

Yes I agree with the keeping blankets etc in the car, I'm just deciding what should go in DPs bag for the taxi, and in the Jeep, will have blanket/sleeping bag just incase he gets stuck anywhere (he's a determined sod and will push it) we get really bad weather but he's never come home early yet apart from the night he cracked a wheel in 2 when the car slid into a ditch. Think the chocolate etc will be a good idea, and maybe a drink (but will probably have to keep changing that if it freezes) Never thought of cereal bars, think I have some so will include them. Rope, might have to put the shovel in the Jeep aswell. We usually get calls if people are stuck aswell as for us. Saying that we had a car stuck one year and the local kids all grabbed shovels and helped dig him out 8 foot drifts aren't nice. Few locals have as cookers so I think if it came down to it I could take a few flasks down which I had to do when we had power cuts when little DS was a baby (for his bottles)

anniebooklover

45% chance of snow for us Lanckys. I miss snow. I was brought up in Scotland and when I was young we could be snowed in for a week at a time. :j :j (snowball fights, snowmen, snow angels, icy slides, ahhhhhh my childhood!

I wouldn't have a problem even if we were snowed in. I have a supermarket, Spar, chippy, 2 Chinese and 2 Indian takeaways plus an Italian pizza place are all within 600 yards of my home. The centre of town (sorry City, we are the millenium City for anyone who is interested) is only a 10 minute walk away and the roads are clear from the M6 to town at all times. :j :j See, I knew there had to be a benefit to living in an urban environment. Would still rather have snow, she says, as she gazes longingly out the window

Still, I would always have milk and bread in the house. Anything else can be adapted but bread and milk are staples after all.

Sarahsaver

We have nothing especially for this.
Live in a City 10 mins walk from the centre.
BUT we have a camping stove, open fires in 2 rooms, chickens which are expendable as they are off lay , a barbecue, lots of candles, emergency lighting which runs of a battery which is on charge when the elec. IS working, a sack of potatoes, barrel of homebrew. Shops round the corner where we can travel the world in 15 minutes - my fave is a grocers which sells Zimbabwean and Polish food And a 24 hour Spar. Only once since I have lived here did the buses stop because of the snow, then I just walked into town as I usually do anyway!
Was different as a child living in the sticks, we often got snowed in but we had a rayburn to heat the water, and regularly had power cuts in the winter. Used camping gas stove and plenty of cans of Big Soup and sardines

LJM

I always keep good stocks of pasta/soups/tinned goods plus i have a bread maker so stocks for that are always high,i keep marvel in for the bread maker but could make up normal milk with it if needed.umm plus my freezer and other cupboards are nearly always full.other than that i could get a home delivery am thinking of trying sainsburys soon