thoughts on this stock pile

dandy-candy

OMG Fancy having your photo and name published saying you have a stockpile? If the worst does come you can bet they will be the first house the starving hordes rob!

lilac_lady

dandy-candy wrote: »

OMG Fancy having your photo and name published saying you have a stockpile? If the worst does come you can bet they will be the first house the starving hordes rob!

Maybe they have also stockpiled 3 bull mastiffs and a machine gun!

MessyMare

god that article is depressing...I remembered why I don't read the Daily Fail anymore! I may be grabbing an extra bulk bag of rice next time I go shopping though...

mi_jardin

what with that article, the snow up north and Christmas, the supermarkets must be empty!

I agree with previous poster....they'll be the first one to get burgled this Christmas! Absolutely daft advertising the fact your shed is full of food.

flaire

valk_scot wrote: »

So when she, her debit card and her three kids turn up at my door after the banks crash and Tesco is looted bare in two hours, what should I do?

Barbecue the children.

meg72

flaire wrote: »

Barbecue the children.

Oh No kids are precious,cook the Mother and feed the kids.

Luella-14_2

Frugal wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I agree - from the pics, there is not enough food for a year altho we can't see the rest of the garage - I suspect that pile had been staged. Loved the Bollinger and Beer

The Daily Fail, once again, failing!!!

Certainly its sensible to stock pile a certain amount of food, and I have, but there is such a thing as taking things to extremes.

Slightly OT but not really... I don't know why councils don't plant fruit trees and nut trees etc when they plant stuff, at least it would be useful for people who needed/wanted to forage

Instead, they waste money seasonally planting things that get ripped up as the season ends, only to re-plant and so on and on and on - it annoys me :mad:

On the council planting bit, York CC seems to be trying this. They had planted a veg patch near my offices. They'd put signs detailing the different plants, when they were planted and can be harvested and saying help yourself. I thought it was a lovely idea, but everything would have to be washed v thoroughly!

MandM90

Goodness me, the opening to that article is bloody alarmist. If the Daily Fail aren't spreading hate, it's fear.

I wouldn't advice hoarding loads of expensive meat in the freezer outside; A) it can easily be stolen and b) is electricity reliant.

This alarmist reporting is not exactly going to lower chances of a banks crash/looting.

mummybearx

Love the guy at the end, who for the last year has bought an extra can of beans and bottle of water. He actually says he doesn't like beans, but he will eat them if he has to :eek:

Why not just buy something else then?!?!?

I don't buy things I dont like lol!

Rainy-Days

The Daily Hell at it again - seriously though when I read it my first thought was 'have they been trawling some of the Preparing For Winter Threads' and I suspect they possibly have done.

If something was going to happen that was pretty big, you would loose electricity and all power supplies, which even includes water.

That picture had boxes of crisps and Bollinger Champagne which might come in useful to toast the end of the world I suppose

Seriously speaking though if that was a 'Doomsday' style scenario you wouldn't even be looking at stuff like that. You would be thinking pre packed army rations with a shelf life until 2018, tinned stuff such as baked beans, spaghetti and soup anything that can remain sealed, but portable. To be honest if the proverbial was about to hit the fan the best place to be would probably be in the next world, because to stay here would literally mean life and death. A mere taster of the summer riots would have nothing on what would happen if it really did kick off. Martial law would have to be brought in. Your dishwasher tablets wouldn't be much use if you had no electric to power it and the water supplies were shut off!
Mind you the loo roll would probably come in handy!

On the flip side, most people stock pile to a certain extent, I have done so throughout the summer on soups etc, but that was more for a preparing for winter type scenario in case we struggled to get out of the house like we did last year; where our food supplies literally were the bed rock of keeping us going.