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thoughts on this stock pile

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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    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 :D

    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:


    I do agree with this (and have been published in local paper saying as much ;)) BUT that was a letter i response to a story about people who couldn't make ends meet and were starving (but had not cut back at the hairdresser fro the looks of things). they were pictured out side their home, which is on the side of the county town from the way I approach it......where this year pears in the planted tree line between it and the main road were falling on the gorund and left to rt with cyclists going over them. so, within yards from their home they could have filled freezer (jars are expensive for novice bottlers) with free stewed fruit at least.
  • CRANKY40
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    If they're going to live off weetabix, orange juice, onions and crisps for a year they will sure as hell need more toilet roll than they have. Bless them for stockpiling the Bolly and therefore making the rest of their efforts look totally pointless.
  • Yikes we learn something new from this site everyday.
    Methinks though if you have the space you are in a better position to stockpile than if you are blessed and highly favoured to have a smaller and more constrained space. ( I do my best to cultivate food security provided I can overcome problems of those bloody use by dates...grrh)
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  • esmf73
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    I love the fact that he's stockpiling beans! Guess they're planning on self heating their own house then - YUCK!!!! Smelly house! Doesn't the lady know that standing there with the freezer open will defrost the food! If she's so worried then she needs to think about the lorries taking the coal to the power stations and the probable loss of electricity - up a creak without a paddle. But hang on, she's got the beans! Wonder if she has an alternative source of cooking apart from mains electric / gas?
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  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    well i finally gave in and started a proper stockpile - 4 cases of wine delivered last night :beer::j:cool:
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  • my stockpile now has 5 bottles of wash liquid and 6 pks baby wipes..im just starting out though
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  • rinabean
    rinabean Posts: 359 Forumite
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    I have a lot of miscellaneous food and other supplies, but I think what I have most of is wine and lentils. What more could you want? :D

    (Seriously, people planning for the end of the world are ridiculous. Firstly, why would you want to live past it? And why would you think you could defend your stockpile against 1000s of people? Whatever weapons you have, they'll have too. Only they'll be hungry and desperate to boot. There's just no point thinking about it, you might as well plan for meteor strikes - it's unlikely to happen to you and it'll kill you if it does whatever you plan. ;))
  • nuatha
    nuatha Posts: 1,932 Forumite
    rinabean wrote: »
    I have a lot of miscellaneous food and other supplies, but I think what I have most of is wine and lentils. What more could you want? :D

    (Seriously, people planning for the end of the world are ridiculous. Firstly, why would you want to live past it? And why would you think you could defend your stockpile against 1000s of people? Whatever weapons you have, they'll have too. Only they'll be hungry and desperate to boot. There's just no point thinking about it, you might as well plan for meteor strikes - it's unlikely to happen to you and it'll kill you if it does whatever you plan. ;))

    I generally hold between 3-6 months of supplies - because years of experience as shown me that if I'm not in contract during November then the earliest I'm likely to pick up a new contract is towards the end of January, when there seems to be a three to four week window when the industry hires before all new projects get frozen until the next financial year.
    If I'm not under contract then I'm not earning (or claiming) keeping good stocks mean the lean times aren't too lean (perhaps I shouldn't, I could do with loosing some weight)
    There's a lot of people in similar circumstances, meanwhile if something unexpected happens then I'm not worrying about food on the table. Unexpected doesn't necessarily mean seriously bad, I catered a friends wedding two years back,120 guests, from my stocks and less than £50 as her caterer went bust 10 days before the wedding.
  • thriftwizard
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    I've kept at least a month's worth of food on hand for many years now, having a big family & a few waifs & strays to cater for. I have the space, if I look at it creatively, & it just seems to me the right thing to do. I grew up in a small village on the edge of Dartmoor and we were snowed in for several weeks in the winter of '62-'63, when I was 4. No-one starved, because a) everyone had a larder full of preserves, and b) everyone looked out for their neighbours. Not sure we'd be so lucky now... but I do think having some basic food in hand is a sensible precaution; none of us know what's around the corner, even if it's just something that stops you getting to the shops for a few days.

    You need to buy stuff you actually like, stuff that keeps well, & keep it reasonably close to your cooker so that you can rotate your stocks. With baked beans, to give one example, I have a tray (20 tins, about a month's supply for us) of Value beans under the shelves in the utility room, and one under the cooker; it's a big range-style cooker with enough room for those and a tray of tinned tomatoes. I use up the ones under the cooker and as I get to the end of that tray, I'll bring the tray from the utility room into the kitchen, buy another tray & put that in the utility room. (The other tray of tinned toms lives under the linen press.) Thus the older tins are always used up first. We grow lots of apples & the very best ones are wrapped in newspaper & stored in apple trays in the garage, as they'll last best; damaged ones are cooked up & frozen, windfalls made into cider or wine, and ones with just a little damage are dried for snacks. I still have to buy in apples, but not many. A camping cooker & a hay box or similar mean you can keep people fed, at least, and a box of sterilising tabs for water takes up a lot less room than a hoard of bottles.

    I almost feel it's a responsibility that we should have some stocks in hand. If something disastrous did happen - I'm not in any way anticipating that it will, mark you - it would take time for the powers that be to react & put some kind of food distribution system into place. In parts of the world where people live with the daily threat of earthquakes, for example, they are required to keep emergency stocks on hand, so that they can survive until help gets to them. However, when my friend lived in California, right on the San Andreas fault, she lived in terror of dying in the Big One because her cupboards full of emergency supplies had fallen on her...
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  • rinabean
    rinabean Posts: 359 Forumite
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    nuatha wrote: »
    There's a lot of people in similar circumstances, meanwhile if something unexpected happens then I'm not worrying about food on the table. Unexpected doesn't necessarily mean seriously bad, I catered a friends wedding two years back,120 guests, from my stocks and less than £50 as her caterer went bust 10 days before the wedding.

    Oh, I plan for these types of things too! Food price rises, bad weather, illness, buying up special offers, making sure there's enough in to feed us for at least half a year fairly well with just a little spent on fresh/frozen fruit and veg in case of financial problems (oh, and because I'm a food hoarder :think:). But not for the end of the world! That's where I draw the crazy line (which is admittedly much further along than the [STRIKE]normal[/STRIKE] average person might :rotfl:).
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