Preparing for winter IV

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rosie51 wrote: »

We live in a rural area and winters can be bad, cutting us off for days. It is important to me having the food stash in, just in case.

me too Rosie. 2010 and 6 weeks of not being able to get out of the village and no delivery for christmas. I am also crammed full and that includes good powdered skimmed and whole milk. Loads and loads of tea and a chocolate stash ( going down! ) Huge bags of rice, tins of meat meals and veggie meals, dried fruits. You name it and I`ve got it. I have even more than I had in 2010, the year that we moved here but this year I am also stocked with lots of books, wine and home entertainment as well as several kg of beautiful fibres for spinning as well as audio books while spinning. Boredom does kick in and cabin fever follows quickly

kezlou

I'm the same regarding stock cupboard, I like to make sure that whatever the situation we will always have something in food and drink wise.


In addition we family also regularly turn up at mine unannounced for supplies.

Well its finally happening, bedroom carpets and stair case all being fitted next week! No more wonky rough floor boards upstairs yay!

quidsy

I live above a supermarket and have a good relationship with the staff so could pretty much lower a bag out my living room window and have them fill it so do very little winter emergency food prep. Lol

pigpen

quidsy wrote: »

I live above a supermarket and have a good relationship with the staff so could pretty much lower a bag out my living room window and have them fill it so do very little winter emergency food prep. Lol

Or drill a hole in your floor and lower yourself in mission impossible style??

Fruball

quidsy wrote: »

I live above a supermarket and have a good relationship with the staff so could pretty much lower a bag out my living room window and have them fill it so do very little winter emergency food prep. Lol

That is great IF the supermarket are able to get deliveries

fuddle

and you have the money to pay :eek: The main reason for my food stocking is so I have food regardless of whether I have money.

quidsy

pigpen wrote: »

Or drill a hole in your floor and lower yourself in mission impossible style??

That's our plan for the zombie invasion We also have a flat roof terrace with a lockable gate & access to the supermarkets old service elevator at the end of our terrace. :eek:

Seriously though we live in SE London so we don't get extreme enough weather to justify the buying of a lot of stuff. I have enough for about 4-5 days using just dried, tinned & jarred stuff & UHT milk just in case. But in my 39 years it has never been necessary.

When I lived in the tropics on the other hand where power cuts, floods, monsoons & frequent boat cancellations meant being cut off from the main land, then I prepped like a good un. Generator, gas, batteries, candles, dried foods etc, we were sometimes cut off from even our neighbors for over a week. The worst part was the boredom so stocking up on books, musical instruments & board games is a mind saver. :cool:

mardatha

Lot of great posts today
I live rural too, but an additional problem is that I can't fill the freezer in winter as we get a lot of power cuts in bad weather. So I have a wee cupboard that I fill with tins instead.

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I live in the far south of Hampshire and we rarely get weather that disrupts the infrasystem of daily life but when we do, life stops!!! No busses, no cleared roads, the shops DO run short of the basics particularly fresh things like milk because we're so unused to snowy/icy weather. I keep a good stock of comestibles and household goods like loo roll and candles as a matter of course but I don't think we can have the mindset that nothing will ever happen because it hasn't happened up until now. I can remember 4' of snow falling in very short time when I lived in Kent andand staying for weeks, now we're here it doesn't happen often but when it does, we need the stocks we've aquired to see us through just as much even though it's rare..

craigywv

Ordering my heating oil today as i can feel nip in the air today,it shall be used like gold dust...............on a timer and only when son in house lol me and oh can put a jumper on!