Prepping for food shortages
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Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
I'm also surrounded by foraging opportunities, a 13kg gas lasts 3 months and have 3 bottles, water is easy to come by here. I choose not to rely on the system and live simply, I can grow, make and repurpose things and not just endlessly buy new stuff. The majority of people are used to everything on demand or aren't old enough to remember a time before 24 hour shopping so probably might be inconvenienced by a large weather event. Remember walk in larders it was normal once.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I may have spare brake pads, a cassette or two and spare wheels for every bike. Essentials. Oh, and one bike isn't enough. 
TBH we have a stock of loo roll as we order a bulk delivery from 'Who gives a crap' - three months worth - environmentally wrapped/recycled paper and it's rolled properly, unlike most other loo papers that have a loose roll, so you get half the sheets.
My cat food stash is quite large - about 300 packs currently and 4 bags of litter, but considering I'm buying a box of 40 for £11, and the supermarket want north of £15 (same with the litter), you've got to do it.
At least people can't panic fuel buy, it's too expensive.
Today's job is to actually go through both freezers to find out what we have. I actually do know there is quite a lot of frozen fish and frozen rhubarb, neither of which I eat.
TBH we have a stock of loo roll as we order a bulk delivery from 'Who gives a crap' - three months worth - environmentally wrapped/recycled paper and it's rolled properly, unlike most other loo papers that have a loose roll, so you get half the sheets.
My cat food stash is quite large - about 300 packs currently and 4 bags of litter, but considering I'm buying a box of 40 for £11, and the supermarket want north of £15 (same with the litter), you've got to do it.
At least people can't panic fuel buy, it's too expensive.
Today's job is to actually go through both freezers to find out what we have. I actually do know there is quite a lot of frozen fish and frozen rhubarb, neither of which I eat.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Pedant alert. You can't "see" then "raise" as that is a "string bet" which is not allowed.
I know this as I play in a high stakes poker
tournament. Here's one of the landlord's cats helping with a tricky decision, albeit she might be secretly signalling what cards I have. Still, I won a tenner last week!
Bounty and beer is a strange combination. Just saying...
nogoodnamesleft
Senior Member
Strange how my cycling ghas in some respects put me in a better "prepping" situation. When I head off cycle touring (camping) I always only take new gas canisters but when I get home I always have a couple that are partially used. So now in the garage I have a fair number if part empty gas canisters. Only time they get used it when we have a (disappointingly frequent) power cut and I want a coffee.
No idea how long they would last in a "prepping" situation but would allow heating some tinned food.
No idea how long they would last in a "prepping" situation but would allow heating some tinned food.
totally this, we absolutely did tons of work and testing for at least 18months in advance as prep, so that it wasnt a problem because we made sure we fixed it.
but theres a litany of worked examples with time in software code that will do stupid things like lock a supermarket door, especially where alot of the lessons we learnt back then have already been lost, theres that one about the Boeing plane software that must be hard cold rebooted within 6months because if the clock overflows, it reboots the whole electrical system regardless of what stage of flight it is in, which shuts the engines down as the fuel pumps turn off because they dont get a signal from the master system telling them to stay on, and you have had to rely on airline maintenance doing patching and this reboot, always something fun o think about when you sit on a plane jetting to somewhere.
but of course everyone has forgotten Unix ntp rollover date is still there, less than 10 years to go now, followed swiftly by the Unix epoch rollover couple years laer
which back in Y2K world was the ah its decades away Im sure someone else will fix it all by then test.Profpointy
Legendary Member
The buy in is a fiver plus a bar of chocolate. If you get knocked out the person who beats you gets the chocolate. Fiver goes in the prize pot for first and second (sometimes 3rd) placed finishers.
Yellow Fang
Squire
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Spam, it lasts forever.
Pot noodles.
Corned beef, see spam.
Carnation milk.
Tinned curry, tinned chilli con carne, tinned vegetable chilli, tinned Irish stew, tinned chickpea dahl if I can find it.
Packets of noodles.
I am assuming the microwave will still work.
Pot noodles.
Corned beef, see spam.
Carnation milk.
Tinned curry, tinned chilli con carne, tinned vegetable chilli, tinned Irish stew, tinned chickpea dahl if I can find it.
Packets of noodles.
I am assuming the microwave will still work.
SteveH80
Senior Member
That sent me off down another rabbit hole 🙂
Perhaps Y2038 will upend all this AI stuff and it will revert from being a LLM to a S*LM (*small) and just sit there soiling itself and making "goo goo" noises 🤣
Although this might already have happened 🤔
Electricity likely to be one of the first things to go so unless you have a generator then your microwave be useless.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Punkawallah
Veteran
Regardless, you can eat cold from the tin.
