How stocked is your store cupboard

Sorry for my lack of post,my “Dito” was for Marydoll,I too had a very poor childhood.

Dito

However long you stock up for, one day it will all run out so does it matter if it's one week or six months!! There's water in the tap; it's a waste of money and plastic to buy in bottles. People who selfishly overstock are the ones who actually cause the shortages.

We had leaflets put into every letter box from the Government the other day (we dont live in the UK) the gloom and doom of it all, it gave instuctions about if there is a war or catastrophy of some kind, we MUST have a stock to last a few days, and litttle gas stoves, the type you use for camping etc. etc.It was quite depressing, apart from the fact should there be a war I dont think we will need the use of the stocked cupboard!
Strangely in this neutral Country they have never been involved in wars, and dont really think they will ever be, but its better to be safe than sorry I suppose. My cupboards are not well stocked!

tanith a couple of years ago here they cut off our water main for stretches of four days at a time all summer.

It can and does happen.

If a nuclear bomb was dropped and no one could come or go from the house we could live for at least four months. We have three freezers full and two store cupboards full to bursting. Only the cat would suffer and only enough cat food for about two or three weeks.

I don't live my life thinking of all the 'what ifs'.
I buy fresh bread, fruit and veg every day as Waitrose is a 3 minute sprint away and I certainly don't get satisfaction or kicks from seeing a full fridge or freezer. If I want a cake or scones at teatime I bake them after lunch or make a loaf in the breadmaker.
Filling up my fridge/freezer would oblige me to eat the contents rather than something else I might fancy.

Freezer full to bursting. utility room cupboard full with tins, packet and jars. Upper cupboard full of washing powder, loo rolls, cleaning stuff etc. Garage has overflow on the shelves. Every so often I realise that I have more stock in my home than a small supermarket and then we slowly eat our way through the freezer and I stop myself from buying any more three for two offers and another nine loo rolls when we already have eighteen in the garage. Ridiculous hoarding instinct - I have Tesco, Sainsbury's, Co op, Aldi and Waitrose in the town and I go out every day. My mother wasn't a hoarder - she didn't have enough cash to buy more than what she needed for the week so where this comes from I don't now.

I keep a portable gas stove and lots of spare gas bottles. Car charger for my phone and other digital equipment.
Lived in South Africa where we had continual 'rolling blackouts' often for hours at a time, You learn to adapt and make do!
It's only me so my needs are fairly small - lack of water would worry me though!

I haven’t to my knowledge in my adult life had a water ‘emergency’. They cut it off for 3 hrs once to repair something but that’s it.
Has anyone actually had to go days without water in this country? Maybe I’ve been lucky but I really don’t get all this storing water business ?

I do indeed keep a stock of water, 100 litres in reusable containers and rotate fresh cooled boiled water into them regularly.

I need water for sanitation in case of burst pipe, disruption to water main, etc. I have about 48 litres bottled drinking water in addition. We drink slowly out of that stock and replenish to keep it in date.

I would rather have emergency stock of water and people think I was mental than have an emergency, three tiny kids and no water.

I also had a mother who always had a store cupboard (a war-time bride) and as a result we keep loads of tins, jars, flour, rice, milk in cartons etc. as well as household goods.
My large freezer is also full but I realised the other day that I don't really rotate food well enough and end up with loads of BOGOFF sausages, out of date fruit, and lots of little packages of odds and ends. When I actually want to make a meal I can rarely find what I need.
So I set to and went through the whole thing (6 large drawers) and threw away anything that was out of date or not easily recognisable/usable. Result? I've sorted and labelled the drawers and can find things much more easily.
Like many of you we don't use bottled water and don't have a cold water tank so would be in trouble if the water supply was cut off - though we do live in a rainy area and have a water butt so I suppose that we could boil and strain the rain water!
We've made a point of having both gas and electric cooking appliances, I suspect that we are more at risk of losing power than water.

Oh heck - about 2 months at a guess. I have so much stuff in there. However most of it is ingredients for baking/cooking etc not masses of actual food but I could probably provide cakes, bread & biscuits for a very long time. Quite a lot of wine around too.
It is all stuff I regularly use though unlike an ex neighbour of mine. Her Mum gave her a 'stock cupboard basics' pack when she married & told her to always keep it up to date. I don't think she quite got the idea though as I remember her telling me- most affronted- that her DH had asked for baked beans with his dinner & she had refused as she only had the 3 required tins & would not let him 'break into her stock'. She bought another tin the next day so he could have some. Needless to say the marriage didn't last long!

I think we are almost overstocked but as long as we still had electricity we would last for acouple of months. We need the electricity as our water comes from a borehole. When I redid my kitchen I insisted on gas hob which runs on butane gas so we always have a spare in stock . We have been using food from the freezer as we are going on holiday soon then on Sunday a friend, who breeds pigs and sheep, said she would have our half lamb ready today so the freezer will be full again.

What is the point of 2 full chest freezers if no Leccy?? There is only so much cold baked beans one wants to eat as well, and as for uncooked pasta..tough on the old teeth! I guess tins of fruit, fish, meats might be useful.(Dog food?? He'd be OK!)

I think we are of an age group where our mother's instilled in us to have a store cupboard. Like many others on here, always spare loo rolls, liquid soap, bleach, you name it. Of course shops in our younger day weren't open like they are now.
I'm amazed when I go to one of my son's house, who has 2 children. He has even gone to the corner shop as there's no loo roll!
I have tried to cut back on my 'stash', but don't think I will ever be on the last of anything .

I have homemade jam and fruit juice etc. to last a year in my cellar, tinned goods for a couple of months, cat food for at least that time. A month's supply of cat litter and toilet paper (six weeks to two months' in the winter, as a heavy snowfall makes shopping difficult).

Always flour and yeast in the kitchen as I bake my own bread and food in the freezer for a month to six weeks.

The wood pile has enough wood for the winter and we have kindling and briquettes as well. Spare light bulbs, torch batteries and candles in plenty.

a good 4 or 5 months maybe longer ,we have two freezers that I cook for and keep well stocked ,I have frozen berries for smoothies and frozen veg for emergencies. I always have a few weeks worth of bread and rolls and a couple of large cartons of milk there too .A good variety of fruit squashes...we look after GC a lot Loads of tins and dried food and rarely less than 60 bottles of wine in the rack and the odd case upstairs for refilling it.Cndles I have literally hundreds .I buy T-lights in boxes of 200 and have a great selection of scented candles of various sizes
I do have AC who freezer raid when they've worked late and cant be bothered cooking so its very handy for them too to get home cooked food quickly.

I should have mentioned that if water supplies were cut off I'd be okay. I live beside a river.

My MIL use to keep a store cupboard and was very organised regarding food, what she had, what she bought, what she replaced. It was almost like it was her job role to maintain this supply of food.
Personally i try not to keep too much in my cupboards and freezer as it gets forgotten about and then thrown out as past it's used by date.
I would rather spend my money on doing things or going out than have it spent on supplies that just sit in the house.

Now adays we have shopping 24/7 so there is no need to stock pile really.

Most of my shopping trolley when i go shopping is filled with fresh food, fruit, veg, fish and other perisables which have to be bought weekly or daily. We probably wouldnt last long in the event of a problem.

I thought our stash of food was quite reasonable until reading the posts here. Now I realise it’s meagre. Without fuel, we wouldn’t last long. We have a primus but never more than four gas canisters in stock. We’d be reduced to eating the tinned food, frozen bread and packets of biscuits, crisps and crackers. About a week’s worth maximum. But I wouldn’t want to give over any more space to food storage so we’ll continue to live dangerously!

After the crash DH was involved in at the beginning of last year my mind became very concentrated on how I would manage if it was only me left and part of that was focussed on food. As some others have said there was never any food stored in our home as we grew up so it is probably a reaction to that. I was amazed at just how big a stash we had and so DH and I have spent most of this year trying to empty the larder and the freezers which means that at present we wouldn't survive more than about a month eating pretty well. We still have vast quantities of bottled fruit and veg and loads of cans and dried goods stashed in the larder. It is all within date and very useable except perhaps for a tin of escargots which is marked at 15/- They have been a family joke for a long time now and we have considered whether we should stipulate in our wills that only those who participate in the eating of them will inherit anything. Wouldn't like to be responsible for any premature deaths though so am dithering somewhat over that one and besides we wouldn't be there to witness the fun and games.

People seem to have lots of loo paper! But with no or limited water, the loos wouldn't be flushable. I could get containers of water from the river (the infant Thames) for that purpose and boil it on the BBQ for drinking. Food wise I could keep going for a few weeks from initially the freezer until it went off and then the store cupboard. I have a few weeks worth of logs and coal for the fire for warmth and possibly cooking. Otherwise I would make merry with the vast contents of my booze cupboards until the services are reconnected or the end of civilisation; at least I'd go out happy ?

Probably a week I have about 10 tins in my cupboard half a loaf half a 2 pint bottle of milk I have a pound of butter and some potatoes and a packet of rice Some frozen food and some carbonated water a bottle of juice and about 20 loo rolls Would be moreif I d just done my weekly shop though

Well, I would obviously invite you all round to share your food with us and we would provide the wine
We have enough wine to last for months, toilet paper, tissues, kitchen rolls and more toiletries than Boots but food....no.
We have a restrictive diet with little salt, fat, sugar etc so buy little in the way of tinned foods (too much salt or sugar). I have one small tin of tomatoes, 1 tin of tuna (which might be out of date . However, I have just realised what we do have a lot of...porridge oats and oat bran! (So if that is what we were living on, the toilet paper would come in useful )