How stocked is your store cupboard

Well if its a post nuclear holocaust scenario we could drink the wine and gin and make ourselves a few cocktails. We'd have crisps and olives to nibble on. Not sure we'd need much else.

DH likes to go to the cash and carry and so we have huge stocks of things he considers essential. Of these items, I use only toilet roll and kitchen roll. We have an Aldi just across the road so we are not going to run out of anything, it is just certain favourite brands we can’t get there that he stockpiles to excess.
I never check the dates on tins, as they will keep way beyond that date.
We would be very stuck if no power.

My freezers are packed to the gills but if the power went off that would be useless as would cooking anything. I have tinned stuff but not that much and not varied enough to make meals for more than a couple of days. Actually if the power did go off we'd be completely snookered although I do have enough candles and matches to last a year

I keep plenty of supplies in - lots of tins and dry goods in the store cupboard, and fish, meat and veg in the freezers. However, with no electricity the stuff in the freezer wouldn't last and anyway, there'd be no means of cooking it without power of any kind. And with no water coming out the taps, I'd probably die of thirst before very long anyway. Do people really keep stocks of water in the UK?
If we had water and power, then I'd probably be able to keep going for about 3 weeks or so. Without either, though, probably no more than a few days and I would have thought that would be the same for most people - how can anyone survive more than a few days without water?

When I was working, I developed the habit of doing one big shop every month and only top-up shopping in the intervening weeks and I still follow this pattern although both shops are a lot smaller than they were when children were at home. So I still have at least a months supply of dry goods and ambient storage goods(tins and jars) and a chest freezer in the garage with frozen meat and veg.

I do have a large vegetable and fruit garden, which provides a surplus that is frozen and consumed ovr the ensuing year.

So I suppose I can say that we could certainly last a month and possible a second month with a meals tha might be pissing key ingredients like tinned tomoatoes.

Hmmm - no I don't think we would survive well, water would be the main problem as I don't buy bottled, we do have a log burner and plenty of logs so wouldn't freeze to death

Nannykay, we are also on LPG gas, and have run out when OH forgets to check tank level. After the most recent escapade when gas company could not deliver for a week we found out you can tip the liquid gas from smaller domestic bottles into the tank! We are now seriously considering switching to the system where the gas company take automatic readings from your tank in the hope thst as we get more forgetful the gas company will do the checking,

DD told me once my store cupboard and freezer could withstand a nuclear winter!

Need I say more?

My cupboards and freezer are well stocked. And I've got a little camping gas stove and spare cylinders, so I would probably be ok for a month or two.

My house is too small to have much storage room, so come the emergency, I will just have to live on my fat - and starve!

I never thought about the freezer, (well it was after midnight)! A pan on the fire to cook rice or pasta Nina.

I try to keep a spare of things we use a lot Eg mayo, salad cream etc. I always have tins of soup, beans and tomatoes and my freezers are currently fairly full so for the first three days we'd have to stuff ourselves and then live off our internal supplies!

I have plenty of food in store cupboard, fridge and freezer, as well as cleaning items and toiletries. I do however use a lot of milk for tea and only ever have enough for one week (and bread). I would hate to have to go without tea and no bread would mean a change of menus.

I have a siege mentality when it comes to food cupboards and a Toilet Duck mountain.

Hadn’t thought of paper goods, I never seem to have enough loo roll, I think they eat it !. We have lpg gas for cooking, but there are times that runs down and we panic and cook on fumes, we order twice a year, so timing could be an issue, we a have a charcoal bbq if got desperate!. We drink a lot of bottled water, I buy two cases a week and try to keep a couple spare, not much when you think about it. Rice and pasta I bulk buy the 10k bags, but again timing an issue here, eggs good as we have chickens. Hadn’t thought about freezer going off, well stocked, but once electric off wouldn’t keep long. DH just pointed out it wouldn’t matter to me anyway not for long, medication runs out and that’s me.....

I wish I hadn’t started this, to think a gentle chore of cleaning the larder could turn out to be so depressing.

Not long I should imagine. I have the usual range of canned goods, and, like Nfk’s DH, mine can’t resist an offer or a BOGOF!! I was in the garage the other day and found a box of candles and some pillar candles so we would have light for a bit. Water would be the big problem. We keep a dozen bottles of water in the car, but if it was to be pressed into service for cooking pasta - which I seem to have rather a lot of - it wouldn’t last long! We have a side burner on our barbecue, but I’ve no idea how long the gas bottle would last if carefully used. No matter what you have in your store cupboards or freezers, unless it can be eaten cold, it will avail you nothing if you have no fuel. Sobering stuff!

We could probably last 5 or 6 weeks food wise, being from country village folk I was always used to well stocked larders/cupboards. My Nan always kept in a good supply.
I like to know that if I want to make a dish the stuff is likely to be in the cupboard.

We are bursting at the seems as DH is a food hoarder as well as everything else. When we were in a Supermarket recently the assistant asked DH if he was running a small hotel ?

If the electricity was off I would go loopy without my technology such IPad, IPhone, TV etc. however our many battery operated radios would be in full use.

We always have pasta, rice, canned tomatoes, beans and lentils (dried and canned) along with plenty of vegetables. So we can always rustle up a meal no matter how many of the adult children drop in.

You will have to ask GN HQ.
Don't worry it doesn't come across as SHOUTY.?

Hello... I would get thirdty first if tap water not available as I don't use bottled water. Otherwise for food 2 to 3 weeks.
p.s. anyone know how I can change the format of my name..I did not mean it to be shouty!

I think we could survive for a couple of weeks quite easily given that we would have fuel.
I am interested in the fact some of you say you have stored water. Do you mean bottled water ?

Oh and of course, plenty of wine?

Good grief I stand back in awe of all of you and your storecupboards. I have a very small store cupboard but I could probably manage for a week or two. Interested to know why you all store water?

My cupboards are bursting at the seams.
Just like Ailsa,, we had little food in the house when I was a child. and I have this thing about storing food in case we run out.
Our garage is also full of toilet and kitchen rolls, cleaning materials etc.