Britons should have three days’ worth of tinned food and water, government says

28 comments

1. Nothing about toilet rolls?

2. Everything to do with the GE , instilling fear and a soaking wet Sunak coming to save us.

3. If you need additional advice, there are reddits available:

   r/preppers

   r/prepperintel

4. Maybe the Government should do it’s job better so we’re not relying on people being prepared for an apocalypse due to shit infrastructure that was sold off for cheap to private firms and never updated so as to maximise profits for a select few.

5. And so the Tory’s General Election fearmongering begins.

6. Most Britons are fat enough to survive three days without food

7. I keep a couple of month’s worth of food in a mix of dehydrated meals and tinned.

   Make sure to have some means to cook too.

8. all governments issue this kind of guidance all the time and it’s a good idea.

   you don’t need to become a prepper, but having some extra supplies at home is generally smart. it’s not about preparing for nuclear war, it’s about a sudden power outage in your area, a particularly bad storm or snow, or whatever random event might mean you can’t make it to the shops for a day or two.

9. Project fear is ramping up, can you tell an election is coming?

10. I mean yeah everyone should

    The German government is advising 2 week’s worth of food and water that everyone should keep at home

11. Already stacked with chick peas, kidney beans, Ghee and canned chopped tomatoes

12. Three days worth of food? Isn’t that just going shopping?

13. Common theme in posts, but FEMA in the US also recommends a full two weeks, not three days.

14. No tea?

15. Seems a bit low. Anyone and everyone should have like a months worth just in case of a small disaster.

16. Yeah, most people should.

    Famously, any society is only a few missed meals away from breakdown.

17. Tory fear-mongering begins.

18. And on the fourth day…

19. Nothing suggests confidence in the management of the country’s infrastructure like telling everyone to plan for extended periods without food and water.

20. Reading it from Canada, where some food is canned, it sounds a bit funny (if not suspicious) to suggest that food might be mixed with a chemical element that has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.

    But on that topic, what some of us get in North America are the emergency food supplies such as [this](https://www.amazon.ca/READYWISE-Freeze-Dried-Essentials-Emergencies-Individually/dp/B013CPYRJE?th=1).

21. What dumb advice. Between flour, rice and that back-of-the-cupboard marmite and tinned fish we have more than enough food for a few weeks in the average British household! 🙂

22. I watched a documentary on this once.

    Still relevant.

    It’s called “When The Wind Blows”

23. So that covers a longish weekend. What about an actual emergency. It’s not like you can get water from the local stream ..

24. So that’s like… 5 cans of beans.

25. During the pandemic I accidentally bought 55kg of wheat. So I’m good.

26. Food, easy.Whenever something non-perishable is on sale that I don’t find revolting, plenty is squirreled away.I still have Sauerkraut from the great Corona hoarding, alongside a ton of other stuff.

    Recently found two cans of tomatoes from Plus store brand.Turns out, the company ceased to exist in 2010.Tomatoes were still good though!

    Water, however…I’ve six litres of bottled water gathering dust, nothing beyond that.

27. This is just common sense in my opinion. You should be prepared to go at least three days without needing something from a store or outlet in your home.

    Always keep a large bag of dry pasta, rice and at least three tins of meat in storage. Lasts forever, has high nutrition and is versatile. Keep at least fifteen litres of water with these. You drink on average three litres a day and the rest you will need for food and hygene. The last time my water mains burst I thought a multipack would last me a few days, it was gone after twenty four hours. If you think you have enough water you don’t.

    Make sure you have candles, matches, a gas lighter and a torch. preferably a hand crank torch because batteries are finite. If it’s winter in the middle of the night and your power goes out or boiler blows you will want light and warmth.

    Keep at least one cast iron saucepan and a disposable barbeque. If you have no power or heating or plumbing you can use these for warmth, cooking and to boil water.

28. Keep calm and prepare for WW3.