![]() Now over to you – what would you add to an emergency stockpile? What essentials do you always have to hand? Do let me know in the comments, as I’d love to hear! Even bendy carrots, potatoes and sprouting onions can make a base for soups and tomato sauces. I usually have cheese and eggs knocking around, which could expand our meals to home-made pizza using flour and yeast, egg fried rice, cheese on toast and omelettes, for example. In practice, I’d rarely have only these essentials on hand. If you’re not keen on much cooking, then cans of chilli, soup, stew, curry and ravioli might appeal. I didn’t attempt adding biscuits to a stockpile – they’d get eaten well before any emergency! I might throw caution to the wind and add a packet of jelly and evaporated milk to the list, to make puddings for the kids. On the sweet side, the dried milk and flour would come in handy making pancakes to eat with honey and tinned or dried fruit. Veggie chilli with rice, using tomatoes, kidney beans and chilli powder.Rice salad with tuna, salmon or frankfurters plus sweetcorn.Tuna pasta bake, adding tinned tomatoes and pasta.Fishcakes using tuna or salmon with smash, plus baked beans.I can’t pretend these are gourmet options, but they’d be warm and filling: If I made rolls, we could use the frankfurters to make hotdogs. ![]() If we didn’t have a spare loaf in the freezer, I could still use the flour and yeast to make bread to eat with peanut butter or honey, with soup, sardines or baked beans, or as sandwiches. With the supplies above, we could have breakfast with cereal or porridge, tea or coffee, some fruit juice and tinned fruit. Stashing essentials in the freezer Possible meals from an emergency food stockpile Breakfast Toiletries like shampoo, conditioner, deodorant (Maybe those hotel miniatures would come in handy!).Pet supplies like pet food and cat litter.Spices and flavours like chilli powder and soy sauce.Tinned fruit, like peaches, grapefruit, pears or pineapple.Tinned potatoes, if you can face them, or Smash.Tinned fish like tuna, salmon and sardines.Tinned beans, like baked beans or kidney beans.Post with what to pack to cut the cost of a self-catering holiday Essential items for an emergency food stockpile Even without an emergency, these supplies could all come in handy for a self-catering holiday or last minute camping trip.No point stashing lentils or quinoa if your nearest and dearest won’t touch them Choose items your family will actually eat.I try to keep some essentials handy, like a sliced loaf, frozen peas, frozen meat and fish, butter and ever-faithful fishfingers Think about storage, for example keeping flour in a tightly sealed container.When you use something from the stockpile, replace it next time you go shopping.Rotate stocks to stop food going off, pulling items with the shortest dates to the front.If kitchen space is tight, keep a few cans under the bed or at the bottom of your wardrobe.Switch to own-brands and value range items to keep costs down.Take advantage of multi buy offers like ‘buy one, get one free’.Add one or two items a week, if you don’t want to bust your budget (or give yourself a hernia carrying stuff home).Using multi-buy offers to build up a stockpile Top tips for starting an emergency food stockpile I’m not suggesting you stockpile rifles in the spare room, but having a few extra tins can’t hurt. Researching this post, I fell down a rabbit hole of ‘ preppers‘, bracing themselves for the collapse of civilisation or the zombie apolocalypse. Post with the results of our storecupboard challenge Certainly when we tried to cut costs by using up the contents of our fridge, freezer and kitchen cupboards, it made a big difference. But up in Edinburgh, loads of shops near my sister ran out of basics like bread and milk.Įven in good weather, an emergency food stockpile could come in handy. If money is tight, benefits are delayed or illness keeps you stuck inside, extra supplies will help tide you over. This meant we could hole up at home for several days, without braving freezing temperatures and icy roads to buy anything extra. Luckily back in 2018, more by luck than judgement, I’d just done a big food shop. ![]() With many shops reliant on central warehouses, food deliveries got disrupted by the snow. ![]() I first wrote about stocking up on emergency food supplies after seeing photos of empty supermarket shelves during ‘Beast from the East’ snow storms.Ī few days of severe weather seemed to make half the country grind to a halt. More on 11 tips to protect your personal finances against coronavirus With cornavirus looming, who knows which food supplies might run short, if the supply chain and deliveries get disrupted. How long could you feed your family, if you couldn’t go shopping? Essentials for an emergency food stockpile
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