What item would you horde if the supermarkets were closing?

MsStote

I know the obvious one will be TP but damn ya'll need to get a bidet it is like 20 quid. I personally just ate myself through the pasta I bought in March...

Personally I would hoard flour.

Alcohol....mainly jamesons,

Mehaffey1

Buckfast Tonic Wine

fussyonion

Crisps.

Westernworld.

Supermarket door keys

greasepalm

The sexy checkout girl.

johndaman66

What is TP?

odyssey06

Pot noodles.

AndyBoBandy

Old El Paso kits (Enchilada, Burrito & Taco),

Lettuce, cheese & cows/chicken could be sourced from source on an ad hoc basis...


(Don’t know if I’d have the stomach to cut 500 grams of meat out of a cow though!! I could probably handle a chicken though...)

Kermit.de.frog

Snails, slugs and worms.


And algae for the little ones.

Tzardine

Nothing. I would not be one of them hoarding pr1cks.

Stihl waters

Bonina black pudding and white bread with brown sauce and butter and litres of milk

WoollyRedHat

Tzardine wrote: »

Nothing. I would not be one of them hoarding pr1cks.

You'll be the first to get eaten.

blaze1

Peanut butter

Tzardine

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

You'll be the first to get eaten.

I will be ok.

Apparently I am very bitter.

Badum tish.

BringBackMick

Anchovies

20 tins

ShatterAlan

Knorr packet soups.


Farmhouse Vegetable and Scotch Broth. Love that gear so I'd buy boxes of the stuff.


Also


Sardines
Anchovies
Tinned Salmon
Pasta and pasta sauce.
Probably rashers and sausages for freezing.


Not much point in hoarding perishables and as for booze......not much point. I'd have gone through what I could transport in a week or two so better to invest in a home brew kit.

odyssey06

johndaman66 wrote: »

What is TP?

Andrex etc

Gruffalux

Guns.
No matter what kind of peacenik homesteading vegetarian idealist you are if the sh1t really ever hits the fan and the shops are properly closing what you need is a well stocked arsenal. I have worked through this scenario a fair few times in my head and if there is only one thing you can stock up on the answer is always guns.

buried

If the supermarkets ever start saying they are going to close, the best thing you could horde is some common sense and stay the f**k away from them.

odyssey06

Gruffalux wrote: »

Guns.
No matter what kind of peacenik homesteading vegetarian idealist you are if the sh1t really ever hits the fan and the shops are properly closing what you need is a well stocked arsenal. I have worked through this scenario a fair few times in my head and if there is only one thing you can stock up on the answer is always guns.

I asked in my local LIDL. They were due to come in last week as a middle aisle special but NPHET nixed that.

johndaman66

odyssey06 wrote: »

Andrex etc

Ah ok, thanks, toilet paper so presumably (like everyone is meant to understand these made uppy acronyms).
Obvious one to idiots though maybe. There are more important things you would want to be getting from your supermarket if one of these dooms day scenario was to actually unfold and you could only take one thing.

Gruffalux

odyssey06 wrote: »

I asked in my local LIDL. They were due to come in last week as a middle aisle special but NPHET nixed that.

The question did not say the item has to be from the supermarket If it's TEOTWAWKI time I want guns and a big sword like Michonne.

odyssey06

Gruffalux wrote: »

The question did not say the item has to be from the supermarket If it's TEOTWAWKI time I want guns and a big sword like Michonne.

Sneaky.
But if only one item then one problem is that guns need bullets.
A sword is mightier than the toilet roll therefore.

JasonStatham

Probably the canned food as that would survive

Archeron

Tin foil. Will be handy for making new outfits in the mad max style post apocalytic world.

ShatterAlan

odyssey06 wrote: »

Sneaky.
But if only one item then one problem is that guns need bullets.
A sword is mightier than the toilet roll therefore.

+1


(BTW hoard is the verb to stockpile items. "Horde" is a group of people )

accensi0n

Bleach.

Andrew33

Pasta and tinned goods, beans, tuna etc.
Flour is another one but doesn’t have a huge shelf life (even though I suspect it’ll be fine for years after said BBE)
I welcome a post apocalyptic world provided the current “leaders” (all of um) are obliterated

washiskin

Light Bulbs
Tinned Tomatoes
Frozen Meat Pies

gogo

johndaman66 wrote: »

Ah ok, thanks, toilet paper so presumably (like everyone is meant to understand these made uppy acronyms).
Obvious one to idiots though maybe.

You grew up in a world where Beavis and Butthead weren’t a thing I take it?

Jim2007

Stihl waters wrote: »

Bonina black pudding and white bread with brown sauce and butter and litres of milk

All of which would go off and you’d starve.

Jim2007

Interest, but many items left out, like pet food.....

I’ve lived in Switzerland for over 30 years and I used to think ther disaster planning was way OTT until now.

Page 5 of their household emergency plan has a good suggestion for food stuff.

Black Swan

TP?

freshpopcorn

Popcorn!

Graces7

Living in very remote places for decades means I am always well stocked. ie a couple of months .The one thing I am most careful of is cat food as I have 6 rescues. We can eat a variety but they cannot.

ALWAYS make sure you have eg chocolate ie treats as they matter.

A sack pf potatoes is always good to have.

Alf Veedersane

gogo wrote: »

You grew up in a world where Beavis and Butthead weren’t a thing I take it?

Well, that's solved a 'mystery'.

Makes more sense than a 'teepee' did.

Gregor Samsa

Gruffalux wrote: »

I have worked through this scenario a fair few times in my head and if there is only one thing you can stock up on the answer is always guns.

Would it not be more useful to hoard ammunition?

Which is more useful in such an apocalyptic scenario long term: a load of guns and one box of ammo, or one gun and a load of boxes of ammo?

Gruffalux

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Would it not be more useful to hoard ammunition?

Which is more useful in such an apocalyptic scenario long term: a load of guns and one box of ammo, or one gun and a load of boxes of ammo?

Lads, ye are all so literal. The bullets are IMPLIED. If ye go back I said '' a well stocked arsenal''...

me earlier being sensible and clear..

if the sh1t really ever hits the fan and the shops are properly closing what you need is a well stocked arsenal.

I would like to stock cannons, bazookas, rifles, blunderbusses, rifles, AK47s, anything that is going plus of course their ammunition! I have watched The Walking Dead. I know how this game goes.

I would probably retreat to a cave and live off sheep and sorrel leaves. Don't worry, I am not coming to get anyone. If the SHTF there will be hordes of hungry gangs coming out of the cities and my polytunnels full of vegetables will be fcuk all use to me then, won't they. But my guns will do the trick.

Alf Veedersane

Gruffalux wrote: »

Lads, ye are all so literal. The bullets are IMPLIED. If ye go back I said '' a well stocked arsenal''...

Arsenal have been all guns and no bullets for a long time.

Gruffalux

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Arsenal have been all guns and no bullets for a long time.

WHAT!!!??!!! My life has been a lie!!! :eek:

Gruffalux

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Arsenal have been all guns and no bullets for a long time.

You big enormous fibster, trying to ruin a girl's dreams :mad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal

Alf Veedersane

Gruffalux wrote: »

You big enormous fibster, trying to ruin a girl's dreams :mad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.

Gruffalux

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.

Hahah Oh sorry, it was a football joke :P In my world football does not exist.

ewc78

Condoms.

Alf Veedersane

Gruffalux wrote: »

Hahah Oh sorry, it was a football joke :P In my world football does not exist.

Cos you shot all the players

Gruffalux

Gruffalux wrote: »

Guns.
No matter what kind of peacenik homesteading vegetarian idealist you are if the sh1t really ever hits the fan and the shops are properly closing what you need is a well stocked arsenal. I have worked through this scenario a fair few times in my head and if there is only one thing you can stock up on the answer is always guns.

and here i was coming to say soya yogurts

Paul_Mc1988

johndaman66 wrote: »

What is TP?

It's for my bunghole....... because I am the great Cornholio

cj maxx

Toilet roll, I’m down to the last 229, I need to stick up !

NickNickleby

Recently, someone created a thread asking g where to put a safe. He wanted to have a stash of money , in case "the sh1t ever hit the fan". I remember saying to my son, after reading that thread, that if one REALLY thought some sort of armageddon was likely, then guns and ammunition would be the best thing to hide under the stairs. To protect the food and money youd stockpiled.
Even now though, I'd be concerned about criminals targeting homes where guns are kept. Not sure if that's a thing or just in my head.

Oh, by the way, chickpeas and rice. :-)

McGinniesta

Jelly Babies and squirt porn clips