EU calls for households to stockpile 72 hours of food amid war risks

I'm from EU and this is way less than my country suggests, which is 2 weeks.

I actually have 2 weeks supplies, but I'm gonna eat baked beans and vegan chocolate and drink coke zero the last few days 😅

Just a question for people here who do not have 72 hours of food stored in their homes? Do you go to the supermarket every day? Or do you cook at all? What are you doing on the weekend? What happens when you're sick and can't go shopping?

Meanwhile, here in the Uk our government is making sure we won't have enough money to buy more than two days of food at a time.

Thank goodness that wars only last for 3 days exactly.

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72 hours? No problem. Always have a big bag of rice on hand and you're done.

I'm happy I'm growing my own food.

Though I don't think much will happen to Ireland.

I don't enjoy archived links that much, so here is the plan, straight from the EU.

I read that as 72 days at first and thought something serious was expected soon. Oh, 72 HOURS. Who doesn't have that?

Also unless you are on the border, how useful is that likely to be? What would the expectation be, only short term supply chain disruption so shops may run out of something in the first few days but after that food supply will adjust to it?

I could survive 72 hours on the food I have at home at any time, it won't be grand tho and I'll still need electricity to make most of it.

Once I move I'm planning on having a small stockpile (cause I'll finally have space for it) to last about 2 weeks or so, worst case I just need to eat it and restock it later and best case it saves me a lot of hassle in a crisis.

72 hours, the average length of a special military operation.

72 hours of food is just grocery shopping

My grandma lived through WWII and rationing. After she died, we were cleaning out her house to find she had hidden cans of food stockpiled everywhere: behind the washing machine, in the pit in her garage, in the corners of her loft, everywhere.

If rationing ever came back in, she was more than ready for it.

That has been the recommendation for civil protection for a while already. Not so much because of the risks of war, but e. g. floodings, power outages, storms etc. And most importantly you should stockpile water, because at a power outage, there will be no tap water anymore. That's the most important bit people here seem to forget. So nothing new here, actually.

72 hours of food is crazy to me. I would be making a trip to the store when down to maybe a week or two.

Guess Europe really does shop different.

Given how quickly supermarket shelves emptied at the start of COVID, this is good advice generally for a crisis.

what about fasting? I bet we have enough fat to fast couple weeks at least

72 hours means you go to the store on Monday and then again on Friday. I thought this was kind of the norm for everyone? I mean, not for me, I go once every 10 days but surely 3 days is not that big of a deal?

may be is start of ww-3; winter is coming

Develop minimum preparedness criteria for essential services such as hospitals, schools, transport, and telecommunications.

I hope they are taking this point seriously so that privatized welfare no longer gets special treatment.

Including bottled water?

EU is trying to stimulate spending. Get their GDP numbers back up.