[oink]

Freezer full of pork plus last years veg (carrots, broccoli, runner beans, french beans, sweetcorn)
Pickled beetroot/onions
Plaited garlic and onions, although they're beginning to grow, wish I'd dried more of the garlic!
Dried garlic
Cupboard of last years potatoes
tinned last years tomatoes
Ridiculously big bags of rice and pasta and flour

My girlfriend still feels the need to constantly shop at the supermarket after saying "but we have nothing in"!  Although, to be fair, she often comes back with chocolate which I don't complain about.  Really wish I could grow my own chocolate but then I probably wouldn't have room for growing anything else!

[MAK]

We have had no water to the house for days and the tap in the cellar has now burst ! So all our dried foods and stuff in the freezer will have to be cooked in snow melt until the water people turn up. We are making bread and are really hitting the different jams made a few months back.
Chris has just walked in with 2 leaks that she broke off above snow level to make yet more soup. Now she is back with spuds from the cellar. She does not know yet that these will be frozen as today ( for the first time) the cold has penetrated the cellar floor causing ice to erupt upwards and the butternut squash I fed to the pigs to freeze.
Despite all our stores we now realise that water and cooking fuel ( bottled gas) are just as imporatnt to us.
 

[Penninehillbilly]

Wow richnJan, what did you start?
very interesting seeing what people keep in and how we all stock up (much of the same things I see), but I'm curious -
UHT milk, do people voluntary drink that stuff? or are one or two kept in just for winter and does anyone check the sell by dates of all this 'fodder'? Goats milk freezes well so we are buying cow milk and keeping goat milk for back up.
MAK you sound like you're getting it bad over there, what temperatures are you getting? I was reading even Venice has frozen up.

[MAK]

UHT milk is standard here and fresh milk is variously kept with the fresh fruit juice ( veg department) cheese or the yogurt isles. We have stacks as we expect long cold winters.
What temperatures you ask? Who knows as it is so local and differs from the meteor reports. Our plumer was in the next valley at 09:00 today and it was -20. The sun came out and was warm on our face ( Chris is now pink) but we stuck a thermometer on the log pile and it was -6. Warm compared to recent days.
Bit fed up with the challenge of getting water for us and the animals. We have 2 buckets of snow in the house to flush the loo but they are not melting. We have just drunk beer and wine since 6:00 PM to conserve what water we have left. Ahhh frozen sprouts have just gone on. We froze loads but need not have bothered as somewhere out there I have 3 rows of the buggers.
 

[Rich/Jan]

Have added 'smash' (flocons of dried potato) to my list.  Only one box and it does have its uses.  Watching TV the other day and saw a TV chef use it in a batter mix to make a type of griddle scone with smash added.  Thought Id give it a go one day next week.  Might not like it so the pigs will give it a go rather than waste it.  I normally add sweetcorn to my griddle scone and sometimes peppers for a change, maybe all three would be good?

[Small Farmer]

Gin.

Stays in date for ages, at least I've never had a bottle go out of date.  And on the same theme, painkillers.

I used to chide my mother for her medicine cupboard which had a very comprehensive collection of prescription drugs.  Now I know why she kept them.