Could you make it?

Just imagine, the snow falls and reaches 6inches in a few days, so Tesco can't make the deliveries to their stores. Fuel tanker drivers go on strike so no one can get any fuel for deliveries, or to get to work. The socially deprived find an excuse to start mass riots because the police shoot a guy waving a gun at them, so you cant get out to the shops.

Or, just as likely, you cant work, you lose your job, and you have no way of putting food on your table.  The only way those of us that don't have a major league savings account, or a few spare houses to sell to raise the money to live.

You can start to get ready for such eventualities by "Preparing" for a rainy day.  The church of jesus Christ and the latter day saints try to get all their congregation to live as debt free as they can, to save a little, and to put a little food away for what may happen "Just in case"

This is very laudable, but this isn't anything new, several generations ago, before the 1950's families used to grow much of there own food in their gardens and allotments, preserving what they could for the winter, likewise those that didn't have the luxury of land to grow food used to buy the food from the Grocers or Butchers and keep it in their sellers.

It is only since the advent of super markets and the widespread access of refrigeration that families have not had a reserve of food or basic supplies to hand.  In fact, I can remember my family buying 3 months of coal at the start of winter.

Back to the present, once you have realized that our own circumstances are very fragile and that we may experiance an event that threatens this at any time.

It doesn't take a lot of commitment to start prepping, though as you delve deeper you may decide to get more in depth kit.  To start with, all you have to do is get a bit extra when you go shopping, and think about what you would do if you had a minor emergency at home.  Getting a fire blanket, smoke alarms or a few fire extinguishers for example may be a sensible precaution.

Many preppers are doing more and more to get "off grid", some have small kitchen gardens or allotments, some have fitted solar photo voltaic panels cells (solar panels) to their houses, some have installed wood burners.  All this helps provide you with cheaper bills TODAY, but in the futre, if something happens, then at least you will have the peace of mind of knowing that you have some level of normality.

If your still not convinced, I'd like to take a line from a guy that was on a TV show about preppers in the UK, "you have house insurance, you have car insurance, well, I have food insurance."