20+ years ago I started stocking a pantry, didn't even know there was a specific name to what I did back then.
I was a single parent witha disabled baby, who was in and out of hospital, there was times when I thought the bed should have had a reserved sign on it. I quickly realised that going out for groceries was impossible when your kid had just been discharged from hospital. So I first started with a stock of 2 week groceries and an extra 2 packs of loo paper and the usual ton of baby requirements.
I didn't have a BOB or a GHbag I did have a hospital bag packed permanently with clothes toiletries food and some cash, was once caught out without that bag when my parent were on holiday I had £16 in my purse for a taxi and a 7 day hospital stay if it hadn't been for the kindness of the ward sister who brought me some toiletries a couple of t shirts and some new undies [ i did re-emburse her] I would have found a trying time very difficult.
Over the years my pantry has expanded, it is my saftey net for difficult times
Another one from Manchester
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Carrot Cruncher
Re: Another one from Manchester
Hi ro, welcome to the site
I think you must have hit the enter button a couple of times when you posted the intro...i'll delete the other 2
I think you must have hit the enter button a couple of times when you posted the intro...i'll delete the other 2
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ro2935
Re: Another one from Manchester
Thanks the first post didn't seem to connect so I hit the button twice and it all disapeard so I re posted again, technology is not my first language.Carrot Cruncher wrote:Hi ro, welcome to the site
I think you must have hit the enter button a couple of times when you posted the intro...i'll delete the other 2
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diamond lil
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Re: Another one from Manchester
Hi Ro 
Reading this, I think maybe that's when I had my first glimmers of prepping too. Not an ill baby, but just having a time of babies/hospitals and poverty. OH was always on strike & I had to have a stash of staple foods. Maybe that's when it all started for me, and when we hit a spell with more money I sort of forgot about it
Reading this, I think maybe that's when I had my first glimmers of prepping too. Not an ill baby, but just having a time of babies/hospitals and poverty. OH was always on strike & I had to have a stash of staple foods. Maybe that's when it all started for me, and when we hit a spell with more money I sort of forgot about it -
janso
Re: Another one from Manchester
Hi ro, hope you find some useful posts onboard; if not ASK!! 
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smileyt
Re: Another one from Manchester
Hurray, one more in Manchester. I am not alone! Welcome, ro!
Welcome, ro!