The government last month urged all households in the UK to ‘be ready’ with three days worth of food and supplies in case of severe weather or cyber-attacks.
Since, retailers like Ocado have reported huge spikes in essential goods like tinned soups, but for ‘preppers’, stockpiling essential and non-perishable goods is nothing new. In fact, some of them have been purchasing supplies for years.
One such prepper is Ian Ferguson, a 71-year-old taxi company owner in Dorset. He said he started stockpiling tins in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine.
His emergency stockpile includes over 600 cans of food including stews, soups, beans,
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