Household need

Food

Build a useful cupboard from normal food and understand food safety during a power cut.

Food library

Guidance and tools.

Build a small reserve of familiar meals for a few days of disruption, with no-cook choices, safe storage and simple rotation.

Choose familiar food that can be eaten without heat, while checking labels, safe water and after-opening storage.

Plan meals that need only brief heating or simple preparation, and understand when no-cook food is the better choice.

Use current UK food-safety guidance to decide how to handle chilled, frozen and cupboard food when the electricity is off.

Count adult and child meal portions across no-cook and limited-cook plans, with separate infant and pet feed counts and water checks.