Household food resilience (UK plant-based edition)

The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official advice is released). According to the environment secretary Angela Eagle earlier this week: We’re about to experience probably the largest El Niño that has ever been seen, and that will lead to drier summers, wetter winters, with more extreme storms in this country. … If you’ve got a store of a bit of food that can keep you going for a while before the emergency services can get to you, you’re going to be a lot better off than if you haven’t. So some of it is that kind of preparation for just being a bit more resilient. Tracy Durnell, who lives in the Pacific Northwest region of the US, recently blogged about her own emergency food supply in a piece aptly titled My emergency food supply is extra normal food, which is exactly the approach I’ve been taking. Potential causes of disruption in…