If you are subtly inferring that there is no more food at the UK food banks, then I would suggest these means of staying alive because this does kick survival up a notch.

Go to the local feed store and see what bulk grains you can get a hold of. The cheapest source of food. Oatmeal and Corn big bags. The grains are courser but just cook a little longer.

Next, find potatoes and throw them in a root cellar, cool dry place for early spring planting. You can throw them in a garbage can filled with dirt and they will grow.

Know your local fauna. Dandelions are an excellent green. The big leaves are bitter, so stay with the younger, smaller ones. They are excellent with chives. This was Ruth Stouts favorite salad. She was a home gardener who advocated gardening in the nude. Way ahead of her time..

The dandelion roots can be used as coffee/tea. Excellent herbal healing powers. The plant is related to chickory somehow, IIRC.

Still go to the food bank and take whatever you can get. It is something.

Now gardening is what will keep food going. There are winter crops. I'm all about the kale.

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One Chicken for 2 people and feed with surrounding fauna. They do like some grain when laying eggs. Grain I suspect will start to climb in price. Chickens recycle a compost pile nicely.

Inside containers, growing is another means to keep things going. Lettuce and celery will reproduce from stock. Ginger grows anywhere.

Gorilla gardening. Look it up. I know people who grew tomatoes in downtown Detroit, successfully.

People raise rabbits in apartment buildings. They don't need space and are very quiet.

Yes, when shopping and you see a sale buy 3 instead of 2 cans and build up the supplies.

This is the kind of thinking that has to prevail. Yes hard times are here, but GLP knew this was coming years ago. Just be sure to slow down and think things through. The answer is out there.