Before we consider the end of the world as we know it (T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I.) lets talk about the vast majority of situations where help will be coming...
Sadly an extreme weather event such as a winter storm, earthquake, hurricane or tsunami will affect somebody in the world almost every week as we know from the 24 hour news cycle that's barely stopped telling us of one disaster before switching live to the next.
Often in these situations help arrives in the area affected quite quickly such as the cave divers from the UK and Australia that found and rescued the Thai youth football team trapped underground in a flooding cave.
People should be prepared to last at least 72 hours in case of a short term crisis, with 24 hour shopping and home delivery many people live day to day so that even a small event would cause severe disruption for them if the water supply or power failed for example.
Previously I mentioned about simple water purification by filtering and boiling, in most UK houses there is a large header tank in the roof space that ensures you can continue with essentials for a short time before you'd run out of water.
So your first prep should be to ensure you have adequate food supplies in the house, dried foods like rice and pasta have incredibly long self lives as do tinned goods which are as fresh to eat five years after the day they were packaged!
Often buying in bulk results in some substantial long term cost savings too, and with shelf life of five years you don't have to worry that you wont eat it before it spoils.
Its recommended that women have 2000 calories a day and for men its 2500, there are many quick and simple recipes for high calorie, high protein meals using canned goods such as spam or corned beef added to staples such as potatoes (fresh or also canned)
In this video I made a simple corned beef hash using the Swedish army surplus M40 mess kit;
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