As a country with plentiful food and electricity primarily generated from renewable sources, our main difficulties in coming months will be logistical rather than a shortage of basic calories or electricity - we live at the ends of the earth far from where most products are made and most of our transport and freight is still fossil-fuel based.

Therefore our current preparations should focus on things that are imported and/or made from oil (plastic). It is tempting to go out and buy a large sack of flour, oats or pasta but most of those things will continue to be available as we grow quite a bit of them locally so there is no urgent need to stock up on them now.

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