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I try to keep some food at home (probably 2 weeks), it's just the normal food so it's rotating naturally. It's also helpful for weird local events that are very rare, but not unheard. (Hi from Argentina!)

I should keep more water, but I'm too lazy. I have only probably only two days that is too few.

If I had time, I'd pick some iodine pills. They are small and have a long shelf life.

Anything else is too difficult or too far from my control.

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Que haces che! Two of us from Argentina; it seems like a traditional thing with inflation that my father taught me a long time ago to keep food for at least 2 weeks.

I'll try to do the same with the pills, sounds reasonable and low-effort

The two weeks are mostly to avoid short suply cuts events. For inflation the idea is to keep as few pesos as possible at the end of the month.

For example, when we got the usual half extra salary in July, one year we used it to buy liquid laundry soap for the whole year instead of keeping the money in the bank. It has a good shelf life and high price to volume ratio.

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