The weather doesn’t care whether you’ve been to the shops.
Home Ready is the plain, British plan for keeping your household warm, fed, watered and safe when the power goes off, the roads close and the shelves run empty. Three books in one: the blackout, the store cupboard, and ninety days laid out week by week. No bunker, no gadgets, no fuss.
I’ve never called myself a prepper. I just grew up knowing the animals still want feeding, snow or no snow.
Three books. Ninety days. Everything in the order you’ll need it.
The first book gets you through the blackout. The second fills the cupboard properly, with what I learned from thirty years of selling into the supermarkets. The third takes you week by week to day ninety. Start this weekend with a few bottles of water and a torch that works.
Home Ready: The Complete Readiness System for British Households
Three volumes, the 90-Day Buy List, six printable cards for the fridge door and three bonus guides. One download, yours to keep.
The government says three days. I plan for ninety.
The official checklist asks every household to keep three days of water and food in. That’s a good start. But a long power cut, a hard winter on the moor or a run on the shops doesn’t stop at day three. Here’s what ninety days actually asks of two people.
Drinking-water figure from the GOV.UK Be Ready checklist: 3 litres per person per day. 10 litres per person per day covers basic cooking and hygiene, the more comfortable level in UK government guidance. Nobody keeps 1,800 litres in the kitchen: Volume I shows where the rest comes from.
Three books, in the order trouble arrives.
Each chapter takes one problem and does the same things with it: what actually happens, why the usual approach lets people down, what to do instead, and what it costs. Read them front to back, or go straight to the one you need tonight.
This is a first edition. The letters come next.
Home Ready is brand new. As readers write in about the winter they got through with it, their letters will go here.
[Reader letter]
[Reader letter]
[Reader letter]
Walter Coaker.
I’ve farmed on the edge of Dartmoor all my life, same as my father and his father before him. A flock of hill sheep, thirty-odd hens, a big vegetable patch and an old granite farmhouse that always wants something fixing.
For more than thirty years our lamb and eggs went into the supermarket supply chain. That taught me how dates, labels and shelf life really work, from the side most shoppers never see.
When the Beast from the East came through, the lanes filled with snow, the shops emptied in days and the power went soon after. Our house carried on as normal. Not because we’re anything special, but because we’d always kept extra food, fuel, water and feed, the way my parents did.
Home Ready is everything I do without thinking, written down in order, for an ordinary house in town or country.
It isn’t prepping. It’s just good housekeeping.
£27 once. No subscription. Yours to keep.
Instant download the moment you pay. Read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the cards at the kitchen table. Thirty-day money-back guarantee: if it’s not for you, email me and every penny comes back.
What folk ask before they buy.
Is this a doomsday book?
No. It’s about ordinary British trouble: snow, storms, floods, power cuts and empty shelves. No politics, no scare stories, and nothing you’d be embarrassed to have on the kitchen shelf.
I live in a flat in town. Is it still for me?
Yes. Most of it assumes an ordinary home with no land and no workshop. Where something’s different for a flat or a small house, I say so.
Why three books?
Because they’re three different jobs. Getting through a blackout, keeping a proper store cupboard, and lasting the long haul. You can start with whichever worries you most.
Do I need a generator?
No. Volume I helps you decide whether one is worth it for your house, and everything else works without one.
I’m not handy, and I’m not as young as I was.
Neither am I. Everything in the books can be done by one person at the kitchen table. Where a job needs a professional, I say so.
Is the health part medical advice?
No. It covers what a household should keep in and know. Talk to your GP or pharmacist about your own medicines.
What format is it?
Large-type PDFs you can read on a phone, tablet or computer, plus the printable cards. Everything downloads the moment you pay.
What if it’s not for me?
Email within 30 days and every penny comes back. No forms, no questions.
Be the house on the lane that’s still warm.
Three books, the buy list, six cards and three bonus guides. £227 of value for £27 once. Thirty-day money-back guarantee.
Get Home Ready · £27© 2026 Walter Coaker. General household preparedness information, not professional medical, electrical, gas or legal advice. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for heaters, stoves and generators, and never run a generator, barbecue or camping stove indoors. In an emergency, call 999. To report a power cut, call 105.