How to prepare for an emergency flyers have been sent out all over Ireland, and now the UK is following suit with guidelines of their own.

The UK's Defence Secretary Wes Streeting, issued their official guidelines, which includes telling the British public to stockpile tinned food, bottled water, a torch and a wind-up radio in case of power cuts and supply chain disruption.

Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast on these guidelines was Dan Goss who is the founder of Start Prepping UK and he highlighted that the British Government seems to be taking these possibilities seriously. 

Host Anton Savage joked that preppers used to be seen as "tinfoil-hatted fantasists" but now they're "pioneers leading the British government".

Mr Goss laughed and replied: "Well, there's plenty of tinfoil hat boys still running about."

In relation to how the British government is now making plans for these instances, he theorised that it could be because they realised the rest of Europe has been doing something similar for a while.

So what are these guidelines? Mr Goss explained: "We're looking more at the sort of thing that could help average households get through a... The official guidance is about three days worth of lack of access to food supply, water supply and electricity.

"It's a general guideline because three days is roughly how long the government expects it to take for them to clear a road or get a power line back up.

"I think you should try and keep a good stock of food that doesn't need to be cooked necessarily. You know, things like granola bars, tins are good if you have a means of heating them, if you've got a camping stove or something like that.

"But it should be stuff that you use in your everyday life anyway, rather than getting things like astronaut food that you'll just stick away and then if you ever need to eat it, your whole body will just be like, 'What are you doing?'

"Torch and battery bank, absolutely. Battery banks are fantastic for keeping your mobile going and your mobile will be the way that you receive official emergency alerts to let you know what's going on."

As for heating and keeping warm, Mr Goss recommends making sure you have enough fuel for your fireplace or log burner (if you have one) and looking into heated gilets.

There have been a number of companies who have introduced battery powered heated blankets, hoodies and gilets, with money expert Martin Lewis even suggesting them as a means to heat the human rather than the home as a cost-saving measure during the energy crisis.

As for websites people can check out, Mr Goss said: "I'd have to recommend startprepping.co.uk, but there are plenty of others.

"There are lots that have quite an American focus on the whole thing, which is fairly bunkers and armolites heavy.

"But there has been a big move lately towards things that are a bit more reasonable for the average person, like the normal person who doesn't want to stop being normal, if you know what I mean."