Are you stockpiling for brexit?

[Downtroddenhousingass]

I am, chest freezer is full and my kitchen is overflowing with dry food.

Seeing as how the shops were empty last year with two days of snow a best case scenario will be a few weeks of shortages. Or am I crazy?

You might know a lot of people who are like you. I know a lot of people who aren't. The ridicule and, on occasion, abuse, I have had on here over the past several months for suggesting three days would suggest many people are not you. Or your friends.
And I have repeatedly said do more if you want/can but don't do less.

Just to be clear, the ridicule and occasional abuse has been from people saying three days is too much.

I've been very grateful to have the idea of three days of brexit stash to work with. Depending on what point of the salary month it is and what other bills I've had, I either have full to bursting kitchen cupboards or quite bare ones. It's true I would always have enough food for three days, but if a disaster happened at a barer cupboard time for me I'd have some weird meals and would run out quicker. My brexit stash is in an entirely separate room; I have an additional three days (now more than that) of food. I was buying a bit haphazardly survivalist type food until I saw one of Bellini's posts, which helped me get my brain in a helpful gear :D

Do people really not have three days extra food?

Honestly when was the last time you watched the news on TV every night for a week? Because you clearly should.

If you did you'd be aware of just how desperate people are with universal credit and food banks. Just last night there was a lady on the TV in relation to babies in poverty saying that immediately after her csection she was still walking six miles a day going to all the supermarkets and market to get food as cheap as possible on reduced food. She said that she'd still walk back somewhere if it'd save her 25p. She said at one point it got so bad she was living just off baked beans. She was breastfeeding at the time and this simply wasn't enough for her or the baby. She had just £20 a week for food.

There are numerous examples of people regularly skipping meals - including children. There is a problem in school holidays when kids don't get their free school dinners in some areas.

You might know a lot of people but your complete ignorance and denial of what's on the TV every single night is frightening.

Or do you see it and think its made up and really people have food hidden in their cupboards after all.

I don't know. I get frustrated by the blinkers too many people have. We are in this mess contemplating 'forward purchasing' because of precisely this lack of awareness of the reality of others. We simply stay in our own little bubble of comfort.

People don't want to believe anything they can't see in their own world. That in itself opens up the stuff of dystopian nightmare.

Make an effort. Challenge yourself to watch the 6pm news and local news for a week.

I've just done an online shop, and included lots of tinned fruit (in fruit juice, as I find syrup too sickly), tinned sweet corn, frozen fruit & veg (lots), fruit juice cartons and tinned tuna.

I think there may be problems with fruit and veg throughout the summer. We also all like tuna.

I've also got various pasta sauce jars and quite a lot of dried pasta. And my beloved Earl Grey tea bags..

DS12 wants me to buy burgers and rolls for the freezer for when to cooker stops working, and we resort to bbqs every night. He also loved making homemade bread.

And look at Jack Monroe on twitter.

Just had a slightly cagey conversation with a colleague who asked if I was stockpiling. I said I haven't got room and I shoved in the odd extra tin with my weekly shop.
I have given this person preserved produce from his garden when they were giving garden stuff away free that tbey didn't know what to do with. I took it, preserved it and gave some back to them.
They can work the rest out for themselves.

I just asked my parents if they were buying anything extra in advance. I suggested my tinned and frozen fruit & veg idea.

Dad is apparently taking it one step further. He loves gardening, and this spring is now also experimenting with LED grow lights, to keep a steady stock of lettuce and salad crops.

So @Beelinisurge & also @VangoghsDog -

I have room for a few more tins etc and it's a fair point for anything to make sure stocked up.

& VangGoghsdog - you say you have 40 + meals in the freezer - some of us do not live in a house with a big freezer - there is no way I ould stock 40 meals. - So yes I can keep 3 or 4 days meals going , but an extra 3 or four well - would have to think. Could get tins. But do just think all of us do not have a massive freezer or a huge larder - some of us live in v small houses. But yes enough room for some tins etc & possibly a few more things in the freezer if squashed down.

The point about those who cannot afford to put more food away is well made.I could afford to buy more stuff but just don't have the space to do it. There are many reasons why people couldn't. Though I have a Juliet balcony - I reckon I could hang stuff off there in bags and call it "Nature's Larder"

you say you have 40 + meals in the freezer - some of us do not live in a house with a big freezer - there is no way I ould stock 40 meals.

I never suggested you did or could. I was merely commenting on what I have done. I am aware that not everyone has a big freezer, though mine isn't especially big in fact, just very neatly stacked.

Think about how you can make tinned food more exciting. Maybe freeze some chillies, ginger or lime wedges. I remember the meals of the 70s being dull and boring. I for one don’t intend to go back to them

Make an effort. Challenge yourself to watch the 6pm news and local news for a week.

Oh do fuck off.

@VanGoghsDog At Christmas my son stacks everything in our little fridge and freezer. It is like a game of Tetris I do think there is a point in that careful stacking / storage can make the most of space available.

When I had a small freezer, I used to freeze meals in take away containers (which is what I still use) and once frozen, pop them out of the container and wrap in cling film and replace in the freezer, they took a lot less space then.

I used to put freezer bags into Lakeland plastic boxes and then fill them with whatever (soup, shepherds pie base, tomato base, stock....); once frozen, I'd take them out the box and stack up the frozen blocks.

I've never tried the "library" technique though - must give it a go (although with my freezer being full of blocks, I don't necessarily have the flat area required )

Yes, but only things that we would normally eat, except some UHT milk. Therefore I'll either not face busy supermarkets with limited choice, or I'll have cheap shopping bills for a month or so

I'm guessing that fresh food could be low if there are delays at ports, so I've got a fair bit of frozen veg in the freezer, tinned fruit and tined potatoes. When we had all the snow, fresh was the first stuff that ran out, then frozen took a hit. I'm not a great cook, so it's better for me to have my usual meal staples rather than try to cobble something together on the fly.

I also freeze leftovers/meals in re-used takeaway tubs. I write on the lid what the contents are and the month and year. They stack quite well in our chest freezer.

I also freeze leftovers/meals in re-used takeaway tubs. I write on the lid what the contents are and the month and year.

I don't write on mine, just lucky dip - but I figure as I live alone, and I made it, it's all food I like and if I end up with bolognaise and rice or chili and pasta, so be it!