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Are you stockpiling for brexit?

244 replies

Downtroddenhousingass · 09/02/2019 18:55

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?

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TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 20:41

Yes
because if it goes pear shaped I'd like to leave the shops to those without resources
and if it does not then I've bought my spring food a few weeks early
no great shakes either way

bababoom100 · 09/02/2019 20:44

The only thing I've considered stockpiling recently is baby milk but haven't started yet. That's the only essential i would need. In terms of other food as long as I don't starve im not bothered if there are some things I can't get for a while.

GottenGottenGotten · 09/02/2019 20:46

That's not the reason it's not an issue, TheCrown.

The reason the shelves aren't empty is that people have been buying a bit extra every week for a long time. It doesn't affect the stock levels because supermarkets are VERY responsive to variations in sales and can resupply accordingly.

Stockpiling a bit a week over a long period of time will reduce potential problems after Brexit, not cause problems, as it will reduce the load at a time where there is the potential for delays in getting things to the shelves - which if it does happen could result in the people that haven't got a full stockcupboard panic buying - and that's what causes the real problems.

BibbityBobbityEars · 09/02/2019 20:47

Yes. So far loo roll, coffee, my favourite tea, muesli, tinned tomatoes, tuna, beans, custard, pasta, rice, frozen blueberries and peas. Also wood and coal.

Thecrown3 · 09/02/2019 20:54

I just think it’s a bit “millennium bug”
I’m happy to be proved wrong in April Grin

Thecrown3 · 09/02/2019 20:55

* dillengently writes down mumsnet user names to write begging letters to for spam *Grin

TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 21:00

TheCrown
If you think Brexit has even the slightest comparison to the Millennium Bug
I'll see you in April to sell you food

Jackshouse · 09/02/2019 21:01

Thecrown3 I hope it is all millennium bug but they also had people working on this issue for longer than we have had people working on Brexit.

Yes I have a few weeks worth of stuff stockpiled. DD has allergies so it’s a bit tricker if we have limited choice. I have got lentils and kidney beans but we normally eat them.

ooooohbetty · 09/02/2019 21:03

No

WhentheDealGoesDown1 · 09/02/2019 21:04

I have enough to last for months anyway, the cupboard and freezer is always rammed and overflowstuff goes in the spare room. DH feels uneasy if there isn’t a lot of stuff even though Asda is just down the road

ChoudeBruxelles · 09/02/2019 21:07

Yes. Have a huge bag of rice, pasta, lots of tinned tomatoes, beans, soup, bread flour and have started to buy things to freeze too.

It’s fresh fruit and veg I think will be hard to get though

TheWomanin12B · 09/02/2019 21:10

Millennium Bug Brexit Bingo ✅

WhentheDealGoesDown1 · 09/02/2019 21:17

We have 90 toilet rolls from Amazon as the ones we like have been discontinued in the shops, I am considering buying another couple of packs of 45 in case Amazon stop selling them also, so should be OK there if there is a toilet roll shortage.

Only worth buying stuff you usually use though and getting it when it’s on offer to save a bit of money at the same time.

GottenGottenGotten · 09/02/2019 21:26

You want to be proved wrong, TheCrown? Crikey, I hope you are proved right, and it's not an issue at all!

Fluffyears · 09/02/2019 21:29

Yes and i’mbooking Two weeks off work so I can sit on my pile of tins and defend it with a pitchfork! Touch my food, feel my fork!

Ivegotthree · 09/02/2019 21:30

No

BasiliskStare · 09/02/2019 21:32

No

Believability · 09/02/2019 21:34

No because quite frankly I don’t believe that we are going to starve

flameycakes · 09/02/2019 21:36

I always have extras of everything, just invested in a new breadmaker as my last one gave up the ghost months back, I've already got a dehydrator and have been dehydrating fruit, veggies and lots of mushrooms, going to do a 2nd attempt at fruit leather this week x

VanGoghsDog · 09/02/2019 21:37

Yes, low key but I'm intending to have an extra month I'd so if food. I already have about a month worth, which I always do, and was useful in the snow last year and when I had flu and pneumonia this time last year.

I live in a village and the Coop was empty during the snow.
I hope it doesn't happen but I think prices will rise, if only short term.

TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 21:40

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E20mom · 09/02/2019 21:41

Nope

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 21:43

Slow and steady over several months. Because with this shitshow the only person I trust to feed my family the way I want to feed them, with food I like to eat is me.

Jtj2s · 09/02/2019 21:43

I always have a couple of months food in the house so it's business as normal, but Ive stocked up on animal feed.

chipstickgirl · 09/02/2019 21:44

I honestly can't believe people are doing this - genuinely shocked.