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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?

OP posts:
TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 21:45

chipstick
do you listen to the news?
do you think that the politicians in charge of keeping the borders working properly are competent?

Duckshead · 09/02/2019 21:47

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!

Brilliant!

chipstickgirl · 09/02/2019 21:57

@TalkinPeece scare tactics by the media sells papers / gain viewers. The millennium bug, swine flu, worst winter ever, hosepipe bans...whatever it is creates mass panic and the only people who benefit are the supermarkets.

I cannot believe that from 29th March the UK will start a slow decline with us declaring a state of emergency as a famine takes hold. Common sense sometimes needs to prevail.

TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 22:00

Brexit bingo HOUSE

TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 22:01

Chipstick
I cannot believe that from 29th March the UK will start a slow decline with us declaring a state of emergency as a famine takes hold. Common sense sometimes needs to prevail.
What is your evidence for that assumption?

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 22:03

Yay, loads of Millennium Bug points here for Brexit bingo.
Here's the boring bit: lots of time, effort and planning went into avoiding any hassle with the millennium bug.
And hose pipe bans are not made up shit to piss you off.
At this point, I don't care if you get a buffer of food in or not. I have one.

Duckshead · 09/02/2019 22:04

Mass panic my arse, sensibly sticking a few tins away each week along with some bags of rice and loo rolls is a totally different concept.

Duckshead · 09/02/2019 22:05

Oh bellini I'm sensing that your patience has finally broken, don't really blame you!

MrsJBaptiste · 09/02/2019 22:06

Is this a actually a thing? People are buying extra food in advance due to Brexit?

loobylou10 · 09/02/2019 22:07

Love a bit of brexit bingo - millennium bug 😂😂. In answer to your question, yes - yes I have bought in extra provisions. I would rather have things in than have to search for food should stocks run low. It's a no brainier as far as I'm concerned.
BTW - thanks Bellinsurge for your very sensible advice which I have followed. 👍

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 22:07

Yep, @Duckshead . It's finally popped.

loobylou10 · 09/02/2019 22:08

*Bellinisurge

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 22:09

Btw, you're welcome loobylou10

loobylou10 · 09/02/2019 22:10



TalkinPeece · 09/02/2019 22:11

I might have outed myself in Waitrose today pointing out to DH that as rice noodles were on offer we should stockpile them Grin

Duckshead · 09/02/2019 22:12

bellini I've followed loads of the Brexit threads and all the 'forward purchasing' ones! Name change a lot, but you've always been so helpful in them all. It's a wonder there's anyone new left to read and comment on them! The millennium bug comparison gives me the rage! 🤣

KennDodd · 09/02/2019 22:15

No but only because I can't yet. My house is a bit upside down so nowhere to put stuff.

I asked this on another thread but didn't get much of an answer so forgive me asking again.
If you're stockpiling, did you vote Remain? Likewise, if not stockpiling, did you vote Leave?

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 22:17

I've tried to be as helpful as I can for as long as reasonably possible. I think it's too late for me to keep doing it because it's getting too close to end of March for "forward purchasing " from scratch to be done slowly and proportionately.

Ollivander84 · 09/02/2019 22:23

Yes but not intentionally. I buy when stuff I eat/use is on offer. Plus I do a large shop at wilko for household stuff
Not sure what is classed as stocking up but for example (I live alone) I have 8 snap pots of beans (on offer), 3 boxes of porridge (on offer), longlife milk x 2 (back up), 2 x boxes teabags (offer)... etc etc and my freezer is full as I did some batch cooking plus I bought stuff on offer Grin

I want to get in some paracetamol as I'm running low anyway and I need it to control my temp once a week. And loo rolls and cat food

WhentheDealGoesDown1 · 09/02/2019 22:30

We do this Ollivander84, always get a good stock in when stuff is on offer or we have money off vouchers from supermarkets.

bellinisurge · 09/02/2019 22:30

@KennDodd , I voted Remain. I know the stereotype of general Preppers like me is shit kicking red necks but this prepper wanted to avoid disruption to the food supply and destruction of the Good Friday Agreement (yes, being sufficiently Irish to get a passport, damage to GFA was fecking obvious to me not some obscure political nuance).

RegularShowRules · 09/02/2019 22:51

Yes I am for the reason this government cannot be trusted, they are corrupt and incompetent.
They have no plan to help families on low income after Brexit with the likely food shortages or food prices increasing.
Why would anyone put their faith in this government to get it right after March 29th after the absolute chaos they have created and still it goes on and on?
People are relying on a govt who don't care that their policies are sinking more families into poverty now so why would they care after March when they will say Brexit isn't their fault they just did what the public wanted?

I could understand people not getting a few extra tins if they didn't have the income to do so but anyone who has the means to stock up a bit surely it's common sense?
Lower the risk of your family starving and rely on yourself not the govt. If Brexit goes well no harm done just eat the food or donate extra to a food bank.
If you have kids (and the means to prep) I really can't see why you would take a gamble and not do everything you can to lower any risk of possible food shortages and higher food prices

Camomila · 10/02/2019 00:08

Haven't started yet - I've been more focused on sorting out new ID ( passport running out, long waits at the consulate)

But I will soon, just enough for 3 days and a few meals in the freezer as I have a tiny kitchen.

I'm lucky though as none of us need any important medication and even my 2 year old will eat most things.

That's interesting about generic medications coming from Italy howrudeforme they must make them slightly different for the UK, I always buy medicine in Italy to bring back as the kids stuff tastes better and the ibuprofen is super strong

safariboot · 10/02/2019 00:18

Not yet because I just had to move house. But I will. Not to extremes but I'll make sure I have extra tins and packets of the stuff I normally eat.

BlackeyedGruesome · 10/02/2019 02:30

nah, cos its like the millennium bug, and panic buying now will cause shortages cos beans, and it is all going to be fine and we are not going to starve and, and...

hides forward purchasing lists

may have a day or twos stuff, we have eaten quite a bit due to being kept in due to repeated illnesses of children and me.

running an excess is always good if you are a single parent of disabled children.

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