To be surprised that some friends are buying extra food because of Brexit?

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I suspect that specific foods may get be in short supply for a short period of time, but there will still be plenty of food in the shops. It is not going to be Armageddon. So this seemed an over reaction to me. Or am I going to be that person in the disaster movie who is laughing saying everyone is over reacting, who ends up dead when the disaster finally hits?

My Brexit cupboard is full to the brim, I'm surprised the shelf doesn't collapse 😂

Will definitely bulk buy more tea bags and sugar though before B Day. Cant live without brews

I’m surprised more people aren’t stocking up for Brexit. There is a major national crisis coming in 81(?) days. Leaders in business, logistics, pharmaceuticals, the civil service and UK and EU politics are saying that a no-deal Brexit will cause chaos, there will be shortages and people will die. Why wouldn’t you make sure you and your family are prepared if you have the means to do so? What further warnings would you need to hear, what would need to happen, for you to take the risk seriously? Even the Cabinet can’t decide whether it wants the current deal, no deal, no Brexit, Norway +, a referendum, a delay... There are 81 days to go and no one from Theresa May downwards can say with any certainty what’s going to happen. It’s an utter shambles and unless there’s some sort of miracle there will be serious consequences.

I’ve been adding a few things a week to my usual food shop for a while and am being savvy with my repeat prescriptions. I also have enough loo roll to last a year, courtesy of Groupon

As for the prospect of fuel shortages - I live in hope!

I work on the frontline for the NHS, you better hope I can get to work.

I'm due a baby in April and planned to use ready made aptamil .... it's quite surreal that I'm now genuinely questioning where this is made and if I should buy some now!! I mean .... should I???

Where do you think the children of the conservative MPs pushing for a hard Brexit go to school? State school? Part of the 93%? Nope. That's precisely the point....their families won't be eating tinned bloody peaches in the UK...

@Sassenach85 up to you but I definitely would. If you don’t need it, great. If you do then there aren’t a lot of options if you can’t get it.

@hollyhaphazard quite. Rees-Mogg with his millions will be fine and will probably find the starving poor quite quaint as he cycles past on his penny farthing.

@Sassenach85

You’ll need at least two cans a week, maybe more - how many are you planning to buy? £10/tin is a lot of money to lose if it’s not used. What if it doesn’t suit the baby?

This level of hysteria is unnerving and doing no one any favours. There’ll be plenty of food in the shops - unless fools do start panic buying, thereby ensuring there’s less to go around

I'm due a baby in April and planned to use ready made aptamil .... it's quite surreal that I'm now genuinely questioning where this is made and if I should buy some now!! I mean .... should I???

Also owned by Danone. So most likely made in the Netherlands.

I don't know what I'm doing. Like PP said babies let you know what suits them when they arrive! But as a mother you have that little what if voice in ur mind sometimes clouding rational judgement! I honestly don't know ....

Baby formula is subject to tariffs in some countries and smuggling it in to China is big business. Can’t imagine it getting like that in the UK.

Why are people stocking up on long life milk? Do we not produce enough milk from our cows? genuine question is our milk from Europe?

not sure why it struck out the words genuine question, cos it was genuine!

@victoriaspongecake Although 48% of all our food is imported the UK (as far as I can tell!) is self-sufficient in milk production. BUT we don't make the plastic bottles it goes in. And if there's a fuel shortage which is highly likely they won't be able to transport it. So yes there will be milk but no bottles to put it in nor anyway to get it distributed. People are about to get a crash course in supply chain management and manufacturing.

The level of ignorance about food production and the supply chain demonstrated in this thread - and how Brexit could very easily disrupt them - is quite astonishing. Does no one listen to experts any more?

Oh no, silly me, of course the people are quite sick of experts.

Alana understanding food supply and all the ins and outs of it is not within most people's grasp or interest!

They should at least have the basics understood though. Maybe not the detail on routes, tariffs and regulations, but at least the basic idea that we have to truck it in and delays on the border mean food rotting at the side of the road. Surely there are enough people who can still remember the impact of French strikes at the ports.

Or do people actually think the food fairies bring it all? If so, I worry for the future of the human race.

I’d be looking at cloth nappies for a new baby and sanitary products, in case if difficulties

@SalrycLuxx - judging by the number of posters who cannot conceive of it happening, I think there is a strong belief in the food fairies.
"We can use British milk to make British cheese", for example. With no concept of what increase in production and distribution actually entails and how long it might take to meet new demand. Or what the business risk of over extending might be.
Same as "we will just grow our own food and eat with the seasons, tra-la".
Whoosh! Wave that wand. Close your eyes and really wish for it. It shall be done.

@ivykaty44 , I think that's a good idea.

Last summer I walked into curry’s, Argos, Tesco- non had electric fans, they were sold out in a few days of hot weather. It doesn’t take much in this country for a run on a product to result in a shortage. I could get a stain fan for £200 but that’s all that was left

The expensive items and products will be left

Whoosh! Wave that wand. Close your eyes and really wish for it. It shall be done

Every time a mumsnetter says "I don't believe in fairies that we can just magic up farming self sufficency in 2 months " There is a geothermal greenhouse full of berries somewhere in the uk that falls down dead.

Those due with babies - is breastfeeding an option? Honestly I would be seriously thinking about how to make BF work. Same with cloth nappies. It's better to be prepared for the worst.

Trouble is @brookshelley , and I wish someone had told me this when I struggled and failed to breastfeed, it's not necessarily the easy alternative - I'd just assumed I would bf and was devastated by my failure. I don't want to open that discussion on here but the lack of consistent hcp support made my struggles even worse.
I would now still plan to bf but have a very sensible and well thought out back up of ff options. Obviously, vice versa is a consideration.
I would also prepare to feel proud of anything I did rather than allow myself to be humiliated by my "failure" at such a difficult time.

For anyone who wants to discuss food and other preparedness stuff for babies and toddlers, I started a thread on that a while back in the Preppers topic.
Either pop onto that or start your own. It's a topic that's away from AIBU and focused on practical advice.

Preparedness tips for anyone with a baby and/or toddler www.mumsnet.com/Talk/preppers/3458668-preparedness-tips-for-anyone-with-a-baby-and-or-toddler