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

[abacucat]

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?

[lazyarse123]

I struggle financially to eat well now, so that's us buggered.

[TheOnlyPink]

The point of sticking up now is to give retailers a chance to replenish supplies before brexi t happens. They can cope with an increase in demand now, that might not be possible immediately after brexut.

[BrexitDestruction]

^exactly TheOnlyPink

[bellinisurge]

I'm surprised your friends told you. I'm just about telling my in-laws (my parents are both dead). I'm not telling anyone else.

[Aridane]

I'm not stocking up. If there are shortages in some things so what? I'll just eat what is available. I'm not fussy enough about food to really care, and no one is actually going to starve.

Agree wiChristmas here

[theDudesmummy]

I am prepping a bit because I can, have a big freezer and plenty of storage space so it makes sense, I have nothing to lose.

If food is limited in any way I will be sure to have some of the foods we like (and that DS will eat, given that he has SN and doesn't eat everything eg if there is no mayonnaise there will be a number of things he won't eat without it, and his diet will be restricted).

If food prices go up I will have saved a bit of money.

If nothing bad happens at all I just have some extra supplies of things I would buy anyway and don't have to shop as much in the spring. I am not preparing for the zombie apocalypse, just making sure that if there are not enough teabags/sugar/oven chips. mayonnaise and wine for a while, we are OK...I don't see why that is surprising.

[bellinisurge]

Having lived and worked in a country that had serious food distribution problems, I don't think "I'll just eat what's going " is a sensible idea.

[ravenscaw]

If Iceland can grow berries year round in their climate then why don't we? The lack of food security in this country should be a scandal.

[cloudtree]

Even telling family is a bit dodgy. I tried again to have a conversation with my parents last night. They said "its fine we'll just come to you"

Great - just put the onus on me to provide for even more people...

[Til89]

I never even considered this. Think I’ll start buying extra to stick in the freezer.

[FortunesFave]

Why do people buy bread mix when all you need to do is buy flour and yeast?

[BarbarianMum]

I'm stocking up. Not because I think there'll be nothing in the shops but because Im anticipating a big hike in prices. If there isnt then nothing lost, it all keeps and we'll eat it anyway.

[BrexitDestruction]

It should be ravenscaw, but it's far too late to do anything to address it now. Stockpiling it is.

I'm not telling anyone and I've told the kids not to either. My family think I'm mad anyway for worrying, so whatevah. I'll be mad and well fed, won't I?

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

I don't have room to keep extra so the only thing I'll be stocking up on is cat food and his medication.

[Cuddlykitten123]

I will probably have a small stash of things that would be very inconvenient to go up alot in price or be short for a while ... nappies, calpol, formula, toiletries, paracetamol etc.

[nannybeach]

Buy seasonal goods, from UK, apples strawberries out of season from abroad are tastless, and are up to a year old, have een gassed,frozen or radiated, to keep them from going off. Whenever the papers suggest there is going to be a shortage of something, ie, spuds after this last summer hot weather, people panic buy and guess what you will get a shortage. We didnt run out of food during the last war when ships were bombed and supplies could not get through. The EU need us as customers.

[FayFortune]

I stock up a bit in November and then again at New Year for winter weather/ illness type situations but I might quip this year that it's for Brexit too.

[theDudesmummy]

I do think that people who have never had any experience of (a) civil unrest and (b) food insecurity have little concept of how quickly it can happen given the right (ie wrong) circumstances. It is like people who have spent their whole life in prosperous peacetime UK, with its many safety nets, talking about a "Blitz spirit", without having any idea of what it is really like to be in a war/unrest area where basic civil facilities have broken down. Not trying to invoke project fear, just saying that we are always closer to the edge than many people imagine (three meals from chaos I think is the thinking?). Trust that "they" will always do the right thing to keep us all OK might be misplaced in the current situation...

Like I say, no prepping for the apocalypse here but why not make sure you have enough tea, just in case?

[arranbubonicplague]

I have a number of very ill family and friends. I need to know that, for a couple of them, I can maintain their special diets (e.g., somebody who had kidney cancer, that kidney removed, as needs a CKD diet for the remaining kidney).

[Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom]

I won't be stocking up in a massive way. any particular things that I really like I stock up on when they are on offer anyway so il do that anyway.
I suppose the two things that spring to are my coffee and the powder for my dishwasher as the tablets don't work for a tabletop dishwasher but I always make sure Iv got them in incase there isn't an offer for a while or they discontinue my coffee!

I might get a couple of cartons of long life milk which if I don't need my friend will use anyway as she lives rurally and likes a few incase she can't get to a shop.

I'll make sure I have pasta and rice in but I won't be buying massive bags of it and il make sure to check if I need flour just incase I need to make bread or rolls but if not needed for that I'll make scones and cake.

[JustABetterPlayer]

Don’t be so silly and don’t get drawn into the media circus and the drumming up of misleading or unproven information. You need to be sensible about these things!

What you ‘should’ be doing is stocking up on guns and ammo. No silly .22 weapons, or 410 bore shotguns please these are only useful for women and small children. A .450 Rigby should be sufficient to ensure you can take out that soldier bursting through your door AND that neighbour you don’t like across the road.

The Russians are likely to invade any time, maybe they’re already here!

[TheElementsSong]

Second World War bingo!

[BrexitDestruction]

Lol nannybeach. What was rationing for then? If supplies were so plentiful and not at risk of running out? Cannot wait to go from having whatever I want to having to queue with a ration book! Brexit is so brilliant!

If the borders and motorways are jammed, how will the food get in from the EU and RoW?

That's all going to be much cheaper too, isn't it? Definitely!

Have you also noticed there's 27 of them to share the pain and only one of us? They'll be fine.

[theDudesmummy]

Remember we live in a country where people called the police because KFC ran out of chicken...

[thenightsky]

I'm getting into the routine of making my own bread (was given a free breadmaking machine). So I am stocking up on bread flour. Went to Lidl last week and the brown had all disappeared . Dried yeast was also down to single figures on the shelf. Hopefully just a post Xmas dip.