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?

@BobDobbs - sounds very sensible and prudent.

Do you suppose ralfeesmum also posted "Have you cancelled the cheque???"

I suspect she has a history degree..

Have you cancelled the cheque? Blast from the past that is! I long for those simpler times!

My husband is going to think I've gone quite mad when he spots the tins and rice stash. He rolls his eyes at any suggestion there might be issues. We'll see who's laughing when I'm tucking into my veggie chilli and he's foraging in the garden.

I will probably carry on having a small stash of supplies regardless from now on. It was very useful after Christmas when I was broke and I have used some of the uht milk when I had a bad cold and only wanted tea and couldn't face walking to the shop.

I suspect she has a history degree.

I really have no room to stock up, but I hadn’t really thought that I’d need to either tbh.

I despair of people who refuse to understand the just in time nature of our food supply. Even if there are just a couple of days of disruption the shop shelves will be bare.

My friends think it'll all be fine (Even though they're remainers) because "they" (whoever they are) won't let us starve. I've given up talking to people about it now.

If your stock is stuff you would use anyway then isn't it worth getting it if you can (both in terms of affording it and having a place to store it).

Glad someone mentioned butter. I forgot that it can be frozen. I think I'll do the same with cheese.

We currently have four weeks worth of meals, soon to be 6. The only thing that won't get used if everything is well is long life milk, but that will go to the food bank if it isn't required.

@Oysterbabe I’m stocking up by stealth, a few tins here and there and rice, pasta etc being bought as extras when I get other bits. Luckily we have a huge cupboard with loads of space that I can fill up without it being noticed!
I’m having a clear out of the deep freeze this weekend as well, I’ll pitch that as an early spring clean! I’ll then top that up by stealth as well 😬

That plus my statements of ‘ooh this toothpaste (insert any product here) is half price, I’ll buy 5 tubes’ will see us right if needed in the event of no deal 😃

Have just found this on twitter, which explains pretty well why so many cannot contemplate a change in circumstance.

It's a totally normal "prepper" phenomenon to have your partner on a different page to you about prepping so I would think it's exactly the same for Brexit prepping.
My dh is not a "prepper " like me and certainly had his head in the sand (deliberately) on No Deal. Less so now. He still leaves the Prepper stuff to me but adds to our stash of food more decisively now.

As for butter - ghee is shelf stable. Give that a go.

I’m a project manager by trade and do love a plan so I guess that I’m more predisposed to prepping than some. Although until recently I’d never heard of the term prepping, I just called it planning!

I call it shopping with a list!

We can’t live our lives in constant fear. And fear is all this thread is really about.

No, it's about preparing 'just in case'. It's what most normal people do throughout their lives. That's why people have house and car insurance, or life insurance if they have children.

bellinisurge
As for butter - ghee is shelf stable. Give that a go.

Ireland exports €1bn-worth of butter a year, some of that could be re-directed your way. Northern Ireland has a big dairy industry as well, as as GB itself. So butter and general dairy stuff mightn't be such a problem post-brexit?

@Juells , my late mum used to tell me about her nurse trainee pals coming back from trips home to Ireland with lots of pork and dairy goodies in the late 40s to raitioned up UK. She could never afford a trip home to Ireland after she came to work here and used to look forward to their bundles for Britain.

We can’t live our lives in constant fear. And fear is all this thread is really about.

No, it's about preparing 'just in case'. It's what most normal people do throughout their lives. That's why people have house and car insurance, or life insurance if they have children.

That’s like saying that because of the fact of insurance you can’t think it’s barmy to only go outdoors in a suit of armour just in case a little meteorite falls out of the sky - just in case.

There’s sensible planning (insurance is for the unforeseen) and there’s over-indulging in fear.

There’s also scaremongering, but I take the charitable view on that: I think the ‘preppers’ on this thread genuinely believe in the Euro-apocalypse. The sense of drama is just a nice addition.

@There’s also scaremongering, but I take the charitable view on that: I think the ‘preppers’ on this thread genuinely believe in the Euro-apocalypse. The sense of drama is just a nice addition."

As a prepper who is regularly on this and other similar threads for months now, I think there has been a concerted effort by actual Preppers to give sensible advice without giving into panic.
It's people who have never thought about it before who tend to panic.
As a prepper, the next likely thing to happen is actually being snowed in. Which will happen before Brexit if it's going to happen. Brexit for me is just another thing that has become a bit more likely to be problematic in terms of food supply etc.

UK in a Changing EU @UKandEU
What will happen if there's a no deal Brexit? Conservative MPs expect:

•no long queues at ports
•no drop in house prices
•no medical shortages
•no flight cancellations
•BUT a significant drop in the £

Our latest polling of MPs with @MileEndInst:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-mps-really-think-about-may-s-brexit-deal-sq0hq27z7

A significant number of Tory MPs support no deal. They don't believe the concerns on this thread. HOWEVER even they expect a drop in the pound.

Which WOULD mean an increase in the cost of living; at least in the short term. Which is HIGHLY LIKELY to lead to price rises on household items - particularly those which are imported or contain ingredients / components / services from abroad.

So this is in theory the least worst risk assessment everyone should consider. No Deal MIGHT NOT yet happen, but if it does this is your base line to plan your next few months with.

Shock - wealthy, out-of-touch politicians think it'll all be fine (or at least say that it will be).

I'd bet you anything that none of them have mostly empty cupboards at home, or ever have to shop around different supermarkets to find cheaper food, or live pay check to pay check without any family support.

And a graph to go with the above tweet.

The way that they all disagree so much should tell us that none of them have a fucking clue.

Also do we not make toilet rolls/soap/shampoo in this country anywhere anymore?

So, just as a little parlour game to stave off the depression, I've been looking at almost everything I've used today to see where it originates and whether it's likely to be scarce or expensive in the dark days ahead, and the conclusion I reached is that the UK is manufacturing just about fuck all.

My loo roll is silent as to its origins, but my moisturiser comes from Ireland, my foundation from France, my face powder from Germany, the plaster I put on a cut this morning from Spain. My toothpaste was 'proudly made in the British Isles' (could be Ireland, of course!) but my toothbrush came all the way from China.

Going round the supermarket was an equally international experience. A lot of things didn't say where they were made, but of those that did only Carr's water biscuits, ketchup and the humble baked bean were British, which, as my mother would have said, is not a balanced diet. The rest came from abroad, mainly from the EU. Sweetcorn from France, tomatoes from Italy, mustard from the US... tin foil from Poland, sanitary pads from Holland, razors from Israel. Oh, but baby wipes are made in the UK, so at least we can still have some home-grown roughage in our fatbergs.

I think we are going to be quite shocked over the next year or so by how much it turns out we import and how much the price of everything from outside the UK is going to go up, in between tariffs and the tanking pound. We are all going to have to change our lifestyles, living more frugally, having less choice and allowing less waste. There were a lot of good reasons to remain, but one we are only just about to wake up to is how pampered life in the EU has been.

And out of those things which are British you need to wonder where the ingredients came from. Where were the beans for the baked beans grown, the tomatoes for the ketchup?