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?

Baked beans are manufactured in the UK, but the beans themselves are shipped in from the USA because they don’t grow in the British climate.

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

The ketchup would have been made with tomatoes from Italy, as would the tomato sauce that the Italian-grown haricot beans were swimming in inside the baked bean tin.

Darn I forgot to buy squash this morning.

I don't have a huge amount but enough to feel a lot better than I did earlier today.

DH is going to have a shit fit at some point. He thinks I'm being ridiculous though less so than he did a few weeks ago.

I still have loads to try and find homes for out of the way before he gets home. It's proving a challenge to stash...

I am.very lucky that I have a large cupboard on my landing that I use as a walk in wardrobe so am stashing in there. There's also some space in my airing cupboard.

I can confirm that we do make toilet roll and other tissue products, beans and other canned products, petfood, biscuits, shampoo and other toiletries and many other consumer goods in the UK as I have been in the factories that make such products.

However, many of the ingredients will be sourced overseas.

@WakeMeUpWhenGoodOmensIsOn - as an experiment I tried to grow haricot beans last year. My harvest yielded about 10 beans. That's individual beans within pods .

The only beans I've grown successfully have been runners, of course noone in the family likes them!

My DH thinks I am over-reacting but he has been picking up extra tins when he does the shopping so even if he's just humouring me, he is adding to our stash. I bought a couple more tins of fruit today and some anti-histamines. If you just buy one extra thing each time you are out, you'll soon have a decent stash.

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?

Well, quite. We're screwed. You can't live on Carr's water biscuits and baby wipes.

I keep about a hundred freeze dried camping meals in storage (Mountain House brand, they're surprisingly good), 20-30 gallons of spring water in 5 gallon jugs and 3 months worth of regularly taken prescription medications on hand at all times. We also have a Honda petrol powered generator that has come in handy a number of times when we lost power due to storms taking down power lines.

That said, I am absolutely certain that Brexit will cause no disruption whatsoever for me or my family and friends.

My harvest yielded about 10 beans.

That's just your negative-thinking scaremongering, which has discouraged them from growing, dontcha know? I'm sure one of our resident positive-thinkers will be able to bestow you their personal bean-growing expertise

My dad used to grow runner beans, they were my mum's favourite. She used to eat them with grilled tomatoes on top. I like them but only with gravy. (Shudders at the thought of grilled tomatoes).

The only bog roll we can make here without imports I believe will be recycled bog roll. And that's limited to how long we have a supply of material for recycling.

I don't think we produce sufficient wood to produce enough bog roll for the population domestic for non recycled toilet roll.

BUT even recycled loo paper uses chemicals such as sodium hydroxide, peroxide and ozone to whiten it. Others are scented. And I don't know what our domestic production capability on these is like.

I have distopian fiction visions of post no deal Brexit toilet paper being that scratchy stuff you had at school! (joke)

Izal medicated! Oh god, shoot me now!

There are prepper suggested alternatives but this isn't a general prepper thread so I won't distract from that.
I personally don't expect there to be a loo paper crisis but it does no harm to get some extras in if your aim is to keep out of any intermittent shopping craziness

I've 12 loo rolls under the bed.

I'm putting a few things aside that I already use. I'll be delighted if Brexit passes with no drama and will pass on any surplus to my local food bank.

“I think some people just get a kick out of the drama. Like pretending they’re the sensible ones in some bad disaster movie.”

I don’t think that at all. I am genuinely very anxious about Brexit, and especially a no-deal.

That’s not to be a hero. I’m in a privileged position nowadays to be able to stick up with sensible extras.
But I remember harder times when it was a real struggle to buy enough food, let alone anything very nutritious. It was so scary it’s stayed with me, and so I really do worry about the impact of shortages on people in that situation now.

All I can do is donate to food banks, store some extra food and supplies for our family, only a few items every week, just to tide things over. And that helps to feel less out of control of the situation.

There’s nothing romantic or fictional about it, no drama. It’s just a response to past experience. It would be weirder if I was laid back about it. I’m sure that’s not an unusual reason for doing it.

The only people I see treating this like some movie they are starring in are No Dealers. Total absence of reality.

those with cows dairy and soya allergies, any ideas what to do about milk and butter? Normally it's quite short date

I stock up on UHT alternative milk and dairy free spread when it's cheap but normally short dates on them

At the end of the day I would rather have a small stockpile and look a fool than not have one and be hungry and without loo roll.

I am stocking up a bit. I think there will inevitably be some chaos- it’s bad enough when it snows/ Christmas is approaching!

I am mainly focusing on stuff for my children. They have quite a number of allergies so it’s not like we could just “make do” with whatever is left.

I think some short term chaos is inevitable. I think a decent amount of enduring long term problems is highly probable.

Plus I am buying stuff we will eat any way. So if the country finally sees sense and we don’t leave the EU it won’t go to waste.

Anyone thinking the UK is going to trade solely on WTO rules post-Brexit should read this first:

medium.com/@MrWeeble/who-actually-trades-solely-under-wto-rules-1b6127ce33c6