To be surprised that some friends are buying extra food because of Brexit? part 2

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Link to old one: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3472089-To-be-surprised-that-some-friends-are-buying-extra-food-because-of-Brexit?pg=1

I got an "I've already answered this I'm not going to do it again if you won't do me the courtesy of reading it". On another thread.
Spoiler alert: my question hadn't been answered.

I am starting to pack things back into the cupboard, writing a list as I go. If it all goes tits up the last lot of food we will be eating is some sort of dried bean flavoured with cumin.

Tonight we will be eating pasta.... By the time I have found the cooker, microwave and work surface I will be too tired to do much else!

The thing with the prep buying for me is... it's the one thing I can control in a sea of things I can't. :(

I'm an EU citizen. I'm disabled, and don't work, and the new reports for "vulnerable" women applying for the Settled Status don't look promising. DH's job might be okay, or might not. Even in the very unlikely situation of a new referendum, I'll have no vote. I have no control of my situation to stay in my (now) home country. Moving away would be incredibly hard on us. I can't control any of these things. But I can buy extra food, and that gives me a (false?) sense of control of at least something...

@BadlyAgedMemes try and stay positive and do what you need to and good luck. I hope your settled status application goes through :)

Something is definitely going on at my local Morrisons..... every single inch of every shelf is packed. There are piles of crates in the aisles. I've been going in each morning this week after nursery drop off and I see it's continued all week.

It's hard to describe but it's so obvious how packed the place is, products everywhere! Should I assume they are clearing out their stock areas to load up products before end of march?

have noticed our local herons keeps running out of a lot of tins and other bits for a few weeks which is very unusual. I mean to point was very noticeable, empty shelves not just one product out of stock

Can anyone answer me this....
If I was to stockpile a load of tins, roughly how many would I be aiming for, per person per day?

Depends on appetite. For example, I'd only eat half a can of soup at most in a meal but my dh would probably manage a whole one.

@Dorissey it depends on your personal situation, how many kids and adults, how much you usually eat in a day, also what you are intending to add, eg pasta, rice. Best idea is to come with meal plans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, try and make sure there is variety there, and then write a list of what you'd need to make it. Then for instance if you do a weeks meal plans, you can times what you need for a week by however many weeks you feel you need to prepare for.

I think you need to look at what you eat. So think, one packet of pasta - how many meals does that make your family if you are planning to eat with say, tuna and tomato pasta sauce? Get appropriate quantities of tinned toms, tuna, garlic, maybe dried onions or tinned veg. So you now have, say, three meals. That's three weeks worth of tuna pasta, assuming you don't want to eat the same thing every day. Now think maybe chickpea curry. How much rice? How much curry powder, how many tins of chickpeas etc. That's three weeks worth of chickpea curry. Then think of something else you can make out of tins and repeat.

If you do that seven times, that is three weeks worth of dinners. Multiply if you want more.

What do you eat for lunch? Maybe you need enough bread flour and yeast for a small loaf a day or a large loaf, it depends on your family. Work out what that means to you. What will you eat with the bread? How many packs of butter do you get through a week? How much marmite? How much freezer space can you find for vegetables or cheese or butter?

Alternatively, you can get some tins that would be a meal in themselves (baked beans, though then you must factor in bread) or soup or tinned actual recipes like chile con carne.

I don't think you can just say 'x tins a day'. You need to look at what your family will actually eat and how long x amount of it will last and work from there.

The important thing is to ONLY buy things your family eat

Chickpeas and lentils will not go down well in this house.....cheesy beans on toast will

Plan for what they like eating, and if you want to try something new buy a small amount cook and serve it and if it gets eaten it's worth buying!

The important thing is to ONLY buy things your family eat

Yes, this is very important. DO NOT, in decades to come, be remembered as Mad Aunt Dorissey who kept 3,000 tins of pickled sea urchins under her bed.

Hang on....you can buy pickled sea urchin? Sign me up for some of that!

For info, there is usually 5 sometimes 7 of us, 3 won't entertain rice/pasta/lentils.

I was just thinking ballpark figure really. Wondering if one tin per person per meal is a reasonable estimate So roughly 3 or 4 tins each per day, assuming no freezer/fresh food.

For you, Dorissey

Does anyone else get annoyed at the ‘I’m not preparing anything I’m just going to come to you and you are going to be a lovely friend and help me out’ comments? I stupidly told my close friends that I’m stocking up on things important to me... massive mistake! I’m getting pissed off that the same friends aren’t bothering because ‘I will sort them out’. I’m on a tiny budget so have been going without so I can stockpile some stuff for my kids and animals. I also need important meds that are already proving hard to get 😬🙄

Wondering if one tin per person per meal is a reasonable estimate So roughly 3 or 4 tins each per day, assuming no freezer/fresh food.

Depends on whether you're on rations or trying to keep things to a normal level.

So if you had three tins a day and that was all I'm guessing you'd have a tin of fruit maybe for breakfast, and then for lunch and dinner you'd have half a tin of chicken in white sauce and half a tin of peas? Its definitely less than most people would be eating normally.

I'd say you'd be better thinking of meals and how to supplement them

breakfast - porridge with half a tin of fruit - porridge can be made with water if necessary

lunch - tinned soup plus bread - rest of fruit from breakfast with some rice pudding (perhaps half a tin)

lunch - chicken in sauce (1 x tin) plus a tin of potatoes or half sachet of instant mash and a tin of carrots (would probably feed two young children or 1 adult) - rest of rice pudding

So on that menu you'd need for an adult
tin of fruit
tin of soup
tin of rice pudding
tin of chicken in sauce
tin of potatoes
tin of veg
porridge oats
bread/crackers/tortilla (or flour/lard/yeast/salt to make one of them)

Plus vitamins since your fruit and veg intake would be low.

potentialmadcatlady I would tell the friends that you have realised it's only worth stocking a week's worth so that's all you're putting aside. Then I'd say "obviously that means if the shit hit the fan I wouldn't have any to spare and so you'd better get your own"

Then hide all of your stuff

@Potentialmadcatlady next time this happens, I would respond with 'oh, really? I didn't bother stocking up in the end. I figured you guys weren't bothered so I was worrying about nothing and decided against doing it'

And then I'd watch them run to Tesco with their shopping bags whilst having a massive belly laugh..........

Xx

Excellent ideas- stuff is hidden away (mostly) so can get away with both! Thankyou... off to do some more ‘shopping’ now 😉

purplejay and Kolo thank you so much for the recommendations for who gives a crap and splosh.

Not only am I going to get a subscription to "who gives a crap" (it's cheap AND environmentally-friendly AND I won't have to think about buying bog roll or carrying it home - genius! And not even any plastic wrapping!) but I am going to recommend to my church that they do the same, as otherwise someone always has to stock up the loo roll!

Mmmmm @KatyMac cheesy beans on toooasst [Homer Simpson voice]. My personal favourite

Thanks TheElementsSong they look ….lovely...

Obviously on the tin front, I'd be looking at making meals from a few tins. Maybe spam, fried tinned spuds, and beans, or a stew with tinned steak, spuds, peas and carrots etc. I'd not be rationing each person a tin at a time!

DH thinks I'm being daft. I might just forget to buy any of his favourite tinned chicken in white sauce. That'd teach him!

@bellinisurge

DD has simple pleasures cheesy beans on toast west end show (esp lion King and Hamilton) and a fairly high calorie diet cos she dances

DH has a high calorie diet because of lung disease

I worry about feeding them enough while panicking about my food intolerances.....it'll be fine!!

I thought I was doing really well with the prepping until I realised I hadn't thought about toiletries, tinned fruit or cereals

I now have a Tesco order coming next week. Dh is convinced I'm being paranoid and keeps making "jokes" about me being a shopkeeper

First shop done. Basically doubled our shop:

Large washing liquid
Hand wash
2 x baked beans
2 x tinned tomatoes
4 jars stir in pasta sauce
3 jars curry sauces
4 sachets Chinese style sauces
2 x tinned rice pudding
2 x coconut milk
2 large packs frozen fish fillets
2 x tinned fruit
Bumper pack tea bags
1 x large olive oil
1 x large toothpaste
2 x large Christmas puddings (hey, reduced, last another year...)
4 x bags flour (bread and other)
2 x packs yeast
4 x packs ready roll pastry

Also fairly well stocked for sugar, baking stuff, pulses, pasta, rice and a full freezer so no room for freezer stuff yet but intend to get more by way of tinned veg and quorn stuff, maybe some meat, tofu, and then some big packs of pasta and rice.

If I buy stuff my DH goes hell for leather for eating it so he's already eaten my tofu stash.

Long life milks will be last on the list as my DH thinks I've gone mad as it is.

Sanpro and toilet rolls also.

I have enough shampoo, shower gel and skincare to last a year.

So, getting there. One tin at a time.