DH and his Brexit cupboard

[Anymom]

Dh has converted two of our kitchen units into his Brexit cupboard! He has filled them up with all sorts of tinned delacacies including different beans, chilli and dogs (hot!)
He's also stockpiled toilet rolls, medicines, cleaning products etc. It's all stashed away in his new Brexit cupboard, that we have been warned not to touch! I darent tell him that the dc have already been in there hunting for chocolate. They were disappointed to find numerous bags of rice and pasta but alas no chocolate. Seems he has got his priorities mixed up! 😁
AIBU to think this is unnecessary and over the top? I need help to convince him as he talking about stockpiling and filling up the freezer and I'm dreading what concoctions I will find in there! All joking aside, it is just Dh panicking isn't it? We don't really need to be stockpiling food in one of the richest countries of the world, do we?

If my DH did this it would put me off him completely.

I still have tins in my loft left over from the Millennium

Is your husband me? LOL! I have the exact same set up and woe betide any of my family found in it. I’ve now hidden the wine and chocolate after their last raid! They are all taking the piss out of me, but if we need it in April/May it’s there, and if not it’ll all get eaten over the coming year.

@PerverseConverse , sorry to give you another thing to think of. I got tbe steamed pudding idea from someone on here. Dd was poorly recently and demolished one. Seemed like a good idea ....

@bellinisurge @PerverseConverse @TheElementsSong

Maybe we aren't so 'stupid' after all.....

news.sky.com/story/uk-begins-stockpiling-at-military-bases-to-prepare-for-no-deal-brexit-11617564

@thebabysmellsofpooagain soooo want to be stupid.

OMG the army are just so embarrassing. Don't they know there's not going to be a zombie apocalypse on the 29th of March?

i can understand people stock piling items that are only produced in an EU country and then imported to the uk...but rice ???? really, why rice ?
I have just googled were certain brands of rice come from and not one is even via a eu country...
ditto i imagine various other products such as kidney beans...

yesterday on radio 4 a prepper said she had bought a brexit box..and in it was 1 kg bag of rice, a fire starting device and a water purifyer

wtaf do people think is happening ..the appocolypse ?

My DH has a whole Brexit freezer (as well as a cupboard)

@bellinisurge me too Bellini, me too!

Great article thebaby. So MoD is contingency planning for all scenarios. Sounds very sensible to me.

I have been buying excess things of the stuff we use anyway like loo rolls, tins, shampoo, san pro and cat food. Will start to fill the freezer in the next couple of weeks.

Because rice is long lasting, and can be eaten in place of fresh items/and or foodstuffs from the EU that one might normally eat but that might be less available if there is disruption to supply chains. And if there is no disruption, and I for one am not certain we're even leaving anyway, you can still eat it later.

You've clearly not seen my bog roll stash!

@WaxMyBalls apologies, I took your previous post the wrong way. I've asked MN to remove my previous comment

I'm in Ireland, not UK, but have bitten the bullet and done a lot of stocking up this month. Anything and everything that comes from Britain or from Europe, via Britain - which is everything we don't produce ourselves. Pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, coffee top the list, but also things like soap, anti-p, toothpaste, toilet paper, kitchen paper, tissues. Batteries. Vitamins.

Every time I buy something I check where it's made or packed, and if in Britain I buy two or three.

well maybe it will make us all start buying products produced here in the uk !
better seasonal eating of locally produced food

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/bbc-inside-the-factory-manchester-14941539

look..a uk manufacturer of loo roll !
i think i will survive after all

No worries I thought you might have done. No need to remove, I'm not arsed.

@theredjellybean and what happens when demand outstrips supply?

well maybe it will make us all start buying products produced here in the uk !
better seasonal eating of locally produced food

Who is growing that in readiness? Haven’t you noticed how many farms have gone out of business (thanks to eg Tesco?)

www.shieldbatteries.co.uk/

and a uk battery manufacturer

I spot a potential problem.....

All very well @theredjellybean , but very few people can afford farmers' markets now and certainly cooking with seasonal veg is not widespread.
How do we get from what we have now to this nirvana in a couple of months if we No Deal.
I know! Build some resilience into your pantry to cope with any shocks to the food distribution system . No, surely that's panicking