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?

Plus one bonus is all those stock piling lentils and beans will save on heating bills cos of all the farting

I agree @theDudesmummy

Also @TheElementsSong

Agree with butter and cheese keeping well (especially if good cheese).
After all, they are ways of preserving milk. Clotted cream keeps for a surprisingly long time in the fridge and it freezes well too. I think I’ll get some extra in. Scones, cream and jam are an easy treat...

I just found this on a government website

In 27 cases, the technical notices suggest UK citizens will face some kind of additional burden.
Any additional costs of doing business with the EU may be passed onto UK consumers. For instance, rules governing trade in electricity between EU member states will no longer apply to the UK – disrupting the supply of electricity between Great Britain and the continent as well as potentially severing the integrated Single Energy Market on the island of Ireland, both of which could result in higher prices for UK consumers.

Time to update those bingo cards @bellinisurge @TheElementsSong

@WhoAmIToTellYou - Can any country ever break away without economic suicide and civil unrest?

Of course they can. The only 2 countries that have additional restrictions on their borders are UK and Ireland. Any of the other countries could leave relatively simply if they: a) decided what they wanted; b) planned the best approach to achieve that; c) spent the 2 year A50 period engaging with the process, rather than playing silly buggers.

One of the reasons the GFA was possible is because both Ireland and the UK are in the EU. That meant a soft, permeable border was simple. It is not the EU imposing the border conditions on the UK. The UK signed up to this voluntarily and are now trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities.

Anyway, I think anyone who decides not to stockpile is at the very least, somewhat misguided. Obviously, not everyone is in a position to stockpile, either financially or from a space perspective (although you'd be surprised where you can find space), but to deliberately ignore the potential effects of a no deal Brexit is head in the sand at its finest.

Stockpiling food and am having solar fitted to the roof so I can power the hybrid car (screw you, petrol shortages).

The solar will have two massive storage batteries and an emergency switch, so it powers the house essentials if the power goes off...

Yes I have an electric car, so fingers crossed we still have electricity. Spacewise, it may be useful to have a big cardboard box somewhere with staples and some recipes to hand, so you could store a larger volume of dried lentils than tinned and flour etc but they are of no use if you don't know how to cook with them. I'm a bit worried about eggs, although I live near quite a few farms that sell direct. Bet they would do a roaring trade ( and get paid properly)

Hmmmmm....can you freeze eggs?!

happymoneysaver.com/can-you-freeze-eggs/

Well, whadyaknow!!

Eggs are another thing that lasts a couple of weeks - so buy them by the 20th March and they will still be fine till mid April

I have powdered whole eggs which are great for baking. I always have a supply just in case I forget to buy fresh eggs.

@RangeRider you are so nice to want a swap that I will post you baked goods for free should we hit Brexitapocolypse.

I feel unreasonable because I'm not stressing over it! I certainly don't have a specific cupboard for just incase food!! I do have one of stuff only I will eat though as I try and lose weight!

@WickedGoodDoge I saw powdered egg on Amazon when I was looking for dried mushrooms for soup and I wondered about baking because I am always either running out of eggs or throwing out bad ones. Are they okay for baking and how are they scrambled or like frittata (my main uses of egg)

WickedGoodDoge posting supplies may not be wise, the post will get ransacked!

If there are shortages of food and medicines for humans, there will also be similar shortages of supplies for farm animals.

One reason why the egg ration during WW2 was one egg a week per adult was that there was insufficient feed for the hens - who were then slaughtered for food.

If people want to prep a bit what's the problem? Even if the extra purchases are not vital, they will still be used as surely such purchases will be long life like tins, rice, pasta etc. You know the stuff I'm talking about.

I have a few extra bits in the cupboards, just anything that will get me by for a week (snow is the worry but Brexit could also be now!).

It's like a soft comfort blanket to know there are some extras in. I haven't been obsessive about it, but am happy I have a few extras in.

If people want to prep a bit what's the problem?

I think it's something like this...

If you buy extra stuff because it's on offer and you're a thrifty person who is generally careful with money, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because there might be bad weather coming and you've been snowed in before, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because you're an old-fashioned organised sort who likes a well-stocked pantry and like menu-planning and batch-cooking, no problem.

If you buy extra stuff because you're concerned about supply chain disruption in the wake of a No Deal crash-out Brexit, YOUR NEGATIVE THINKING WILL MAKE A BREXIT FAIRY DIE!!!!

Elements.

Ha ha, I love it!

Think I’d better buy two or three sacks of chicken feed too. My hens won’t be happy if they run out.

Elements
dont let the Brexit fairies die

Meckity1 I don’t know how they are for scrambled eggs. I tried to persuade DS to take some on DoE last year to try them, but he declined.

For baking they ate great. You’d never know you weren’t using fresh.

I picked up a 9 pack of loo roll today in Waitrose and 3 packs of my favourite bagels. Need to make room in my freezer for some of the bagels. I used to have an extra freezer and wish I'd not sold it now. Maybe my mum would go halves on one with me.

Lets just eat the politicians.