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?

Graphista I have been a long-time freezer of eggs. Wait, that sounds really weird. Let me try again: I freeze eggs, by separating them. Discovered this years ago, when I had a recipe that called for only yolks or only whites. Just in freezer bags, writing the number of yolks or whites in each bag. Defrost for a few hours at room temperature or overnight in the fridge.

Thank you @Havanananana you've explained that really well. I'm off to google the hungry gap......

Wow! I'm forever throwing eggs out (we go through phases of loving them & then go off them - meal fatigue?) are they defo safe to freeze? And how do you defrost safely?

yes mix the yolk and white then freeze. Then just let them thaw when you need to use.

@bellinisurge - that's what I meant! That we already live in austerity. I was asking why we can't just eat locally sourced food - now I see that that was a really stupid question which I wish I never asked!!
I'm happy to be educated- I had never heard of the food gap! I have now!
I live in rural Scotland so very used to living with seasonal local food

"One thing I didn't see on anyone's list (apologies if I missed it) is water." It's top of mine! Also other drinks (one of my meds tastes foul and it helps to take with a flavoured drunk!)

"bellinisurge that already (allegedly) happened in 2007 and I'm pretty sure I was still able to purchase a pot noodle and toilet roll from my local spar!" You're missing bellini's point - even IF the food is there it may only be available to those able to buy at highly inflated prices.

Near me a man has recently been in court in relation to his selling goods during the weather crisis at hugely inflated prices. Bread at £50 a loaf and milk £20 a pint apparently. You wealthy enough to cover those kind of prices?

"How do people think farmers actually produce food? Is it just Good Old Blighty spirit and a few shovels while the farmers wife makes a big pot of tea and lashings of ginger beer for visitors?" Yea I suspect so. 2 of my friends their families have farms, people largely have NO CLUE just how much work is involved and the materials/eqpt required!

"I have been a long-time freezer of eggs. Wait, that sounds really weird. Let me try again" 😂😂

I think I'd rather do it whole. Will check if my bun tray fits in the freezer.

Well, if the army is starting to stockpile, then so am I . news.sky.com/story/uk-begins-stockpiling-at-military-bases-to-prepare-for-no-deal-brexit-11617564

Gosh some of these replies are very worrying. How long should we be stockpiling for? A few weeks or months? Surely this is going to cause chaos for people who generally can't afford to stockpile and then won't be able to afford the increased prices?

Yes, try for a few months. In the event of a crash out it will take more than a few months for things to return to normal.

Are you for real?? You think because your English you’re going to be immune to the horrors of Brexit?? Good luck with that 🙄

Anymom yes the poor and unprepared would be worst hit if it comes to it. But panic buying can be mitigated by others having stocked up beforehand. If you have 10 loaves in the freezer you aren’t going to have to rush out and buy one. Personally I will put 2 in the freezer - I use about a loaf a week - and I already have ready mixed bread flour plus strong plain flour & yeast. So I have enough for a couple of months.
I noticed no ordinary long life milk left in my local Asda yesterday. Plenty of soya and nut milk though (which I don’t like or use, so didn’t buy).

Graphista my friend who freezes eggs as you describe (keeps chickens) pricks the yolk before freezing, I think because otherwise the membrane breaks anyway, but not sure.

I can't afford to stockpile that much so I'm just putting aside what I can. i'm not relying on anything frozen, just tins and packets of basic ingredients. It's stuff that I cook with anyway. I do need to get a camping gas stove, but guess what? Prices have gone up. Companies are capitalising on this already.

Oh and soap, toothpaste, loo roll, shampoo and washing up liquid.

Re Freezing eggs yes prick the yolks or mix the yolk and white slightly. otherwise the yolk sort of separates itself when its being frozen. It makes no difference if you're just using them to bake a cake but if you are trying to fry them its a bit odd.

I personally use them in cakes, pancake mix, quiches etc and so if I'm in a rush I don't bother to mix the yolk and white before freezing. I don't tend to use them just to eat on their own since the texture is slightly different. not horrible but definitely a bit more rubbery

muffin tins are good for freezing them. Or baby food containers. I had an Annabel Karmel ice cube tray which was meant for freezing baby food but each section is perfect for one egg. I often freeze two at a time in a small tupperware since most things I use frozen eggs for use two eggs.

Be aware that they are quite sticky even when frozen and so if you put them all together in one bag they can stick together a bit.

Don't try to freeze in shells. The shells will crack and you will end up with a mess.

Eggs will also last for up to about 5 weeks just in the fridge if they are fresh when you buy them. To test whether they are still, ok drop the egg into a jug of water. if it floats it is definitely bad (air permeates through the shell over time and the egg spoils). If it lies flat it is fresh. if it is still on the bottom but is standing on its end it needs using.

I currently have four dozen eggs in the kitchen since for some reason my hens didn't stop laying this year (they usually stop in mid November and start again when the light levels are back by about mid February). I will be freezing a load today.

This morning's happy headline from the Press Association:

Martial law plans looked at in case of no-deal Brexit

Preparations are being looked at for the possible imposition of martial law after a no-deal Brexit, it has emerged.

The move has been described by sources as the civil service “prepping” for all possibilities.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/martial-law-plans-looked-at-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit/ar-BBSMkVc?ocid=spartanntp

Time to stop posting on MN and to fire off an email to my Brexit-supporting MP asking how he can justify continuing with his support for this shambles.

I’ve just last night started my Brexit store and made a list to stock it better. Good looking dyas storage boxes over kitchen cabinets. Seems completely crazy and very sensible all at the same time. When you get right down to essentials it’s surprising to realise all the expensive crap we can do without. Buying flour and yeast cos love baking bread and think that may be a problem whether real or through panic buying . . It is ludicrous we simply don’t know what is going to happen - read yesterday the army is stockpiling food And has been for some time ffs.

Army would need to function if the masses are causing chaos fighting over limited food.

This is nothing like the war years. During the first world war people starved. Lessons were learnt and during the second world war things were more organised and food was very heavily rationed and remained so for many years after the war had ended. Practically all available land was put over to growing food. Gardens were full of veg, not hot tubs, block paving and artificial grass. People had better cooking and "homemaking" skills and were more able to turn whatever random things they had into a meal. Plus a large percentage of the population (some might say the more aggressive half, more likely to cause trouble in shops) was off fighting the war. Plus the population of the country even in 1939 before the men went off to war was 46 million compared to the 66 million it is now.

During a no deal Brexit we can certainly not be said to be organised and ready for this - even though we could have been.

Another point is that during wartime, we pulled together over a common enemy. All I can see if the shut hits the fan here is a civil war. The people that caused this are our own leaders and our own citizens. We won't be pulling together to get through a crisis. It will be each to their own.

Though most people behaved well and pulled together during WW2, criminal activity flourished as well :
www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/10-facts-about-crime-on-the-home-front-in-the-second-world-war/

I’ve suggested to dh we make a brexit store. We potentially could be worse off that a lot of people. We’re in the Channel Islands. So not technically uk. But British. Weren’t allowed to vote on brexit but it will affect us.

A lot of our food is imported from the “mainland” uk. When we get bad weather and the ferries don’t run for a few days it’s absolute chaos (since our government sold the supermarkets warehouses to a housing developer...).

As a prepper I genuinely hope (and frankly, expect) this will be nothing more than a bit grim and pricier.
The extremist elements who would gain the most from chaos (left or right) have already shown themselves and are probably already under surveillance.
I certainly believe there is a long way to go before we settle down again as a nation and the attempted narrative of "well, it's the politicians who have caused this , not my vote" isn't going to wash.

On another Brexit thread, which interestingly isn't about prepping at all, I've just seen the latest twist of the anti-prepping tale - a re-labelling, and a "new" negative consequence of prepping . The cynic in me is wondering if it was "tested" out there, so as to keep it under the radar of experienced regulars (who know a lot about prepping, supply chains and so forth) who have been able to quickly address misconceptions, on prepping threads.

So, like the Millennium Buggerers, the Great Bean Tin Counter-Downers and the BliztSpirit fetishists, expect to see a new angle coming to a prepping thread near you very soon.

I'm going to need another set of new Bingo cards!

Which thread is that?

Oh-oh
news.sky.com/story/brexit-planners-could-use-martial-law-against-civil-disobedience-11619088?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Which thread is that?

The OP was about the EMA leaving. Of course, threads do meander about, but I thought it was interesting.