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?

All I can see if the shut hits the fan here is a civil war.

It has opened up a really nasty division within society. And although I say it jokingly, I also kind of mean it. If things get rough, I'm not helping the people who voted for this shit and then did nothing to try to stop it.

@oldauntsally
No question is stupid the first time it is asked
and WELL DONE to you to read up on the responses and update your opinion with te evidence.
If only our politicians would do the same

Just a quick heads-up (maybe I'll post to other prepping threads too, but this one appears to be the current active one) - the new Brexitannia definition of prepping is no longer "panicking by acting gradually several months in advance" because that stubbornly failed to stick despite frequent efforts: it is now "selfish hoarding which drives prices up for the genuinely needy and is environmentally unfriendly and is simultaneously only poncy posh people buying luxuries anyway".

Get your new Bingo cards ready

I've had a notification that the bread mix I added to my tesco order for this week is now out of stock.

There is possibly more snow on the way, this may contribute to a shortage of bread mix.

There was a woman in front of me in the queue in B&M bargains yesterday buying a good 30 or more packs of chocolate digestives/cookies. That's a good way to survive the Brexit crisis, I thought to myself... eat yourself into a sugar coma and wait for it all to blow over

Doodle

@DoodleLab , as a prepper I would say never underestimate the power of morale boosting crap food.

Right - you've all convinced me. I'm off shopping!

Interesting edition of the Food Programme on R4 just now - nice that the bloke arguing for 0% tariffs on food imports that would fundamentally change the UK farming industry (as in, if UK farmers can’t compete with cheap food imports, let them go bust) was being interviewed from his home in Portugal

as a prepper I would say never underestimate the power of morale boosting crap food.

Interesting. When I got snowed in last year, I had plenty of lentils and potatoes. i wasn't hungry but I still walked a 10 mile round trip to a shop I knew would be less affected by the snow because Biscuits.

Since then I've learned to bake my own and keep the ingredients handy.

So ridiculous. If everyone did it it would create shortages even if there werent any. This is classic fearmongering

All very well stocking up but what if there is no power after 29th March. Everyone’s freezers defrosting, nothing to cook on or with, no electricity.

I can still remember the three day week in th 1970s. DF dragged out a Primus stove to cook on, grim and stank to high heaven. Stone hot water bottle in the tropical fish tank.

Extra cat food for my boy and girl as they won’t understand and may gnaw my limbs in desperation if they are hungry. Also stocking up on candles (four candles anyone), Yankee Candle and tea lights are not going to last long. Reading up my Big Book Of Foraging busily.

This is classic fearmongering

Ha ha ha ha ha ha Bet you don't have any insurance because 'what could possibly go wrong'.

If everyone did it it would create shortages even if there werent any. This is classic fearmongering

Bingo! We have a Finite National Bean-Tin Counterer

One things for sure. We'll soon find out who's really wheat and dairy intolerant and how much longer we're all Vegans. Scrambling over the empty kale packets for the last tin of Pek ham.

I'm confused as to how a no deal would result in food and meds not getting into the UK? I assumed the only people who can stop goods entering the UK, is UK customs, and I cant see them doing that.

...and there's another bingo - taking a swipe at people with food intolerances or who are vegetarian/vegan. In the interests of full disclosure, I'm none of those things.

I've got plenty of tinned fish and some corned beef as I secretly love it. Is there any other tinned meat that isn't horrible? I've got lentils and tinned pulses as other protein.

Tariffs. Customs clearance. Even if everything is waved through out of desperation (taking control of our borders?) the likely disruption of even a few extra seconds per load has a catastrophic knock on effect causing terrible delays.
Which means the food supply chain is disrupted. And, as we operate a Just in Time food supply and distribution system, stuff won't get where it needs to be when it's expected to get there. And with No Deal Every Single Legal Agreement ends. Our trading arrangements with non- EU countries are made as part of our E.U. membership. We leave tbe EU with a crash out, all those deals are invalid.
Kinda that, really.

The only tinned meat I can stand the idea of is some nice pate.

"All very well stocking up but what if there is no power after 29th March. Everyone’s freezers defrosting, nothing to cook on or with, no electricity." Many things can be eaten cold, bread, cheese, jam even tinned things that one would normally heat are perfectly fine to eat cold. The "classic" is baked beans but I actually quite like cold peas & cold tinned potatoes are easily made into potato salad, and things like tinned pasta are already cooked we just heat them as that's how we're used to eating them.

Even if power supplies are "merely" limited there's things that only need boiling water to soak in to make them up (cous cous, noodles, small pasta shapes, tinned veg).

"I'm confused as to how a no deal would result in food and meds not getting into the UK? I assumed the only people who can stop goods entering the UK, is UK customs, and I cant see them doing that." Have you witnessed our hugely incompetent govt? And even if they DID Forgo checks would you be willing to eat unchecked food? Let alone unregulated meds!! I bloody wouldn't!

We leave a trading block which allows frictionless movement of people, goods and services

It's amazing that so many people still don't really know what leaving this entails. Perfectly illustrates why we're in this mess though.