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?

Maybe that's why you don't know anyone doing it @FastLane46 . They aren't telling you.
Is a 3 day buffer of food and extras really that dreadful for you? And more if you choose to and it suits your situation? Really?

Anyone who is planning to go out and buy big plastic storage boxes with lids to store their extra food, they are out of stock in IKEA and Wilko at the moment. Presumably lots of other people had the idea first.

If you don't live in the UK @Tiggy321 , I will ever so politely tell you to mind your own business.

I've been picking up a few extra things each shop. Not loads as we're pretty flexible about what we eat, but a bit of extra frozen and tinned veg in case the fresh stuff disappears for a few weeks. Also I must get around to buying this year's veg seeds earlier than usual.

Yup, I'm building up my Brexit cupboard, although dh rolls his eyes at any mention of it.
At the moment I've got 2x olive oil, pesto and pasta, porridge oats, toilet rolls, flour and sugar and tinned fruit. I'm going to expand it to the freezer and also fill up the car with petrol closer to the time.
Part of me feels like a conspiracy theorist but The Sunday Times ran a front page story on martial law being imposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit just today. We live in mad times.

Tight:

Baked beans- apparently we don’t grow the right beans I the Uk, so import the main ingredients instead.

Jaffa cakes - no idea because I don’t eat them, but don’t they need oranges?

I'm starting to stock up, not necessarily for food shortages but because supermarkets are absolutely going to capitalise on the opportunity to substantially increase prices of food and blame Brexit, regardless of what does actually happen at the end of March.

I need to crank up buying stuff. As fast as I buy extra food, my teenager eats it!! Really need to keep it separate from our usual food.

@bellinisurge exactly. I haven't told any one that I am. @FastLane46 I bet some people you know are but are keeping quiet about it. I am the least prepper type you could imagine, but I can't see any downsides to it.

But surely if the imported food isn't there then there won't be enough of the home made stuff to go round as people will buy more of that instead. It will be expensive and sell out very quickly.

We've got a Brexit cupboard and a Brexit freezer.

This is partly because we lived abroad only a few years ago in a country where there was a lorry drivers' strike. It took two days for the supermarket shelves to be empty...

The main reason for any shortages will be because people stockpile.

The only reason we will have shortages is because of all the idiots people hoarding food and medication.

The main reason for any shortages will be because people stockpile.

House!

Bull*t. We are currently able to handle people buying extra. You seem to have confusing normal prepping with panic buying.

Zzzzzzz

"Rather than stockpile lobby the government to extend article 50" the 2 aren't mutually exclusive. I'm prepping but I'm also continuing to email my MP (anti brexit) and whoever is brexit minister (getting through them at a rate of knots!) about how pissed off I am they aren't bloody dealing with this!

"Not a single person I know is stockpiling so in this case I think it's an overreaction" they might just not be telling you. I've not told anyone and I've told dd not to. I'll help people if I can when it comes to crunch but my priority is dd and I and we live in a rough area anyway! I'm not advertising our situation to potential looters!

Then tiggy why feel the need to post if it doesn't affect you and you clearly don't care for those it will affect? Also as has been said REPEATEDLY on such threads it's NOT just "made in eu" products that will be affected - most uk "made" products even ones thought of as quintessentially British require ingredients/raw materials from outside uk AND we are not self sufficient - uk only products won't be enough!

I take it you didn’t bother to read the thread before that post Enthymeme?

Do you realise that me buying extra beans this week or next means the supermarkets just get more in? We haven’t left yet so goods are still flowing

Lots of intelligent posters have pointed out that increasing purchases of long life items in January leaves plenty of opportunity for shops to stock up by March!

Isn't Catniss the name of the main character in the Hunger Games? I'm afraid with that logic you definitely wouldn't be a Catniss, you'd be one of the first saps to be 'taken out'.

I think there should be a sticky post at the top of every page on prepping threads explaining why stocking up on food in advance doesn't cause shortages.

Mostly terrifying, far from exciting. Brexit or no Brexit, the damage to the economy for the next decade or so is already done - with at least 250 companies planning to move base or already moved based to EU and lost of job losses mostly everywhere in the UK. I struggle to see the excitement, much as it is in my own interest to be excited.

Well here’s a great big heartfelt thanks to everyone who voted to leave.
Can you believe that in 2019 living in one of the most developed countries in the world people are stock piling beans and bog rolls. Let alone the anxiety regarding medication.
I could weep

I've stockpiled the cats medication but that's all at the moment. I don't have the room to have loads of extra stuff.

I bought part baked rolls at Christmas, worked very well. Been looking at them but the use by dates aren't that far ahead.

I will buy some nearer the time because the teens like bread a lot! And eat a lot full stop.

I can bake bread. I use a stand mixer with dough hook: a wetter mix (ciabatta recipe online) was more successful than my rock like efforts of yesteryear!

I often have a bit of sliced bread in the freezer and a pack of pittas too.

Soda bread and scones are good fillers to make with normal flour.

The other thing for a store cupboard is crackers of some sort of you like them.

What is really funny each time, is that the drive-by Bingo posters are so eager to share their empty-slogan "wisdom" that they don't even check whether anybody else has made that point before. They look at a 500-post thread and think "Well obviously there has literally not been anybody clever enough to have my particular special insight!" and (as they usually don't come back) then think "And my special insight is SO good that I know nobody will be clever enough to address it, so I'll just head off into the sunset leaving a breathlessly grateful audience applauding in my wake..."

😂

When people say we're one of the richest countries, how far down the list are we? We're not in the top 25 according to this article.