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?

thanks graphista, keep doing what we can to stop this stupid brexit and prepare for the consequences. At least I know that if we do brexit with a no deal I did my best to stop it and can explain that to my grandchildren. Sheer madness by the government, we know this is not the Brexit the leavers voted for so delay it!😡

Radio 4 Food Program looking at Brexit effects of food had typical family with small Brexit cupboard - for very similar reason to us worries about prices, worries around work losing jobs or getting reduced hours and now supply concerns.

I think most people are now quietly doing this.

Interesting I was watching documentary about modern Britain – I was aware rationing stuck around as my Dad remember it in 1950s but I wasn’t fully aware how dire the economic situation and food situation was and for just how long post war years.

Then they had the worse winter that century – due to currency issue imports were prohibitively expensive and the government had plans draw up to cope with mass starvation. It was narrowly avoided – but we came very close – I had no idea - not that I'm expeting anything like that but it tends to be all well we manged in the war never after it we nearly starved.

Nope I personally will not be and not one of my friends or family members are
Your husband is doing what he thinks right for his family .
Think its a personal choice

How long should we stockpile for?

Graphista you forgot about it solving the obesity crisis other than that is a fab post and should be a sticky as this thread shows that no bugger reads the thread before posting

I now realise that DP is not just a pathological hoarder, and is preparing for Brexit.

Am I the only one thinking that if I dont stock pile and it all goes wrong I stand a damned good chance of loosing weight as there will be no food let alone BAD food

Palaver reminds me of a group of students who all laughingly proclaim a total lack of revision only to turn in 9 A* a few months later - you sure they aren't all secretly stockpiling and just not telling you?

Momma er suspect not the first

@scandaloso that's how I do all my batch cooking. Have done for years. So much easier and it defrosts quicker because it's thinner . And once it's frozen I stand it up so I can just 'flick' through it, like a magazine rack 🤣. I do soup, Bolognese, curry, mashed potato, mince for cottage pie, gravy, herbs, diced onion, stock....the list goes on. I don't have time to cook every day so I tend to batch cook once a month (I have 2 freezers) and just fill them up 😉

I'm sure there are plenty of people blithely saying 'oh no, I'm not getting extra bits in, what a load of nonsense' when they've actually turned the spare bedroom into a tinned food shrine. They're just keeping it hush hush.

genius you're my frozen food idol

The only reason we need to stockpile is because everyone is stockpiling. Shelves are empty and prices are being driven up because people are clearing shelves as soon as they are stocked 😂 we will not starve after brexit!

Oh, give me fucking strength.

Is it Groundhog Day today?

Here we go again. Stock piling is not panic buying. At present, shops can refill shelves using the Just in Time system which will be fucked by a No Deal Brexit.
When unprepared people finally twig there's a risk, then there'll be panic.

Could we eat the groundhogs? I bet they taste a bit like haggis

Stockpiling = 'Forward Purchasing'

We are forward purchasing. Not stockpiling.

Ask the MoD.

Very easy to catch too as they're not the brightest of beasts

Glitterstick - only read to the end of page 1 so if no one has answered let me know which cheese and I can check in my freezer book.

Dh said we don't need to stock pile. However, I have a few kids and a lot of animals and do not want to be fretting so thinking I may buy some extra stuff this week.

'Forward Purchasing' is this years flossing.

Got to keep up with the trends.

Those scaremongering snowflake bastards in the Army with their piles of avocados and Prosecco

Whatdoiwanttohear
Nope as off this minute unless THERE is a lot of drama nearer the time.
We stock up on rice etc normally and will keep more to the African diet if the worse comes to the worse
Hardly ever eat bread but most of us have grown up children so are under less pressure.
It reminds me of all the panic during the preparation for the millennium .

At least haggis are difficult to catch - all that running round after a haggis might solve the obesity crisis though 😜

I'm delighted to announce that my father will starve if the shops do run out because he refuses to believe that there could be any sort of delay in getting goods to shops. He just point blank won't consider it. I'm half hoping there will be shortages now just so I can say 'I told you so'.
(Disclaimer - he also thinks Donald Trump & Jacob Rees-Mogg are really decent guys...)