DH and his Brexit cupboard

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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?

You do know it takes many months to 'grow veg'

Tsk. All veg growing is exactly like growing cress.

It's all very much like The Road... at the end of it is Marky Mark. So depressing.

@Totopoly
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I was brought up by my granny who had gone through the war. She always had extra tins and supplies in... and I’ve copied this most of my life🙄 I think it makes sense regardless of what happens. During the snow last year our village was cut off for four days .. so whilst I won’t panic buy as others have said topping up can do no harm. If all foes well your local food bank will be pleased of extra..

The Heinz factory is in the UK, the McCains factory is in the UK, Cadbury’s is in the UK. So we’re sorted for chips, beans, spaghetti and chocolate at the very least grin

We have British meat, can grow our own veg or buy it from local suppliers. Nobody will go without food. Nobody is going to starve.

If I were going to stock pile anything it would be Wine. But as I like Californian wine, I shouldn't have any issues there

Oh. My. God.

Just Wow!

Amazing.

Well I hope I can barter something for a neighbours home grown veg coz I can't keep a cactus alive never mind growing enough veg for me dh and 3 dc.

@HoliestGoat It depends what your growing, some are alot quicker, also if get started early as possible can have some quick growing greens ready by March and then toms etc ready by June/July, potatoes, first earlys can probably be harvested about same sort of time. Don't have my notes infront of me so just trying to remember from last year. Still good idea to stock up though

We don't grow haricot beans for our baked beans. They don't grow in UK. I tried last year. I got 10 beans. Actual beans. Not pods.

Well I hope I can barter something for a neighbours home grown veg coz I can't keep a cactus alive never mind growing enough veg for me dh and 3 dc.

You may be better off eating your deceased cactus, than hoping for any appreciable quantity of British-grown crops in March unless your neighbour has some really good agricultural facilities. March/April is called the Hungry Gap for a reason.

I'll have to get some security for the allotment. No ones getting my mares tail and dandelions.

THE HUNGRY GAP

Look it up

I am currently harvesting what I sowed last June
it will run out by late February
with the use of my freezer and a large clamp in my polytunnel I can expand that till late march

but the first spring crops do not come in till late April

THE HUNGRY GAP

@Oysterbabe dandelion make some tasty fritters ;)

browneyes, that's not a serious post, surely?

You can't, you just can't be that clueless?

Aren't dandelions a diuretic?

Elements

I fucking love you.

I have plenty of loo roll.

@Scandaloso It's good for your waterworks and other conditions. Worth researching ;)

Dandelions were called ‘pee the beds’ when I was wee :)

What will remainers moan about / panic about once we leave & don’t all starve ?

I can’t wait to leave just to see the back of all these ‘the world is ending’ threads.

storie absolutely love that

wildchild you'd have been arrested in days of yore for all your horticultural knowledge.

Actuall, that's a thought. i wonder if witchfinder generals will be a revived profession in Brexitannia?

@surferjet , I will happily come on and say I was mistaken. I wonder if Brexiteers will do the same.

I imagine most remainers will be thrilled if the worst that happens is that they ... gradually eat their stockpile.

God knows what I'll do with my popcorn stash though.

I can’t wait to leave just to see the back of all these ‘the world is ending’ threads

And yet...here you still are, commenting on all of them.

@Scandaloso I know lol