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?

Both my local friendly bee keepers have suffered total hive die off this year.

@ bellinisurge been nervous to do hawthorn jelly but I may give it a try this year :)

There has to come a time when we stop talking about brexit.

In my life time?

Strangely with it being this historic event, I'm kinda hoping it's not going to be wiped from the history books as if it were China where things that happened, didn't. Cos that'd be quite scary.

The idea that we will suddenly stop talking about brexit, is either very quaint or very innocent. Or utterly terrifying.

I'm not quite sure which.

What medicines should we stockpile .?

Can I ask what is in your hubbys cupboard?
I need to do an online shop......purely because of the threat of snow ......of course

Good question sweetpea55

I can't even keep food Christmas presents I've bought for other people before Christmas without eating them myself (costs me a bloody bomb and I do it every year, even kid's sweets :() so a Brexit cupboard is just not viable for me and my family. We're going to rely on the goodwill of our neighbours.

@wildchild554 , there's a country walk near me with hawthorns and brambles. I collected from both and have lovely jars and pots that are memories of that lovely walk.

@wildchild554 , there's a country walk near me with hawthorns and brambles. I collected from both and have lovely jars and pots that are memories of that lovely walk.

I noticed dog poo bags are made abroad

Oh, grrreeeaaattt

So I don't just have to just worry about fighting in the supermarket for a pint of milk and a kilogram of turnips, I also have to walk the gauntlet of the Trail of Turds to get there too. With a 4 year old, pointing and screaming 'ppppppoooooo'.

FML.

Just how many products that people are stockpiling actually come in from Europe? There is a whole other world out there you know peeps!

Another Groundhog for the stew pot

We're going to rely on the goodwill of our neighbours

I hope you have something you can barter with cos they won’t just share their cupboard with neighbours

And our current trade deals with that other world are made via our membership of the EU.
In case you are actually interested @Soontobe60

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

But apparently you can be that rude.

But ok, you go about your stockpiling because we’re going to starve to death apparently because we have zero food of our own in the UK. Everything comes from Europe and there’ll be nothing whatsoever to eat anywhere in the UK because we just can’t cope without the imports from the EU. We’ll all be scratching around in the bins 🙄

bellinisurge
Brexit aside - what are you always ‘prepping’ for? I mean, it’s not like we live in the Colorado mountains & get snowed in every 6 months.
I’ve lived in the UK all my life, & I’ve never known a situation where I haven’t been able to buy food.
Do you live in the middle of nowhere? ( no offence ) I’m just surprised that anyone in the UK is constantly preparing for weeks of no food?

Just how many products that people are stockpiling actually come in from Europe?

Welllll... About that...

... Most of trade agreements are through our membership of the EU.

So we have FTAs.

After Brexshit we won't.

And there's a issue with things like food standards and animal welfare.

And most of what we get from the rest of the world comes via the EU.

And our ports aren't equipped to deal with fresh produce coming in. Or the customs on them.

Cos the world has moved on since 1975.

It just all seems a bit hysterical tbh.

@Scandaloso
That's true! Am only too prone to forget but the notion that it will be quickly done with is far from the case. Picture it: a lifetime of Brexit talk

We’ll all be scratching around in the bins

If we try and support our population only from what we grow, there will be nothing in the bins to scratch around in.

And I REALLY don't like cabbage that much.

surferjet I am in central Scotland. The beast from the east decimated the supermarket and corner shops within a couple of days. We had lorries stuck on motorways for days which had an impact and it took at least a week to get back to normal

My local shop had to actively stop other shop owners coming in and trying to buy up what stock they did have

monkeybusiness there is a comedian, I forget her name, who suggested a Brexit store of things you don’t like very much, because you will only eat them in extreme circumstances. For example, for me, that would be Custard Creams. For you, who knows? Tinned semolina pudding could work for almost anybody, if it exists.

So I’m quite glad that my small prep I had meant that I didn’t have to go hunting did bread or milk

@bellinisurge I'm lucky where I live there's loads of dandelions, elderflower/berries, blackberries, rosehips, hawthorn, mountain ash, cherries, nuts, (can't remember what type), hazlenuts, even apples and damsons. And of course not forgetting nettles, natures spinach and excellent source of iron :P

But ok, you go about your stockpiling because we’re going to starve to death apparently because we have zero food of our own in the UK. Everything comes from Europe and there’ll be nothing whatsoever to eat anywhere in the UK because we just can’t cope without the imports from the EU. We’ll all be scratching around in the bins

Oh. You are that clueless.

We do not have enough food in the UK to feed everyone in the UK.

A vast amount of our food comes, if not directly from Europe, then via Europe.

We can't cope without imports.

All our current trade deals are via our membership of the EU. If we leave with No Deal in 61 days time, we will have no trade deals.

Which bit of this do you not understand?