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?

@bellinisurge believe it or not I live in a town and 45 minutes walk for one excellent forage point and 15 minutes walk for another with kids, quicker if on my own :P

Can I vote that we just ignore the shitheads??

Oh right. Ok.

I live in London so have never had to prepare for no food emergencies.
Obviously it is different if you live in remote cut off villages.

And obvious goady fuckery

life will go on is totally meaningless, of course it will, it does in Venezuela and Syria and no one is suggesting we are going to end up there.

Brexit is only just starting, the WA isn't the deal with the EU, we would still need to sort that out.
If we crash out with no deals anywhere then we just have to start making them. This means we have to decide as a country what we are willing to trade off, food standards v a large supply of food. The GFA v NI having different arrangements to rest of the UK. Access to the NHS for expensive Pharma for a deal, or visas for a trade deal.
There are a range of possibilities that they all have different costs and will need to be decided on.
Brexit is going nowhere for a long time.

I don’t live in a remote cut off village! I’m bang inbetween glasgow and Edinburgh. Snow and crappy councils contribute to food deliveries being cut off oh and employers who ignore official advice to stay off the road

Soup, if I was going to stockpile anything, OP, it would be soup! It's a food, it's a drink, it's amazing.

@browneyes77 we have one Cadbury's factory in England, and two in Poland. The codes on the back of the packets tell you which factory. Mini eggs and curly wurlies are made in Poland. Two years ago it was reported they were bringing production back to the Bourneville factory but the codes on pa is I've bought in the past week are all from Poland.

We import 80% of our fruit and veg from Europe. Not sure how nutritious cress is...

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.

During WW2 the population of Exmoor ponies, who normally live wild on the moor, dwindled to around two dozen. Hundreds of others were shot and eaten. Bear in mind this is in a farming area known for sheep and cattle production and the hunting of red deer, and yet people still ate horse meat. There are still areas of moorland around that were reclaimed for crops during this period, although normally you would grow very little at that height and on that soil.

So yes, we just about survived WW2. Now, who feels like wandering up onto the moors for a pony shoot? Any takers?

Oh, and anyone who genuinely believes we'll be alright for chocolate because "Cadbury's" really, really should not be allowed the vote. Jesus wept.

C'mon perverse, don't talk the country down!1111!1!!

If we get a really big flannel I'm sure we can grow enough cress for the whole of the UK!!!!11!!"!1!

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

Agreed RTB but I suppose understandable from the POV of wanting entire TV channels shut down for not adhering to the true faith.

With regard to "what else do people prep for?" - I'm not a prepper as such, but more of an {old-school thriftiness plus organised pantry} type. Ever since I had to run my own household years before this shit happened, I have for example bulk-bought things on offer, menu-planned, batch-cooked, and frozen portions. I can give a couple of examples when we needed to use our buffer - periods in-between jobs, the great fuel strike, very busy times of extra-long hours at work, or the memorable time when both DH and I went down with the flu at the same time and could hardly move out of bed for two weeks...

As for the other Brexit Bingoisms, I think they've been very well-addressed which I hope any "undecideds" will take note of - take your pick, the drive-by empty-slogan-spritzers with bald assertions, or the detailed responses?

😂😂😂😂 fennel I have no idea if there's further context to that flannel and cress but it's made me a literal LOL'er

surferjet
I live in London so have never had to prepare for no food emergencies.
Ah, so you are part of Metropolitan elite

it all makes sense now

Glad you are happy with staying in the Customs Union though

If we get a really big flannel I'm sure we can grow enough cress for the whole of the UK!

I’m starting to see the benefit of prepping.
Hadn’t thought of illness & the possibility of being house bound for a while.

Thank you TheElementsSong

Ta1kinPeace

As I said.
Compromise.
I’m very reasonable & want the best outcome for everyone.

You are very welcome surfer - oh I thought of another one - the time we all caught norovirus from a motorway service station loo, and spent a week housebound, shitting through the eye of a needle. Let me tell you we were damn glad of my longstanding keen eye for bulk-buy loo roll offers.

surferjet
Glad that you are happy with staying in the single market

it would just be nice if we retained a say over how it operated

OP if your husband is in frieght and worried, the army are worried enough to stockpile, warehouses full up and down the country by Tesco etc....please don't listen so some Gary on the internet telling you that because he lives in the capital we don't have to worry. Also don't listen to people living near farms saying they don't have to worry. The farms will be relied upon to feed the cities/towns as well as their local environs. In the previous thread people seemed to think a grand scale PYO would be allowed by farmers, and were suitable rebuked by said farmers for even considering such madness. Trust your husband.

If we get a really big flannel I'm sure we can grow enough cress for the whole of the UK!!!!11!!"!1!

Lolz.

The real people standing in our way of cress for the masses....are primary school children. They've cornered the cress growing market and the greedy buggers won't give up without a fight.

@surferjet water is a good one to have on hand, in the last 2 years we've contaminated water and told to use bottled water for drinking and cooking twice. Both times issue lasted around 2 weeks. Water went from the shelves within a day and my friend got sick from the water contamination. Half expecting the same to happen this year.

wildchild554

Thank you so much, I’d never thought about preparing for an emergency before, ( probably because I’ve never had one ) but you never know what could happen.

It’s not really project fear, just project sensible.
I’ll read this thread properly in the morning for some more tips.

Thanks again

@surferjet yep certainly is :)

Will your postal service still work?

Happy to arrange a buddy/food parcel arrangement from Australia for you.

Of course, it will be tad ironic for those of us here whose ancestors were transported for stealing food for their families, but we’ll get over it. Now that I think about it, it’ll be ironic for the large number of European migrants here too.

Now, who likes vegemite toast? First in, best dressed.