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DH and his Brexit cupboard

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Anymom · 25/01/2019 22:45

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?

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WaxMyBalls · 26/01/2019 10:25

Careful noodle, I think that probably qualifies as Project Fear. And, erm, something about zombies.

Focalpoint · 26/01/2019 10:29

@postinhaste I live in Dublin and have a T1 son and restocked his supplies this week. Pharmacist said there is already a shortage of keytone strips.

MashedSpud · 26/01/2019 10:29

I want a Brexit cupboard!

Angelicwings · 26/01/2019 10:36

Two questions -

  1. Why exactly would there be no food in the shops after "Brexit"?

  2. When are you expecting "Brexit" date to be?

MissMisery · 26/01/2019 11:11

Sorry for slight derail, but wondered if anyone here has ever tried freezing cheddar cheese or butter? Doesn’t say you can on packaging but I’m thinking of trying it...

PoutySprout · 26/01/2019 11:11

I have. Do regularly. And will be now.

drspouse · 26/01/2019 11:13

angelic
1 have you heard of "supply chains" and "just in time"
2 erm I don't know what to say other than maybe turn on a radio? Or the TV?

MissMisery · 26/01/2019 11:14

Just googled and apparently cheddar is ok to freeze, but best to grate it first.

Boom76 · 26/01/2019 11:15

I’d be embarrassed if DH had a Brexit cupboard.

TheElementsSong · 26/01/2019 11:16

Should I do my “Pledge?” post?

MissMisery · 26/01/2019 11:23

Yes, crack on ElementsSmile

DoodleLab · 26/01/2019 11:24

You'll be able to trade them with people who like pickled eggs for something more useful like chocolate.

There's more people in the world who like chocolate than who like pickled eggs. The chocolate holders will be in the stronger bargaining position than the pickled egg holders. Grin

Re: butter and cheddar cheese... deffo freezable. The cheese might go a bit crumbly, but otherwise no taste impact. Also, balls of mozzarella in water are freezable... just sling it straight in the freezer.

onalongsabbatical · 26/01/2019 11:26

Yep, regularly freeze all kinds of cheese and butter. Butter's fine, defrosted cheese is a bit more crumbly. Crack on with it!

teetotalling · 26/01/2019 11:27

Right. I'm getting myself a Brexit cupboard.

I have ensured that the kids' inhalers and epipens have the longest expiry length I can get for them. They needed an update anyway so don't feel guilty. The recent junior epipen shortage crisis will forever keep me on my toes about that.

LadyandGent · 26/01/2019 11:35

The thing about it is, it's going to the the quick shifting items that would run out in the event of a crisis. And they are generally perishable. Fruit, veg, meat, milk, alcohol (can be stocked up), tobacco (can be stocked up), cheese etc. You could I guess, stock up on a vegan style menu, if all that happens. Maybe long life milk, flour to make bread, freeze a few loaves if freezer big enough and only take a slice or two out when you need it, freeze meat. Frozen veg. Fruit and cheese you're damned though, so maybe some fruit juices with a decent shelf life. Wine would be one I'd be stocking up on!!! Grin

Maryjoyce · 26/01/2019 11:38

Butter is fine frozen but cheese comes out manky and is only really any use to cook with after

Maryjoyce · 26/01/2019 11:41

Just had a thought about this terrifying brexit that you all you stockpiling are doing.
Have they assured you’ll have electric lol
A full fridge and freezer but no electricity oh no lol
Gonna have to get out and buy a generator and stock pile petrol too lol

TheElementsSong · 26/01/2019 11:41

If today I were to simultaneously run out of bread, milk, vegetables, painkillers, cash, petrol and have a freezer breakdown, I’d be pretty annoyed but am sure that I could step out of my door and obtain all of the above now. How many people have complete cast-iron certainty that this will continue to be the case in the aftermath of a No-Deal Crash to Freedom?

So, those who Truly BeLeave should be delighted to pledge not to prepare for any disruption, right?

Type the usual thing about hysteria, then type something like “I swear not to save so much as a grain of rice or tin of beans, to keep my freezer empty, to have less than 1/4 tank of petrol, and less than £10 cash - thus will I demonstrate my unswerving certainty that there will be not an iota of disruption post-Brexit”. Ta-dah! Patriotic True BeLeaving Positive Public Leadership Duty done!

In fact, anyone with real confidence would further pledge to hold a Freedom Party for their whole street on March 29, in which every scrap of food or drink in the house should be offered in celebration. And any non-edible consumables such as medicines, should be piled into a festive bonfire (in the shape of the European map, perhaps) and ceremonially burned. Sparklers could be handed round to brighten the festivities.

Gwan, let's have a thread full of pledges, it's the patriotic BeLeaving thing to do, like magic kryptonite against the traitorous scaremongering right?

(PS. Best part is, you can do your patriotic duty by typing your pledge here, and still fill your loft with tinned beans, and nobody will know!)

MamaBear2181 · 26/01/2019 11:45

BI’d be embarrassed if DH had a Brexit cupboard.B

Better to risk embarrassment than risk not being able to feed my kids.

MamaBear2181 · 26/01/2019 11:45

Oops, Bold fail!

Pissedoffdotcom · 26/01/2019 11:47

Learnt something new, didn't know you could freeze butter.

I'm in the 'when the shit hits the van, i'm raiding the brexiteers (sparse) supplies first' camp. Unless i can persuade DP to clear the shed 🤔 at least we have a generator & a hobby battery if the leccy goes...

Angelicwings · 26/01/2019 11:47

drspouse

Even with a general "no deal" Brexit there can/still likely will be individual trade deals for imported goods. It's like we are out with our begging bowls - their commerce will also rely greatly on UK's custom and would hit them hard in the pockets not to import anything to the UK whatsoever, as in "this Friday is the last delivery ever to the UK, so by Monday the shelves will be empty".

Also if it gets to the stage where there is literally no food on the shelves nationwide then whether a few (figuratively, out of the masses) people have 4 weeks of dried pasta and tinned tomatoes isn't really neither here nor there. We would be talking about babies and children (especially those whose parents already live on the poverty line) starving to death on a widespread scale within a month. Do people really think this would/could actually happen?

Maryjoyce · 26/01/2019 11:48

I like the idea of a big party on the 29th if that stays as the day

Angelicwings · 26/01/2019 11:49

Pissedoff Why would the leccy go?!? Seriously people, we are not about to be plunged into the dark ages (literally, back to candles and caves and eating berries).

WaxMyBalls · 26/01/2019 11:49

Most of Britain's energy comes via pipeline, so not affected by failure to make proper preparation for supply chain disruption, but actually there've been warnings that there might be blackouts in NI.

I was just about to ask what a pledge post is but it seems I've been conclusively answered!

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