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?

the deals are between us and each country
Erm no they aren't.
Members of the EU can't trade independently.

Tell him not to stockpile the freezer because their will be electricity shortages. You can only reason with crazy with more crazy

Not the case the deals are between us and each country but we have to do them deals in line with the EEC rules currently where after we won’t

Oh Jesus. You can’t even get the basics right.

Nothing makes me respect someone's obviously considered and well informed opinion more than a complete inability to grasp primary school level grammar and the liberal sprinkling of "lol" throughout each post

Being prepared isn't scaremongering, it's sensible. Especially if you have children.

Each to their own, but I personally would rather be prepared than not.

So, any actual pledges?

As a nation we stockpile when we get an inch of snow so it can’t come as a big shock to think that we might be stockpiling for this.

I f**king hate the word 'lol'. It completely negates whatever you are trying to say. Glad it isn't just me.

So are we saying the freezer stockpile is a good or a bad thing 🤔 risk it for a biscuit?

@TheElementsSong Morning! Good place for a spot of bingo methinks 😂😂

@Pissedoffdotcom sensible. Even if the electric goes, as long as you keep the freezer door shut everything will stay frozen for a while. I'm trying to convert to store cupboard from frozen where possible though.

As a nation we stockpile when we get an inch of snow
We do? Don't you mean we panic buy?

babypoo I’m modifying my bingo cards to add “lol”

@PerverseConverse 😂😂😂

I have a very modest stash but a stash none the less. I've bought:

Long life milk
Rice
Pasta
Tinned pulses
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned tuna
Oats
Bread flour
Yeast
Dried herbs and spices

I have enough for about a month of filling but unexciting meals for my family. I think it's just good sense to be honest. It'll come in handy if we get snowed in too.

Your nuts,don’t you think we have deals around the world already that are not going to stop they will just be able to charge less import tax if they want to

As of April 2016, only 15% of UK total trade was with countries that were not members of the EU and were not covered by any current or imminent EU trade agreements.

I’ve started getting in front with some things. I don’t think we’ll run out of food completely but I’m not chancing that things might be hard to get hold of, or shoot up in price.

Mine’s more of a comfort blanket than a panic pile.

Some things I’ve ordered that I’ve not seen mentioned are frozen fruits (to make into smoothies or drink) for vitamins. Tinned rice pudding and custard. Frozen onions, spinach, squash etc as I should be able to rustle up some flavoured rice with a few stock cubes and spices. It’s pretty much all stuff I’d use anyway but the long life version of.

I’ve also stocked up/stocking up on our favourite brands of coffee, tea and fruit cordial. Although we’re currently on a health kick I’ve ordered some multipacks of chocolate bars in case we need cheering up.

It's bemusing how many people seem to think they're making a relevant point when they talk about the unlikelihood of total catastrophe. Does it really not occur to some of you that it's possible for there to be a detrimental impact that's fairly short term and stops a long way short of starvation, but that some of us still don't fancy feeling the sharp end of? Especially in a society where our supply chains are organised round the just in time model and where people do panic buy at the first sign of any disruption to stocks.

If your own barometer for doing any preparation is the realistic possibility of societal collapse, fine. Mine isn't. Worst case scenario, my shopping post 29th March will be cheaper than it otherwise would have been for a bit.

Perverse. it dosen’t look like thé cure worked for you so I guess better we try our own uk cure

don't know about other places but our local lidls [bloody well love it] was running very low on a lot of dried goods ie pasta and rice yesterday, and where on earth were the loo rolls ? saw one guy with 6 packs in his trolley and another had 4 is this a new thing ? coffee was low stock as were tea bags, cereals were running down in stock too.

😂😂😂😂

Sorry laughing faces were aimed at Maryjoyce's comment

We don't have room in our kitchen for a specific Brexit cupboard but we are going to keep stocked up on things we usually buy and I'm going to suggest to DH that we put a couple of plastic storage boxes in the corner with other staples in.

I think you are very sensible to have stocks of food, looroll etc. I live in rural France and have a store-room because sometimes we can be cut off by snow for a week or so - ten days was the longest - and if you have a family and no stocks what do you do, in that situation? With the gilets jaunes there was disruption to petrol and food supplies arriving in supermarkets before christmas and you can be in difficulty very quickly.

Maryjoyce thank you for proving my point with your comment