Possible food shortages

[borntobequiet]

AIBU to think that when all the major food retailers warn us that there may be food shortages and higher prices after a no-deal Brexit, we should listen and try to avoid this happening?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47028748

How are you going to avoid import shortages and retailers hiking prices? Which will happen, for a while.

What can we do?

Or maybe we should cynically wonder if they're planning on using no-deal as an excuse to hike up prices regardless to increase their profits? Every action has a motive. Don't assume it's the obvious one.

It can't hurt to start stocking up on a few extra non-peishables each time you go to the shop, just in case, as well as keep a good stock of frozen veggies.

I'm already experiencing medication shortages, so I think it does no harm to do a little preparation.

Fresh produce will be affected. no trade agreements, it will go through the roof.

I was reading a piece on Greek lemon growers, the EU subsidises them so lemons cost eg 4p each. Albania, next door, also has lemons but no subsidy, so their lemons cost eg 28p each. No one will buy Albanias lemons, because Greek lemons are subsidised so it remains a dirt poor country, becuse of the lemon monoply.

So Greece wont sell us lemons because we arent in the club any more, we'll have to get some Albanian ones at a gazillion times the price. Notwithstanding the Albanian ones wont be grown with EU regulated fertilisers etc.

As they say you get what you vote for.

Gosh the comments on that article are so depressing.

What can we do?
Contact your MP and ask them to consider the situation carefully. If they collectively allow a no deal to happen (it’s the default if they can’t agree on something), we all suffer. It’s easy to do, use
www.writetothem.com
I’m not a fan of Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement (the terms on which we leave the EU) - I’d rather Remain, but her deal at least protects food supplies and manufacturing. So I wrote to my MP and said I hoped she’d vote for it (though I knew she would anyway).

we'll have to get some Albanian ones at a gazillion times the price
Or you could buy limes, or buy nothing, or buy a Jif squeezy lemon... There are alternatives for most things. Why not see it as an opportunity to try something different?

Lemon and limes aren’t the same thing. Besides, can we recycle Jif squeezy lemon bottles?

How are you going to avoid import shortages and retailers hiking prices?
By avoiding a no deal situation. Write to (by which I mean email) your MP.
www.writetothem.com

Yes I think we should avoid a no deal Brexit. There's not a lot you or me can do about it though is there?

Actually, Jif lemons are mostly lemon juice
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif_(lemon_juice)

Oyster, you have an MP. Get on to them. They’re the ones who vote!

I want lemons...not squuezy plastic bottles lemons.

I have no doubt that the article is just scaremongering

WTF do you think Jif lemon is made from you idiot fFS plus it's not just lemons is it it's loads of different produce. You remainers are do fucking dense
Well aren't you the little charmer
The point is that you don't have to buy a FRESH lemon, you can buy the squeezy version that's been manufactured before the prices went up. Or you can buy something different. And you can apply that concept to other items. It's not difficult, well if you have a functioning brain cell.
And I'm a Leaver actually, though with your attitude I'm beginning to see why Remainers are so rude about us. And talking of 'fucking dense' - it's 'so fucking dense' not 'do fucking dense'. If you want to be rude then trying spelling it correctly.

save the NHS a bob or two
I’m sorry to have to tell you that diseases caused by malnutrition can also be costly. Though it’s true that eating too much of the wrong sort of food can cause malnutrition, so perhaps you have a valid point there.

Here I go again:
Imagine you are snowed in for three days. What will you and your family actually eat? Get freezer friendly and/or shelf stable versions of that. What are your hygiene needs - toothpaste, sanpro, shampoo etc. Make-up too if it makes you feel good.
Think about snacks and treats. And entertainment. Because being stuck indoors is boring.
Why 3 days? It's doable and storable and keeps you away from the shops while you suss out how things are locally. Want to do more? Plenty of advice on MN.

I think the UK could do with a few food shortages and higher prices, might save the NHS a bob or two in the long run. Think about it.

Will it save money in the long run because more people will be dead?

Food poverty increases obesity it doesn't reduce it. We aren't all going to get slim we are more likely to eat less fruit and veg and consume more high fat/sugar carbs as they will be cheaper.

Deep sigh - food shortages do not fix obesity. A healthy balanced diet does more to help tackle obesity as well as cutting calories. As can good mental health care. It's a complicated issue unlikely to be resolved by food shortages or political chaos.

Surely most people always have enough in their store cupboard and freezer eat for three days? Even if we wouldn’t be having gourmet meals we’d certainly survive.

@Nothisispatrick , if they do, great. I don't think they do, though.