To think they shouldn’t be advertising that they’re stocking up for Brexit?

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So with Brexit approaching, some people (including me) are concerned about the possibility of food shortages etc afterwards.

One of my Facebook friends has started posting photos on Facebook of them stocking up.

Photos of crates and crates filled with a variety of tinned food, dried food, UHT milk, bottled water and other drinks, toiletries, medicines etc.

With comments along the lines of “we’re stocking up for Brexit, we’ll be ok”

I think they’re daft.
Not about the stocking up, I’m buying in extra stuff just in case too - but I think it’s daft to be telling hundreds of people on Facebook.

If things get to the point where shelves are bare and they’re reliant on their stash of food, then there’s now loads of other people who know they’ve got loads of non-perishable food stashed. People who might be very hungry.

AIBU to think that telling everyone about your food hoarding is a really bad idea if you’re planning for possible food shortages?

Therefore proving thay Brexit isn't really fostering the cosy blitzkrieg spirit really.

I get so fucked off with people talking about the war time spirit. Those silly fuckers have obviously never lived with restricted food supply or in poverty.

I'm seriously worried about a new nuclear arms race. Frankly the food stockpile paranoia is trivial in comparison.

Frankly, if you can afford to go online on MN you could have afforded a three day buffer in your pantry built up over a few weeks .
We get to mid Feb and you have done nothing (head in the sand; part of the Brexit cult; playing chicken; whatever) and you want to start building a buffer, I am not sure I can help you.

Frankly, if you can afford to go online on MN you could have afforded a three day buffer in your pantry built up over a few weeks

@YeOldeTrout , if you are old like me you will have seen all that nuclear willy waving before. Doesn't mean it's not real but this, Brexit buffer in your pantry, is something you can do something about.

Business news yesterday suggested that food prices will riseby 20% over the first couple of months after Brexit.

Erm, you do realise that if there are no issues with Brexit, that the shops will make LESS money later, so why would the supermarkets be tricking people into spending more now? Your comment makes absolutely no sense

I suppose it does if the preppers get fed up of ploughing through a cupboard of lentils and uht milk, when everyone else is eating normally.

Well as this country now boasts plenty of foodbanks to feed the hungry, I think that prepping is a sensible way foward tbh. Who knows what lows the government will stoop to next?

Not just the UK;
France is the first country to force all supermarkets to give unsold food to needy

Giving left over food to charities, once an act of good will, is now a requirement under a 2016 law, and stores can be fined $4,500 (£3,224) for each violation
Volunteers go to over 9,000 supermarkets throughout France. There, they collect food – yoghurt, pizza, fresh fruits and vegetables, and cheese

After loading it into a van, approximately 125,000 volunteers drop the goods off in churches and other places, where food bank networks distribute them to poor families

In France, over 5,000 charities rely on food banks, and thanks to the law, almost half of their donations come from super markets

www.indy100.com/article/france-forced-supermarkets-donate-food-waste-charity-by-law-change-8229236

Germany’s hidden hunger
On the breadline in Europe’s richest country

930 registered food banks supporting 1.5 million people;

edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/09/world/germany-food-bank-cnnphotos/

Are lentils not normal eating then? I hadn't realised.

Lentils are normal in the this house. I love a lentil curry or stew.

Are lentils not normal eating then? I hadn't realised
Depends if you normally eat them, or you've only bought them for your 'brexit cupboard'. I could add in rice and beans if you like, aka I'm a celebrity...get me out of here?

Adding rice to the not normal list would be even more batshit than lentils.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought or eaten a lentil.
Even if I did decide to stock up on food I don’t know what I’d buy- we don’t eat any tinned food that I can think of, dried food is pasta or rice & the contents of my freezer is usually ice cream. Everything we eat is perishable so I’d be buying a load of stuff we don’t even want.

Do you never eat tinned tomatoes, cartons of passata, kidney/butter/baked beans, tuna? What do you put on your pasta and rice?

As a native Londoner, with family killed, injured and made homeless in The Blitz, I find all the BlitzSpirit/just like in the good old WWII days/faux patriotic bullshit quite offensive. Being the impossible to offend type, that’s quite hard to admit but it really pisses me off.

^ This

Offensive and I believe that amongst historians of the period (not my field so I don't know full details) the notion of a patriotic Blitz spirit has largely been refuted. A lot of our present notion of it developed during the 1950s/60s. But y'know, they're just experts in their field or whatever.

I also find myself wanting to point out that, even if there was some great communal Blitz spirit, that does not make the Blitz a good thing. People died, houses were destroyed, it ruined people's lives. Those who lived through it did not want it. So, I am not sure why we should be nostalgic for such a terrible time.

Clavinova . I've said over and over again on here, stock stuff you actually eat. If you want to lurch off into stereotypes because it makes you feel good, go ahead.

Oysterbabe no to everything in your list, if we have pasta sauce I make it with tomatoes ( hate the flavour of tinned tomatoes) rice is paella or risotto - again nothing in it from a tin. Tuna in any form will never darken my door!

In that case Nancy I guess you either don't prep and just buy whatever you can if there is disruption, or you think about what you'd be willing to eat if you couldn't get the fresh stuff and get a bit of that in. And do a big shop on the 28th of March maybe!

I’m stashing away bits in case there’s some disruption, but I’m a woman of several pantries and storecupboards at the best of times.
I’m also a supply teacher who doesn’t get paid in the holidays, so if all goes well, that’s August and September mostly covered in the food stakes. I appreciate the tips and useful ideas from Bellini et al.
I have no use at all for the S&B boards, so I leave them be, despite the desperate fight against age, grey hair and unadorned nails they bravely wage and the terrors of being mistaken for an Older Woman. It matters to them, so I neither heckle or dismiss their fears. Perhaps preppers could be shown the same courtesy.

rice is paella or risotto they're dried goods?

In the cupboard with dried stuff I’ve got a tin of milo that the in-laws send from Oz, a large jar of vegemite & 2 tins of carnation caramel.

I've said over and over again on here, stock stuff you actually eat. If you want to lurch off into stereotypes because it makes you feel good, go ahead.

That is, really, the only way for the anti-preppers: construct a straw man that specifically and deliberately ignores everything that has actually been said (plus throw in a bit of ridicule about lentils as not being normal food for real people). As with other tactics, it’s aimed at newcomers who don’t yet know the ins and outs of the discussion, and are vulnerable to be taken in by empty slogans and concocted wordclouds.

themoomoo the rice isn’t a concern, I’ve got about 10 packets because I always think I need it only to discover Ive already got loads!

Well that's something then Nancy, if there is short term disruption it'll keep you fed for a few days!

WaxMyBalls yep, it’s rice every day in my house I wonder if it goes with tinned caramel ...