AIBU to ask family to bring their own food?

[borntobequiet]

I have family visiting for Easter. I know they have been "forward purchasing" in case of shortages caused by any no-deal Brexit, as have I. Would I be unreasonable to ask then to bring their own food to avoid depleting my store? The children will eat up all my pasta and pesto in next to no time. And I don't want to waste freezer space on fish fingers, which I never eat.

I've always liked anchovies.

The Romans built an empire on salt, flour, wine and garum (fish sauce). Just saying.

I might invade Tunbridge Wells on the 30th.

Well I have got 6 chocolate oranges, 2 large boxes of Dairy box, a big box of lindt balls and I would have had at least 10 other boxes of chocs which I got in the January sales if we hadn't ate them. I think a lot of chocolate is made here though. It's very hard to keep up a good stash of chocolate though as DH keeps opening them, I did tell him the sale ones were to last 6 months - they lasted about 6 weeks. You need to get nice things as well as tins of beans, not having chocolate would be the worse thing ever.

Well, obviously there was slavery involved. And the looting of vassal states for precious metals. But there was definitely fish sauce. Possibly aqueducts.

I think a lot of chocolate is made here though

Looking forward to this year's Welsh cocoa harvest.

Gosh, Brexit Bingo is really rockin' today!

Well I asked and they will bring some things if there are actually shortages, no problem. Looking forward to a stress free visit with no tiresome supermarket top up runs. Goodnight, all. May your cupboards never be bare.

Cadbury (for example) have 2 factories in Poland and one here. Easter eggs and bar chocolate are made here (from imported ingredients bar the milk) but most of their products are made in the eu.

“Trust your country”
“The supermarkets will still have food”

www.businessinsider.com/brexit-michael-gove-ministers-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-no-deal-chaos-2019-2?r=US&IR=T

Even if the borders are okay, we don’t even have the right type of bloody pallets. We are a joke.

Every day there's another incident that demonstrates the incompetence of our government.

You clearly know more than the government does if you’re so sure!

The government knows this, I'm really surprised anyone in the U.K. doesn't, over 90 percent of MPs have stated they will categorically not allow no deal to go through, it's no secret. Read any political analysis and this is the one given,, the question is will her deal get through or will there be a delay.

No deal is all but formally off the table, and will be formally on the 13th if her deal doesn't get through. There is no doubt at all the amendment to reject no deal will pass if it's voted on on the 13th.

Oh well we'll all be ok then! Let's stop worrying and tell the government to stop holding emergency meetings. To all those on medication: chill out! Bluntness knows it'll be fffiiiiiinnee.

The EU will expect the UK to shit or get off the pot eventually. I think the EU will grant an extension to A50 but it won't be a terribly long one, particularly with the elections coming up soon. But I see no signs that the UK is any more capable of making a decision by May than by March so what happens them? It's either crash out or revoke so back to the same position, just a few months down the road.

Me

More than happy to come back o. Here on the night of the 13th and say I told you so.

For those so worried, I don't understand, why sit and panic and prepare, why not actually read up on it. It's very very clear that those panicking have a fundamental lack of knowledge on the subject. Thr information is out there, from many many reputable sources, it's not hard to find.

There has to be a panic though, or people won't be able to prep and post endless threads about it.

@EffOrf , I don't need Brexit to be a prepper. Brexit is just another " thing "as far as I am concerned that has gone up the list of likely problems- snow over winter (been snowed in a few time) ; job loss - ok now but have been made redundant; health - had my share of health side swipes.
I've been a prepper for a few years now. And needed my preps a few times. No interest in zombies. What with there being no such thing.

As for the op, I've given my advice- prep for visitors by getting extra bits in like anyone would. Enjoy if they are fun to be around. Tell them to piss off if they aren't.

It's very very clear that those panicking have a fundamental lack of knowledge on the subject.

😂

Unlike the people saying we won’t starve because Britain has farmers, or that we won’t run out of food because the shops want to sell us food?

If it’s all the same to you Bluntness, given the embarrassing level of this government’s incompetence, I’ll stop worrying about no deal when we’ve either left with a deal or when the whole thing is called off. Knowing that it’s informally “off the table” isn’t very reassuring from a government who can’t even hire a ship or make sure the country has the right bloody pallets to import / export as a non-EU member.

bellinisurge I know that you are a proper prepper and pass on good advice to people, I have posted on the odd thread of yours but if people want to prep it should be something they do all the while not as the latest fad or panic. I always have good stocks of everything in but do not consider myself prepping for Brexit, I just like to have lots of stuff in anyway, a lot of the people doing this 'prepping for Brexit' seem to be revelling in the panic of it all.

a lot of the people doing this 'prepping for Brexit' seem to be revelling in the panic of it all.
Who is 'revelling in the panic of it all'? I'm stockpiling, but I'm not panicking. I just have no faith in this shit show of a government to ensure continuity of supplies if TSHTF. Quietly ensuring a well-stocked larder is not 'panicking'. It's people who use words like 'panic' or 'hysteria' who are catastrophising the situation.

This OP and some of the replies throughout are unknowingly and cringingly hilarious 😂

Maybe you should make sure you have a well stocked larder all the time then you wouldn't have to stockpile would you