Aibu to ask who has what in their Brexit cupboard?

[Sibsmum]

I am hoping to get your ideas. Feeling woefully unprepared. Help!

I have some stuff. Didn’t realise about loo roll. But my son seems to eat the stuff so I always have plenty in anyway. I flip between worrying about it and buying stuff to thinking I’m mad and I shouldn’t bother.

I’m dairy free , wheat free, have ibs and a bladder that is effected by food. I have stocked up on the limited stuff I have. If there is a problem I can’t just eat ‘anything’. So I’m stocking up my stuff a bit more this week and next as I know I will always eat it.

For the last few weeks, I have bought extra of what we always have anyway (non-perishable, obvs).

As others have said, if Brexit goes smoothly - and why on earth would anyone think that it wouldn't; the politicians have done such a fabulous job so far - I simply have to spend less money on food after it, as I have only bought those foods we eat anyway. If it doesn't go smoothly, if prices jump sharply, well, I'm happy I have my stockpile to fall back on.

If you can afford to do your weekly shop no matter what the prices, or you don't care if there are sudden shortages of certain foodstuffs, then lucky you - no need to stockpile!

These threads all go the same way. Sensible proportionate advice and then some knob pops on to shout millennium bug and how you have to believe and second star on the left (or right)leads to the promised land and other stupid shit.

Nothing.

I’ve mainly focussed on stocking up for my children, who have multiple allergies. But we have also made sure all the cupboards are very full- lots of pasta and tinned goods etc.

DP is in a fairly senior civil service role where they have their finger firmly on the pulse and most of his colleagues are stocking up too.

And if people know the plans being put in place by the government from mid- March onwards in case we lurch towards “no deal” then they wouldn’t be saying silly stuff about the millennium bug. The govt is making plans on a scale that are unprecedented (in peace time) to redeploy large swathes of civil servants to deal with the inevitable no deal chaos.