To let you know that panic buying starts next week.

[GladAllOver]

The government is starting an advertising campaign next week telling us all to "Get Ready!".

What else can it mean?

By the way, it's costing £100m.

For those saying ‘get a grip’ about there being shortages. This isn’t the only reason to stockpile. If the pound goes through the floor, food will be more expensive (it already was more expensive after the pound dropped in 2016 following the vote, and the prices never recovered).

Bulk buying now when there’s a deal on is future purchasing and cushions future price rises.

Also, no deal means no deal. How do you expect food to be imported without a deal with any state? All our trade deals are via the EU. Everything will need to be renegotiated, not just with the EU and instead of being part of a strong trading bloc, we’ll be a sole country.

My tin hat tells me it's an excuse to cause panic buying, prices will be higher apparentely.

We don't need a trade deal to buy things - consider how long we've been importing electrical goods from Japan without a deal - its deal with the EU was only signed very recently.

But having a trade deal eases the passage, you don't have tariffs and you don't have the same number of customs checks.

So we can still buy things, but they will get held up, possibly for a long time, and will cost more. And it might be that some suppliers decide it's all too much hassle and stop selling their goods to the UK.

I've looked for a link and can't find one.

Pringles are made in Belgium

My stock pile is still in place from the last deadline. We will be chomping through some slightly manky cornflakes; the tins & dried will still be ok. I need to restock my UHT milk over the next few weeks.

We were snowed in our village for 4 days in Feb 2018 and the 3 local shops were bare by day 2. Stockpiling is necessary, as there will be panic buying initially, whatever our future holds.

• several NHS doctors
• several civil servants
• my DH and my BIL who both work in finance
• a supermarket manager (not in store, higher up)
• several people with long term health conditions

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And yet we have similar in our family (and my husband and I sit within two of these categories) and we have stocked up but here is the key, we haven’t told anyone outside immediate family and we are very much peddling “oh nothing will happen” line.

Maudbailey - Calm down, will you buying a "Get ready" T shirt or mug!

All you naysayers; do you feel it's somehow unpatriotic to stockpile? I think you should be worrying more about your family's food supply than what Bo Jo thinks of you.

The army have been "forward purchasing " for ages. Those crazy camo-clad loons!

I'm surprised that people are asking for links, it's not exactly hidden information.

I haven't stockpiled.

I've had issues with HRT and I have had to switch brands. But is this a brexit issue or a standard supply issue.

I cannot imagine that the supermarkets will not have sufficient food. I might have to change brands and buy the odd alternative product but the shelves will not be empty.

Surely restaurants and fast food outlets will have food to sell.

It's panic buying that will cause supply issues.

There was an interview fairly recently on the today programme with an expert (a supermarket exec if I remember rightly) who explained why there'll be shortages in the supermarkets. It's not hysteria.

It's panic buying that will cause supply issues

I agree, luckily no one on here is doing that

I won't be panic buying because I bought all my stuff a while ago. Slowly and within my budget. As did most of the posters on the Brexit prep threads. When there was plenty of stuff.
If you have had your head in the sand or have seen it as your patriotic duty NOT to get a buffer of food in, more fool you

Uggmum - The hrt shortage is because of a manufacturing issue in China.

I know right bellinisurge ! Batshit troops. Maybe we should demand they are assessed by mental health professionals. Oh wait, they've been told to do so BY THE GOVERNMENT! Mental health assessments for the government should be mandatory. Except with cuts we don't have the services do we. Hmmm.

Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to name change on here do no one here will know you are actually [insert username of deluded naysayer].

Just because you 'cannot imagine' something means it has no chance of happening? Is that what you're saying uggmum? It is precisely that kind of naive lack of imagination and lack of awareness that has got us into this almighty mess in the first place. English exceptionalism is a truly terrifying thing.

Surely restaurants and fast food outlets will have food to sell. So if you can't buy food from the shops you'll just go out to eat? Do you want to rethink that, perhaps? Do you think there are separate lorries at the ports - some for 'supermarket food' and some for 'restaurant food' perchance?

It's panic buying that will cause supply issues. Sweet Christ on a cracker, this again?

Is there a thread somewhere with store cupboard recipes, you know, 1001 things to do with a tin of chick peas? We mostly eat fresh food and I'd quite like to stock up a bit but have a very limited imagination re. interesting / tasty meals from tins and dried stuff.

WaterSheep it's poor form to start a thread with no link to what you are talking about so it would be good if OP provided one.

Otherwise how can we see if the information is indeed there and critically analyse it before coming to our own conclusions?

Can we add to the brexit bingo card:

'I voted remain, but ...[insert various statements about how brexit is going to be great/anyone stockpiling is mad/we won't run out of food etc].'

If there are genuinely serious food shortages and people are hungry, do you really think they’ll sit quietly at home? No, they’ll go out marauding with baseball bats and want to “share” your stash. And if it doesn’t get to that point then you didn’t really need a stash anyway!

amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/28/no-deal-brexit-price-rises-retailers-sainsburys-asda-ms-coop

I take medication that I can only survive 2 or 3 days without, I have insured I have an extra few weeks.
But I'm not really bothering with food although I would always have a couple of days worth anyway.

@BizzzzyBee - you don't tell anyone about your stash in real life.