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.

Ps I bought 4 shower gels in Lidl today so I’m ready 😂😂😂😂.

Seriously, we hit Costco about every 3 months and bulk buy lots of staples so will be doing that this month.

Ps I bought 4 shower gels in Lidl today so I’m ready. 😂😂

Well I have got myself some extra scones, sorry, I meant sk'owns. 😂😂😂

@Smotheroffive good girl, we always need a nice scone! I hope you got some nice jam to go with. I can help out with the cream, but it will be made from chicken milk...

My plan may be flawed....

and are refusing to acknowledge the leaked Govt documents which basically read ‘oh shit, here we go’.

Just out of interest, do people realise that those "leaked" documents are a deliberate ploy by BJ and his gang? The idea being that they whip us up into a frenzy about no deal Brexit, then at the last minute they offer us some sort of gently re packaged version of the WA and we all agree out of sheer relief at dodging the "no deal" bullet.

BJ told you this, @Timeaftertime42 ?

That sounds like the 75 yr old assuring us the govt has a ‘secret stockpile’ of drugs for patients such as us.

Sighs.

yup I have a direct hotline to BJ!!! Any messages you want me to pass on.

any messages you want me to pass on

None that mumsnet won’t ban me for

My 1970s diet was good....my 80s diet took a nosedive as more convenience foods came on the market.

In the 70s we ate seasonally and lived where there were a lot of market gardens...and people grew a lot. There was always some vegetables or fruit on the doorstep from neighbours and we returned the favour.

As someone else mentioned though....you didn't just help yourself to fruit. You had to ask. Jam sandwiches were a staple....hungry? Have a jam sandwich. That was as junky as it got....I probably had one a day but sweets only once a week on pocket money day.

Now the question is will the sun rise in the West or the East on the 1st Nov?

Stockpiling is great but it will run out and you will have to get a replenishment.

We are talking ourselves into a crisis as we always do, it’s just happening a bit quicker with social media 😳

We are doomed I tell you, doomed 👍👍

Meanwhile in other news 😁

and people grew a lot. What? The people round you grew faster, because of their diets??!!

Smother are you serious? VEGETABLES..... They grew vegetables.

I don’t need to panic buy as I can’t imagine what British food I would miss once not available but I am hopeful watching the pound fall as there’s a pair of shoes I want to order but didn’t want to yet as they have to be ordered from the UK. Btw, I believe that there are many Brexiters doing the same just not for the pair of shoes but those who smartly split their financial interests between the UK and the EU markets.

"Didn't some careless politician tell us not to panic buy petrol, some years ago? Result: panic buying. Or was it a double bluff, and they meant that to happen"

Francis "Jerrycan" Maude. He said ppl could store petrol in jerry cans and the fire brigade (quite rightly) were not happy.

Knob.

My diet changed drastically from the 70s to the 80s

70s - stew, sausages, mince, white fish, chops. Potatoes. Cabbage, carrots or cauliflower. Crumble and custard,!stewed apple or apple fritters.

80s same but with avocado and prawns occasionally.

As for space, I won't look under your bed or your settee

Very wise . . .

Actually - my bed and settee come down almost to the floor, so like a PP, the best I could manage would be a couple of sheets of lasagne . . .

I'm getting plenty of dog food though - I have a "Leaning Tower of Butcher's Tripe Mix" hovering precariously on a kitchen bench.

those who smartly split their financial interests between the UK and the EU markets.

Many people don't have financial interest to split.
They will be the ones hardest hit.

My £4-87 in the building society will see me through, I'm sure.

EngTech Stockpiling is great but it will run out and you will have to get a replenishment.

The whole point is that a stockpile sees you through the - hopefully finite - period of panic that will ensue when lorries are stuck at ports (as anticipated in the government's own Operation Yellowhammer report) and supermarkets' warehouses are empty. This is when the non-stockpilers will be running around like headless chickens, while the more organised folk sit it out at home.

Unless you think the government will allow chaos to continue indefinitely and will do nothing to assure food/medicine supplies improve?

those who smartly split their financial interests between the UK and the EU markets.
FFS

I really, really hope that's a joke post EerieSilence.

But I fear you're being entirely serious.

Ive just tidied out a cupboard where we keep spare shampoo

Not stockpiling but there are 11 shampoos, 7 body washes and 10 toothpastes

I’ll be hungry but I’ll smell nice

@Rufusthebewilderedreindeer I did that. I will have good teeth as I have seven tubes of toothpaste. No idea why 🤦🏼‍♀️

dont

I blame dh

Isn't this jolly...we can beat the obesity epidemic by eating turnips and getting rid of all those foreign foods.
However, i do agree with decreasing food airmiles so hopefully it will lead to less of a carbon footprint if we grow more here ( clutches at straws optimistically.)

As a lovely broader trend, people can eat seasonally but FOR FUCK'S SAKE, that is something that can be done gradually if it suits people's budget to do so. You don't go cold fucking turkey on what people expect to buy and then tell them to eat turnips until locally grown food is harvested and delivered.