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To let you know that panic buying starts next week.

652 replies

GladAllOver · 30/08/2019 11:24

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.

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Juells · 30/08/2019 13:10

Confusedbeetle
Stockpiling causes shortages. We absolutely should not

You're absolutely right, and I definitely won't be stockpiling 😉😉😉

Venger · 30/08/2019 13:10

tinned corned beef

For pie or corned beef hash, also two of the few meals DS will eat.

BarbaraofSeville · 30/08/2019 13:11

What's your point, Elodie Confused

Most corned beef comes in tins and is an obvious stockpile product. In fact, I suspect that which is sold in packets from the fridge in supermarkets arrived in the UK in big tins and was sliced and repackaged in the UK for reasons that I don't really understand other than it is much more expensive and hence profitable.

Iggii · 30/08/2019 13:12

Have just reordered some medication as a precaution!
I have very little idea which foods I buy that are ones that would be effected. Is there a bluffers guide on here somewhere?

Laniakea · 30/08/2019 13:13

Is all our loo roll made abroad?

Only 85% I believe.

Tonnerre · 30/08/2019 13:13

Extraordinary how much money they can find whilst apparently being unable to afford trivialities like education, health and social care.

MollyButton · 30/08/2019 13:13

How can you panic buy prescription medication and fuel though?

People who take medicines with a reasonably long shelf life have already "ordered ahead", but you aren't allowed to use the phrase Stockpile in my local pharmacy although its obvious people have got their repeat prescriptions earlier than normal.

JudgeJudyismyinspiration · 30/08/2019 13:13

I thought everyone had already stock piled on MN some six months ago. This is not news people.
Stock pile away, the only people that will benefit will be the supermarkets and the GDP figures.
You will be eating beans and noodles to Easter it really is up to you. Whatever makes you feel better.

RosesAndRaindrops · 30/08/2019 13:13

so guess we’re up shit creek
Should have stockpiled loo roll for that!

Grin
BarbaraofSeville · 30/08/2019 13:13

You can make quite an acceptable meal of corned beef hash solely from storecupboard products of corned beef and canned peas, carrots and potatoes plus instant gravy, tomato puree and brown sauce. Plus flour and suet for the dumplings.

You'd probably normally fresh onions, which do keep quite a while, but you can get those canned or frozen too if you want to.

Juells · 30/08/2019 13:14

What? What do you think is going to happen to petrol/diesel overnight after we leave?

They should take the chance of not being able to get petrol when setting out on a long journey? Just so you'll approve of how stoical they're being?

Tonnerre · 30/08/2019 13:15

I like the government's ever so helpful advice to schools that might be affected by transport problems. It was along the lines of "You should prepare plans in case you are affected by transport problems."

Smotheroffive · 30/08/2019 13:15

Ah! I'm with you now Venger

Also, I seem to have forgotten people buy water in plastic bottles since I got a filtration thingy.

Didn't realise that water supply wasn't reliable for the whole of the uk; quite shocked that it isn't.

VladmirsPoutine · 30/08/2019 13:17

Can no-one see how mad this Brexit thing is?

The government is also telling schools to consider their supply-chain and 'alternatives' for school lunches as there might be delays etc?

I thought it was all going to be sunlit uplands, not bloody buying baked beans manically in Tesco.

YesQueen · 30/08/2019 13:17

Just to point out

Water - we had a bug which meant we had to boil our water for 25 days! Out the blue woke up to a text telling me. So stockpiling water isn't a bad idea, I was grateful for the few bottles I had as believe me the entire county was sold out of bottled water

Food - ever been in the supermarket when it's been really hot or a big event and not been able to get 3/4 of your list? I have! No salad, no cucumber, no carrots, no berries, no mushrooms, no bread

Surely it's sensible to have some stuff in. For instance I don't just have the toothpaste I'm using, I have a back up. Teabags, there's always a box in the cupboard. Milk, the one I'm using plus a back up

user764329056 · 30/08/2019 13:17

I hate the marketing ploy of ‘ready’, ie ‘are you beach ready’, now it’ll be bloody Brexit ready

LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 30/08/2019 13:17

You know what will cause people to go out and stockpile and panic buy? It's not brexit, it's threads like this and scaremongering in the press.

Juells · 30/08/2019 13:17

You will be eating beans and noodles to Easter it really is up to you. Whatever makes you feel better.

Why is it important to some posters to look down their noses at posters who prefer to be prepared? You do what you want to do, and let the rest of us do what we want to do. I've stocked up on coffee, rice, pasta, tinned tomatoes and beans, and vitamins.

Venger · 30/08/2019 13:18

The list of stuff stockpiled by a PP is ridiculous. You do realise we do make some of our own food in this country? Is all our loo roll made abroad? I don't think so.

We don't all live in a place with lots of shops on our doorstep. We have one 'supermarket' in walking distance, it is a mid-sized branch of the co-op and doesn't stock a great deal to begin with so if there were any interruptions in the supply chain it would very quickly be next to bare. When we had the bad snow the winter before last we had no public transport at all running through the village for almost a week and it was a good 2-3 weeks before the shop was properly stocked again.

My stockpile doesn't hurt anyone so what's your issue? It benefits my family in case of shortages and if there are no shortages it will gradually get used over the winter. Nothing ridiculous about it.

justasking111 · 30/08/2019 13:20

How the heck do you stockpile medicine. Our surgery will not issue prescriptions until 7 days before you need a refill. Then you wait three days for it to be issued, so you have four days extra supply at the most.

Idontwanttotalk · 30/08/2019 13:21

What medications are in short supply 'due to Brexit'?

PickAChew · 30/08/2019 13:21

Well, we're OK for peanut butter, as it was half price in sainsburys.

Alsohuman · 30/08/2019 13:21

We could both do with losing a few pounds. Food shortages would do us the world of good.

JudgeJudyismyinspiration · 30/08/2019 13:24

I am having a halloween party on the 31st for the kids, shall I stockpile pumpkins just in case? Do you suppose the water will still be on, will we still have electricity? Do you suppose we will even have a country left, or maybe the planet will implode at midnight.

Where have we heard this before??????

Not to worry as long as we have some baked beans and some vitamins we'll be fine.

I am pretty sure it will be a disappointing anti climax.

Smotheroffive · 30/08/2019 13:24

Water - we had a bug which meant we had to boil our water for 25 days! Out the blue woke up to a text telling me. So stockpiling water isn't a bad idea, I was grateful for the few bottles I had as believe me the entire county was sold out of bottled water

I'm not so sure about trying to stockpile for every eventuality being an argument for stockpiling water for brexit.

To stockpile water for a 25 day supply contamination would be a vast amount of water! For literally everyone to stockpile for!

I mean, yes, you must've been relieved to have some bottles of drinking water in, but, we cant all buy up vast quantities of water, and maybe gas and candles, etc, following on from that.