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.

Personally I seeing it as a good opportunity to ensure my larder and freezer are well-stocked with staples, as they really should always have been. So not really stockpiling, but getting myself organised. Could be for Brexit shortages, could be for bad weather, could be for a case of norovirus that stops us getting to the shops.

I agree tellme (and juells)

Im not stockpiling but I certainly dont feel the need to take the piss out of those that are

Sounds very sensible in a lot of cases

Anything else and I’ll do the food equivalent of a booze cruise to France.

Serious question - will there be any issues getting through customs if people do this post No Deal Brexit?

I ask again, how can you stockpile medicine when your GP only issues monthly. Do you halve your dose??

Yes Rufus same. Too many posters come to MN purely to do that I think. Either to take the piss out of, or swear, at those they disagree with.

@PoffleWaffleWoo

Would these OH SO SENSIBLE friends of yours also find it panicked and needy to act as most of the people on this thread have said though?

The sum total of my actions is that I have bought an extra 10% of what I would normally buy, so that my cupboards are slightly more full. I have also slightly adjusted the timings of medication supply so that my cat will have a fresh delivery of meds covering 2 months just before B-Day. The only product I've bought that I don't usually buy was UHT milk, which I bought a small amount of.

It doesn't necessarily follow that only one course of action is sensible, nor that your list of friends all agreeing with each other makes them right. Herd behaviour and all that.

In Florida people have been told to stockpile a weeks supplies of food and water. Saw the pictures they were buying gas bottles, guess they are organised with a burner ring.

Mostly they'll have a BBQ unit that fires from a propane tank. That's pretty standard in Florida.

justasking

Ive always preferred to be a month over as i ran out once and the receptionists in the surgery (who are normally great) were very unhelpful and i didnt have any meds for two weeks...then i was told off by the doctor and when I explained he said the the receptionists could be very over zealous

Anyhooooo....our surgery lets you order two weeks before its due and i think that if you are a day or two early they don’t notice so ive been accidentally doing it for a year or two. I think i have an extra thee months worth and i do make sure i order the next lot the day its due

Nowt to do with brexit in my case

Government advice to schools, care homes, etc, is to "prepare for food shortages" i. e. stockpile.

I work in a school and agree with this, it's something we have discussed quite a lot.

Better to be over prepared than under prepared. People already love to moan about schools, so it's best not to give them another reason to do so.

Stockpiling meds takes a while if you have to circumvent surgery restrictions eg ordering your repeat a day before you need it, then another day, then another day slowly until you have an extra week etc.

You can't just request a double quantity in one go.

Re: food cruise to France - the WHOLE POINT is that ports will be logjammed with days long queues caused by lack of preparation for new customs rules / paperwork etc so no, you can't just hop over yo France to stock up.

Fuck!

I've had to do a deep clean of all my cupboards as wanky moths were rubbing their dangly bits all over my dried goods and then spiders were coming in for roman style moth gorge and orgy fests and so my cupboards are now bare.

The bastard moths were in cahoots with Brexit leavers to force me to spend my hard earned cash on restocking my cupboards weren't they? I'm sure I heard them all muttering "back in my day...."

I'm now restocking slowly and just been to Sainsburys (tinned strawberries in syrup going for 62p! Fecking bargain! and huge jar of nutella for 2 quid mmmmm), Pound shop (tinned ham for a quid thankyouverymuch) and Tesco shall bring forth many cheap tinned fish, veg and fruit and soup and dried things.

Next months pay check will go towards building a wall of bog roll and more tinned things.

I'm more worried about protecting my clean and stocked piled cupboards from starving neighbors come 31st October. AIBU to smash them over the head with a tin of spaghetti hoops or smother them with some 50p lasagna sheets?

Lasagna sheets have ver sharp corners too. You could stab them and then cook the evidence

@RosesandRaindrops can't cry bingo until we've also had "Blitz spirit" and "we survived the war/the strikes in the 70s etc...". We have "stockpiling causes food shortages" and "we could do with losing a full pounds" though

AIBU to smash them over the head with a tin of spaghetti hoops or smother them with some 50p lasagna sheets?

Definitely the spaghetti hoops, @Badcat666. You can properly fuck someone up with the edge of a well-aimed tin.

I can't believe what I'm reading.

Taking the sides of baths down to stack tins.

If people really believe this is necessary, wouldn't they surely do better to dig their gardens and rent an allotment and grow their own fresh in season food surely.

I ask again, how can you stockpile medicine when your GP only issues monthly. Do you halve your dose??

Buy meds online from Canada, or go to the pet shop.....look up fish antibiotics.

Gauge out neighbours eyes with spaghetti sticks for instance, is one good use of keeping your neighbour away from sniffing around your stockpile. You can use said eyeballs and spaghetti for a Halloween supper. Be sure to capture on Instagram before chowing 🎃

I'm not stockpiling, as we always have a huge abundance of food in. I always stock up and buy the massive sacks of pasta, rice etc and have tons of cans of food stuffs, dried goods, non perishables. One of the perks of working for one of the big supermarket chains and making the most of the double discount days that give you 20% off and food voucher books, so always stock up over the mega discount weekends as it saves us a small fortune. But I am worried about my asthma medication being affected... I need it to live, so don't know if it's worth attempting to stock up on it, or if this whole thing is all just being blown out of proportion. Guess no one actually knows how badly it will affect us, and in what way, until it's already happening! I really like UHT milk, so that's my silver lining 😂.

wouldn't they surely do better to dig their gardens and rent an allotment and grow their own fresh in season food surely.

a) you might not have a garden, plenty of people don't; b) not all councils offer allotments for rent and/or many have wait lists of years; c) growing your own food is often unreliable, hence, in the past, when we were not the importers of food that we are now, there were periods of famine and malnutrition. Not uncommonly, either, given the weather in the UK. For example, hundreds of skeletons later dated to about 5-2 years before the Black Plague reached England in 1348 were relatively recently found in London when work was started on transport lines. A great many of them showed evidence of recent malnutrition/starvation and this coincided with written records of extensive crop failures during this time and scarcity of food across the population.

Re: food cruise to France - the WHOLE POINT is that ports will be logjammed with days long queues caused by lack of preparation for new customs rules / paperwork etc so no, you can't just hop over yo France to stock up.

Well it could obviously( and probably will for a bit). But since we will have traded things over the English Channel for 1000’s of years before during and certainly after the EU I’d imagine Britian and the EU will want it ticking over as is until an actual deal is in place.
Germany and France will be the main funders of the EU when we leave. They’ll need our money as much as we need their goods.

Ok I live in the U.S. and the Governor of Florida is telling people to have 7 days of food and water. People are panicking when a lot have lived there for years and know it is hurricane season. Now is not the time to stand in line for water, bread and plywood to cover your windows. You need to prepare beforehand.

I wanted just one tin of baked beans in the supermarket the other day,but a woman had stacked up her trolly with about 50 tins,and there was non left for anyone else. She had already got stacks of other tinned stuff piled up in her cart too.

I never get annoyed about anything though, I just felt sorry for this woman, as she has never had the Joy,of owning a ration book from the war like me. ha ha.

I'm in Dublin and we haven't been told to stockpile anything! Also didn't know we have so much food produced here only beef and milk! Suppose you could live on them for a while unless you have vegetarian daughters who won't eat beef! Medicines are a bit of a worry though. Even my treatment stockings for DVTs have to come from England although they are manufactured in Germany!

i wish i could stockpile

The worst things are the ones we have no control over. Hidden in the news this morning behind the menopause/HRT/breast cancer scare story was

we will not have enough flu vaccine this year