Stockpiling

[Undercoverbanana]

I’m going to stockpile.

I hope it won’t be needed, but I’m doing it anyway.

Here’s my list. What am I missing?

Matches
Batteries
Candles
Lightbulbs
Toilet rolls
Basic medications
First aid supplies
Antiseptic
Soap bars
Shampoo bars
Washing up liquid
Laundry liquid
Cleaning cloths and sponges

Tins of:
Chopped tomatoes
Kidney beans
Cannelloni beans
Chick peas
Soups
Various veg
Various fruits

Rice
Pasta
Couscous
Dried herbs and spices
Long life milk
Tea

I have a well equipped tool kit.

What am I missing.

This is not intended to be a thread about the rights and wrongs of Brexit or whether there will be shortages.

I just wondered what I should have IF there were shortages.

You could always try soda bread. I’ve made it before and I’m a shoddy baker at best. It’s not amazing but it’s ok.

Oh dear someone up thread mentioned potential glitches in husbands g&t supply - can someone clarify the gun situation? Is it tonic water the thing we will be missing out on.
This shit just got really real.

Also pondering on gin and tonic for me thinking about lemon wedges and how are we all going to avoid scurvy. Anyone know any Uk grown sources of vitimin c to replace citrus. Should I be thinking about black currant or something?

Oh god I meant GIN not GUN situation, shit hasn’t got THAT real.

Rosehips are good for vitamin C - they were collected from the hedgerows during WW2 for this reason. Though wrong season for Brexit

There is some vitamin c to be had in fresh meat, which is why traditional Inuit who eat very little plant matter don't get scurvy, but sailors subsisting on dried meat and hardtack did... hence lime juice. Do modern version of the James Lind cure and stock up on vitamin C tablets

We freeze slices of lemons and limes. Works well. Other than that I have found a couple of drops of lemon juice in a drink is close enough.

Use flowers in G&T Lime, hawthorn or elderflower.

In March the nettles will be starting plus jack-in-the-hedge. Three cornered leek will be in full attack mode. They all supplement squirrel jerky.

@cloudtree I regularly make sourdough bread. The problem with making it in a bread machine is it takes 4 to 6 hours for first rise and 2 to 3 hours for 2nd - unless you have a bread machine with rise times that long you just can't do it.

What you can do instead is use your breadmachine to knead the dough - it may not have a setting for this, but 1st 15 minutes of the pizza dough setting does it for mine. Turn it off, and cover the top with cling film to stop it drying out (dries out otherwise as it takes so much longer to rise than with yeast). Once it's about 1.5 times the volume i normally take it out and do the rest by hand. However, you could put the pizza setting back on for another 3 or 4 minutes, then off and leave it for 2 to 3 hous then use a bake setting to bake.

It's a bit faffy, the other option is to use a no knead recipe and do it all by hand.

I've been to stock up on painkillers today and have discovered that if you use the self service checkout in Tesco and put 2 packs through per transaction, it doesn't call for assistance. If you use the Sainsbury's self service, they call for help to check you are over 25!

It's a bit faffy, but at least you don't have to explain that you're not trying to hurt yourself, you're just stockpiling incase!

Hauskat

I am not quite sure how available unsweetened Kool-Aid packets are available in the U.K. ( you might can buy some online ) but one small flat packet will give you eight servings with 10% of your daily Vitamin C requirement per serving.

I just watched a video where a British dad and daughter tried kool-aid for the first time but they got confused and poured it all into one cup. As a commenter wrote " NO!!!!!!!!!!! one package makes half a gallon of liquid. That's the British equivalent of 2 liters. One package makes 8 of the cups you used. "

I prefer using artificial sweetener instead of sugar because too much sugar gives me problems. I tried making Grape Kool-Aid without any sweetener to simulate conditions in a no sugar or no sweetener Britain, it wasn't so great ( okay rather terrible ) but if you downed it a spoon at a time that might make it doable.

The packets are so small and thin you could probably store a great many without having any space issues. Of course, fresh fruits would be much better so Kool-Aid packets might be used to tide you over until you can acquire some more fruit.

Being dry mix they should last you a good long time. I had some packets that I probably bought over a year ago but they were still fine.

Kool aid is available via amazon. Its about £1 a pack (but you can only buy it in groups of 8-10 packs). Tang is also available for about £8 for a tub (24 servings) which I suspect is a similar thing?

We used to have something similar available in the UK in the 1980s called Appeal orange juice which was a powder that you added to water. I think its long gone though.

I stocked up on Hermesetas yesterday. My local Tesco is quite small, and has only Canderel or Stevia, both of which leave an after-taste - not to mention are so much more expensive - so had to go elsewhere to find the Hermesetas. I've done all the stocking up I can think of, now, and I'm running out of shelves to pack.

I don't know why people have bread machines. I takes 5 minutes to mix the ingredients, 10 minutes to kneed, leave for 2 hours, then bake. It's very easy and delicious.

Some long-life soya and other dairy free milk lasts a good 10 months.

OP - you could add some quick noodles, pastas and soups to your list. Things that are very easy and quick to cook. And lots of herbs and spices to liven up rice and couscous.

people have bread machines because you literally empty the pack into the mixer, add water and press the button. 3 hours later you have baked bread.

And because you can set it going overnight and wake up to fresh warm bread.

Is this for real?

Is what for real, dear?

^^

@TheElementsSong

Hauskat - lots of Vit C options. Effervescent Vit C drinks. Haliborange tabs - I loved these when I was a kid. Good multi Vit tabs. Maybe gummies for children.

One thing you might want to take into consideration is that as you become more stressed the more your body needs Vitamin C to ward off infection of some kind.

So say a week or two before March 29 you might want to up your Vitamin C a bit beyond what you would normally need. The same goes for the week or two after March 29.

Beyond that as a new normal gets established you can revert back to trying to get a normal amount.

I doubt there will be a hoarding goon squad from the government going around checking everyone's kitchens for excessive supplies but there may well be an anonymous tip line established to report possible hoarding right prior to March 29.

It might be good to get your reserve supplies now and then say revert back to a normal buying pattern ( this might depend on how nosy are your neighbors about your shopping habits ) a week or two before March 29.

there may well be an anonymous tip line established to report possible hoarding right prior to March 29.

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The government coming in and nicking prepper stuff is very much a US concept, imho. The fear of government taking your guns/food/ freedom etc is written large into US prepper psyche and, because US history is different to ours in UK, it has a different weight and significance to US people. Again, just my opinion here. I have US family, I follow US politics a bit and most prepper channels on YouTube that I watch are US ones. Vary from chilled and interesting to twitchy and OTT (for my views).
Still, always a good idea not to tell your neighbours you have stuff. There are "be a grey man" prepper tactics but I don't think it will come to deploying that for Brexit.

With which troops will the government come to search my house for food with?

The extra police sent to NI?

The army drafted in to help at ports?

Those called up to manage civil unrest and stop possible looting of shops?

Which ones?

Cos they all seem rather busy and tied up with crisis management in other areas if we get a no deal supply chain shock of that scale.

Forgive me if I'm cynical about the idea of door knocks from government to come and redistribute my property. If we get to that point I doubt it will be officialdom breathing down my neck.

Exactly @RedToothBrush .

The Brits are way too rule focussed to charge in and take peoples personal food supplies. Things would have to get really very very bad for that to happen.

However in light of the fact that DS1 has been known to hoard Easter eggs and still have some remaining in December, I might have to help him eat them quickly this year. You know, just in case... For his own good of course.

I mean of course the officials not the masses. They'll nick anything.