The Brexit Cupboard Part 2

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Following on from the fantastic thread of the weekend, I thought we'd continue discussing our brexit cupboards and boxes here. Here's to all the preppers and their cupboards, no matter what they contain. (Keep quiet about your stash in real life).

Can you put your bread near a radiator? Leave it for 2 hours. Enjoy your bread.

Put it in the airing cupboard with cling film and a tea towel over the top of the bowl.

Or on the windowsill of a south-facing room if you have sunshine today?

No sunshine today, no airing cupboard and no heating hence the worry 😁

If all else fails, hug the bowl

Flatbreads??

I've just done a stock take and am quite impressed so thank you to all the prepping is sensible posters especially @bellinisurge.

I need some variety as mainly have chopped tomatoes and lentils as a meal base. But we like them and use them regularly so they'll be used. I have treats, I have plenty of fruit.

you can prove bread slowly for a few hours, or even overnight.

Take it to bed with you tonight

Adsa here was heaving today. I don't normally shop on a Sat am but was out catching Pokemon but another lady commented on how unusually busy it was, and speculated it's the potential snow...

... not for me love. I always have enough for snow. I made sure my doughnuts hid the tinned tomatoes, mushy peas, packet mash, dried banana, dried apricots and carton of custard.

Hello, is there a list anywhere of goods that people reckon will be the most difficult to get hold of in the event of a no-deal Brexit? I really should have started preparing months ago but I kept thinking they couldn't possibly let this happen, and now I am majorly panicking. We don't have loads of space or money either so I'm going to have to go for the bare essentials as much as possible really. I have a 7 mo DD so I've got about half of the formula she will need until she can have cows milk so that's my absolute priority to sort that.

@elfycat I'm heading to Asda now and love their jam doughnuts as does my ds. They have changed from granulated sugar coating to powdered which isn't as much fun at all so I rolled in the sugar canister when I get home 😁 I hope it's not heaving as o my popping in for a handful of things for my mum. I'll get her a couple of extra prepping things though.

I've not actually noticed the cost of my prepping as I've added a few extras each time I've shopped.

I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for other preppers and maybe devise a secret sign to acknowledge them. The preppers wink or something.

@MeadowHay Here's my tips below. I'm sorry you haven't done it before. Focus on what you actually eat and what you actually can't do without.
Hard to tell what will go short but supermarkets are likely to be rather grim places. UHT milk including nut milk is readily available at Aldi.
If space is short, think of dead space like under your bed.
Anyway, here's my thing:
Imagine you are snowed in for three days. What will you and your family actually eat? Get freezer friendly and/or shelf stable versions of that. What are your hygiene needs - toothpaste, sanpro, shampoo etc. Make-up too if it makes you feel good.
Think about snacks and treats. And entertainment. Because being stuck indoors is boring.
Why 3 days? It's doable and storable and keeps you away from the shops while you suss out how things are locally. Want to do more? Plenty of advice on MN.

A couple of observations. In my local Tesco (London), those 4 tins of tuna packs and also formula milk are with the spirits, cigs etc behind the tills.... Also just been doing an Asda online shop for my parents (with some prepping on the side) and a lot of the tinned veg is unavailable...

I've put the electric heater on in the living room, so double treat today if all goes well, heating and fresh bread
I tried naan bread the other day and ended up with a drop scone type thing so not holding out much hope!
Choc chip buns have come out a treat though, but you can't really dunk them in soup!

MeadowHay We're far from needing to panic.Every item you collect now is one less moment of panic if things do go awry. Hopefully they won't. This is more 'plan for the worst; hope for the best'. Everything you get now might be one less frantic person later OR you'll enjoy using this all up over the summer and having a few extra pennies for ice-cream in the park (or whatever).

A few tins put away soon adds up to days of sustenance, but we have the time now to think of proper balanced meals rather than spaghetti hoops on rice.

So far we have:
Bottles of fizzy water
Pasta
Brown rice
Pesto
Tuna
Crisps
Stir in sauces
Passata and chopped tomatoes

Extra Quorn mince in freezer

We have a BB (Brexit IKEA bag) up in the attic.

Will be adding a few more bits and pieces each week. The above has been purchased over 4 food shopping week.

For those worried about proving bread in a chilly house, I have had great success in turning on the oven to the lowest temperature for just a few minutes, turning it off then putting the dough in there to prove (our old kitchen was absolutely freezing and this worked perfectly).

I have spent this morning batch cooking lasagnes.

I now have four more large family sized lasagnes in the freezer (and one in the fridge for Monday night). Each one is packed with the following veg (probably 2/3 veg to 1/3 meat)

onions
mushrooms
spring onions
tomatoes
grated carrot
courgettes
aubergine
butternut squash
chopped olives
spinach

and minced beef of course - with a very cheesy sauce and grated cheddar and boursin on top.

DH is banned from eating them before Brexit!

To offset the home cooked lasagnes my greggs pastries delivery arrived (impressed with iceland's free next day delivery) so I now also have in the freezer steak bakes, cheese and bacon pastries and steak and stilton rolls). Once the DSs spot them I suspect they'll be gone fairly quickly though. - definitely before the end of march.

Iceland also had an offer for 4 turkey breast joints covered in bacon for £10 which was very good value. Decent size and you can cook them from frozen.

Went to Aldi this morning, much busier than usual but the shelves were pretty full. Then had to pop to Waitrose and it was a different story, shelves of pasta, tins, packs of dried fruit etc very bare.

Have added to the stockpile and feel a bit happier about things. Bought some treats as well (biscuits, chocolate, good coffee) but it'll still be a fairly bland and boring diet.

Can't believe we are doing this, though. Madness. Here's hoping I get to donate the lot to the foodbank halfway through April...

It’s been payday for many on Thursday, so supermarkets will be much busier as everyone has been paid & heads to shops

I got a few tins in b an m today, nesquick and Yorkshire pudding and dumpling mixes. I was looking for powdered milk and could only find 'coffee mate'. I'm more of a tea drinker, I suppose it will be ok in an emergency.

Tesco was insane this morning, so busy! But shelves were well stocked. I bought a big (80l I think) plastic box with a lid for the garage for £6. I bought lots of tinned pineapple and sweetcorn as they are the only tinned fruit and veg DS1 will eat. Plus extras of some other things we usually buy (tinned pears and custard, washing up liquid, hot chocolate powder) and some new things (tinned chicken in white sauce, tinned mango). Some varieties of Belvita biscuits and all the flavours of Aunty's steamed puddings were on sale so I also stocked up on those.

The pubs were packed last night too. I agree it's more 'wahay, I've finally been paid', rather than 'quick, let's stockpile'.

I also noticed that the date on the Laughing Cow cheese triangles I bought was the end of June, so they might be a good thing to stock up on if you have some space in the fridge. Both my children like them which is a bonus.