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).

Slogan spritzer is explained earlier in the thread. You kinda need to see it in action to really ‘get it’.

The library method: smooshing the prepared goods flat in a freezer bag, squeezing out the air, putting them on a baking tray in the freezer to keep them flat, then packing them tight like books.
I haven't tried it myself but it looks really space-saving and neat.

A sack of potatoes will last a good long time if they're kept in a dark cupboard.

I know I'm not the only person here to have lived in countries with shortages, but I do keep seeing questions about fuel.

My experience has been that shortages immediately impact fuel supplies in a bizarre way.

When there's a shortage of any essential, some people go into panic-buying mode and start rushing round trying to buy up supplies wherever they've heard a rumour of availability. So instead of doing one 2 km drive to the shops per week, they start whizzing round covering 20 km trying to find half-a-dozen eggs.

This even happens in fuel shortages, where people will drive 300 km to some distant town because they've heard fuel's available there.

It's madness. And of course can cause fuel shortages when there needn't have been any.

I don't know to what extent this will happen in the UK. But I'd certainly expect a surge in fuel demand to keep the panic-buyers on the road.

I always have tinned new pots for quicky curries. They’re beside the coconut milk in my cupboard for precisely that reason.

I haven’t bulk bought many of them though. I’m still researching which is the longest lasting variety of potato so I can buy a massive sack or three closer to the time. All this pasta and rice and flour is well and good, but I’m Irish and need lots of spuds in my diet or I get grumpy.

Tinned potatoes are really quite nice hot or cold. I have friend who uses them in a salady thing with tinned sweet corn, tinned tuna and crackers.

I went nuts and filled my entire Tesco s online shop with stuff for my Brexit box and nothing for us to eat this week, so I've just had to redo the whole shop. I've kept the tinned fruit and long life milk though! My strategy is to add a few extra things to the shop each week and make sure the freezer is always full.

Hi folks

Can we have a bit of peace and love please? Would be a shame to have to delete the thread.

Er, there's only one person cause disharmony.

I've gone back and re-read cloudtree's now deleted post (I happened to still to have that thread open in another tab).

I have to say that it demonstrates self-centred snowflakedness in anyone who felt the need to report it

Please show me where that would be?

will we just ignore from now on?

I’m going to get a second cupboard and everything with a 2020 use by date will go in there.

Sigh....

Thanks everyone - I'll get some tinned potatoes in. We do curry quite frequently.

bluescreen I freeze mashed potato. I don't deliberately set out to have frozen mash but I often overestimate how much mash I'll need to cover a fish pie or whatever - so I freeze the rest. Just in a freezer bag or a plastic box. It's fine defrosted especially if it's going on top of pie, or into a fishcake.

Jen's you've irritated everyone from the start and the thread will be deleted if it carries on, can you just either join in the adult discussion or, well just don't?

FFS seriously? Yet more of this derailment? I can't believe you're falling for it, @MNHQ.

Why on earth would the thread need to be deleted? Far worse bickering is regularly allowed to stand.

I had a good clear out and reorganisation of my cupboards today. I do need to remember why I bought giant couscous at one point as I found half a bagful and don’t know what I did with the first half.

Tomorrow I’m going to stock up on treats and chews for the dog- he’s still my priority!

@LilyMumsnet - it might help if you read the whole thread and see the context. Not only has cloudtree already explained what her post (which hadn't been a personal attack, despite one person taking it as such) was about, but a single poster is determined to take offence.

Such diversion shouldn't be allowed to effectively censor what is otherwise good afvice on this thread.

Did anyone hear R4 Food Programme this afternoon? Very sobering, not quite sure how they got their timing so right or did they get a tip off about today's announcement from the food industry?

Idahoan packer mash is nicer than Smash. You can get lots of different varieties - cheesy, buttery, roasted garlic

Packet not packer

I've been buying extra things regularly since about October.

Today, I've had a bit of a spring clean in my kitchen and have created space for my supplies in my pantry cupboard (found stuff at the back which was out of date when I flitted over two years ago!). I've set out all my extra shopping so I can see what I have and what I still need to get.

Last year I was given a Tesco gift card - I've just checked and there's £40 on it, so I'm going there this evening to do a big shop, and hopefully I should have all I need to keep me going for at least a month.

Have now added tinned potatoes and tinned steamed puddings to my list!

To those who mock - my granny, who lived through both World Wars, and was a farmer's daughter, then wife, then mother, always kept a fully stocked pantry. It's a sensible approach to have, and I do usually have enough to keep me going for about a week or so.