Show me your brexit stockpiles cont...

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A thread for sharing details of our stashes: what we have, what we need, good hiding places and all sorts of hints and tips to help prepare for shortages in the event of a no deal brexit.

we have a lidl and an aldi very close to one another

I’m ridiculously jealous. We only have Lidl in NI. 😭

Can't believe I forgot sanpro. I use a cup but DD uses towels so I need to get a small stock in.

I don't have a separate stockpile, I have loads of extras of all the things we use regularly. It took a while to do it but I have about a months worth of everything, so now I just do my normal weekly shop and rotate stuff in my storage cupboard so the oldest is at the front.

I've just got an upright freezer so I'm in the process of filling it, it's slow going but I need to get a bit of a move on with all the Brexit negotiation cockups going on.

My dd hasn't started so I have some disposable sanpro for her . But she is up for trying renewables too so I have some sample pads and some patterns and materials for making them.

Great thread.

I’m feeling a bit happier now that I’ve got a massive cupboard full of extras.

I’ve mainly gone for extras of things we eat, with a few tinned versions of things we would normally have fresh.

So far:
Tinned beans (all sorts)
tinned veg especially potatoes fry frying, mashing, roasting, topping pies etc
Instant mash
Tuna, salmon, mackerel, pilchards
Jar of olives and sun dried tomatoes to pad out bakes/pasta dishes
Chopped tomatoes/passata and pesto
Lots of 20p marinade “rubs” that I picked up from home bargains
Big bottles of olive oil
M&S tinned meat (had some vouchers and it’s much nicer than some of the others we’ve tried)
Soups, mixture including big soup and big soup hotpots
2kg pasta plus odd packs in the main cupboard
2kg rice and other grains
4kg black lentils for padding out meals
Lots of microwave rice in different flavours
Dry noodles and udon noodles
Chickpeas and tahini to make hummus
Garlic, tomato, ginger, chilli purées
Oatly milk and almond milk
Dark chocolate and crisps/biscuits
Crackers
20 2l bottles of water
Big tub of ground coffee plus beans, both decaf and caff
Teabags

Got a fully stocked freezer now including veg, fruit, chicken, mince, fish etc
Also frozen some halloumi and other cheese
Frozen just roll pastry for making pies

Also got loads of toothpaste, shower gel, Sanpro, shampoo and conditioner, stocked up on skincare, razors, soap
For the kitchen I filled a plastic tub with washing up liquid, laundry stuff, bleach, kitchen wipes and cleaning products

I still need to get oats, honey, marmite, Nutella, more long life milk like almond as that’s what I used anyway, porridge toppings

Maybe some tinned fruit to go on porridge as can’t fit anything else in my freezer, and some other cereals

Got some cheap bread mixes which I tried and come out really nice, really cheap in lidl and some resealable bags of unsalted nuts and dried fruit but I want to pick up some more

Got plasters and loo roll, cleaning cloths etc, lots of warm blankets and extra duvets but need to pick up batteries

I feel like I’ve forgotten a lot though!

Seeing the mentions on here of bottled water, batteries and extra blankets and duvets...is it likely that power/water supplies will be affected?

Unlikely but possible. Water chemicals are imported and can’t be stored. Power more likely to be an issue for those in Northern Ireland as far as I understand it.

Sometimes thinking about Brexit preps makes people think about other circumstances that could occur.

Or maybe people are taking preps for being able to afford less heating/ utilities

My water stockpiling is largely due to just random
Prepping after experiencing an unexpected three days without water last year due to a local problem. After that I always try to have about 12-15 lites in minimum.
Lots of good offers on at Tesco at the moment, managed to get some more dried fruit and nuts really cheaply today

Currently got it stored in my kitchen cupboards I know tins will be alright but should I be keeping them in plastic tubs if they’re not in tins?

Does anyone know if microwave rice can be eaten cold straight from the packet? There's no warning on there to say it can't.

Surely it's not cooked enough?! Would it be crunchy?

You'd have to be fairly hungry / desperate to try it I'd think!

Not sure about the rice.

Been clearing out the fridge to make way for fresh vegetables next week. Will need to work out an order that meals can be eaten in to use the veg in order of likelihood of going off.

Things are getting very close now. Freezer and fridge need to be ready.

A couple more things to get for the long life list. Then organising the freezer then fridge.

Going to do a trip out to Asda and an alternative Aldi tomorrow.

I will just about finish and A50 will be revoked.

I've been too skint to have a brexit stock pile. I'm still too skint, but now needs must because obvs the time is neigh.

Help please - what particular essentials should I get? Or is it just generally, everything imported?

P.s. this Brexit malarkey is awful for my anxiety today

chocolateroses Can you give us an idea of who you need to feed and what your basic meals tend to be, then we can take it from there?

Married with 3 kids - ages 1, 4 and 6. My only staples are tea and wine one of my kids has special needs and as a result a very restricted diet of cheese sandwiches and yoghurts.... neither of which I can stockpile long term. Other kids eat normally for their ages xxx

(He's doesn't HAVE to eat those foods, he just refuses to eat other stuff!)

@chocolateroses , I'm a general prepper and have been on here lots suggesting a three day approach. Just imagine you are snowed in for three days and what you would actually eat. He shelf stable versions of that. If freezer space is limited, just get e.g. extra chicken breasts or burgers (or whatever your family eats). Supplement that meal with veg from a tin or a sauce in a jar with cheap white rice. I have stopped posting this suggestion now ibecause it is harder to do it slowly and incrementally the nearer we get to Brexit Day.
The good news about a delay is that it gives you more time to slowly build up.
If you can get into porridge that's a good cheap breakfast which you can make with water. Stir it on the hob as you cook it and it is dead creamy. Add a dollop of jam or even a spoon if tinned fruit (or whatever version of Nutella you can afford) and it's yum.
Why 3 days? It gives you a chance to keep fed while you suss things out locally. Do only what you can afford and store. No one can get everything for every scenario for every conceivable period of time. Just a bit of a buffer is better than nothing.
Make sure you have a buffer of things like toothpaste and sanpro. And little treats. And tea/coffee. Have it black or with UHT milk you can store.
Look at what you and yours actually eat. Aldi/Lidl are your friend. Or the tinned veg/fruit aisle in your preferred supermarket. Slow and careful adding to your shop to build a buffer of 3 days. More if you want/can but not less.
Jack Monroe has suggestions on her blog. I don't like her personally but a good resource of info is a good resource of info.

Thank you @bellinisurge

I'm off to work now but I will be back later to read up any other replies

@chocolateroses , you can look at learning how to make your own yogurt. Don't need to buy a fancy yogurt maker- although you can.

Chocolate, bread cheese and yoghurt freeze well, so at least you can have a bit of a buffer for your DS

@oopslateagain, microwave rice can be cooked on the job too. A tablespoon or so of water and it comes out fine. We have gas camping stoves we use in power cuts.

Hob not job

@chocolateroses - I know you might have gone to work by now but, for later, dairy supplies are unlikely to have more than a short hiccup (if anything- we are pretty self sufficient in the UK in dairy) - the shops themselves might be a bit unpleasant which is why a buffer keeps you out of them. The prices might go up.
If you have a slow cooker, you can make yogurt in it using a small pot of active yogurt as your starter. YouTube has loads of recipes.

Chicken dippers are my guilty pleasure!

Has anyone done a meal plan for the week or two things are likely to be chaos? I confess I've just been buying extra bits and bobs without any real strategic thinking.