Do any of the people who laughed and rolled their eyes at those of us stockpiling six months ago care to comment?

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I seem to remember some rather scathing comments. I wonder how many are quietly buying a few extra bits each week and smugly congratulating themselves on being prepared. Forgetting the scorn and contempt.

If you listen to the retail industry insiders, the suggestion is that supermarkets ability to store large amounts iscompromised because of the time of year - plus of course if fresh supplies fail demand for imperishables increases.
But if it’s not an issue, great. We will use it up well within use by dates. Why not?

That’s brilliant, AutumnCrow. Thank you for that. I’m currently sitting in a waiting room while my youngest is having an MRI scan. I’m praying they tell me that the fit she had last summer was a one off and she doesn’t need medication, because I don’t know if it’s going to be readily available after October. This is the fear that Brexit is inflicting on people like us.

Medication is different. I thought the stockpiling was mainly about dried milk and tuna.

I hope its unecessary. Ive gone for a buffer of a few bits to cover if it snows over winter or the ports experience a few delays before getting the hang of new systems. The shelves are empty of fresh stiff within hours of it snoeing and i thought there may be a day or two like that.
I like the sentiment of eating more seasonally and locally but i have an allotment and it has made me hugely appreciate the role of imported foods during winter/early spring.

I’m not laughing as that’s pathetic, but I wouldn't stockpile, and to PP who said “those who work in the food industry aren’t laughing, well...”

...we are, but bitterly, because when we are talking round the houses about there being jack shit storage facilities available because of all the importers filling them up. About dumping excess agricultural products because our inability to export enough when the borders close and the home market isn’t buying enough, because they are worrying their French cheeses/NZ lamb/ Pasta and Rice (can’t be grown here), almond and oat milk substitutes will be blocked or costs go up.

Don’t know about medicines, but don’t stockpile food, just buy UK product and in season and you’d be doing the country and the farmers a favour. Oh and the prices will plummet on those.

We don't "stockpile" but we've always had full cupboards that mean we "could" survive a few weeks if suddenly we couldn't go shopping. We've always bought more than we need when there are BOGOF or other offers on as that's common sense money saving. We've got a mini mountain of loo rolls at the moment because the supermarket had a good deal on our usual brand. Food in packets/tins lasts for a long time, so it can be bought when on offer, and left at the back of our cupboards happily for many months. We were grateful when our town was badly hit by Storm Desmond and we had no power for a few days meaning the shops were all closed. We ate the defrosted stuff out of the freezer first and then started on the tins/packets around day 3. No stress at all, whilst others were panicking and driving around like mad idiots trying to find a shop that was open.

I've got a stash:
10kg rice
Big bags of pasta
Tins, tins, tins
I've also been taking the allotment that little bit more seriously.
If it all goes MadMax- I'll send DH out there each night to guard it from intruders. He can sit on a bucket, nervously cleaning his shot gun.

Enough with the shot gun jokes, please!

I hope you have something to cheer you up because pasta and rice with various sauces from your tins can get pretty dull.

For the love of Marmite will someone please tell me what I am meant to be gathering? Why has unlimited got 10kg of rice?

Because there is actually a really nice offer at Tesco for a 10kg bag. I’ve seen them at Lid too before.

It’s nit the first time I’ve bought one and that had nothing to do with Brexit. A lot to do with saving money!

What do you like to eat and drink and use for hygiene products? Get three days worth of dawn till dusk shelf stable/freezable versions of that. Treats/pet food included. Imagine you are snowed in if that helps de-Brexit your thinking.
Keeps you out of the shops if things get bumpy in a way you don't like until you suss out how things are locally.
If you can afford it get more. There's a good suggestion of imagine being in a self catering place for two weeks.

No one can create a mini Tesco in their house. You are running out of opportunities to do it slowly and proportionately.
And don't tell people you have it. Because they will factor your hard earned stash into their plans.

Maybe she just likes rice.

If it’s any consolation I don’t have 10kg of rice.

just buy UK product and in season and you’d be doing the country and the farmers a favour.
Have you actually looked at where the food you buy in supermarket is coming from and where the food you buy is?

I’ve done that for a while for environmental reasons (I’m refusing to buy something that is coming from further away than the EU) and there is actually very little coming from the U.K. Or not if you want some sort of variety.

That reminds m, I need to get some Marmite.

But I can live without that and have baked potato with Heinz beans and cheddar cheese for a couple of weeks.

Potatoes - although we grow these if demand increases (due to lack of other carb options) there wont be enough potatoes to go around
Beans - haricot beans are not grown in this country
Cheddar cheese - Imported (see diagram)
Butter - Imported (see diagram)

Better get stockpiling some beans and freezing some cheddar, or enjoy your dry potato 👍

Myriade there is very little coming because the supermarkets choose cheaper imported stuff or because like you say “variety”.

It’s why we export a ridiculous amount of meat while importing the very same stuff from NZ. That isn’t representative of what’s available it’s representative of the idiocy of the system.

Yes there will be less variety but this thread is saying they’ll be no food/rationing and I responded in that vein. The way to food security long term is to support home grown and increase UK processing capabilities by doing so.

Take cheese for example, it isn’t that we CANT sustain ourselves it’s that processing of milk isn’t based here because it’s cheaper abroad. The base product is available here. We end up sending our stuff away then importing it back in again in it’s processed format. Some things can cross the Irish border up to 9 times before eventual product. It’s ridiculous because we want “variety” and newness, faster cheaper.

I still think you’re as ridiculous as I did 6 months ago.

There, that’s my comment.

Bean wrong, we have enough potatoes, we actually export to balance oversupply. Only due to disease/odd seasonal weather would there be an issue. If we can’t export they will go to landfill as people want pasta and rice.

Cheddar we have enough milk to make, we do need more processing but actually it’s only imported as, again, it’s cheaper and we have a lot of EU owned co-ops. Butter ditto.

Beans, ok true. So would need to be replaced.

And don't tell people you have it. Because they will factor your hard earned stash into their plans

oh fgs

sorry I am torn between admiring your organisation and cringing at the paranoia.

sorry I am torn between admiring your organisation and cringing at the paranoia.

And laughing

@Ligresa , I don't have the money to spare or the kind of personality to blab to people who I know would turn up on my door bleating. This is a strong Leave area. Fresh Tommy Robinson stickers went up recently on our road.
Maybe you live in a different sort of world.

*Have you actually looked at where the food you buy in supermarket is coming from and where the food you buy is?

I’ve done that for a while for environmental reasons (I’m refusing to buy something that is coming from further away than the EU) and there is actually very little coming from the U.K. Or not if you want some sort of variety*

Well, yes, I did the same a while ago. And actually, contrary to your experience, found that the majority of my produce WAS British. It could be where and what I buy, but actually I was quite impressed by how much was home produced.

No stock piling here

Myriade-- we produce a lot more fruit and veg than carrots and parsnips.

Potatoes, cauliflower, brocolli, tenderstem brocolli, purple sprouting brocolli, corn on the cob, swede, asparagus, curly kale, various types of cabbage, Brussel sprouts, peas, runner beans, green beans, onions, spring onions, apples, pears, apricots, rhubarb, plums, blackberries, etc etc. I could go on...... Some of the above is imported as well, and is seasonal but I always buy British when I can.

Who wants to buy tasteless strawberries and cherries from Spain when they're out of season in this country, just because we can.

This is what I found:

From Aldi: 100% of our fresh everyday meat and poultry in the UK is from British, Red Tractor approved farms. More than 40% of the fresh fruit and vegetables we sell in the UK are also British

From Waitrose: 100% meat (beef and pork), poultry, milk and eggs are British