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.

Again, love these people who don't have any idea about families on tight budgets going for the cheapest which, due to economies of scale, is not always the "British -est".

You don’t get much cheaper than Aldi @bellinisurge.

There is Not Enough of any of the above list grown here to substitute for foreign produce. It is ludicrous to say there is. Farmers are desperate for labour. Prices of British produce will be sky high. It’s called supply and demand! Get googling economic theory if you are confused. Smug buy British really won’t help most consumers.

Thanks for your helpful consumer advice. Assuming you know little about living on the tightest of tight budgets. As you clearly know little about just in time deliveries and warnings from the British Retail Consortium that no, this isn't going to be fiiiiiiine.

What about Tesco and Sainsbury’s and everyone else? Not a chance! How many shop in Waitrose. Let’s all live on meat then and fight over the veg? Or ration it?

@WhatWhyWhen
We have an oversupply of potatoes at the current level of demand. But if people arent able to get rice, bread and pasta the demand would go up and there might not be enough potatoes to go around.

We have milk but not the factories etc. Required to make cheese. Will these be built before 1st November?

But Bubbles this is a thread about stockpiling, and people are putting up tins and frozen. Let's take New Zealand lamb - a very large import into the UK. It comes in frozen, not fresh. It isn't a fresh product. We are trying to explain that there are many, many foods, which don't need stockpiling because they will not be affected by being delayed in port.

Economic theory, yes. Let's discuss. If we don't have supply from X you get it from Y. Supply is sourced to meet demand. Capitalism wins out every time.

We get NZ lamb via our membership of the EU trade deal with NZ. NZ now has to decide how much it will sell to us vs how much it will sell to the EU. As we have all this lovely Welsh Lamb that no Dealers are wetting themselves about, we won't need NZ lamb. So they might not sell us as much anymore. But local farmers might go out of business if they only have uk market to sell their stuff.
This capitalism thing is ever so tricky.

Bean wheat and processing here for bread is fine, and again we export a shit tonne of bakery crops so they are available, potatoes aren’t technically a “fresh” product, there are storage units out there with potatoes 2 years old in them at the right conditions. Now the EU wholesale banning storage chemicals however is going to wipe out a lot (think over 20%) or potatoes production capabilities. Be a little more worried about that than post BREXIT. We have enough and prices will decrease on current showing as we have having zero/low tariff imports currently offered by the UK.

Cheese no they can’t go up overnight but old factories that are currently out of use could be commissioned quickly if we were genuinely going to starve.

Which we won’t...

Bubblesbuddy - We waste so much food in this country. We throw away, I think its about, £13 million worth of food each year, last time I googled, and 720 million eggs each year.

If it's going to be as bad as some people on here are making out perhaps it might make us be less wasteful.

People did it for Y2K also. Then spent months trying to eat through loads of canned foods that weren't their favorite foods

I remember.

No stockpiling here.

The meat might be British but if the vets needed to process the meat are EU nationals that leave, that’s another problem.

It's weird how it's as much about being in the No Deal Brexit Cult as far as some posters are concerned.
Fuck 'em.

Idont now that is an actual issue, as is EU labour. Quickly sorted of the gov pull their finger out on agricultural and seasonal workers.

Bellini from reading my posts you’ve probably just included me in that. In reality I’m anti-no deal BREXIT think it’s a fucking stupid idea. Just because I’m stating the reality of not being a stockpiler doesn’t mean people who do are pro BREXIT

I think the Preppers on MN are among the least wasteful people in the UK. Preppers tend to be conscious of food sources, food uses and cooking, environmental impact, minimising waste, and preservation techniques.

No Deal Brexit Cult

What a load of bull. I am the daughter of an EU national, half of my friends are EU nationals, none are Brexiteers, none are leaving, all have gained citizenship, none are prepping.

If you want to worry about something, worry about the Trump/China trade war leading to a deep and lengthy global recession.

Which is why dicking about with our economy via No Deal is a stupid thing to do.

What a load of bull. I am the daughter of an EU national, half of my friends are EU nationals, none are Brexiteers, none are leaving, all have gained citizenship, none are prepping

Yes indeed, what a load of bull!!!

Are you friends with all 3.2 million of them? only about 1/3rd have registered to stay here,

Former eu folk who are have now got UK citizenship are no longer eu nationals.. facts again.

Jasjas73, what? I am British now but also still an EU citizen

Lots of us Eurotrash folk are both

I have not prepped for Brexit, but I have always had an emergency food cupboard, so nothing new here

(Not rooms full of cans though )

I reignited my stockpile today after having let it dwindle a bit and using a few bits up over the summer. I have a more realistic idea of what we will need now, eg I hadn't considered the lack of fresh produce so I have cleared freezer drawers to allow for bags of frozen veg etc.

It's not because I want to stockpile per se, it's because I don't want to have to go shopping for basics among panic buyers and pay inflated prices for things. No difference to my Christmas stash box which I add to all year round. I'd like to have about a weeks worth of meals for if the worst inevitable happens

What exactly are people stockpiling though? I find this very confusing. Medicines I can understand (although they are more difficult to stockpile due to prescriptions/expiration dates etc), but what else are you worried about not being able to get?

I have not stock pilled or panic brought.

@BowiesJumper, for a lot of posters it includes specific foods for DC with ASD & sensory issues, debilitating food intolerances etc.

So OH for example has stashed a lot of very specific things that his DS can eat, in case it becomes unavailable or unaffordable.

Stock piling is buying extra of what you like in accordance with your storage space and budget.
Panic buying is being a stupid idiot and leaving it to the last minute where your choices are expensive and limited. And whining about at. Like the people on here recently whining about the lack of ice lollies in the supermarket during the heatwave.