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

[StealthPolarBear]

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.

As most of the food our house eats comes from the EU, we’ll have enough of a stockpile of the food we eat every week to last a month by which time hopefully some progress will have been made on unblocking the supply chain.

If there isn’t a problem, although the supermarkets are saying there will be, we’ll eat the stockpile and our shopping bills will be low this autumn.

People can do as they see fit, everyone does what they think best.

I’m still laughing.

I'm aiming for a week, two at the most. We were snowed in for about a week I think in 2009

Who's stockpiling weapons? You'd have a job, they are quite tightly controlled for the most part.
I keep a well-supplied larder regardless of the political situation because I live in a place which is frequently cut off. I have my usual sacks of flour, lentils, rice etc and I have enough sheep to feed us for a while if it comes to that, plus a couple of boats for fishing. But where I live, this is simply sensible. Plus I have a large family and economies of scale are important to me!

No weapons although I am going to buy some cocktail sticks

Preparation will become hoarding when what they’ve done finally becomes apparent to them in November. Then you’ll be expected to share.

The message is slowly sinking in. No bread flour, tinned pears, tinned carrots, frozen broccoli or value toothpaste, shampoo or dog mixer left in Morrisons today.

Obviously not stockpiling weapons.

Not sure why those items werent in morrisons.

Because morrisons is definitely stock oling everything that can be.

What you have there is a store problem.

I worked at head office of a large supermarket until last week. They have all been quietly stock piling for ages.

I'm extremely anti Brexshit. No stock piling though. I just don't have the storage space or facilities to keep that much really.

The majority of it would be fresh fruit and vegetables anyway, which don't have a long shelf life.

Sometimes I think a dose of food rationing is the only thing that will make me lose weight 😂😂

MythicalBiologicalFennel

“Worst case scenario would be rationing.
Been there, done that. Not a big deal really.”

Oh do fuck off. My mother is 81, terrified of no deal because she remembers rationing very well, along with the vitamin deficiencies, ill health and hunger it inflicted on people not in the fortunate position of being able to supplement their rations with home grown or black market foods. Not to mention the robbery, assaults and casual prostitution for a few tins of ham and peaches.
Listen to yourself. We’re not at war. You did this. Why should my 16 year old son have to suffer the same because jingoistic dickheads like you don’t understand how the world really works?

I’m still not worried in the slightest.

Stockpiling fresh foods, fruit, veg? The things we all need for good health?

Don’t think so. My father was in supermarket logistics for 30 years and you are delusional.

@TheElementsSong - bingotastic thread!

Just in case I wasn't clear, I'm not stockpiling weapons! Someone on the last page said that other people were!

I didn’t vote for it and wish it would all go away @Ohflippineck but the most your 16 year old son will suffer is fewer foods to choose from. Nobody’s going to starve - unlike 16 year olds in many parts of the world. It’s not worthy of hysteria.

Oh right. Well don't come round here expecting cocktail sticks from me

I think it’s pretty clear there is going to be problems with fresh foods isn’t it? A supply of tinned fruit and veg, fill up the freezer is surely only common sense. Why wouldn’t you?

I sort of get it but from most of the info I have seen the shortages will be fresh produce which you can't really stockpile?!!

The majority of it would be fresh fruit and vegetables anyway, which don't have a long shelf life.
I would imagine that, unless they are very hard of thinking, people are stockpiling alternatives to the fresh stuff precisely because we may not be able to get fresh stuff so the demand for tinned and frozen will rise. I'd imagine they are not stockpiling fresh carrots but tinned fruit and long life milk so they still have milk and fruit

BlackBerry season is here - they freeze well.

No *alsohuman”, he won’t starve but he will probably have to eat crap for several months, while he’s growing. Yes, people are starving in many places. Most of them in drought/famine ridden or war torn countries with no autonomy or control of any kind whatsoever over their own lives. . “We” did this to ourselves. Doesn’t that really piss you off?

I’m at the posters on this and other threads blithely asserting that rationing is no big deal, or we all need to lose weight anyway.

WW2 was a catastrophe not of our making. This is entirely voluntary, and completely preventable. Why on earth would anybody voluntarily make life so miserable for themselves and their fellow citizens, for such little return?

How fucking partisan and deluded do you have to be to shrug off risks of these proportions?

My mind has been well and truly blown. I had no idea so many seemingly ordinary normal folk would be so willingly led up the garden path that they would sacrifice an entire nation’s wellbeing for a barrel-load of sentimental guff.

@Ohflippineck, yes it annoys me but I can’t change it. He won’t have to eat crap, there will be less choice and we’ll have to get used to a basic diet. Nobody will starve.

Do people really expect we’re going to be on WWII style rations? There are plenty of countries who aren’t in the EU, and somehow they aren’t being forced to survive on a pound of butter a week
@helpmeiamatoad

We will be in the unique situation though of being unable to trade with the EU until something gets sorted. And these things aren’t quick. We literally don’t have the systems in place. Around 40% of our food comes from the EU.

I’ve not stockpiled. But will buy some extra bits and pieces of canned and frozen fruit and veg so I can make sure my daughter still eats healthily