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.

A shortage of ds's life saving medication makes me feel things I'm frightened of towards people who voted for this. Truly I didn't think I was capable of hate. Raw hate. But I am. My ds might die because some people voted for a premise that didn't even have a manifesto.

How privileged and uneducated can people be? They'll likely be cushioned by their child not relying on life saving medication or having means to buy food.

Honestly I didn't know I could feel as frightened as this.

@Glurf I'm really sorry you have this worry. If people address avoidable problems now, it means that people with unavoidable problems can be prioritised.
Some twat getting in a scrap over a patchy shelves in supermarkets because they believed too hard in No Deal is an avoidable problem.
Everyone else should avoid being that twat.

Thanks bellini. It's so hard when he cant do a day without the meds. We've had shortages before and it's terrifying.

I don't like feeling like this and I hold it in me but I'm so sad that the country I love and believe in, I've contributed to through tax and service to the NHS and has looked after me and ds in time of desperate need is here. I hate people who voted for this and if I'm honest it has intensified not subsided.

@Glurf, I'm thinking that once Government starts churning out its 'Get Ready for Brexit' messages it'll be grounds for patients (or their parents) to tackle their GPs about planning for and obtaining medication buffers.

How are people managing to stockpile medicine? I bought some privately. It's legal. It means I'm now able to stay out of the way of NHS staff in October and November who need to be prioritising people like @Glurf and her DC.

All these months people have been stockpiling.. I presumed we were talking 3 months worth
I would have thought if you have a reasonable income that having enough in your cupboards /fridge for a couple of weeks is fairly standard. It's not stock piling it's just good household mgt surely

Depends who I'm feeding. Just me (months), or all the relatives who've prepared absolutely nothing (weeks).

I always have pretty well stocked cupboards, having grown up in neglectful circumstances and gone without a lot, and then spent a while living on limited food when i first left home as i struggled financially at 16. My DC are working young adults now, and they grew up used to well stocked cupboards, and I will make sure that they continue to be well fed as much as i can.

I'm just expanding on my store cupboard. I have baking supplies in anyway, now I've bought extra including a pack of dried egg powder, dried milk and frozen butter so if there are shortages I can still bake. I also bought a bread maker to make bread and got a stock of bread flour and yeast in, I wanted one anyway tbh.

I am a decent cook, so I am building a stock of tins, packets, dried and frozen food that I can make nice meals out of. I've got extra bags of the herbs and spices that I use, dried mushrooms, a couple of big bottles of soy sauce, spares of the sauces, oils and vinegars that we use. Toiletries, laundry and cleaning products I always have a few spares. None of it will be wasted, and I think it's sensible to have a spare of things if you can anyway. And yes, I put a bag or two of shopping in trolley at the food bank collection point every week.

AutumnCrow, unless the relatives are elderly, disabled or poor, I will not be sharing. Every one has had ample warning and many experts in the food supply chain have warned about disruptions, in the case of a no deal. For the sake of my children, I really hope this Brexit bollocks isn’t a disaster, but I’ve been preparing for any delays in availability of foods, toiletries, etc.

Btw. How did you get meds privately? It’s my biggest concern, but I didn’t know you could buy privately.

Evilmorty

My mates are still laughing at me but who will be laughing when I’m selling them toilet roll at a tenner a sheet 😂”

Very much doubt it Evilmorty* . First rule of Brexiteers, never admit you were wrong. they’d rather wipe their arses on the tenners.

I didn't stock pile and have changed my mind on what I need.
Wine and bread flower still there but next 2are catfood and toilet roll.
Can't be bothered to do more than a weekly stock up as we eat lots of fresh veg normally and there may be an issue with that other than seasonal stuff.

Why cant we buy UK produce? Wont there be more than plenty available if we dont export as much. Wont there also be fewer lorries at the ports if we are importing and exporting less. Am I bejng dim or just cant understand what all the fuss us.

Jesus, @HappyHammy . What are we producing that is fresh at that time of year? Root vegetables.
How are lorries going to comply with Just In Time food deliveries to supermarkets and shops if it isn't properly planned and organised and is, instead , sorted on the back of a fag packet.

Why cant we buy UK produce? Wont there be more than plenty available if we dont export as much.

The UK is a net importer of food so it doesn't produce enough to feed its own population. Even if we were able to adjust the supply chains abruptly to reroute all the produce destined for the EU to UK supermarkets (highly unlikely as the preparation has not been done supermarkets are operating pretty much as blindly as the rest of us), we would still not have enough food. And what would be available is seasonal UK produce for November - ie not a lot.

Always better to be prepared than unprepared so I have some extra supplies of things I know I can't do without and some tinned/frozen veg and fruit as I suspect those would be the things that there would be shortages of or the biggest price increases.

@HappyHammy, what Dippy said.
But also the UK doesnt prodce many of the foods we rely on and will never be able to. Things such as bananas, melons, grapes. Being able to have some vegetables out of season (tomatoes anyone?) etc....

If we were only eating what the uk can produce, we woud have a very bland diet! carotts, parsnips, and a few sprouts in winter and that would be it. No green beans, peas, tomatoes for example. We would probably still have onions and apples (if they are kept well) but no other fruits. We would probably be able to get enough meat and dairy (but no other cheese other than cheddar for example). Thats assuming the UK production could provide for the whole of the population needs of course.

Fwiw if you look at a christmas dinner, you have a good idea of would be available due to the weather etc.. in the uk. (Its a tradtional dish based on what was availabe then, aka local produce in season)
We would have carrots and sprouts, onions. Some meat. Flour to make a pudding with dried fruits.

I dont know a lot of people who will be happy to live on sprouts and cabbage until the summer (where you can finally get some crops of fresh fruits and veg again)

@HappyHammy - our house eat lots of pasta with tinned tomatoes - they together with lots of our other basic foods aren’t produced in the UK.

What does your normal shopping list look like - where do those foods come from?

I live in a country that imports almost all its food ( close to 100%). I think what you’ll see is annoying inconsistency rather than actual overall shortages as some suppliers will get things sorted for certain things while others won’t so you might be able to get tomatoes at Tesco but not Sainsbury’s or there’s only plum tomatoes and no chopped tomatoes because they limit stock lines to save paperwork or to avoid tricky items etc. Or Coke will just disappear for ages. Or there will be nothing from Italy but whatever you want from Greece. It is annoying ( won’t lie) but not life limiting so I guess in uk I would be a prepper-lite. I think it’s human nature. We get typhoons which only last a day and the shops are stripped bare the day before.

i'm actually doing the opposite & running down my freezer & cupboards for Christmas

I'm not laughing at stockpilers, but I think a lot of it is unnecessary. I will make sure I have couple of months' extra medication just in case, but I'm not really bothered if there's less choice on the shelves - fewer food miles is better for the environment anyway. We won't actually starve!

Tin Tom's with olives tuna and parmesan on pasta. Oh dear. Better rethink or grow my own tomatoes and get a pasta machine. But I can live without that and have baked potato with Heinz beans and cheddar cheese for a couple of weeks. The tuna comes from The Indian Ocean and I can whizz up some fresh tomato sauce for another tatty. Veg I only really like root veg and peas.

www.lovebritishfood.co.uk/british-food-and-drink/fruit-and-vegetables

I grow a lot of my own @HappyHammy . Look at that list ffs.

Do you know anything about food distribution and sales?

@S1naidSucks, I used an online pharmacy (called the White Pharmacy, although there are plenty of others). I was completely upfront about wanting a three month brexit buffer of my medication. I paid £37.95 and it was posted the next day. Expiry date Oct 2020.

As for sharing food and stuff, I'm very very soft in RL.

@HappyHammy - oddly the majority of our cheddar cheese is imported from ROI.