Using up Brexit stockpile

[MyNameIsArthur]

Have you all started depleting your Brexit stockpile yet or are you holding on to it still?

Brexit isn’t ‘done’ yet.
We are only two weeks in and government planning is still woefully inadequate. I’m also hanging on to my stash in case of illness, isolation and to avoid arseholes I’ve encountered in shops. We could have awful weather too.

Just to let you know, it’s not that bad in NI, i live here. Some random areas are empty some of the time but one item you can’t find in asda (cucumbers!) you’ll find at the local green grocers. No major panicking about it either. We’ve accepted we’re the poor relation and last thoughg of the UK government and real fatigue and despondency has set in.

We’ve accepted we’re the poor relation and last thoughg of the UK government and real fatigue and despondency has set in.

That is so sad @Wantthistobedone. I feel really angry about the way NI has been treated.

I had great plans to visit NI before the pandemic. I hope I can still come when all this crap is over.

Hanging on here too.

I did a stocktake and re organised the pantry and freezer today.

I will be maintaining my stock until April at least.
All being well by then I may reduce the quantity but I love having a proper pantry/larder and intend to keep it going forever. I love not having to pop to the shops for bread and spending £30. I love having a wide range of food constantly available. I love the fact my previously chaotic cupboard is now orderly and useful.

I don’t think we are out of the woods re Brexit.
I am snowed in today and I keep hearing about the Polar Vortex.
Covid, potentially having to isolate and a stricter lockdown.

Don't forget there are two more Brexit deadlines to come. Full customs and SPS controls apply on the EU side but the U.K. does not currently control imports at all. There are two more deadlines, at the start of April and July, at which point the U.K. will introduce import controls and this could trigger some renewed disruption.

I don't personally know whether a stockpile is justified, but anyone who has one by definition can afford it and has space for it, so IMO it would be nuts to get rid of it just because the first week and a half of Brexit haven't created shortages. Most logistics industry people think this is just the start, not the end, of disruption,

I absolutely love and embrace the idea that we need full cupboards just because "Britain today".

@ListeningQuietly

I can't read that full article. Which products in particular are likely to be affected? We get through a fair bit of ketchup!

Jericho
20% of all the world's tomatoes are grown using slave labour in China.
Most "own brand" ketchup is made from them.

Ditto much of the world's cheap cotton.

If the Western world grows a pair after next Thursday, sanctions may affect supplies

Salad stuff may be alright, due to Thanet Earth, in Kent.

Thanet Earth

Absolutely amazing to drive past , it’s massive.

Thanet Earth is indeed impressive
but its a drop in the ocean compared with what is needed for Ketchup and passata and tins and puree

I don't know if this is psychological or what drives hoarding but I feel so let down and forgotten about in lockdown I wonder if it's driving me to want this backup.

snuggy I'm sure it's a natural response, resources like food are essential for survival and our ancestors wouldn't have survived the winter without a stock of food built up. Fortunately nowadays were unlikely to literally starve without a full pantry, but I can absolutely see why this behaviour surfaces during times of stress.

Snuggy
The idea of NOT having a larder or store is a modern urban one.
Setting aside food in the good times to get you through the bad times is as old as Joseph and the Dream coat.

The fact that it took Brexit and COVID to shock the UK back into holding reserves is the way it is.

Many people will never go back to keeping their cupboards empty
which takes the pressure off
for those who live without cupboards

I'm still rotating stock in mine. It'll be used as a buffer for price rises (i.e. if I don't have to buy the stuff I have in stock, I'll have more money to cover price increases) and / or stock shortages.

We have a fair amount in stock.

I am considering cracking the Brexit bog roll open though. I've had it for 16 months! 😂

We have Brexit bog roll stashed everywhere.

It just makes me laugh how we get told not to stockpile when any of us could be asked to quarantine at any minute and you can't get a supermarket delivery slot for love nor money here.

There’s been reports on the news over the last couple of days about problems with lorry consignments. This has been affecting my husbands business (not foodstuff) big time. It stock he needs is held up, then I’m sure foodstuffs may be affected also.

From one of the Greg Wallace’s food programmes, Weetabix will be fine because all the wheat is grown within 50miles of the factory.(not sure what made me think of that random fact).

Was there an Inside the Factory at Weetabix? I've missed that one!

My parents live a couple of miles from the factory and if they conditions are right you can smell it!

Also, everyone had had at least one relative who worked / works there!

It's been brilliant to have, I'm using it atm.

It certainly came into its own back in March. We are using it a bit, but keeping more stocks generally, March was a big wake-up to dh who had dismissed my stockpiling as nonsense about how only little change is needed to screw up the food supply system.

I think we're going to keep stocks up.

Weetabix will be fine for wheat but are the other components all UK made? Having had a Google of salt, whilst there is a British Salt, is that used in a Weetabix? And chocolate and bananas are definitely not grown within 50 miles of the factory however, the school run is a good one when they have chocolate Weetabix on the production line!

(Fluffy can i borrow your relative as I don't have one that's ever worked there 🤔)

You can have JC if you like?! I'm amazed you have nobody who's worked there. I have at least 3, maybe more!

I'll set my mum a banana growing challenge!

No, at least 4. Missed my aunt!

🤣🤣🤣 I don't have any wider family local so I think that's why!