Stockpiling in case of a Hard Brexit ....

[UnrelentingFruitScoffer]

Has anyone else started laying in supplies ? Reallly worries there will be shortages after Brexit in 29 March with disruptions st the borders and empty shelves in the supermarkets.

I’m thinking of laying in a couple of months worth of tinned stuff and dried goods. Also loo roll and cleaning stuff. But I’m worried that may not be enough .....

I have thought about doing it and I will definitely get extra toilet roll just in case!) but I really really don't think the powers that be will allow something catastrophic like a hard brexit to happen despite what they say. No way in the world would anyone "higher up" let the country really muck up unless that was the plan all along and it won't be as bad as the scaremongering suggests....well I hope anyway

DH is directly involved in this (think import export business) and he says we should fill our freezers with fruit and veg. Bread will be OK because the U.K. has got a grain surplus. But yes, stockpile.

Sorry.

Not panic mongering, although people will say that i am.

I think it’s sensible to have a reasonable supply of your basic things regardless of Brexit or not.

Really? Is there a list or template or something? I'm no good at thinking of this kind of thing .... I will just wildly panic buy smarties and digestives and other random crap!

Preppers thread.

Has anyone got a good list ? I have now read some of the Brexit threads and there is clearly a real risk of serious disruption as several people who work in the food industry are confirming.

Most of the lists I have seen are a bit lopsided.

Poster above linked to a whole section of threads

Thanks! Will have a look

We haven't got long have we!? Better also invest in a couple of tin openers!

Surely, it is exactly this sort of thing which will lead to shortages?!?!

We are about to start. And also have been trying a build a slight reserve of vital prescription meds by ordering new prescription slightly early last few times.

I don't think stocking up now on tinned or frozen goods will lead to any shortages - it's the just in time fresh stuff that's most likely to be hit, if I understand it all correctly.

79 days....

Hi I have been looking online and I'm concerned about power cuts my whole home is electric so would have no way of cooking does anyone have any suggestions on what I can use to cook on I live in a flat no garden

cookingonabootstrap.com/2018/11/15/stockpiling-for-brexit/

This list is pretty reasonable, although will obviously need adjusting for veggie/vegan/intolerances.

doctorbarbie - not causing problems now, as right not it's relatively easy for shops to restock from EU suppliers if demand increases. Post Brexit, getting food in to the country will be tough until new systems are in place. (And new systems might take longer for imported food to be processed, so supply issues while supermarket chains adjust to longer waiting times for replacement food).

Anyway, I'm going to clear some of the Christmas left over clutter (crackers and the like taking up too much cupboard space), then mid Jan start adding bits to my weekly shop.

I plan to add frozen fruit and veg, some long life milk, make sure I have my batch cooking done, have store cupboard meals for 2 weeks at least, and both car tanks filled a week before Brexit (the queues each time there's so much as a rumour of fuel shortages are crazy, so avoiding that if possible).

I'm aware as well that Brexit is a week before the school Easter holidays, so also going to make sure Easter eggs and additional food treats are bought before hand. (Things like buying an extra couple of my dcs favourite squash, they are happy with water, but nice to have I over holidays).

We were planning on going away over Easter this year, but think best cancel that plan, we don't need to travel, seems silly to take the risk.

We’ll be adding extra to our weekly shop and visiting Costco again for toilet roll, dog food and meat for the freezer top ups. Will get some frozen and tinned fruit plus frozen veg. We’ve got a chest freezer to fill and space in the garage to store some essentials that we will use anyway so if prices do go up we’ll be okay for a little while.

Redred, I had this problem in a flat in London near a dodgy substation so I invested in a camping stove and some decent non stick camping cookware. If you cook with the window and/or door wide open you shouldn’t gas yourself. It was enough to rustle up a cuppa or stew quite easily and I also bought a little toasting thing that sat on the top.

Unrelenting, I have done a full Brexit stockup plan and timetable on my Austerity Housekeeping blog site, which is pretty extreme but based on the German Government guidance for what to hoard (they almost all have cellars for this, of course, which makes life a lot easier!) Today I have have been reading food industry journals, as well as things like The Grocer, and the advice in there is to stock up on frozen fruit and vegetables, so that seems very sensible. There’s also likely to be problems with the supply of dairy, and I’ve found a firm called Convar that supplies things like tinned butter and cheese that you can order online, which are well worth having in stock. I’m planning to get a lamb from the butcher for one of my freezers, butchered in cuts I have specified. This works out half the price of buying it fresh when you need it and it’s something I do regularly anyway. Overall I feel pretty well prepared but I’ve spent a lot of money, rather resentfully to be honest, given this really didn’t need to happen.

Ordinarysnowflake - But the more you buy, the less there is for others'. If even half the people that can afford to stockpile do (some as a result of reading this thread, no doubt) that in itself will cause problems.

I hope you're also adding extra to the food banks as you're hoarding for yourselves.

The more I read of these Brexit threads, the more I think at least some of them are fake. Nor necessarily this one but the amount of fear mongering on here since 1st January is something else.

I'm worried about the future but

At the moment supplies are fine and we are being advised to be as self-reliant as possible, so stocking up now avoids sharp-elbowed rampaging after March.

Of course if Brexit doesn’t go ahead, this will be a massive bounty for food banks as people offload surplus tins and jars they can’t eat before Best Before dates.

You are aware that hauliers etc will have a further 9 months after March - yes NINE months, to be able to come in and out? And after that they'll have to apply for permits

There really is no need whatsoever for all this. I'll re visit this thread in March though to check if I'm right. Bet I will be

Surely you realise that's how life works Ordinarysnowflake, those that can do, and those that can't, miss out. On everything.

This is what blows my mind about Brexit. Lots of those that cant voted for this and put themselves in this terrible predicament.

You can't have a go at people looking after their family in what is a really uncertain time.

We left the UK 6 months ago but I didn't have anywhere to stockpile in our London home and would have felt pretty vulnerable.

We are now in Aus and food buying is so different, I'd forgotten. Everything here as to be bought in season unless you are silly rich. Grapes at the moment are $8 kg, yet strawberries are really cheap. This is how I imagine it will go for the UK too.

I think for those of us that lived in the countryside in the 1970s and 1980s, we’re more used to interruptions in food supply and seasonal eating. So the stash I’ve got isn’t too unreasonable compared to the kinds of supplies people had in when we grew up. My parents used to buy a side of pork and a lamb quite regularly, we had loads of allotment stuff in freezer bags, masses of jam made in the strawberry season, and so on. Potatoes came from a massive sack straight from the farm. When it was apple and pear season they were blanched or puréed and frozen. We bought bread flour from local mills when we needed it, as you couldn’t rely on the baker in dodgy weather. People always had plenty of tinned soup, baked beans and tinned rice pudding put by for emergencies. There was a lot of food stored (it helped houses still had pantries and/or outbuildings some of the time).

Why might energy supply be affected? I was talking to my mum today and I understand about food but not energy, so I'm obviously missing something

@PerverseConverse , as I understand it, quite a lot of our energy comes
from France? Adding a few items to your shopping now won't cause shortages.

Panic buying around the deadline dates will though.

Thank k you @importantkath. Mum got 3 tins of tuna, I got some Swiss hot chocolate, we aren't going mad, just starting to get some extra bits in. I'm always telling her she needs to have basics in for emergencies anyway as lives on a big hill that doesn't get gritted in winter, I don't drive so can't get to her easily, no shop nearby, and she's nearly 80 so really needs to have enough food, milk etc for a week at least. She doesn't listen 🙄 but she's starting to on brexit.

Someone has said it's a good idea to have a range of provisions anyway so I think I'll make sure I do from now on. More veg in the freezer, tinned fruit, lentils, stock cubes, tea (400+ Tetley tea bags in Asda for £5 atm), hot chocolate, don't drink coffee, toilet roll, toiletries etc. Will be stocking up when things are on offer. Need to get myself a Brexit Box!