What isn’t produced in Britain that we need to stockpile?

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So, worst case scenario and we crash out with no deal as everyone seems keen to catastrophise, what would be useful to stock up on that isn’t produced here and would have to be imported. Any ideas?

I am quite pleased with our stockpile so far.

I purchased

Dry pet food
Fruit juice
Pasta
Spice
Herbs
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned fruit
Plasters
Antiseptic cream

SameAndSameAgain

Have you missed the news? The government will be sending out information next month advising exactly what businesses and homes should stockpile.

@SameAndSameAgain - whatever works for you. Seriously, if you find it stressful then don't bother. If you think it's not necessary then don't bother.
Hope it's all fine. Prepped if it isn't.

Does that mean we should start stockpiling now to get ahead of the stockpilers?

Just get extras in as you go.

I'm only a small time prepper but I have built up a few of DS's inhalers. Only 4 in the cupboard but if he has an attack they get used up quickly.

Already use dried lentils, tinned chickpeas, tinned toms etc but will add some extra.

Pet food!! Will definately grab a few extra boxes of the dried food & put them at the back of the cupboard just in case.

I'm only really assuming a supply disruption. I'm in Cornwall & during the Beast from the East we had trouble with lorries getting through.

It wasn't awful & thankfully I'd just done a big shop so had extra bread in the freezer & crackers, milk etc but only had 1 spare inhaler & couldn't drive to a pharmacy to get 1 so have small stock just in case.

I've wondered if a few extra packs of batteries would be good for torches etc we have candles but no good for the kids bedrooms.

Does that mean we should start stockpiling now to get ahead of the stockpilers?

Was doing this already, a couple of days ago.

There will probably be a rush when the things are sent out (maybe a small one now too?), a lull in the autumn, then people get worried again in the new year as Brexit approaches.

Get a head torch. Get an old four litre bottle of milk. Fill with water. Put the head torch around the "waist" of the milk bottle and turn the head torch so it faces in. Light diffuses through the bottle and the water to make a half decent lantern.
Kids love head torches anyway.

Old empty four litre bottle of milk, I meant

And don't forget your pets!

Is it a milk bottle rather than a clear one to minimise glare?

So not a real crisis then if people are worrying about how the fussy eaters are going to manage.

For all those saying "it's not going to happen", I live somewhere with unreliable food chains. When hurricane Irma hit last year, we felt the impact about 7 days in when stuff that would normally have been shipped to replace the stuff on the shelves didn't make it. It took literally months to get back to normal - we had about two weeks without bulky stuff like UHT milk and the biggest bags of rice, but non-essential stuff just disappeared from the shelves until everything had got more or less sorted.

I'm assuming that a no deal crash out Brexit will be similar to that - nothing moves for 7-10 days then stuff will start to catch up, but there will be a long tail of shortages behind it

Actually I’d like to thank posters for bringing this up. I hadn’t realised that brexit might affect so many things.

I have several prescriptions, including one which I have to source from a different pharmacy because it’s difficult to get hold of. The brand implies that it comes from Sweden, although I don’t know if that’s right.

I already stockpile by using less of the item than actually prescribed for, so have a few months “in hand”. But thanks to this thread I will be even more careful.

@OlennasWimple How long?

That was a one-off event as well, and the infrastructure remained operational in the rest of the country...

MrsFezziwig I guess you haven't met people with autistic children who would actually starve themselves rather than eat foods they can't stand. I know an adult like this too whom I'm a bit worried for - will only eat a few different meals, mostly specific flavours of specific brands of processed food.

What with issues like this, serious allergies and other medical problems, there are quite a lot of people around now who simply wouldn't have managed and survived in the past , or in countries with less reliable provision.

I'm on v expensive and restricted fentalyn patches. My gp has already told me I can't stockpile as the computer says no. If the supply runs out and he reckons it will I will just have to use paracetamol. I already take the max dose of paracetamol I am allowed per day anyway, on top of my patches, Just to reduce my pain levels. Thanks leavers.

It's the government that asked people to vote and the government that have carried out Brexit.

That's shit, joan :(
I so wish they would sort out some reasonable agreement so people in circumstances like this wouldn't have it looming over them.

In a warped way I imagine they are thrilled - I'll/ disabled penalised yet again and dr can polish by out I have survived on paracetamol so don't need patches that cost £500 ish (even though it was a nhs nistake that means I need them anyway). I can't imagine surviving on paracetamol for long as even my pain manag consultant admitted he wouldn't be able to cope. I do realise that brexit was voted for but I don't see why people who didn't vote for it should suffer (and by suffer I seriously mean considering suicide as I will not be able to cope without them & and I will have to go cold turkey not just be weaned off them) but by all means enjoy having your sovereignty back and all the corruptness that it entails.

If the shit hits the fan, I hope we can start producing some of this stuff ourselves. More British business = more jobs??

@fieryginger Cornwall is losing a lot of subsidies so maybe the expansion of a nascent local industry will be just the ticket

There is also Scottish-grown tea
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/09/tea-growing-farming-dorchester-scotland