...and then we had to self isolate.

[SupplyChainHusband]

Having 20 years experience in supply chain I'm thus very aware of what a disaster Dover will be in January (whether we get a deal or not) I've been building up a large stockpile for several months now. It also makes sense because my wife is 5 months pregnant and the last thing I want to do around Xmas is run around flapping about food and baby prep when she's that pregnant.

Self isolation hadn't occurred to me as being a threat but last weekend we hosted MIL and her friend Sarah. I had to work in an Amazon warehouse all weekend so saw very little of them but they thoroughly enjoyed a Sunday lunch in the pub whilst I toiled away.

Fast forward to last Thursday morning and Sarah texted at 7am announcing 1) she felt rough 2) she had overnight got an email announcing she's positive for Covid19. That got followed up within hours by MIL confirming she felt rough plus SIL and her fiance (who had been staying with MIL all week) saying the same. Then my wife's NHS covid app pinged saying she needed to self isolate immediately - but mine hasn't.

We are lucky work wise; having proved it by forwarding the NHS email to Amazon they'll pay me in full for the next two weeks to stay at home - if I go to the warehouse it's an automatic disciplinary - and my wife is a PA so will carry on working from home (she's done this for months already).

But we can't go out. We can't even walk our dog. Thank heavens for several months of food! Yesterday I made some muttar paneer (the recipe in Dishoom book is a lot of prep but incredible), some cauliflower cheese soup from frozen cauliflower and frozen cheese, tonight it'll be a chicken pasta bake (all from frozen or canned ingredients). I made some apple and berry compote to add to porridge made with some of the 15 litres of Oatly milk; we can easily sustain this because of the prepping we have done.

Damn it's boring though being stuck at home...

@BlackeyedSusan you could also use tomato puree if it's for making sauces as it is smaller than cans.

I injured myself and couldn't open a can of chopped tomatoes but did manage to open tomato puree and squeeze it with one hand so I made a pasta sauce with that and it turned out fine.

If you don't have freezer space for veg, tinned in water works well too

tomatoe puree we have, but nbeed to check dates again.

fucking fed up of all this date checking and rotation and really looking forward to going back to having normally supplied cupboards some time in the future.

tinned veg has been tricky to get hold of since march. though i had plenty in and it has long dates mostly.

I am hoping it was a lot of chimpanzee like breast beating and posturing and that negotiations can resume quietly on Monday. The Europeans have shown great patience, but as Macron said, it is the Brits who voted to leave, so Brits should take the consequences of that, though it will probably be those who don't deserve the consequences who will get it worse. I suspect a lot of those who wanted Brexit will ride it our with no consequences. like Rees nmogg

After Breakfast it will be packing up a freezer to carry downstairs.

I have been getting kids out to theoir dad's and ordering their dad a freezer. we will be a three freezer bubble soon.

(having had freezers pack up on me unexpectedly i feel more confident having more available space to juggle stuff about and not have to drive 100 miles to dump stuff in mums freezer!)