How many weeks of stock do you think is necessary?

[JustAsking1837]

How many weeks (or months .....) of food and other items do you think we need to put by in preparation for a deal Brexit in 2021?

[BlackeyedSusan]

also think other than the things that went out of stock last time. supermarkets are going to be full of christmas biscuits and cheese crackers, which have reasonable dates on. crackers are good for when you run out of bread.

look for what there is a lot of. maybe you want to concentrate on things that make the basics you can get taste nice?

@mum2jakie many of us have started already and are topping up the stash by continuing with our buying pattern of a bit more than we use everyweek so it is not going to have a detrimental effect currently if just in time is working. When things get short we are likely to stop buying leaving more for others. anything you buy now will help you after brexit, so even if you only have time to get a few things extra it will take pressure off the first week after brexit. it is really shit that we are having to think about this.

[mum2jakie]

@BlackeyedSusan thanks for the response. Yeah I know most people on this board are long term preppers.

I've had various stashes, depending on the likelihood and proximity of a no deal Brexit. Just conscious anyone starting late isn't realistically going be able to stock up months worth of shopping.

We all know the realities of how people react when stocks are visibly low in supermarkets so I need to up my game again!

[FusionChefGeoff]

Thanks to the virus my stores were well tested and we managed for 6 weeks without needing to shop. Then it was for fresh food so the staples and freezer store could have lasted us much longer.

I think I need to rebalance to include more of where the import holes could be so less meat and more frozen veg.

Also need to buy and hide choc / biscuits etc as discovering that bag in the shed in April was like all my Christmases has come at once!!!

I'll also be stocking up the traditional 'European' hero products eg good quality olive oil, pesto, chorizo etc and making sure I have frozen butter and cheese.

[Imsayingnothing]

@mum2jakie some people will have been doing this for years and will most definitely be prepared as much as they can be. Others might have just decided to start now, if that's the case then better late than never.

A little bit every week will still be better than nothing at all. It's all we can do.

[mum2jakie]

Absolutely - I agree completely!

[BlackeyedSusan]

I reckon people could get three weeks or a months worth gradually between now and Christmas if they are creative and buy a wide variety of stuff.

[gamerchick]

World food supermarkets do the big bags of stuff as well. Bags of rice and broth mix are handy to have in a store cupboard. I love ours, it's like a goldmine of big things.

[JamieLeeCurtains]

Also get things at lower prices now.

I imagine we all suspect big price hikes in January onwards.

[Paranoidmarvin]

I’m aiming for a few weeks. Would like more but I just don’t have the space. My chest freezer arrived at the weekend. And I have half filled it with my food. I am gluten and dairy free. So when the shops ran dry I did really struggle for food. So I’m making sure I have enough to last me a few weeks. Dh isn’t bothered but I have been buying stuff today to put in the freezer for him and my son.
I’m not sure what will happen after December but I’m doing the best I can with the money and space I have.

[BlackeyedSusan]

definitely anything specialist is needed if you can't eat anything else. glad you are getting it sorted. distribute between all the freezers you have as an accident with the door or a blown fuse could lose you all of one type of thing.

[MarshmallowManiac]

It will probably be harder to get the fresh veg that we usually have after December so am planning to get some frozen/tinned veg to pick up the slack. Also basically anything that comes from Europe Olive Oil, pasta, rice etc and try if you can to get your prescriptions a little earlier each month so you can have a little spare because there will be delays after Brexit because of many reasons but especially because of the sodding Kent permits!

[BlackeyedSusan]

Seen recommended: salads and herbs on windowsill. Herbs grow well on ex's bright but only partially sunny windowsil but die on my west facing one.
Cut the bottoms from supermarket spring onions.and plant in damp compost. Grow well on my windowsill.
Bellini has recommended growing pea shoots from supermarket dried peas? And microgreens.
Perpetual spinach is also recommended. Going to plant mine by end of October.

Not enough to feed you but enough to supplement the diet.

[Imsayingnothing]

I know this was about food, but I have just bought trousers, underwear, socks, and pyjamas in the next sizes up or two sizes up for my children because where I am has been short on sizes since the last lockdown at the best of times, I can't imagine getting much at all after brexit.

I might be wrong, but even if I am they will still wear them so no money wasted.

[gamerchick]

That's a good plan actually. My kid had a huge growth spurt during lockdown, got a ton of stretch marks on his back. It was a pain in the arse as suddenly nothing fit. I had to go rummage in son number 1s clothes that he's storing here and give him some of my teeshirts.

It's worth having shit like that in just so you don't have to think about it. Definitely a couple of sizes up in underwear.

[MiddlesexGirl]

Zero!

[gamerchick]

@MiddlesexGirl

Zero!

This is the preppers topic, have you lost your way?

[BlackeyedSusan]

Updated my underwear. Kid got extra socks. Started on uniform trousers in next sizes. Yet to sort car. Will do when half term is over. Food, put in another Asda order to replace what they mislaid yesterday.

[MiddlesexGirl]

@gamerchick No. Came up on active convos and can't believe what I'm reading!

[gamerchick]

So you lost your way. It's the preppers topic, we talk prepping in here. If you don't believe in all that then there's not much else to say.

[MarshmallowManiac]

Thanks for all the tips Blackeyed was thinking about buying some pots for veg and keeping them inside over the Winter. Do you think that would be ok? Am totally a novice any advice most welcome, quite pleased as did manage to grow a variety of tomatoes, carrots, peas and beans this year for the first time in our garden.

[KurriKawari]

@MiddlesexGirl this thread is like a parallel world!!

[BlackeyedSusan]

I have only succeeded with cut off spring onions. Perhaps start a thread for advice.

[MiddlesexGirl]

Nope. Not lost my way. Exploring. Is that not allowed?

You're right @KurriKawari - what a bizarre place it is!

[gamerchick]

@BlackeyedSusan

I have only succeeded with cut off spring onions. Perhaps start a thread for advice.

I've never had much success from veg cuttings. They just go mouldy.

I do use the seeds from organic tomatoes though. The tomato plants from them do well. Also if you cut a pepper in half and loosen the seeds so some fall into the bottom of the half pepper. Plant the whole half a pepper straight into comppst and look after it, you get decent pepper plants as well.

[BlackeyedSusan]

Ex couldn't grow spring onions, I can't grow herbs. Different conditions.

I am trying tomatoes. The last lot survived until it was -12 outside. (About 10 years ago now)