Prepping for Brexit thread

parsniphead

I've been catching up with the thread tonight. It's an interesting read.

I have some stuff put by, mainly for DS who has autism and struggles with food. We also have extra other stuff as I do like to keep stuff in just in case of emergencies.

The comments about essential meds was interesting. I'm currently undergoing chemotherapy and it has crossed my mind about what may happen if the drugs become scarce. It probably won't but these things do cross my mind. I've been doing lots of reading on nutrition and effects on cancer. Perhaps finding another way to fight this if it should come to that. As a keen gardener with a large veg garden a plant based diet would be ideal......if only I could beat the overwhelming exhaustion.;) Roll on spring and planting season.

Anyway if all is ok many of us wont have much shopping to get for a while.:cool:

nannywindow

Had to go to Al*i for some bread rolls for tea ( hot dogs which the DGC had requested ) and added to stores 2 Ibruprofen, tin of corned beef, baby wipes, bread flour and yeast. At least if we get cut off for a week because of snow ( living half way up a mountain it's more than a possibility ) I can make my own bread and be able to have a corned beef sandwich . I am also trying to help my Dad prep too as he's 90 this year and not so clever on his feet these days, mind you he's probably got more tinned stuff ( especially potatoes ) and toilet rolls than me :eek:.
On the milk front there seems to be plenty around here, but we have our own welsh milk company ( Llaeth Cymreig ) perhaps that's why our shelves are full.
The cancer meds are a concern but to go private is too expensive for us as DH's injection alone costs nearly £250 a time.

pennywitch

I noticed when we went to Aldi (on a Friday, not a Monday) that they only had one packet of Paracetamol left on the shelf. There were lots of other things that were short too, notably the cheap teabags we buy, which were out of stock for the second week in a row. The previous week there had been no cheap teabags in Asda either, but they must have had a delivery since then as this week there were three boxes on the shelf and so I picked up two of them.


I'm not sure what's going on with that, but I don't think most people are laying in for a Beast from the East yet. We drink long-life milk all the time and so I usually get a few extras in early at this time of year as the first mention of potential snow typically sees stocks of long-life milk vanish from the shelves, but they were pretty much normal on Friday.


One thing I've noticed shortages of for the last couple of months has been frozen Brussels sprouts, but the prospect of that was pretty well publicised after the hot summer. On the other hand, I usually buy two bags when I do see them, so if everyone else is doing the same then that could well be why there's a shortage of them

tastyhog

May be one to watch, Morrisons be s discounting "essentials" by up to 20% for the next 12 weeks.

I wonder if they've had advance warning about a press release that may be due about stocking up your cupboards.


https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-6563419/Britains-Morrisons-cuts-prices-New-Year-salvo.html


Timing seems odd and the 12 weeks takes us to brexit day.

tori.k

maryb wrote: »

Seed potatoes will definitely be in short supply. I got an email back in October from the people I always order from asking if I wanted to reserve (and pay, of course) immediately because they already knew they would not be able to meet normal demand because of the poor potato harvest.

They are prioritising commercial growers this year, The feel of this years mild winter could lead to the same issues this year so may be worth saving your own seed, as if we do have another wet spring and dry summer next years seed prices will rocket.

humptydumptybits

Very good piece on Newsnight last night highlighting the worries with medication. I think it really did show the problems.

kah22

What no Brussel Spouts! It’s the EU trying to tell us Christmas will never be the same again 😆

fuddle

Uhm. I don't need the EU for sprouts... a bit of manure yeah but no EU.

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Nargleblast wrote: »

Ok, uses for tinned sardines.... I mush them up, add chives and a dash of lemon juice or vinegar, spread them in hot buttered toast, put a bit of grated cheese on top then nuke it in the microwave for a few seconds to melt the cheese. Any other suggestions?

I am a vegi so don't eat them, but my husband sometimes eats the ones in tomato sauce.

Make-up some cous cous (add whatever you like), heat the sardines and then mix them into the cous cous.

Honey_Bear

Our MP had the eighth of his Brexit open meetings this afternoon and came up with a factoid I hadn't heard before.

We're all aware that there have been discussions about drugs shortages post-Brexit, and we've been told that the government has asked the drug companies to stockpile them for use after 29 March. According to our MP, what that's meant is that they've had to increase the price of drugs they're currently selling because they don't have the cashflow to fund stockpiling. That has then meant that pharmacies providing NHS drugs can no longer afford to buy the drugs, leading to the shortage of supplies now, before we leave.