Prepping for Brexit thread

kah22

Primrose wrote: »

I don't much fancy returning to the "good old days" of having to fry my food with lumps of white lard!

White Lard - lovely jubbly. After all did not DUP. M.P. Sammy Wilson advise that people should just ‘go to the chippy’ in event of food shortages. Does Sammy know something we don’t ? 🍺

Lizling

It's been a few years since I last followed the Old Style board, but I knew you'd all have a great thread on prepping for Brexit!

I've got my big cupboard full of tinned tomatoes, beans, rice, pasta and spices (as usual!). Glad toilet roll got mentioned. I hadn't thought of that. I hadn't thought of petrol either, although I can get by without that if I need to. Just need to stock up on frozen veg, baking supplies and a few veggie products now, and maybe stash a few tinned tomatoes on top of the cupboards. I use them so much I begin to feel uneasy if I've got less than 3 or 4 left. Also trying to Brexit-proof my finances, but that's a problem for another board.

One thing I've seen come up here that concerns me a bit though - some people seem to be assuming that British-grown crops will still be available. If you're growing your own then sure, no problem. For the rest of us, it's worth bearing in mind that we don't produce nearly enough to feed the country these days. If everyone suddenly has to live on cabbage and potatoes, there will be shortages. And that's before we worry about who's going to be harvesting certain crops if the EU workers can't.

Lance_De_Boils

bargainhunterss wrote: »

I'm not sure how it directly compares in price, but I regularly buy frozen sliced peppers for about £1 for a big bag from Mr A, and they seem to last for ages, grabbing a handful now and again when I need them :money:

Who is Mr A please?

bargainhunterss

Primrose wrote: »

£1 a bag sounds very good value when you consider growing them involves the cost of seeds and compost although I enjoy gardening and like the challenge. Did you notice the country of origin?. Were they grown here or continental Europe?

Incidentally my husband noticed the supplies of olive oil in our local supermarket were very low this morning. I wonder if people are starting to stock up ? I don't much fancy returning to the "good old days" of having to fry my food with lumps of white lard!

I had a look at the pack in my freezer and unfortunately it didn't say

bargainhunterss

Lance_De_Boils wrote: »

Who is Mr A please?

Sorry - OS board speak I meant ASDA (Mr t = Tesco etc)

Well_Preserved

Lizling good point about British grown, and especially about growing your own. It concerns me when I hear people saying 'we managed before we were in Europe'. Gardens these days are so much smaller, especially with new builds. And how many gardens have had the makeover treatment that would make vegetable and fruit growing a significant challenge? I know there's quite a bit you can grow in window boxes etc but there are limitations.

Honey_Bear

Well_Preserved wrote: »

Lizling good point about British grown, and especially about growing your own. It concerns me when I hear people saying 'we managed before we were in Europe'. Gardens these days are so much smaller, especially with new builds. And how many gardens have had the makeover treatment hat with Luke make vegetable and fruit growing a significant challenge? I know there's quite a bit you can grow in window boxes etc but there are limitations.

I can't understand why everyone keeps banging on about the availability of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber as if that's what we actually live on in March. There's an appetite for it, I know, because it's in the shops but is everyone seriously suggesting that's what we live on at that time of year?

What we actually eat is meat, fish and vegetables such as potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, peas and any number of other types too numerous to mention. We only grow 50% of what we eat; we export most of the fish we catch and import most of the fish we eat.

If there is No Deal we are going to be eating a lot of spider crabs and cuttlefish, because we won't be able to export our fish.

I'm not sure how much meat we import so I'll just leave that there for people to think about how important meat is to them. I can't eat tinned meat at all, so either we'll go without or we'll expect to pay a lot more - increased demand for locally produced foodstuffs when imports aren't possible equals increased cost. The law of supply and demand. That's Economics 101.

We are not self-sufficent in dairy produce. No Deal means that there will be shortages of milk, butter, cream, yoghurt, cheese etc. The law of supply and demand again applies - if people aren't willing to change their eating habits very, very quickly indeed.

Fruit. We produce a lot of exceptionally good fruit, but not in March or April. It will rot in transit if we 'take back control' of our borders and implement any inpsection regime at all. Europe doesn't produce a lot in March or April either, so imports should still be coming from the rest of the world, but the supply chain and logistics will be different from current practice. That'll be interesting.

There's a Chinese curse. May you live in Interesting Times. We do. I love the way MPs who know nothing about the complexity of logistics and supply chains keep telling us that if there are disruptions, they'll be short-lived. I've yet to see any publication of evidence supporting that assertion. I'm no longer interested in opinions, I want evidence. I suspect it will be several months before the chaos settles down into a new reality, and we're going to have to live with that reality for quite a while.

Until then I'll keep prepping. I started in August last year and I still have things I need to buy on my list.

Any short extension to Article 50 doesn't change any of that. As the government has shown it is singularly inept at negotiation so far, even if we get a transition period to take us to 31 December 2020 the effect of having No Trade Deal with Europe will then apply to us again.

Groundhog day.

gettingtheresometime

I've been prepping for a couple of weeks now ....haven't told hubby as 8 know what his response would be but as I've only been buying what I would have bought anyway (perhaps with the exception of tinned fruit & veg) if everything does come smelling of roses, I won't need to go shopping for a long time lol.

Anyway I got thinking about prepping & the 2nd purse challenge was on a different board ....can anyone explain it to me & how I can incorporate it into Brexit prepping?

B'sKitchen

Hi all,

I like to have stocked pantry at all times anyway, but with the unknown that's Brexit I want to stock on a bigger scale before March. My husband and I are moving to Northern Ireland next week, so my cupboards will be completely bare!
My shop of choice was always Lidl/Aldi, even though the quality of certain items is not that amazing, though still better than basic value brands (or so I think. I might be wrong?).
Reading this and other threats makes me wonder what's the best strategy to get as much as you can for your money? Do you shop in Aldi/Llidl? Do you find brand items on sales in other shops better value? Do you do your whole shop in one place?

Initially we won't have a car , so I might have to an online shop, but it just makes my heart hurt to know I can get cheaper stuff in Lidl! I want to save, but I don't want to eat the cheapest of the cheap, loaded with sugar, salt and fillers and God know what, just for the sake of saving couple of £££.

Goldiegirl

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I've been prepping for a couple of weeks now ....haven't told hubby as 8 know what his response would be but as I've only been buying what I would have bought anyway (perhaps with the exception of tinned fruit & veg) if everything does come smelling of roses, I won't need to go shopping for a long time lol.

Anyway I got thinking about prepping & the 2nd purse challenge was on a different board ....can anyone explain it to me & how I can incorporate it into Brexit prepping?

I think you might need to ask on the second purse thread. I'll be honest with you, I've never been able to make head or tail of that particular challenge!

B'sKitchen wrote: »

Hi all,

I like to have stocked pantry at all times anyway, but with the unknown that's Brexit I want to stock on a bigger scale before March. My husband and I are moving to Northern Ireland next week, so my cupboards will be completely bare!
My shop of choice was always Lidl/Aldi, even though the quality of certain items is not that amazing, though still better than basic value brands (or so I think. I might be wrong?).
Reading this and other threats makes me wonder what's the best strategy to get as much as you can for your money? Do you shop in Aldi/Llidl? Do you find brand items on sales in other shops better value? Do you do your whole shop in one place?

Initially we won't have a car , so I might have to an online shop, but it just makes my heart hurt to know I can get cheaper stuff in Lidl! I want to save, but I don't want to eat the cheapest of the cheap, loaded with sugar, salt and fillers and God know what, just for the sake of saving couple of £££.

I tend to shop in Aldi for three weeks of the month, and then I go to Sainsbury's for the fourth week, to get branded things that I won't do without.

I've been shopping at Aldi for nearly 18 months, and I've been really pleased with the quality of things that I've purchased. I need to keep my sodium intake as low as possible, so I'm very hot on looking at food labels, and the salt content is similar to any other shop.

I've noticed that Aldi vegetables don't keep as long as Sainsbury's, but from a prepping point of view, this doesn't really matter, as we're looking for things to store.

In your situation, I'd do the online shop if you haven't got a car. Time is getting shorter and shorter, and I'd want to get my preparations underway asap.