Prepping for Brexit thread

mardatha

Lessonlearned brilliant post. I've always been laughed at for telling people to look at the past to enable them to cope with the future.

moneyistooshorttomention

There is a happy medium between "learning the lessons of the past" (ie yep....every single civilisation has fallen to date apparently - so how do we ensure ours doesnt do so) on the one hand v. looking back to the past can be at the expense of "looking to the future" and can mean adopting ancestors personal opinions - rather than forming our own in accordance with the different times we live in.

When one learns that there are people that harbour grudges going back hundreds of years/maybe even over 1,000 years eek::rotfl: then it does tend to turn your views very firmly in the direction of "Make up your own mind/look to the future/forget the past".

We've not had anything like the level of communication in recorded past history that we've had for the last couple of decades for instance - and that has actually imo created a sea change in many peoples ways of thinking/living (and been a very mixed blessing indeed - for those of us born in the wealthier countries on the planet:cool:).

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Let the 'normal folk' continue to think of us as the whacky lunatic fringe and make whatever provision for an uncertain future seems sensible and appropriate to you as an individual regardless. I think people who only live from day to day and who make no provision will find themselves very uncomfortable if we encounter problems from Brexit, no Brexit, bad harvests, unrest and disruptions to taken for granted services like water, gas and electricity, the petrol supply etc. I try to double guess things I can imagine might happen and cover us as well as I can but there inevitably will be gaps in my foresight but I hope we'll be able to manage until any difficulties are worked out and through. I think problems will come from the fact that people are used to following advice and following rules and depending on those 'in authority' to tell them what to do and how to live and behave and many will be lost if a situation arises where we have to think and act for ourselves, lots of people won't be able to do it!

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Floss wrote: »

I think I will stock up on DHs muesli & my winter-brekkie rolled oats...before the prices jump due to low yield.!

what makes you say `low yield` as in frightening. It is far from low yield, yield is very slightly down but farmers in my area have a big grin on their faces, they have not had to use expensive fungicide or oil, to run their grain dryers. Silage has been good as has hay, animals will be well fed this winter. There will be no shortage of cereals and grains this winter. Farming is always swings and roundabouts but overall the grain harvest will be a good one this year. The combines are sliding through the fields, no wet and sticky ground or stalks, no expensive maintenance and hardly any pests or mould, a better quality of grain than in most years

C_J

That article is dated 2013.

Floss

C_J wrote: »

That article is dated 2013.

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auburnette

Hello everyone

I haven't posted on any of the prepping threads before but am seriously concerned about a no-deal Brexit and starting to think about ways to minimise the impact if it happens...

I don't think that there will be problems so much with milk and meat as much is UK produced, more fresh fruit and vegetables which won't be able to get through Dover quickly enough (and store cupboard ingredients). We have an allotment but March is an inconvenient time falling right in the 'hungry gap' where all you have going in the plot is brassicas. So maybe having some tinned veg is the way to go.

Does anyone know if it's possible to bottle and preserve chopped tomatoes and if so how? We will have a glut this year, possibly too much for the freezer.

Aside from that I think the likely shortages/disruption arising from no deal Brexit are:
-fuel
-energy

In event of no deal Brexit I would expect to see some sort of run on the pound, panic buying and sudden inflation. I guess that this would start before Brexit day itself at the point when it became clear that no-deal could in fact happen....

Sounds alarmist and hope that government and negotiators on both sides would never let it get to this point but I don't have very much faith in the way it is unfolding -seems like the sort of thing that everyone says 'surely not' and then we just end up running out of time to get something in place and crashing out :eek:

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Bottling veg including tomatoes has to be done 'properly' it's much easier with fruit but it can be done. Tomatoes were bottles in wartime but you have to be scrupulous about temperature, duration and a meticulously sealed jar as bottled tomatoes and veg are known vehicles for botulism. If you read up the correct method and do everything exactly as is written down you should be OK.

moneyistooshorttomention

You could dry the surplus tomatoes.

Personally - I've got a dehydrator I would use for that. But, in the event of not having one, then modern cookers seem to go down to much lower temperatures. So, I'd google on that if I were you.

The other possibility is "gifting" them to someone - ie hopefully of the type that would mentally note it up as "I owe them one" and you'd get something back in exchange at some point (eg surplus vegetables they were growing).

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On a very different note - I'm thinking "Whatever does or doesnt happen - I'll feel better if I know 'body upkeep' is up-to-date and there's no question of being at risk of having to wait any longer for it (because its me and not the NHS that has to pay for much of it). So - feet = sorted, teeth = sorted, strained muscle in arm = sorted. By the end of next week it will be "cosmetic blemishes = sorted". Every last penny of that (even the definite health ones) has been at my expense - grrr. But at least it's safely sorted.

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
Just checking in.
I’ve now got a part time job which I started yesterday. It’s paid weekly which is nice which means I can start putting a little away every week as well as stocking up my cupboards.
The chaos seems to be still carrying in with the government, but we should have a little respite over the next few weeks due to their summer hols.
I think the most logical thing to do is not book any holidays near the Brexit date ( in case of chaos at the borders) and just make sure that you have fuel, cash, food, medicine in. I’m working on a just in case scenario and if it’s a positive outcome after all just think of it as a bonus.
Moneyistooshorttomension Could you not find someone to swap some of your glut of tomatoes with? When my boys were young we used to have a babysitting circle where no money changed hands but you got to go out occasionally. Something like this but swapping goods could be nice maybe.
Anyway better go
Cuddles