Prepping for Brexit thread

fuddle

Too true stingey. I just think it's sensible. My stores have helped financially as well as practically. We needed to get back home when redundancy happened and by eating through our stores we could save our food budget money. I store for Ill health, poor weather, travel disruption etc anyway. Brexit just adds another dimension to prep for, but the amounts stay the same.

I think society is used to choice and food being there whenever we want it, whatever time of the year and from whatever country we so desire. Some call that progress I suppose. Who wants to regress? I think just because we can doesn't mean we should and if my stew or cottage pie is regression then, we'll, so be it. That said, although my dried mixed veg comes from the UK, my dried onion comes from Uzbekistan! I can't really preach but I note the sticker on the front 'non-EU Agriculture'. My dried onion might get stuck at a port or holding site but it isn't going to go off and will get to me eventually.

It's difficult isn't it. But if the Brexit process makes us all change our thinking then maybe preparedness might become a little more in many people's lives and that, in my humble opinion, is a very good thing for those individuals.

euronorris

Just an aside, if anyone wants to top up their sugar stores, Savers have Tate & Lyle sugar for 49p a kg, and B&M has the same for 50p a kg. Just spotted the B&M one. DH likes to make ginger beer, and so I'm always on the look out for cheapest sugar supply (can't get cheaper in Lidl or Aldi for example).

adindas

I have read quite a few links regarding the items to be stockpiled for Brexit Prepping. There are just of a few examples:

https://qz.com/1558100/inside-the-minds-of-the-uks-most-stressed-out-brexit-peppers/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brexit-food-stockpile-rationing


In general many agree that for an individual adult (without children) these items are necessary :

Pasta
Toilet roll
Rice
Long-life milk
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned beans
Tinned fruit
Tinned tuna
Flour
Tea
Coffee
Medication
Mushroom, Yeast
Lentils
Bottled water
Wine
Beers

It makes sense as
- These items are essentials but might become scarce in the event of no-deal brexit.
- They are non perishable food, preserved items that could be stockpiled for months or even years without the need of treatment like extra capacity in the fridge / freezer.
- Apart from fine wine/ beer they are not that expensive that could blow your bank account

All you need is a small extra cash, extra space in your loft, on your shed or on your garden with a special garden storage.

Many people do not have a spare fridge freezer, so the item that will need an extra capacity in fridge / freezers will not be a good option for many people.

Some of these items are on sale. For instance, I understand Iceland are selling Tinned tuna chunks for about £3 for four tins.

MingVase

Just stock up on more of the things you normally eat. There's no point buying tinned tuna and rice if you hate the bloody stuff. Ask me how I know this...

adindas

MingVase wrote: »

Just stock up on more of the things you normally eat. There's no point buying tinned tuna and rice if you hate the bloody stuff. Ask me how I know this...

That is definitely a common sense not to stockpile the non essential items/food that you do not like, eat or need.

But the items will also need to be preserved items and non-perishable.

For instance many people need dairy products, eggs, Bread, fresh fruits, meat, fish but you will not be able to stockpile them. You could stockpile meats, fish but it will need an extra storage on your freezers. Buying a frozen items even on the events of no-deal brexit, it is probably cheaper to buy the frozen items from the traders rather than stockpiling it by yourself.

unrecordings

With the greatest respect to the poster I'm not even going to sully myself by clicking those [STRIKE]links[/STRIKE] clickbait. It's not a nuclear war we're facing

Farway

unrecordings wrote: »

I do have a little 'what if' thought though - on 1st November that a grass roots campaign on both sides of the customs union just decides to 'eff the paperwork' - I wouldn't rule that out, however unlikely - but then again I'm trying to be Mr Optimistic for reasons outlined in an earlier post :-)

I think much the same, I can remember not many years back there were problems with ID / passport control, maybe it was shortage of staff even? Huge queues at inbound airports


In the end they were waived through once it was found 'planes were backing up with disruption, and likely compensation claims, beginning to spread

[Deleted User]

I won't put reliance into fridges/freezers because there might be glitches in the power supply and then all my preps would perish and it would be wasted money. I buy tinned meat and fish of different kinds for storing, eggs if they are obtainable don't need to be chilled and will keep at room temperature. I shall. as much as is possible, eat seasonally supplemented by home grown seasonal foods. I will make jam and chutney this autumn as we have plums, damsons and tomatoes and courgettes from the allotment and some home grown onions that won't string so need using up. I also will buy a sack of potatoes when they're harvested locally. We live in very much an apple and pear growing area so apples and pears should be available no matter what happens over Brexit. I have added this morning a tin of apple slices (these are fab dry pack as in no syrup or juice) just a solid tin of apple slices and also a tin of M&S minced beef because at £2.50 it's more meat than gravy and will easily make us 4 x adult portions of shepherds pie and it tastes nice too unlike cheaper tinned meats. I will buy leaf tea when the Co Op gets their own brand in as it's the one we like, dried milk powder as that keeps forever and is fine when reconstituted and porridge oats and rice as peasant cuisine from cooler areas like Scandinavia and Scotland thrived in the past with oatmeal porridge and rice porridge as staples. We love both. We have a spring fed brook across the road that I'd be happy to use when properly sterilized and treated and have Milton liquid for a final top up to make it safe. If we don't prepare for our own good I really don't think anyone else is going to make sure we're all OK so there will be lots of cross folks around, I would much rather be able to stay in until things quiet down and it's safe to go out again.

nannywindow

Hello I hope you don't mind me joining in.
I have started to up my supplies too, as " you know what " ( I just want it over now ) and winter is coming.
I have extra bread flour and tinned goods and winter meds. I also have dried milk and coffee whitener, but I'm thinking about the panic buying and I don't want to be caught up in it if it occurs. It does happen here every time we get snow, which is nearly every year, leading to bread and milk shortages and long queues in the supermarkets .
Next week I intend buy more toilet rolls and some dried fruit, which are always good for a quick sweet snack and cake making of course. ( the fruit not the T. rolls )
We can survive food wise but I am a bit concerned about DH's cancer meds. He does get his 3 monthly oncology injection in Oct, but it's his daily tablet that worries me as it can't be prescribed for more than 1 month at a time. But we will get through it one way or another I'm sure.

[Deleted User]

Hi Nannywindow, I was surprised at the amount of people in town today and at the immense queues at the checkout of every shop I went in except for Sainsburys but that is a little edge of town shop and I made that at just after 12 o clock. I was looking in peoples baskets while I waited in line at 1.30ish and although there were many more people than I'm used to no one seemed to be buying tins etc. just frozen foods and cakes and biscuits. I know today is Friday and I know it was lunchtime but even places like Iceland were a dozen people deep at every checkout and all the checkouts were manned. It might be just because people shop for the weekend, or that it is a Bank Holiday this weekend? I only know I was the only one I saw with tinned storage goods in my basket.