Prepping for Brexit thread

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Just to flag up that the large Tesco Extra store we visited yesterday had chick peas in the ethnic section of the supermarket at £1 for 4 x 400g tins which is the very best value by far that I've found of late.

Thanks for posting this. I shop at Tesco. Last week I found Tesco were selling chopped tomatoes 4 tins for a £1

GreyQueen

The best priced tinned tommies I've seen have been 28p a can but I only have access to smaller stores which typically charge a bit more per item than their big brethren in the same chain.


I'd noticed that my canned sweetcorn comes from Hungary so have been tucking a lot of those away over the months. I eat a huge amount of 10 veg salads and sweetcorn is occasionally one of my ten-a-day and very much perttifies the meal. Plus you can chuck 'em in most anything for a bit of extra goodness.


I just don't ever hear anyone talking Brexit IRL nowadays, other than a disgusted 'wish they'd get on with it' sort of comment. I expect that folks are quietly making plans. My Liddly has had a run on their green olives but they've reduced them by a few pence a jar, which may account for some of it.


I use a jar per week, and have a year's supply + stashed, I've concentrated on imported goods for my storecupboard.


Apart from imports of new potatoes, I'm not at all sure we import or export these at all, perhaps someone with specialist knowledge can put me straight? I'd be surprised if something grown easily in our climate, and relatively bulky and heavy for its price, would make the cut as an imported staple, but may be completely wrong about that.


I'm one of the many folk who can't tolerate wheat in their diet (coeliac) and am encountering more and more people who are quitting wheat as they feel rough when eating it. This frees up more wheat for those who have no problems, of course.

MingVase

GQ I'd have to wait until the local East Lothian new tatties come in, usually first fortnight of July.
And Blue Doggy, Polish sweeties are brilliant!

maryb

yorkshire tea £3.50 for 160 in Sainsbugs. I can face anything with enough tea

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

yorkshire tea £3.50 for 160 in Sainsbugs. I can face anything with enough tea

:T Wot she said. I really must stock up on some more of the heavenly stuff.

Primrose

Well folks, 31 days to go!?.
DO WE REALLY BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?

After three years of "Will it? Won't it?" I really don't think I have the patience to live through all this chaos for a third extension .

I may have to cancel the newspaper, pull out the TV plug and turn myself into an anti-social hermit. Perhaps I should become like the man who lived in the Malaysian jungle for 25 years, not realising World War II had ended!

I'm wondering if I would actually notice any mega differences in the minutiae of my day-to-day living.

GreyQueen

Does your hermitage have any room for house guests? I suspect there are a few (million) folk who'd be up for going on retreat and only coming back once the rubble has stopped bouncing.


I derived a certain small amusement when Oct 31st was announced as the day........ last day of the Celtic year, Samhain, festival of the dead, the time when the boundaries between the worlds are supposed to be thinnest and the spirits walk - wonder if someone in Whitehall is harbouring paganish tendancies??:rotfl:

grunnie

31st I might just fly off on my broomstick for a few weeks. :j

grunnie

When i was out at my knitting group today my OH got a phone call from someone asking if we had been stockpilling for brexit. Just TP he said (if he only knew)but this person wanted to know if i had been stockpilling perfume! He seemed to think that was what people were storing. Got just about everything else but no perfume. I have never had a signature perfume.any ideas?

markin

Like every thing you use, if its from the EU get an extra or 2.


I heard a story that people in Venezuela trade on WhatsApp, ect, Heart meds for 4 rolls of toilet paper!

55% of wine consumed in the UK is from the EU, says the Wine and Spirit Trade Association.

.............................
Irish warehouses stockpiling ahead of Brexit

Chris Smyth of Perennial Freight in Rosslare in Co Wexford said stockpiling has been going on for six months.
"There is no warehouse space left in the country and we are now seeing trailers being rented out to store goods,” he told the Irish Mail on Sunday.
"There are huge volumes coming in of raw materials for the construction trade, such as plasterboards and insulation."

https://www.irishnews.com/news/brexit/2019/08/26/news/irish-warehouses-stockpiling-ahead-of-brexit-1694268/