Prepping for Brexit thread

mardatha

Yep GQ I'm sending her down to Sotherbys to get some preps money! :rotfl:

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Yep GQ I'm sending her down to Sotherbys to get some preps money! :rotfl:

Lol! Hopefully it'll add up to lotsa beans and bandaids.

AndyCF

Thankfully still have a small pantry area, under the stairs at the side of the kitchen. Still has its stone (quarry tiles?) floor which no doubt helps with coolness. Given the house age it does show even "back then" there was some common sense in design.

On a different note although there's plenty of 'Brexy' topics elsewhere on this site, so I won't go into that I mentioned complaining about plenty of tinned potato's but no instant tubs. The situation now appears to be the other way around ( lol ) , there were at least 100 tubs of instant mash on display yesterday and only a few tinned ones out.

I recall (I forget who, sorry) had the opposite issue when she looked, she had an excess of instant powder on display but no tins.

Mind you, potato's is not something I'd actually be concerned about given we produce plenty and so do NI and the ROI too, I'd not even worry about any import stuff, why ? Its simple:

Farm on the border: All they need to do is harvest the field from left/right instead of right/left and the 'produce' is now in N.I not in R.O.I , job done

Same with Lamb, although we do import a lot of frozen NZ we also export a -lot- of it, suspect we also export a fair bit of beef/pork too as well as maybe poultry (not sure on the latter) as well as import it. So 'meat things' and 'basic veg' really I'd not be hugely worried about personally.

Biggest risk as I've said a few times is mad insane panic buying, not the "I'll get a couple more just in case or keep a few more days or a week or two's worth" , its those who try to keep six months worth of stuff in.

Each to their own though really. I always have for years tried to do a "keep 3/4 days worth of things" in , does not matter if they are dried or tins stuff its mainly a "if I can't go anywhere..." thing that's all. I intend to stick to that and possibly just possibly if funds permit extend it to a week but no more.

maryb

I just don't know what will happen. It might be a no deal exit, or MPs might gang up with Bercow and revoke Article 50. Then we'd really be in uncharted territory. And no guarantee of an election any time before 2022.

But I'm with you 100 % on upping the prepping.

I find it all more than a bit fretty making so I'm trying not to engage. I'm focusing on sorting out my nice tidy store cupboard and filling any gaps. That's something I can have some say over.

GreyQueen

Gosh, I wish I had a larder, or a kitchen which is bigger than it is (6ft square cube). Ne'mind, we play the hand we're dealt.


Fancied some sardines with pan-fried HG spuds for luncheon so delved into the deep stash in a basket which holds 48 cans of them. Brought four out, added two recently-purchased in, will continue to do that as stock rotation. I have noted that sardines in oil have longer BB dates than sardines in tomato sauce; I believe tomatoes are quite tough on metal.


I feel that sardines, along with my sacks of HG spuds and the standing crops up at the lotties, will keep the wolf from the door.


If the wolf gets in, I'll just have to brain it with a can of something or other...........

D&DD

I think we all have our 'comfort level' with preps I know mine is 18 months at least baking stuff etc *blushes*


If it hadn't have been for these stores we would have gone under totally with what has been happening here over the last few years. Even WITH them we struggled..I'm not going into detail on a public forum but suffice to say since we have started to straighten ourselves out finally again the prepping is moving up a gear to replace what has been used.


It has also made me consider WHAT I store and how and where I store it as most of my stuff is geared towards myself being mobile enough to use it/cook with it etc .

mardatha

My main probs are that we rely on coal and Propane here. The prices of both will go up and maybe by a lot, and there might be a temporary shortage or break in supply. I could get more coal but that would mean stashing it in the sheds and around the garden - and that would need one of us fit enough to haul it around and get it in the house. Neither of us right now could do that.
Thinking today of buying a nice wee electric stove as back up, that would only be used in an all-out emergency.

GreyQueen

Hi Mar, good idea to think of all eventualities. Are you meaning a stove for cooking or something like a heater? I used to have a tiny electric oven. literally 14 inches square. It had an element in the top of it and was a metal box with a pull down front. Very energy efficient because you're not heating a whole oven to cook one pan or pot.


I'm thinking of looking for something similar as it seems crazy to crank up the whole oven on my gas stove to cook a chop or something equally piddly.


ETA; something like these?: https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/appliances/small-cooking-appliances/mini-ovens/c:29574/?clickOrigin=header:home:menu:mini+ovens

mardatha

Ah sorry GQ I meant as heating. If we have no coal, or if the chimney decides to fall down in the night, or if the back boiler springs a leak, then we have no planB for heating. At all.

pollyanna_26

mardatha wrote: »

Ah sorry GQ I meant as heating. If we have no coal, or if the chimney decides to fall down in the night, or if the back boiler springs a leak, then we have no planB for heating. At all.

Mar if you're thinking of those electric stoves that look like wood burners or coal burners I spent ages researching them via friends who bought them and many reviews online. Someone may be able to tell you of a decent one but from what I gathered the big names are overpriced and often short lived.



I wanted one to replace the gas fire but on reflection in stormy or wet weather the electrics in this area cut out taking lights , internet etc down so not my best idea. I was going for the look rather than commonsense :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Could you get one that runs on Calor gas instead or am I missing something? The negatives to that are condensation and not good for those with chest problems- another idea I dismissed. It's a pity none of us have time or energy to invent useful stuff.
Maybe you should practice fluttering your eyelashes at the coalman , it worked for me with a baby and a toddler in the early 70s.
pollyx