Prepping for Brexit thread

DigForVictory

happydays89 wrote: »

We went to have a look and managed to buy a lockable wooden cupboard for £80.Its great I have filled it with various food items and a few treats.I keep the key and it can’t be raided by my husband and sons.

Lockable - now there's a thought! <happy daydreams!>

Pooky wrote: »

I had a new chest freezer arrive last month, it was recommended to leave for 1 hour if it had been transported on its side (which it hadn't) so it was instant plug and play!

Technology is amazing! I think we may need to give it a while as while it isn't vast, it may need to be unwrapped & brought in without the packaging. And possibly rolled onto its side to get through one particularly awkward door.
<says she clutching tape measure & looking slightly frazzled>
Still, what a way to step up the prepping and just make sure all the remaining delights of Autumn are held to enjoy in deep winter!

Oh yes,and there should be a really big cardboard box for me to play with... (I am a complete toddler at heart).

Primrose

I always feel rather overwhelmed with all the harvest goodies available at this time of year and so grateful for the technology of freezers and the thawing capacity of microwaves. I wonder how our grandmothers ever managed with the limited kitchen technology at their disposal at the time.

I suppose in 50 years from now future generations will be taking their three meals a day in the form of one big pill for each meal and wondering how we all coped when we had to go through the tedious task of freezing and thawing all our food before we could cook or eat it!

unrecordings

Primrose wrote: »

I always feel rather overwhelmed with all the harvest goodies available at this time of year and so grateful for the technology of freezers and the thawing capacity of microwaves. I wonder how our grandmothers ever managed with the limited kitchen technology at their disposal at the time.

It was still preserving, but we do it for fun (bottling etc) and for sustenance (the good old freezer). The relevant chemistry remains the same, so I think the only thing that has changed is the technology and the necessity or purpose of preserving (for most of us in the 'first world' at least)

Primrose wrote: »

I suppose in 50 years from now future generations will be taking their three meals a day in the form of one big pill for each meal and wondering how we all coped when we had to go through the tedious task of freezing and thawing all our food before we could cook or eat it!

There's one of those wonderful 1970's dystopian films, probably with Charlton Heston in it called Soylent Green...

unrecordings

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If I don't get my meds, whether because of common or garden supply issues, the absence of importation, trade and licensing regulations, because they've given up on the protections that make my medication barely affordable on the NHS in exchange for some chicken deal or because the fundamental free at the point of delivery has gone in favour of a private insurance scheme that I could never get covered on, I am quite likely to be rather irretrievably deceased at the same age as my father died of complications associated with the same condition. Which gives me approximately 5 years.

Without wanting to poke things with a stick, I very much appreciate hearing your experiences, It's all relevant to this thread I think, and personally as I battle my own way through the NHS, it's eye opening to see specifics on what is happening and when lifeline becomes merely supply chain

My post is partly prompted by this, which I've seen in the news maybe earlier in the year, but really can't believe is still an issue:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50058299

D&DD

DFV my dear long suffering OH made me THE best jam rack which would also work for tins.


I spotted a rack on the cover of an Ikea catalogue but it cost hundreds for what I needed so I showed him the pic and he used two of our old pine slatted storage racks and screwed extra slats into the gaps so instead of having five shelves it has nine and just enough height for quarts etc I absolutely love it and although it isn't a wardrobe as you wanted it might do for a place more out of sight..


That said mine has pride of place at the top of the stairs on the landing and everyone who comes in here always comments on it!!!


Most people have these racks knocking around indoors so before you throw them out think about how they can be reused for extra storage

byjimini

Pay down debts and reduce monthly outgoings - quite a few of us might need to stand on our own two feet for a while or need to help family our friends that are caught up in it, so I want as much freedom to do so as possible.

DigForVictory

unrecordings wrote: »

My post is partly prompted by this, which I've seen in the news maybe earlier in the year, but really can't believe is still an issue:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50058299

Yes I was appalled to hear the only production facility for SCBU feed was closed after a contamination scare & they were worrying how long it would take to restart production. Months, seemingly & only one production place. I struggle to understand the logic there - surely you would have two just as bio-security? But lack of money & economies of scale & Uncle Tom Cobleigh & so there are very sick babies struggling. I wonder if the Welsh are shipping supplies over the border?
Mind, a friend's daughter has a genetic life-shortening condition & her meds are custom cooked to her DNA. I've not dared ask what Brexit means for her but I suspect several years fewer of the dashed few.

D&#8517 wrote: »

DFV my dear long suffering OH made me THE best jam rack which would also work for tins.

He's a canny man with a screwdriver. I'll riffle through IKEA and ask if he couldn't make something like X but with extra shelves! Alas we're very tight for storage - we had a load built but it was all custom tailored to the spaces they occupy & the uses they are still put to, but I feel a prowl through Freecycle etc (as well as the charity furniture shops) coming on!

He's alert to reducing the monthly outgoings too - planing to ebay stuff he no longer needs or wants to fund replacements for the fridge & undercounter freezer to reduce running costs. I must try & coax him towards LED lighting as well. That supermarket isn't wholly wrong - every little helps!

gettingtheresometime

unrecordings wrote: »

Without wanting to poke things with a stick, I very much appreciate hearing your experiences, It's all relevant to this thread I think, and personally as I battle my own way through the NHS, it's eye opening to see specifics on what is happening and when lifeline becomes merely supply chain

My post is partly prompted by this, which I've seen in the news maybe earlier in the year, but really can't believe is still an issue:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50058299

I have to admit that regardless of what your opinion on Brexit is, I think we can all agree that it's extremely eye opening to see how reliant on other countries' production the UK has become.


However this ends, and whoever is in government, surely that has to be addressed once it reaches it's conclusion.

Primrose

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I have to admit that regardless of what your opinion on Brexit is, I think we can all agree that it's extremely eye opening to see how reliant on other countries' production the UK has become.


However this ends, and whoever is in government, surely that has to be addressed once it reaches it's conclusion.

Agree. We used to be a massive manufacturing nation but now it seems we major in invisible commodities like technology and finance and seem to have lost our way.

I would be only too happy to buy British manufactured goods, support British workers whose tax contributions would be helping to fund the NHS, schools, the police etc but whenever I need to purchase a new piece of domestic equipment, where does it come from? China, Korea, India or the EU. Remember that old "Buy British's campaign? We need to reinvent it.

A popular economic argument is that labour is cheaper abroad which makes items cheaper to purchase here but whilst i know people like cheaper products there is a hidden unrealised cost and that is that we are indirectly funding other countries' health services, police and schools in the process. By buying British made goods, we are indirectly funding our own schools, hospitals and other through taxation. .

I don,t know what sort of Economics is taught in schools these days, if any, but I'm puzzled why more of the population and the powers that be dont seem to grasp this fact and promote this concept. The reality is we need more financial entrepreneurs to set up businesses here and kickstart a new manufacturing revolution in an economic climate which allows them and their employees to thrive.

I don't want to be forced to buy a fridge from Korea or a smart phone from China. I'd rather Joe Bloggs and his family from Sunderland or Birmingham or wherever benefitted from my purchases. Charity begins at home in my view, and that includes supporting your own country's economy whenever you can.

mardatha

Good post Primrose, and I think when the time comes then young up and coming whizzkids might appear. I hope.