Prepping for Brexit thread

unrecordings

mardatha wrote: »

I'm tjhinking now the prepping for B is going to be a different kettle of fish than I thought. It's looking now more like years of more expensive food

I think for most people this was always going to be the case - bar a few days of panic buying and a prosecco shortage.

A rubbish trade deal inevitably means paying more to the people we trade with. Logistics is a separate issue

euronorris

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Farm Foods leaflet through the door today has 12 x 400g tins of Heinz spaghetti hoops for £5 and 12 x 415gram tins of Heinz baked beans for £4.99 also 6 x tins of Princes Tuna Chunks buy 2 for £9 all of which are in my eyes good value and worth getting into my stores.

If you don't have a Farm Foods near you, but do have a Sainsburys, they have Princes Tuna X 4 tins for £3.25 at the moment. 81p a tin. Not as bargainous as the Farm Foods offer, but still decent. All types - spring water, brine, sunflower oil.


The standard shelf area was cleared out, but they had a separate special stand filled with them in my local store.

DigForVictory

I have figured out a hitch with this fill your freezer lark. The lads have figured where the ice cream was (alas, briefly) concealed.

Oh yes & my esteemed husband has decided to eschew the home made strawberry jam for "something with more fibre" ie bluecurrant - el supermarket stuff.

If you see a news story about a chap beaned terminally with a sack of frozen red fruit, I may be needing an alibi... Or I may go to farmfoods for a tinned blunt instrument.

Mx_Emmin

unrecordings wrote: »

Typo alert - did you mean racy ?

Eep! I meant ROSY

unrecordings

Here's a nugget of information from last night's local news. Potentially 50% of the flood hit areas potatoes are still in the ground. I'm thinking this isn't going to make much difference to national supply as Lincolnshire, and (I think) the lower Don & Trent catchment areas are unaffected. Dunno...

Primrose

Yes the news was featured in the paper today so possible a potato shortage or increased prices on their way, as well as a shortage of seed potatoes for next spring too. Apparently. Russels sprouts and maize are other crops affected.

euronorris

Mmmm, might be worth me going to one of the big local farm shops that has advertised 25kg bags of potatoes for £5.50 recently. I've not been tempted so far, as they are Wilja potatoes (which I must admit I've never cooked with before) and storage would be an issue for us. Too hot upstairs, not enough space by the door (our only downstairs space), so would have to be garage. I'm nervous of mice getting in the garage and into the potatoes.

Jazee

euronorris wrote: »

Mmmm, might be worth me going to one of the big local farm shops that has advertised 25kg bags of potatoes for £5.50 recently. I've not been tempted so far, as they are Wilja potatoes (which I must admit I've never cooked with before) and storage would be an issue for us. Too hot upstairs, not enough space by the door (our only downstairs space), so would have to be garage. I'm nervous of mice getting in the garage and into the potatoes.

Might be worth the risk for £5.50. They're £7 at our local farm.

euronorris

Jazee wrote: »

Might be worth the risk for £5.50. They're £7 at our local farm.

Yes. This prompted a text conversation with the DH and we have decided it's worth the risk for the price. Wilja's are apparently a good all rounder, so that's cool

boultdj

unrecordings wrote: »

Here's a nugget of information from last night's local news. Potentially 50% of the flood hit areas potatoes are still in the ground. I'm thinking this isn't going to make much difference to national supply as Lincolnshire, and (I think) the lower Don & Trent catchment areas are unaffected. Dunno...

Sorry Un, I've just moved to Lincolnshire and I can tell you, yes there is a lot of water in the fields a lot of flooding and I'm not looking forward to the drive back to Derbyshire to see family, so grab them spud's at £5.50.