Prepping for Brexit thread

Nargleblast

Tins of fruits, custard, evaporated milk. Different tinned vegetables, in case of lack of  fresh stuff (although frozen veg is nicer). Oats, for porridge and for use in cooking. Bottled lemon juice - handy for cooking, also for making hot honey and lemon drinks when people have colds. Obviously flour was an issue this time, so flour, yeast, baking powder. Also sugar for preserve making. 

Primrose

Cooking oil of some kind
laundry liquid or powder 

Tinned Cannelini or butter Beans
chicken stock cubes, oxo cubes
tinned corned beef or spam?
dried rice 
canned pilchards in tomato sauce 

Porridge oats 

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Tea 
Coffee
Squash
Shampoo
Soap
OTC Medications
Disinfectant
Bleach
Washing up liquid
Washing powder/liquid/tablets
Loo cleaner
Salt
Herbs and Spices
Condiments, sauces/mustards/relishes/pickles/pepper/vinegar
Jam and marmalade
Pickle
Mayonnaise/salad dressing/salad cream
Tinned fruit
Tinned veg
Pasta sachets with sauce
Cous cous sachets
Cuppa Soups
Instant Hot Chocolate
Inst coffee sachets
Stock cubes

missychrissy

Amazon is pretty good for large quantities of things. They have had plenty of yeast and flour. I use a lot of pulses, red lentils, split peas, marrow fat peas, barley etc and I can buy 3 kg bags of them at Amazon.
Back in the seventies there was a lady on tv called Shirley Goode who used to cost out her ingredients by the spoonful. I haven’t done it for a while but I think I’ll give it a go the next time I open a new bag of something. That way I could cost out the exact price of meals with no hidden extras. 

I also like to buy big bags of sultanas, dried apricots, banana chips and prunes. Together with nuts I make up my own hamster treat mix. The grandchildren like them too and they are a long lasting and cheap alternative to fresh fruit.

Primrose

Between us I reckon we could do a pretty good job of stocking up a submarine for a three month under water assignment !,  Amazing some of the little essential things its easy to overlook and then you curse if you find you've run out  of in a lockdown type situation! 

jamanda

I don't seem to have been able to get dried peas for a while.  I've just ordered a couple of bags from Amazon.  We use a lot of peas (for mushing).  I think everything else is going to have to wait now and I'll just replace what I use unless I can think of some other way of organising (read hiding) my stocks.  

missychrissy

I’ve just ordered 12 kg marrow fat peas for 24.99 from Amazon. That’s just over £1 a kg. That should keep me in peas for at least 2 years. I do like them. I usually cook them with a bacon joint and onion in the slow cooker. When my sons were little I used to do them in the pressure cooker. They all remember the hiss of that. I can slice up the ham and freeze it in one person sized portions for sandwiches, pea and ham soup, ham and lentil soup etc and freeze some of the cooked peas which are great with fish, fish cakes or I like mushy peas with corned beef and potato pie.

-taff

Painkillers, antiseptic cream, dressings,bandages, contact lens stuff,spare glasses

boultdj

Herbs, spices, seeds if you've got a garden, also what about clothing, most of that is made abroad, do you have enough underwear? Growing kids? How fast do they grow out of stuff?  Can you do hand me downs? Cloth swaps?  Needles for sewing, cotton to do repairs, wool to knit new jumpers/hats/gloves, knitting needles to undo and re-knit old woollen clothing.

VJsmum

I loathe and detest tinned veg - except corn, i can just about stomach that.  So i am reluctant to get in loads of tinned veg but can see the sense.  Are there tips in making it more palatable, or better quality makes to look at?

Tinned fruit i can eat til the cows come home but tinned veg -