Prepping for Brexit thread

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
Now Boris has said there’s a ‘strong possibly’ of no deal being reached in time it’s possibly time to make sure you have a good amount of necessary items. Medicines, coffee, tea, etc whatever is important to you and yours. On the news there’s already been reports of shortages and blockages at ports due to Covid so there could be a strong possibility of more.

Primrose

Well I wonder what we'll see the trolleys stacked high with this time round !   Reckon the hoarders last time are still getting through their stash of loo rolls (which are manufactured in the UK anyway. .  More likely to be things like cooking oil, olives, tinned tomatoes ,  wines , pasta & continental processed meat and cheese.  .   There's a limit to the amount of fresh veg which can be stored.   We should make this a good opportunity to start looking around the supermarkets and "Buying British".   Goodness knows, -  our own food manufacturers and processors have had a rough time with the pandemic and could do with us all putting our money where our mouth are  as much as possible. 

cuddlymarm

Maybe it’s time to start looking at local farm shops as much as possible and try to support our farmers and shop seasonally. It was ironic during lockdown that farmers had to throw milk away ( brewers beer too) We have a lovely fruit and veg shop in town but it’s just so expensive ( I’d love to buy all my fruit and veg from them but can’t afford to) 
If suppliers need to look to local suppliers surely that’s better for the environment too. I’d like to think that people won’t make much fuss about a shortage of oranges and of strawberries in winter, we’ve been spoilt. I used to love the treat of local strawberries in summer and a tangerine wrapped in gold paper in my Xmas stocking.Sorry I’m showing my age 😁 But now we expect the most obscure veg at any time of year.
Environmentally we need to cut down on meat anyway and if they government encouraged farmers to actually grow what we eat rather than paying to keep land fallow surely that’s not bad. It seems perverse that we send food abroad and then buy stuff we could actually provide ourselves. 

I’d like to think that this could eventually become a change for good but I very much doubt it will.

daz378

Well its an incentive   to lose weight   if my  diabetes medication and blood pressure  becomes hard to get  , fairly good food preps    ,  hard to prep for prescription drugs....stay safe

3secondmemory

cuddlymarm said:

It seems perverse that we send food abroad and then buy stuff we could actually provide ourselves. 

I’d like to think that this could eventually become a change for good but I very much doubt it will.

We only export a fraction of the cheese that we import - some people are going to be shocked if they think it’s as simple as swapping out Brie and buying uK cheddar instead - we simply don’t produce enough. 

It’s one thing to go without choice but we are running the risk of going without actual food

maryb

I think everyone realises there will be some disruption and possibly some price rises on food where we can't source from other markets easily but why do some people immediately leap to the conclusion that we will never again have access to food from Europe? (not pointing the finger at anyone here, just bemused at some of the wilder comments you read about).  It's not 1940 and the Germans are not going to cut off our supplies of onions from the Channel Islands.  

VJsmum

I think it's the log jam of lorries and the tarriffs that will raise the prices, mary.  I don't subscribe to the 'never again' thinking but have bought in additional tinned fruit and some veg (largely as soup and beans) in case.

maryb

I agree there will be logjams but not forever (French farmers are likely to get a bit narked after a while if they can't get their goods to market) .  But totally agree on having a well stocked store cupboard - always and for all sorts of reasons, you can't go wrong, as long as it's normal stuff you'll actually eat in due course

DigForVictory

Today one son realised Why I pine to go to Costco. We're out of cans of chopped tomato (I didn't know) & a son dumping six cans into a basket heard someone say "hoarder" & immediately put two back.
Whereas in Costco I can pick up 36 & noone blinks. (And it's at a better price & easier to move.)
On we go.

Primrose

Just glare at them and say "I'm shopping for  two vulnerable housebound individuals.  Who are YOU volunteering for?"