Prepping for Brexit thread

Throwaway1

mardatha wrote: »

Throwaway, you have to look at what you eat. What your family like, and buy extra of that. Sit and work out what you eat in a normal week, and then work out how many weeks you want to stash. It could be 2 weeks or 2 months; 3 weeks or 3 months. So then work out how much extra you need to buy and do that gradually.
Focus too on multi-purpose foods, things that will give you more than one meal. Like porridge oats, they can be breakfast but they also can be flapjacks or oaty crumble or biscuits.
Bread mixes, cake mixes, flour. But watch how you store it.
Things that will make soup, like tins of cheap carrots and potatoes, lentils and broth mix.
It'll come to you, it's easy!

Thank you! We've just done our weekly shopping now so I've bought extra tins of things we like. As I say, we don't have much storage room at the minute but it's a start. I tend to try and buy extra of things that I know will never be any cheaper than they are now, such as supermarket own brand things. They pretty much never get put on offer and will only increase in price. There's also only certain brands I buy when they are on offer as they tend to be on 3 weeks out of 4. Bags of doritos and accompanying dips for example are almost always reduced to £1 so I refuse to buy them when (like today) they are back to 'full price' of £2 each. I know they'll be back to a £1 again next week so I'll just wait.

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Ms Munroe is a woman of strong social feelings and not afraid to speak her mind but this is a free world and if you voted remain or voted leave you will still need to eat if there are or aren't any problems around Brexit and whatever you voted you are still allowed to shop in Aldi for whichever products you want. Emotions are already running high over the prospect of Brexit I expect views will become more and more extreme the closer we get, all views are valid that's free speech and democracy at work but I will keep my own to myself and buy what I think we need and just carry on as best I can and get through whatever we find before, through and after Brexit as quietly and normally as possible. No song and dance, no upset, no blaming anyone just getting on with life. The herrings are safe from me in any case so that's OK then!

betterlife

Decided to do an online grocery order this week, and split it between sainsbug and ice**** found an £18 off a £60 spend for the 1st one (£1 delivery slot) and got £11.60 off the other (& free delivery) so spent approx £80 (there’s 3 adults, 2 teens and 10yr old) and the free coupon code money I used for winter/Brexit stock preps. With a big family I’ve always tried to keep a good stockpile anyway but didn’t really expect to be able to afford it during school hols, so I’m really pleased with what I’ve ordered.
I find sainsbug quite expensive these days but have bought lots of basics, which we like anyway to make it stretch.

mardatha

I don't know where everybody gets these money off coupons for home shopping - I've been getting Sainsbugs for years and never get anything off!
Re JackMunroe - you can't think that way if you are a prepper of any kind. You can't help everybody - it's not possible. You are doing the best you can for your own family, and that's it.
I never used to think this way but a few hard times in my own life showed me how life really is
And I'm damn sure Scotland does, or will, produce enough herrings for all of us anyway

VJsmum

Jack Monroe does more to help the underprivileged than almost anyone. They (I believe they don't identify as a woman) are a person of high moral principles and are a better person than I will ever be. they were cross about a government whose members told the country everything would be milk and honey now telling people "actually there may not be enough food" when there isn't enough food now - or at least money for it. The comment about leavers and stockpiling was unfortunate IMO because they were pretty spot on about the rest.

We can only do what we can do. Help ourselves but help others too. Donating to the food banks - especially leading up to brexit - will help that. I won't go mad with stockpiling, a little at a time should not affect prices. It's the panic buying that could, and I think that was what Jack was afraid of.

I am thinking my normal stocks plus a small bit more. I tend to have lots of tea, coffee, porridge oats, tinned chickpeas and other pulses and Tinned fruit anyway. As well as bread and plain flour, butter, cheese, sugar, honey, marmalade,long life almond and soya milk. To that I'll add some LL normal milk, other tinned veg, a couple tins of corned beef for the carnivores,. I have slightly OOD tinned fish which I'll use and replace.

Obviously there isn't going to be nothing but there may be less and prices may go up (TBH that's probably a given) and being prepared will help get over the "hump" period - and leave us in a better position to help others if necessary.

moneyistooshorttomention

I get their point as well - ie Jack Munroe's - and what they say is a valid thought that hadnt occurred to me. They are someone of high moral principles indeed and I get described as a "campaigner" sometimes - but I agree they've got higher principles than most of us have/than I have. I can only imagine how difficult it is to be them sometimes - as even a few principles can make life rather more difficult for the person holding them.

Yep...I also call Jack "them" and "they" - because they arent a "woman" or "her". They are a person/sex irrelevant and I guess we'll soon know if they are reading this thread - because they'll be on it having a right go at being called a "woman" and "her".:cool:

It does make sense to me to refer to a person the way they refer to themselves - so as a "man" (if they refer to themselves as a man), a "woman" (if they refer to themselves as a woman) and a "person" if they don't wish to be identified as either sex or I don't know.

I did manage to keep my cool personally yesterday when the group of women I was in kept referring to themselves as "girls":mad::mad::mad:. Note to other women - please do NOT refer to women as "girls" - as some of us haven't been a girl since 17 years old (ie the year before we reached adult age).

It shows disrespect imo to refer to a person a different way to the one they refer to themselves.

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Thank goodness for Scotland then Mar if herrings are the thing that float your prepping boat. For me it's an odd thing to throw into the melting pot and not something I'd have in my preps, tins of tuna and salmon and mackerel fillets but not herrings or kippers, nit picking on my part perhaps, but the truth.


Talking about 'the truth' I'm slightly bemused at the number of times the vote to leave has been blamed on 'false news' and advertising campaigns. I can only speak as me and I made my own mind up on 70 years of life experience and a personal opinion, we don't do social media, we don't watch party political broadcasts, we didn't read the leaflet type literature that was posted and put through the door and that was written in the newspapers. I think it would be most insulting to assume that the majority of the British population were influenced one way or another because of the media, particularly those who are older and not quite so likely to be on twitter, Instagram, facebook for 23 out of 24 hours of the day. We are given an education and taught to think in this country and despite appearances to the opposite most of us can and do and did!


My preps will continue to build but only with things that are our usual eating pattern and then they'll definitely get used in time!

Farway

I also find it odd that the losers blame False News and Russian trolls because the vote did not go the way they wished, but in the same breath blame the older generation, who in the main, like Mrs LW & me never watch any of it, ignore leaflets, take everything with large heaps of salt and rely upon decades of life to guide us

mardatha

I think a lot of this is because we have twitter and facebook etc. In the past, we read stuff in newspapers and on tv news, so only the selected pundits had their officially authorised say. Now everybody is saying what they think, including politicians, and it all gets out of hand very fast. All that hot air rising..

lessonlearned

Last time I looked we were still a democracy........

To lump all voters together (whichever way they voted) is just lazy thinking and also very insulting. People vote according to their conscience and for what they believe in, so even if you disagree with how someone voted you should just leave it there.

Boy, girl, man, woman....what does it matter. A rose by any other name and all that. :rotfl:

I worked in the construction industry. I was called everything......, girl, woman, lass, wench, sweetheart, darling, pet........hey some times I even got called by my name. :rotfl: Did I take offence, of course not. Did it make me any less of a feminist .....of course not. I was a woman in a mans world.

My Male colleagues and bosses treated me with the utmost courtesy and respect. i was appreciated for my worth and abilities and the way I did my job. My gender had nothing to do with it. I did a good job and was rewarded well.

If I had insisted on being called "woman",rather than "girl" or "lady" I would have made myself a laughing stock and no one would have taken me seriously. Instead I wowed them by using my brains and by being a team player. In my experience throwing a hissy fit over the word "girl" and being a drama queen gets you nowhere.

In my turn I called them men, boys, guys, blokes, gentlemen, geezers......all depending on the prevailing circumstances. Did they take offence at being called boys.....of course not.

Of course the words "boy" and "girl" can both be used as a derogatory term. But surely it is easy enough to tell the difference between when they are being used as an insult as opposed to just a word used jn general conversation. And of course.....they can both used as a term of endearment.

Farway.....you have it right. I have been able to vote now for 50 years now. I make up my own mind. I am not influenced by the media. Like you say, I use my experience and trust my own instincts to guide me.