Stocking up for Brexit

euronorris

-taff wrote: »

Let's hope there are no 999 calls to say KFC is out of chicken again....:)

On that note though, it has occurred to me that if an issue with supply occurs, restaurants will also suffer. People might be more inclined to opt for a takeaway or a sit down meal somewhere if they aren't able to stock up their own fridges and cupboards easily (or simply just wish to avoid a super busy supermarket), putting increased demand on such places. One wonders if KFC, McDonalds and the like will run out of chicken or beef etc.

natlie

Hi

I started my prparations in 2016 - I put my name of the waiting list for an allotment - Im number 14 on the list now

I've been stockpiling since before xmas, we have enough tinned, frozen and canned food to last us around 6 months, shouldn't have any effect on supply and demand as we have been preparing for such a while

I wasn't going to be unprepared as I have 3 children and my husband is Pt self employed so even a small change in food prices would have affected us.

Nat

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I always keep a good store cupboard, I always have and I always will. My doing that all my adult life since I was 18 doesn't seem to have precipitated world wide famine or shortages in the shops so I intend to carry on stocking up as I normally do. What having a good store has done is see us through some very lean times when the children were young and I was a stay at home mum and the mortgage interest rates spiralled to 17 1/2%, along with what we could grow and utilise from the 3 allotment plots we were running. That didn't seem to be selfish either as there were many derelict plots not being cultivated in the area ours were in. I think it's a purely personal decision to make as to whether you do or don't keep extra stores in against a rainy day, bad illness, weather events, events that mean you can't leave home to shop because it's unsafe to do so but if you don't and chose not to accept other peoples decisions to do so then you can't come crying to anyone who has put in extra stocks because you and yours are hungry or ill or thirsty and expect to be helped can you? it's your choice not to help yourselves and you'll have to live with it!

njm123

Store cupboard always has been well stocked and I have a large garden to grow my own, all I'll do different whilst there is uncertainty is replenish my store cupboard with anything that's will need be bought in the next month rather than the next week or so - just so I can avoid the supermarkets as much as possible if there's a panic.

CollieDog2

Here's a question for you.

Do you think that Germans, French, etc shoppers are panic buying British produced foodstuffs?

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NO why would they? and I don't think the British are panic buying either, all most people are doing as far as I can make out is getting a few extra bits in case there are glitches in the supply chain and hold ups getting everyday stuff onto the shelves of the shops. I've not seen anyone with cars full of goods, or even piled high supermarket trolleys. The conversations I hear at the check outs are usually about getting a few extra tins in just in case they're short for a few weeks and making sure they've got enough tea, nothing sensational at all!

elona

I remember shortages of sugar. salt, coffee etc so have an extra bag or jar as well as some batteries, tealights, matches and a few tins of soup or tomatoes and pasta or noodles. I also bought a few toiletries like soap,shampoo, toothpaste and toilet rolls as I know they will get used even if there are no shortages. Nothing is a waste of money and will get used and I would rather have something and not not need it urgently than not have it at all and then need it urgently.

silverwhistle

I'm always well stocked but last year ran out of Darjeeling tea and couldn't find it stocked anywhere for months so ended up buying a kilo bag online.So supply chains can be vulnerable.



I bought back 4 kilos of carnaroli rice from my last Italian holiday, plus polenta, 30+ bottles of wine, olive oil and a decent size bag of dried porcini so I won't starve. (Most of the cheese and salami have gone though!). I still picked up a bottle of Puglian EVO in Lidl the other day, but I get through it quickly and there's a shortage of Italian olive oil due to disease and climate change.



But stocking for Brexit, nah. Might plant a few more salad leaves and chillies in the garden though..

-taff

silverwhistle wrote: »

I bought back 4 kilos of carnaroli rice from my last Italian holiday, plus polenta, 30+ bottles of wine, olive oil and a decent size bag of dried porcini so I won't starve. (Most of the cheese and salami have gone though!).

I'm coming to yours, you're speaking my food language. S|hame about the salami though....

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'd be interested to hear what other people have done/are intending?

Nothing.... I've gone without before and I could go without now... and I doubt I'll notice (except a short blip of a few empty shelves due to a few people panicking).

What do you actually need ..... very little in reality.