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Brexit survival guide: Stockpiling Food

'We have a Brexit shelf': readers preparing for a no-deal scenario
I started stockpiling a few months ago, buying tinned and long-life products each week when they were on offer. I am treating it like a sensible insurance, although I have been accused of acting irresponsibly, which I thought was slightly odd? I am planning to buy a chest freezer and to start building up a supply of frozen meals I have made. My plan is to have three months’ food supply by the end of March.
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What are British people stockpiling in case of messy Brexit?
I am trying to do my best to avoid political rhetoric and look only at facts. While I still have faith that the people behind the politicians, the civil servants, industry leaders, lawyers and indeed the administrators of the EU are working hard to prevent a no-deal Brexit, the facts around reverting to WTO regulations leave me concluding that April 2019 could be a very sensible time to be self-sufficient, so I’m already stockpiling.
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I have bulk bought/bought food on offer for years (when it's food I'd normally use and when it's *actually* cheaper) but since my LL gave notice of my rent rising last January - and with us hopefully having a move coming up fairly soon :hmm: - I have literally spent the whole year using up all of those stocks just so I had less to pack, really :D and then, since that's mostly gone, sticking lentils into everything etc.
I found it quite liberating/fun, too!
I pretty much never waste food but having only the food I will use within the next week or three, including tins and dried stuff (even where I still watch out for price per kilo etc) has been very different, although I have been looking forwards to restocking a bit once we move.

NOW, I find out that quite apart from panic-buying leading to more panic-buying (and therefore potential shortages) even reasonably sensible people are doing some low level stockpiling - WTF? :mad: :facepalm: :confused: :D
 
Honestly, if people think there is a likelihood of a Brexit where a stockpile of beans is going to be useful, they’d be better off putting their money into foreign currency, gold, antibiotics, tobacco etc, because it wouldn’t just be “oh Sainsbury’s is empty let’s just carry on as normal”. (Actually I might buy some euros because it’s not like the exchange rate is going to get better in the near future is it?)
 
There's also the option of retraining the bowel - I might just have to get over my lasting nerves about having a shit at work when there's only one toilet. :hmm:
Do I CARE anymore if everyone knows I just had a shit? I did it for my children! :mad: :cool:
 
I wasn't gonna do any stockpiling, but as the date it getting closer, I'm starting to think it would be a good idea.
 
I'm aware that this thread is called "...stockpiling food" but I guess we may need to consider the nutritional value of the gelatin base of film at some point. All that protein just sitting there.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Honestly, if people think there is a likelihood of a Brexit where a stockpile of beans is going to be useful, they’d be better off putting their money into foreign currency, gold, antibiotics, tobacco etc,
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A can of baked beans is 30p. How many mg of gold or antibiotics are you planning on exchanging per can?
An average person uses about 2200 kcal per day. There are about 262 kcal per 100g of rice. That is about 839 grams a day so at about 2 months supply (61 days) of supply that would be about £51 spent per person (given about £1 per 1kg of rice). That is less than 1.5 grams of gold.
And why buy tobacco when duty free will come back on the ferries and airports again?

If a person is worried or at least risk averse then stock up on the things you will use anyway that can be stored, at worst you pay for them a little early.
Leave gold, antibiotics and tobacco to the online "sages".
 
ferrelhadley said:
A can of baked beans is 30p. How many mg of gold or antibiotics are you planning on exchanging per can?
An average person uses about 2200 kcal per day. There are about 262 kcal per 100g of rice. That is about 839 grams a day so at about 2 months supply (61 days) of supply that would be about £51 spent per person (given about £1 per 1kg of rice). That is less than 1.5 grams of gold.
And why buy tobacco when duty free will come back on the ferries and airports again?

If a person is worried or at least risk averse then stock up on the things you will use anyway that can be stored, at worst you pay for them a little early.
Leave gold, antibiotics and tobacco to the online "sages".
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If there are shortages to the level that people need to rely on stockpiles of food, society will collapse. Under such circumstances, negotiables will have a lot more value in terms of getting you out of there. You're not going to be able to pay a people smuggler with beans. Even if you don't want to get out, they will give you a lot more flexibility as to what you can get hold of or people you can bribe.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
If there are shortages to the level that people need to rely on stockpiles of food, society will collapse.
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You are pretty thick aren't you.
You go from claiming people need to stock micrograms of gold and antibiotics to buy baked beans (like who does this work?) to suggesting that stockpiling dry food to avoid price rises is an indication society will collapse.
The claims are that in no deal brexit the rate of flow of goods at the ports will slow which will harm the availability of perishables.
Here in the UK we have lived through periods of sustained shortages. In lower income countries such periods are the norm.

Storing foods you will use anyway as a hedge against no-deal slow down at ports is a low risk stratagem. Buying micrograms of gold and antibiotics to trade is a bit more .... open to interpretation.
It takes something more akin to Germany 1945 and the USSR 1991 for an industrialized society to collapse.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
If there are shortages to the level that people need to rely on stockpiles of food, society will collapse. Under such circumstances, negotiables will have a lot more value in terms of getting you out of there. You're not going to be able to pay a people smuggler with beans. Even if you don't want to get out, they will give you a lot more flexibility as to what you can get hold of or people you can bribe.
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True. When it snows and Morrisons runs out of bread and milk I get quite cross. The only thing that stops me making a real fuss is it's really cold and slippery out there. I think that's what keeps society safe even despite the lack of a decent white bloomer: shit weather. If this is all going to kick off on the only good day in spring I can only imagine the strongly worded complaints.
 
Poot said:
True. When it snows and Morrisons runs out of bread and milk I get quite cross. The only thing that stops me making a real fuss is it's really cold and slippery out there. I think that's what keeps society safe even despite the lack of a decent white bloomer: shit weather. If this is all going to kick off on the only good day in spring I can only imagine the strongly worded complaints.
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I mean really it’s kind of your fault for not having filled an entire room with UHT milk and sliced white. You’ll be saying you don’t have a wheelie bin full of teabags next.
 
I'm rearranging things in preparation for the next stage in my house overhaul, so I've started by consolidating my food hoard.
I appear to have far too much pickle and sauces :o
And I'm down to 24 cans of tomatoes from a peak of more like 60.

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I was doing some repairs at work and fired up "Yellow Submarine" on Youtube and in between classic Beatles tunes it kept delivering recipe adverts for corned beef :hmm:
 
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