Brexit survival guide: Stockpiling Food

[Pickman's model]

Hard Brexit would hit Danish bacon and butter exports to the UK

Bacon concerns

We've had our bacon

 

[yield]

Hard Brexit would hit Danish bacon and butter exports to the UK

Bacon concerns

But US pig farmers are allowed to follow practices banned in the EU including treating animals with the controversial growth stimulant ractopamine. Studies have linked ractopamine with adverse effects in pigs, especially hyperactivity, trembling, and broken limbs.

What is ractopamine? Googles

 

[tim]

Hard Brexit would hit Danish bacon and butter exports to the UK

Bacon concerns

Denmark joined the EU in 1973 alongside the UK, because they were worried about losing the British pork market.

 

[gentlegreen]

I always like to have plenty of food in in case I'm too ill to go to the shops, but today was the first time I consciously bought extra long life calories - uncooked rice ... just in case the spuds run out.
I also made a special trip for bread flour because I was conscious that the votes this week could mean panic buying by next weekend - let alone the end of the month
And I will be ordering my next bag of coffee beans a week or two early.

 

[Badgers]

 

[danny la rouge]

Might I suggest, if you have £600 to splurge on panic buying, you don’t need to panic buy.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's not so much the quantity of food and wine that astonishes, as the provision of toilet paper, maybe 96 rolls of toilet paper. how long are they panic buying for?

 

[danny la rouge]

it's not so much the quantity of food and wine that astonishes, as the provision of toilet paper

I suppose the buyer is crapping himself.

 

[Pickman's model]

I suppose the buyer is crapping himself.

dodgy takeaway on the way home perhaps

 

[Pickman's model]

all we've bought for the coming calamity is some tinned tomatoes, some rice and pasta and a couple of fajita kits

oh and a big bottle of tabasco

 

[quimcunx]

An ex workmate informed me that another ex workmate spent £500 on their Brexit stockpile for 2 adults and a puppy. I think the only specific she found out about was olive oil. We couldn't think of more than £13 worth of stuff we might buy although we didn't consider toilet roll, or booze.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I'm stockpiling fat.
On me.

 

[Badgers]

I'm stockpiling fat.
On me.

I had a sixth sense that Brexit would happen so have been piling on the fat reserves for ten years or more.

#stockpiling

 

[Chilli.s]

Heard some tale of bog roll shortages predicted, this could be the boost of sales that newspapers have been waiting for.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Heard some tale of bog roll shortages predicted, this could be the boost of sales that newspapers have been waiting for.

i might start picking up the 'metro'...

 

[neonwilderness]

Cider, wine and toilet roll - all the essentials

 

[gentlegreen]

My stocks have been severely depleted thanks to having the flu.
I had to unsubscribe from the preppers facebook list - some of the people on there were getting distressingly obsessed - but then I live in a part of town well-served for calories - and I don't have a family to look after,,

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

it's not so much the quantity of food and wine that astonishes, as the provision of toilet paper, maybe 96 rolls of toilet paper. how long are they panic buying for?

When the shit hits the fan, you'll need lots of toilet paper.

 

[Pickman's model]

When the shit hits the fan, you'll need lots of toilet paper.

not to mention disinfectant and cleaning cloths

 

[editor]

*merging in process!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

My stocks have been severely depleted thanks to having the flu.
I had to unsubscribe from the preppers facebook list - some of the people on there were getting distressingly obsessed - but then I live in a part of town well-served for calories - and I don't have a family to look after,,

I've been reading this thread and it was actually beginning to remind me of some of the prepping arguments I saw on those kinds of boards. At least they haven't started threatening each other with their guns yet, or revealed a hidden white supremacist forum.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

not to mention disinfectant and cleaning cloths

Sanitation is very important in prepping.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

One thing a lot of people forget to prep is medicines. If you have shortages of food, you can also bet there's going to be shortages of medicine. If you take a prescription on a regular basis, try to get a few months supply if you're allowed. I have one prescription that they have trouble getting on a regular basis so I stockpile it just to cover any of the shortages that happen normally.

On the gold vs. food debate: You should only stockpile gold if you have everything else covered. If it comes down to buying something you need when money no longer matters, you can always trade food, coffee, or alcohol.

If you're interested in prepping, the Mormon church has this figured out. They consider prepping for difficult times part of their religion. There's a very handy food need calculator here:

Longer-Term Food Supply

 

[gentlegreen]

I've been reading this thread and it was actually beginning to remind me of some of the prepping arguments I saw on those kinds of boards. At least they haven't started threatening each other with their guns yet, or revealed a hidden white supremacist forum.

Nah these are all perfectly nice people some of them deeply anxious - and it's made me think of those people who can't afford their food on a daily basis - let alone stockpile...

 

[grit]

Might I suggest, if you have £600 to splurge on panic buying, you don’t need to panic buy.

Thats not how it works, during last year's storm when food supplies in Dublin were pretty low, didn't matter how much money you have if the stock is not there.

 

[klang]

I spent my last dosh on a few provisions. I'm skint now, but at least I have enough food in the house to last me (according to my calculations) till April 12th. The worst should be over by then.

 

[Pickman's model]

I spent my last dosh on a few provisions. I'm skint now, but at least I have enough food in the house to last me (according to my calculations) till April 12th. The worst should be over by then.

or at least the wurst will be

 

[extra dry]

all we've bought for the coming calamity is some tinned tomatoes, some rice and pasta and a couple of fajita kits

oh and a big bottle of tabasco

Rice, lentals, beans, noodles and powdered egg.

 

[DotCommunist]

So what are people going to do with their mountains of panic bought food that they no longer need? Save it till haloween just in case? eat it all in one big sitting? give it to foodbanks?

 

[danny la rouge]

So what are people going to do with their mountains of panic bought food that they no longer need? Save it till haloween just in case? eat it all in one big sitting? give it to foodbanks?

Stock rotation. Use the shortest dates and replace.