Brexit survival guide: Stockpiling Food

[8ball]

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?

Might have it tonight on toast.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Stock rotation. Use the shortest dates and replace.

Stock rotation in the 21st century was considerably more widespread after...

 

[gentlegreen]

I've been off for a month with the flu and it's proven handy to have even larger stocks than usual

 

[Maggot]

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?

Mine will still all be in date on Halloween, might as well hang on to it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I will be buying eggs and tomatoes at the start of Oct in the hope and expectation they'll be rotten for halloween

 

[neonwilderness]

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?

If anyone's interested there might be some custard creams going cheap in Belfast soon

Shop owner who stockpiled food for no-deal Brexit says extension has wrecked his plans - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

If anyone's interested there might be some custard creams going cheap in Belfast soon

Shop owner who stockpiled food for no-deal Brexit says extension has wrecked his plans - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

What a twat.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

If anyone's interested there might be some custard creams going cheap in Belfast soon

Shop owner who stockpiled food for no-deal Brexit says extension has wrecked his plans - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Who knew garlic bread was made in only one factory in the north for the whole of Ireland ?
And the custard creams problem is worrying..

 

[neonwilderness]

Who knew garlic bread was made in only one factory in the north for the whole of Ireland ?
And the custard creams problem is worrying..

“Custard creams are very telling because they are something that only sell very well in the British Isles — Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. They are only made in Manchester and a few factories in Great Britain. It’s not something where you can ring up France and ask them to send you a few containers of custard creams — they don’t make them anywhere else.

I've just read the article properly, I didn't realise they shop was in the Republic. It looks like we have something to bargain with after all

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I've just read the article properly, I didn't realise they shop was in the Republic. It looks like we have something to bargain with after all

PMSL

 

[Libertad]

My stockpile has now melted due to the heat of the debate.

 

[mojo pixy]

with my tidy little stockpile of rice and lentils I'll still be able to fart in your general direction, no matter what

I say ''stockpile'' but it wasn't on purpose. they're cheaper by the kilo, and they last and last in the cupboard.

 

[Badgers]

Sounding more and more likely there will be a bit of a mess ahead eh?

No-Deal Brexit Will Cause Immediate and Ruinous Food Shortages, New Paper Says

Professor of food policy at City University, Tim Lang, says that Britain faces “unprecedented” levels of disruption to food supply, with the severest implications for low income families and food banks.

Writing in the Lancet, Lang declares that “low-income groups in the UK would disproportionately be affected by the impacts of a no-deal Brexit on food prices and availability. November is at the end of the UK agricultural growing season, so the availability of domestic fresh produce will decline.”

 

[brogdale]

BBC R4 'Today' calmly introducing the notion of post-Brexit food rationing.
What happened to the 'adequate food supplies' line?

 

[Pickman's model]

BBC R4 'Today' calmly introducing the notion of post-Brexit food rationing.
What happened to the 'adequate food supplies' line?

Dustbin of history

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Proper Tidy]

That picture says bread and chips will be fine, what's everybody worrying about

 

[Proper Tidy]

Monday - egg and chips
Tuesday - chip butties
Wednesday - eggy bread
Thursday - chip omelette
Friday - lobster

Calm the fuck down

 

[neonwilderness]

That picture says bread and chips will be fine, what's everybody worrying about

That is not a very can do attitude. People will just have to survive on lobster and scotch instead

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Chicken, beef, pork, mutton and eggs, dairy and fat are all ok...keto diet all the way

 

[kebabking]

BBC R4 'Today' calmly introducing the notion of post-Brexit food rationing.
What happened to the 'adequate food supplies' line?

Part of it is that in March/April the food supply chains have a lot of UK produce in them, but by October/November the domestic grown produce has, broadly, been eaten.

The other part is the deliciously nebulous word adequate. No one will starve, but the range might be reduced, fresh tomatoes for example might effectively disappear for X period of time, and specialist stuff like gluten-free might be problematic - but if you can cope with a diet of root vegetables, lamb, UK caught fish and UK grown apples etc.. then you'll be fine.

I would point out that the Falkland Islands live on the above diet, some fresh fruit is brought in from South America but it's very expensive, people eat lots of lamb, root vegetables, canned tomatoes, and locally caught fish - and no one starves, no one has that pasty grey look about them (though that could be the windburn...), but yes, it can get a bit boring.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Bit shit though innit?

 

[Pickman's model]

what sort of sick mind would eat toast and chips?

 

[neonwilderness]

what sort of sick mind would eat toast and chips?

Badgers

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I can remember when things like tomatoes were seasonal. There were times when there just weren't any, except at a high price from Jersey glass-houses.

It didn't do us any harm. OK, it did. Back to rosehip syrup for you lot then.

 

[Pickman's model]

Badgers

i think Badgers, our doyen of dining, would disown that disaster

 

[Pickman's model]

I can remember when things like tomatoes were seasonal. There were times when there just weren't any, except at a high price from Jersey glass-houses.

It didn't do us any harm. OK, it did. Back to rosehip syrup for you lot then.

same thing with strawberries

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Badgers

Yep. The FEB with extras is safe and sound

 

[crossthebreeze]

Part of it is that in March/April the food supply chains have a lot of UK produce in them, but by October/November the domestic grown produce has, broadly, been eaten.

Surely that's the other way round - Its easy to produce veg crops for harvest May-November, but after that it requires heated and lit greenhouses or stored crops. Main grain harvest is late summer. Less fish caught in winter though and there's more lamb and beef available in Spring/Summer, but more poultry and pork available in Winter.

 

[kebabking]

Surely that's the other way round - Its easy to produce veg crops for harvest May-November, but after that it requires heated and lit greenhouses or stored crops. Main grain harvest is late summer. Less fish caught in winter though and there's more lamb and beef available in Spring/Summer, but more poultry and pork available in Winter.

I thought that, but apparently not. Sounds illogical to me, but the food industry people seem pretty certain of it...