Brexit survival guide: Stockpiling Food

[danny la rouge]

They probably controlled pumping stations so if they went offline the taps could run dry.

Surely the private companies are still using Victorian technology?

 

[xenon]

Surely the private companies are still using Victorian technology?

Worse. windows XP.

 

[danny la rouge]

Worse. windows XP.

It could have been Vista. So that's a blessing at least.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bought two packs of napolina spaghetti @ £0.75 each on the off-chance I'll need them in the future.

 

[2hats]

If you bought the 30p cans, that would be 200 tins of tomatoes, or 80kg of tomatoes. Keep me going for a few weeks.

How many loo rolls does that correspond to?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How many loo rolls does that correspond to?

No idea, but if the supply chains fall apart we can always use dock leaves instead.

 

[2hats]

No idea, but if the supply chains fall apart we can always use dock leaves instead.

I shall stick with KCN.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Could the pound collapse afterwards? If so then energy costs could get brutal. Maybe time to install a wood burner?

That's a stone cold cert. You'll remember the Pound devalued immediately after the Brexit vote (and did so again earlier this week because of fears about the possibility of No Deal, although it's largely recovered since). So you can be sure it'll take a big hit straight after March 31 next year. Currency speculators, investment companies and hedge funds around then world will have been planning since the referendum how best to profiteer when Brexit eventually happens - shorting the £ will be a feeding frenzy on the markets. The only question is, by how much will it be devalued? I recently saw an estimate of between 15% to 30%. Whatever, it's almost inevitable that the Bank of England will have to intervene to prop the currency up. We're all going to feel the pain.

Now get your hands off those tins of pilchards in tomato sauce - they're mine!

 

[klang]

And what did you stock up on?

bits and gigs.

 

[extra dry]

Bread, butter, cheese and coffee OK, right?

Chocolate, wine, fruit, veg and fish.

 

[2hats]

For the millennium bug I conveniently located myself at a first strike target.

No such option this time, so I'm on the Isle of Man: it's effectively a training course to prep and condition one for the post brexit time vacuum.

 

[A380]

Bought two packs of napolina spaghetti @ £0.75 each on the off-chance I'll need them in the future.

Pickman's model earlier.

 

[kebabking]

A woodburner, off-grid gas, livestock (I'm particularly looking forward to eating the Goat), assorted children, and shotguns.

We'll hold out for two weeks post brexit-day, then we'll decamp to the wife's cousins farm in Wales. Most people will have run out of petrol by then, so the roads will be clear.

 

[girasol]

It's fresh goods that will be at risk not tinned and dried products, according to a mate of mine who is senior at a FMCG company.

He reckons we might experience short term empty shelves on products manufacturered abroad due to delays in the supply chain, but if one mayonnaise isn't available other brands are available.

The real problem will be the supply chain for our fresh meat, fruit and veg and the additional cost on all products that may arise from added complications in the supply chain.

Which you can't stockpile for really unless you are in to hedging the price of your tins of tomatoes

But maybe it might be wise to buy non perishables precisely for that reason. Don't think it'll be necessary though and yeah, before this was mentioned here I did think 'millennium bug panic' all over again.

People just love to catastrophise,

 

[NoXion]

I believe it's called disasterbation.

 

[twentythreedom]

I've got a boat

 

[spitfire]

A woodburner, off-grid gas, livestock (I'm particularly looking forward to eating the Goat), assorted children, and shotguns.

We'll hold out for two weeks post brexit-day, then we'll decamp to the wife's cousins farm in Wales. Most people will have run out of petrol by then, so the roads will be clear.

Cabrito Goat Meat Ltd. – British Kid Goat Meat

Goat (Book) – Cabrito Goat Meat Ltd.

 

[blairsh]

I've got a boat

Fancy being my croissant dealer?

 

[A380]

A woodburner, off-grid gas, livestock (I'm particularly looking forward to eating the Goat), assorted children, and shotguns.

We'll hold out for two weeks post brexit-day, then we'll decamp to the wife's cousins farm in Wales. Most people will have run out of petrol by then, so the roads will be clear.

Won’t you have been deployed to the Birmingham front by then?

 

[kebabking]

Won’t you have been deployed to the Birmingham front by then?

Bollocks to that - if dystopia strikes they'll stop paying me, and my loyalty only goes as far as my salary.

Hopefully we'll just nuke'em anyway...

 

[Fez909]

Will we see emigrant camps forming at Dover?

Not so much a jungle, but a thicket.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Bollocks to that - if dystopia strikes they'll stop paying me, and my loyalty only goes as far as my salary.

Hopefully we'll just nuke'em anyway...

Nuking Birmingham isn't a bad idea.

 

[kebabking]

Nuking Birmingham isn't a bad idea.

See, sensible policies for a happier Britain.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

See, sensible policies for a happier Britain.

And you, as a military grunt, have access to nuclear weapons. So you can make it look like a mistake happen.

 

[friedaweed]

I'm already planning going north of the border

 

[scifisam]

That's a stone cold cert. You'll remember the Pound devalued immediately after the Brexit vote (and did so again earlier this week because of fears about the possibility of No Deal, although it's largely recovered since). So you can be sure it'll take a big hit straight after March 31 next year. Currency speculators, investment companies and hedge funds around then world will have been planning since the referendum how best to profiteer when Brexit eventually happens - shorting the £ will be a feeding frenzy on the markets. The only question is, by how much will it be devalued? I recently saw an estimate of between 15% to 30%. Whatever, it's almost inevitable that the Bank of England will have to intervene to prop the currency up. We're all going to feel the pain.

Now get your hands off those tins of pilchards in tomato sauce - they're mine!

So basically stockpile the currencies of countries you're likely to visit in the next couple of years.

 

[UrbaneFox]

I've got to buy some insecticide. Maybe I should get six cans, just in case. And strong bin bags. 80 rolls should do.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

So basically stockpile the currencies of countries you're likely to visit in the next couple of years.

See rich people have probably already done that. They can just leave with a bit whilst the proles eat each other things calm down a bit.

 

[A380]

Nuking Birmingham isn't a bad idea.

How would you tell?

 

[Pickman's model]