Stockpiling?

Ah - but the original spirit for some British made gins comes from France

OK, I know it makes me a foodie Philistine, but all cooking oils taste the same to me. I never eat them on their own and, when I cook with them I cannot taste the flavour in the food. Mind you I use very small portions, perhaps a teaspoon or two.

Anyway I use rapeseed oil because it seems to be considered the best for cooking.

Slight panic here - my big freezer has died!! I have been doing lots of batch cooking (Not stockpiling) and it is full.

The only thing I'm stockpiling at the moment is hay! After the hot, dry summer we had last year, supplies of hay are dwindling and the price is sure to shoot up.Anyone with horses or rabbits should be doing the same.
As for Brexit, we won't starve. We shall have to start a 'buy British' campaign. One of the idiotic things about the EU was importing goods we are perfectly capable of producing ourselves. Yes, the prices might be higher, but at least we'll be supporting our own growers.

Kitty that is a nightmare! Our big chest freezer died when we were on our summer holiday a few years ago - that was horrible to come back to. We are trying to clear the backlog in our freezer, then I can make room to store useful things, instead of lots of fruit.

It is some time since that happened to me, but I seem to remember that Curry's were great about an emergency delivery of a new one.

I do not know where your freezer is kept, but mine have always been in the garage, so with really cold weather on the way, providing you do not open it you should be OK for 24 hours, maybe a bit longer.

Mine is in the garage monica but I have to watch DH as he keeps wanting to check how things are which would involve open the door and poking it!!

Currys delivery is 3 weeks according to the website. We have visitors today so can't do anything today. Hey ho!!

It's all rather silly, isn't it?

kitty try ao.com. Usually next day delivery. Speak severely to Mr Lester about door opening. When ours died a few years back the contents were replaced via our house insurance. At least we only had to pay for the freezer.

We tried to claim the contents on the insurance years ago and they needed photos of everything and the cost of replacement. It was mostly homemade so almost impossible to quantify. When I told my butcher he said I should have claimed it was full of fillet steak and he'd have given me a receipt!! I didn't but I was sorely tempted. I won't bother this time!

Kitty hope you get your freezer sorted out soon. When it happened to me I distributed the stuff around the neighbours.

I was referring to the initial post, by the way, not to anyone having problems with their freezer! ? I hope those problems are resolved quickly.

OMG just been lurking on the dark side and there is a thread called DH's Brexit Cupboard (sorry, don't know how to/can't do a link), but there are 32 pages of people saying how they are all stockpiling for Brexit. My goodness you folks, I thought, get a grip!