Stocking up on Food Brexit.

Nothing but the people panic buying and stockpiling will definitely cause the shortages

It’s not the people buying a couple of extra tins, tea, coffee and some long life milk in their weekly shop that will cause shortages. Panic buying at the last minute in the event of any disruption will be the problem.
I have got enough bits and pieces stored to last us around a month ‘just in case’. If everything goes smoothly, as I hope it will, I will have a cheap month or donate it to the food bank!

quizqueen if we were able to buy the food that is wasted before it even reaches the shops for being 'the wrong shape' then there would be plenty more on the shelves.

Anyone would think British farmers didn't produce any food. It's time to start supporting them instead of buying foreign produce
Let's hope the government gives them support too and the supermarkets stop trying to squeeze them financially until they give up farming, as so many have.

I don’t buy into such nonsense i’m afraid.

Anyone would think British farmers didn't produce any food. It's time to start supporting them instead of buying foreign produce.. If there's a glut of some things which can't be exported quickly for a while ( like lamb) then it will be on offer, so good for the consumer. If we leave without a deal then the EU won't be getting its 39 billion pounds divorce blood money so the government can use some of that to compensate businesses who may see an initial dip in profits.

It will be selfish hoarders who cause shortages not Brexit, which can be a wonderful opportunity for this country. Businesses have had nearly 3 years since the referendum to prepare and should have done so. Hopefully, the EU will collapse in the near future without our 50 million pound a day contribution and all the other 27 member states ( they are not referred to as countries, but as if they were mere possessions) will be free too. Any rebate grants the EU gave to us, begrudgingly, can be funded by the UK by just cutting out the middle man and making our decisions.

I never heard anyone singing the praises of the EU before the referendum was planned, now half the country claims to love being ruled by a badly run, domineering bureaucracy based somewhere else. I don't understand the mentality of it at all..

No. You'd think we were going to war the way some people are thinking.

No not stockpiling

If you keep a hen and a cow like Gabriella you could make real custard luluaugust! Sugar from British sugar beet, just stock up on vanilla.
Sorted.

Not stockpiling anything just hope there isn't a shortage of Birds custard powder!

I see this as an opportunity for Great Britain to rise aga8n 8nstead of be8ng a slave EU insanity and loss of ident8ty. We were grea5 before the EU, we manufactered everything, produced food and imported from the comm9bweslth. Why not again? We still have plenty of talent, so get up and get doing, remember8ng w8th a pang, Sheffield Steel, shipbuilders, Auto builders everything. We don’t and never have needed the EU, the6 need the UK. Get rid.

Nothing! We won't need to. This a Fake idea put in place by manipulative people,

I think you need to look at the idea that we might not be able to obtain the goods we are accustomed to buying and try to see it from the other side of the divide. Just imagine the reaction of producers if they were forbidden to sell their goods to us - it really isn't going to happen.

The only reason that we buy so much from within the EU is protectionism. Protectionism is only put in place when there is a fear of competition from outside of the small group involved. There are far more countries outside of the EU which are keen to do business with us. The Commonwealth has about twice as many countries as the EU. There will always be alternative sources for anything we need which is why the protectionism has been put in place by vested interests in the first place and is why they launched Project Fear to manipulate our thinking to maintain the current status quo. The EU don't even want us they just want our money. This is why the agreement we are expected to agree to apparently includes payments to the EU going on into the 2060s!

As for stockpiling, I thought everyone kept a store cupboard as we always have done. My MIL started ours off for us when we got married and I have kept it going for over 50 odd years. I have a good sized larder which is shelved floor to ceiling and all foodstuffs are kept in there except for the frozen stuff. We have always been able to last for a few months except for things like fresh milk, yoghurt and eggs but we could easily manage without if we had to. OK it might be boring but equally we wouldn't starve! We have always grown as much as possible and also picked from the wild so our food does not always come from a supermarket.

Authoress, when you said that your thyroid meds came from France, I understood your concern.

I rushed to look at mine which have just been delivered.

They come from a UK pharmacy with a world wide distribution network so we should be OK. Hopefully!

I won't be stockpiling anything for the reasons already cited. I will buy what is available or do without!

I will swop to wine from areas outside EU.

The UK wine producers are getting better, so that's my wine habit sorted!????

Yes - I'm hoarding gin, prosecco, wine..... Oh hang on- that's nothing to do with Brexit!!

There are no shortages of loo paper so the myth about China buying all the paper, is rubbish.

grandMattie
Whyever not? Beef is from cows not pigs.
When the milk dries up I'll kill the cow.

Definitely not!!!!!

Those who are financially able to stock their freezers and cupboards to cover every doomsday scenario being peddled by the remain camp, will cause shortages for poorer folks who live hand to mouth.

If you are reliant on medication (I am), do you actually think that these giant pharmaceutical companies would actually let people die??? They would have all manner of law suits arriving on their doorsteps if that happened!!!

Stockpiling = selfishness in my opinion!!!!

Dried eggs! havent heard of them since the end of WW2 Its ridiculous starting to stock up,get a grip, its only propaganda, wait till things happen, then there will be panic buying, we arent there yet.Keep cool GN s

Stocking up will make it all worse and the supermarkets are encouraging panic buying of, in particular, loo rolls by putting them by the checkout.

I remember exactly the same things Jane43
Granny's outdoor loo had a wooden seat a pull chain and the squares of newspaper.
I also remember the butter mountain, sugar and bread crises as well as electricity cuts where you had to check in your local shop for the 3 or 4 hour blocks when your leccy would be switched off. We survived. ??

Sorry, Gabriella, you can’t have beef AND milk. Know the old proverb? Eggs are a days work for the chicken and bacon a lifetime commitment for the pig!

I'll buy just two items. A cow and a hen = milk cream butter cheese beef chicken and eggs.

I refuse to stockpile anything as it will cause shortages which wouldn’t have happened otherwise and people on a strict budget will suffer as they can’t afford to buy extra of anything. I remember squares of newspaper hanging in my grandmother’s outside toilet, a sugar shortage in the late fifties and queueing up to buy bread in the seventies and of course we all survived.

I've got a few tins of beans tomatoes and chicken in my Brexit box also tea bags but keep dipping into them when I run out.!
When the war started my father bought a huge tin of corned beef and when he died in 1982 I wrote to the manufacturer who arranged to collect it and later informed me that if we had eaten it immediately when opened in 1982 we would have been OK ! So much for best before dates on tins these days.

For those who survived WW2 when ships bringing food and other commodities vital to existence in the UK were sunk and food rationing was imposed then this is nothing more than 'panic attacks' no doubt instigated??? by doom and gloom remainers many of who were not even born during those years.