Stocking up on Food Brexit.

Nothing. Panic buying and stockpiling just lead to food shortages. People with very little money and some who live hand-to-mouth will be the ones who end up suffering the most as they can only buy as and when.

No, not stocking up at all.

To all those worried about loo paper shortages, DS works in a paper mill. The shortages are due to China purchasing more than their fair share.... nothing at all due to Brexit!

I know things have changed but we managed before we joined the EU & I am sure we can again. What we need to do is train more people here to the jobs that we need people for. At one time there was a glass making manufacturer in Castleford, West Yorkshire. It closed in the 1980's & moved to Europe. We need to start and make more things at home, including growing crops etc. Yes it will take time and it will be hard in the short term.

I live in the country so if I run out of anything it means a trip out in the car so I always keep a reasonable amount of tins and frozen food in, especially as I only do a shop every three weeks or so apart from fresh veg etc that comes from a farm shop. We would could probably survive for a few weeks on what I have at the moment. Certainly not stock piling due to Brexit, but Brexit apart every few weeks or so in the papers they say there'll be a shortage of something, I don't take any notice of that either.

I have pasta and pulses and lots of dog food. There will be shortages if we crash out. The Health Secretary has boasted that he is the biggest buyers of fridges, so that they can stockpile meds. Prices will rocket as there will be profiteering. The supermarkets are stockpiling. In the event of no deal, then the first to go will be fresh fruit and veg. I am sure we won't starve but it will not be situation normal.

Perhaps farmers will be able to grow crops on all the ‘set aside’ fields.

Our giant chest freezer is already full of home grown fruit and veg. If there are shortages I will enjoy thinking my way around them.

GONEGIRL, it’s a shame we no longer have those huge telephone directories. I remember us using them as toilet paper after the war. (No we didn’t have a phone.)

Nothing.

Ffs, what is the matter with you, Sparkly Grandma!

I am not stocking up on anything. There is a lot of scaremongering going on at the present. I suspect from people who do not want us to leave the EU.

Nothing yet. But would it be very bad of me to start stockpiling Cart D'or salted caramel ice cream? Just in case. He he.

Kim Branston is only good when eaten with a good, ripe cheese!
Fortunately we are not that far from Cheddar!

Stockpiling cat food? Whatever next!
What happened to enjoying a nice tasty mouse?

Chewbacca

How can you go out and pick up extra antibiotics - surely you have to have a prescription?

There were shortages of certain medicines months ago - it's a worldwide problem in the manufacturing.

Not a thing. I'll adapt and survive if I have to. J your Branson sounds highly desirable. The wit and humour here is what I truly love about GN. Keep it coming please.

I say chaps - let's revive "Dig For Victory", put an Anderson Shelter in the front garden and dig out that trusty old recipe for "Woolton Pie".

And lets mobilise the Womens Land Army too.

Nothing.

Nothing. Ridiculous idea, life would be chaos trying to climb over cartons of provisions. When we were young we ate seasonally available food, there really is no need to fly fruit and vegetables into the UK from elsewhere in the world.

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It is all Project Fear III, scaremongering for Millenials

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

There is no point in stockpiling because the sky is going to fall in, the sun will stop shining, the moon will be blue and amazingly life will go on as usual.

Nothing.

We are actually getting some things that you can’t get in the UK....such as rice, pasta, chopped tomatoes, kidney beans and pulses ...I know I could make pasta, but I can’t be asked ) .and I’m getting stocked up on my fave shower gel/oil ( I know ) it’s the only one I use these days and it’s french. My reasoning is, they may not be able to get over the border for a few months and it may go up in price....a lot.

Nope. Utter rubbish. All the necessaries of life can be bought British. If I want strawberries in January then I'll have to go over to apples!
Do you think the European sellers are going to refuse us their produce just to prove a point, and lose all that revenue?
All scaremongering drivel.

Not food; but I have been very slowly building a stock of my thyroid meds, which are made in France.

I am not stockpiling anything - this is silly alarmist nonsense from those who don't want Brexit to happen. I am hoping to see a revival of British farming; perhaps we can enjoy the fruits, literally, of the garden of England in years to come and have English apples, cherries, plums etc. from Kent instead of looking at plastic boxes in the supermarket with Chile, Spain and South Africa as a source. How the planet would benefit if we ate what WE can grow and cut back dramatically on fruit and vegetable imports. That is my little pipe dream - and I don't have any nightmares about food running out - for one example, New Zealand were offering to discuss trade deals with us the day after the referendum result was announced. The Commonwealth is larger now than it has ever been so let's make the most of that too.