so, when will you be starting stockpiling I wonder?

Thanks Jalima will check it out.
I had looked on google but it said to pick when the cobs were still milky!
The cobs are hidden in their green wrapper (leaf like thingy)

Ilovecheese it took me a minute to realise it wasn't a dinner invitation.
I will watch from behind a cushion

cherrytree59 and tonight at 8.o clock: Sausages!

part

Perhaps you have, gbob. Misunderstood, that is.

Irish peasants lived on potatoes and not much else without getting fat, janea. I've lived on a pretty high carb diet all my life without getting fat. The much vaunted, 'healthy', so-called Mediterranean Diet (which isn't a diet but just people eating what's around in that oart of the world) is high carb.

What I'm driving at, and some of you will be shocked, no doubt, is that for all the talk of hungry kids, one doesn't see thin ones much. You're much more likely to see an overweight kid than a thin one nowadays. I'm not counting normal weight kids as thin.

So what I mean is that what the media tells us doesn't hang together. Evidence is thin about real, actual shortage of calories (hunger) in this country.

All this is regardless of supposed Brexit consequences.

www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-harvest-sweetcorn/
We haven't grown any this year but it should be a good year for them!

Thanks Ilovecheese

As long as the UK can provide seasonal food including meat and fish we will just have to cook with what's available!

We have only a small garden and a plastic green house (bought for the GC's Easter)
However thanks to our small DGS's planting seeds such as peas, beans amd sweet corn
(just wish I knew the correct time to pick the cobs ) and planting up tomato and cucumber plants we have quite a little market garden going.
Oh and DH has managed to grow one aubergine!
Next year(brexit hard or soft) we will be adding potatoes in a dustbin and carrots to the list.
Children need to know where their food comes from (imho).

Perhaps people will have to learn to cook seasonally.

www.lovebritishfood.co.uk/british-food-and-drink/fruit-and-vegetables

If there are shortages of imported fresh fruit and vegetables, it’s possible that everyone might get fatter and less healthy as they fill up with bread and potatoes.

I hope I have misunderstood your last postBaggs I’m sure I must have

I wonder how many tins of spam were left at the back of cupboards when rationing finished?

*Jalima I can see what you mean 're processed food.
Panic buying now will undoubtedly cause problems later on and as you say it will be the less well off who will eventually suffer.

Community centres could ask for Tinned or long life produce donations from the general public.
They would probably have the storage space and could work with the food banks

Our local farm shop is full of fresh produce such as seasonal fresh vegetables fruit and meat to make Sunday dinner, stews casseroles salads etc.
And also to freeze if you so wish.
We are lucky that it also has a fresh fish supplier 2 days a week.
The fish is brought from Grimsby.

I think the weather is more likely to make home grown food scarce rather than Brexit.

Here's a thing. If, as we're told, poorer people tend to be fatter than less poor people and if the current alarms about food shortages turn out to be justified, could it not, after all, be a good thing and help with the obesity epidemic we keep being told about?

Jalima My mother was horrified during wartime rationing when well-off people had great stockpiles of tinned goods - she said it went against all the principles of letting everyone have a fair chance of getting essential supplies, whatever their financial means. Even after rationing finished, when the shops were full and there were no restrictions, she was scornful of the selfishness shown by some.

Anniebach, hats off to you for being an Akela. Brown Owl and our local Akela were essential to our sanity when children were young. Husband and I (both working)had a few weekends a year to relax in the knowledge that our youngsters were safe and having a brilliant time, whilst learning life/team building skills.

GrannyGravy, lightening the mood is good, I have switched off too, it’s all ‘what could happen ‘ in the media . We lived through ‘what could happen if Russia dropped the bomb’

As for cooking on a camp stove may i as a one time Akela who took cub scouts on two week camping trips summer , one week in winters advise cooking on a camp fire is a doddle , leave it to 9 year old boys , you will be amazed / horrified ?

Jalima1108
Your post 31/07/2018 13:03
How thoughful and caring...well said.

cherrytree59 BBC2 and yes it is on iplayer

Jalima1108 , agree with your last post.

Apologise to anyone for the levity of my previous 2 posts, just trying to lighten the mood.

Yes, it was on here and it was Grandads* post of yesterday, 22.09:
Well, with such reports becoming now widespread, Carol my wife and me have genuinely decided to begin stocking up. Tinned vegetables and meats will be the main commodity drawing on our experience of camping with our three young daughters many years ago.
In those days with sufficient tins of potatoes, peas, green beans accompanied by a large tin of minced beef and onion I could knock up a meal for five on the camp stove in next to no time.

The reason this disturbed me somewhat is because, if people do start panic buying all these kinds of foods and loading up their store cupboards, presumably these are the kinds of people who can well afford to do so. If they can afford to stockpile tins and packets of food then they could presumably afford to shop locally from farm shops etc, ie locally grown unprocessed food, if a problem with the supply chain arises.

If tinned, packeted, dried foods disappear rapidly from the shelves then could this cause problems for people who rely on food banks to help to feed their families? These are the types of food that many people buy regularly to donate to food banks (not an ideal diet, but better than families going hungry).

And if, as has been said, these processed foods are made here from imported food, then would that mean a halt in the production and the supply of these processed foods?

Does it seem to be a selfish move for the better-off to empty the shelves of long-life foodstuffs by panic buying, spreading the word on the internet and causing shortages for those relying on food banks?

Just a thought and I hope you can follow what I am trying to say and that this is not tltr.

Jalima1108 you are welcome, if we are going to 'hell in a handcart' as it's predicted, I am going out with good friends, good food, good fizz and merry.

Nobody has a clue what is going to happen, even those in charge, I am definitely trying to be positive, cannot deal with all the negativity that we are bombarded with from all forms of media. ??

Last night I was thinking about a post on here (it could be on another thread) about stockpiling, which disturbed me a bit. I will try to find it and respond.

We'll be round GrannyGravy - will you barter champagne for Bronco toilet rolls?

I shall stockpile prossecco, and champagne. When it runs out I shall try English sparkling wine, which I hear is very nice???

But it would be the first time its been useful wouldn't it?

Yes, but sometimes, when they're sitting there, some people tend to read what's available!
And it would means buying it in the first place