I plan on celebrating May's resignation tomorrow night.
Tsk.
The short supply things... I stocked up a while ago on things coming from the EU. Loo Roll, garlic, olives, olive oil, dried German sausage. Chances are there are plenty of those items stocked in warehouses somewhere and there won't be shortages, but I'd eventually use these up anyway so I consider it as just having "pre-bought" at prices when they were on good sale. (I did try to stock up yesterday a bit more on my favorite "Lazy" garlic, but Tesco now says they are out of it. (Minced, in jars.) So I'll be hunting around for a different supply. Fresh garlic goes bad more quickly than minced and that's why I prefer to buy the jarred stuff. Even though you lose a little bit of the flavor.) I'll be going to the next farmer's market and buying several packages of bacon and will freeze it. And to the Polish store for more of their lovely egg noodles. The bacon is British, but if the Danish supplies dry up temporarily there will be pressure on the British bacon market and I assume prices will rise or shortages may occur. Which is kinda funny, considering how much pork-barreling has gone on down in London in the last couple of weeks. {insert rim shot}
Yeah, well, I try.
I think the temporary shortages are going to be in the produce section, really. The Fresh Foods that will go "off" if they are delayed too long at the border for inspections and paperwork. There's not a lot of "prepping" you can do for that. The Daughter has been bringing home things like bell peppers that can be diced up and put in the freezer, so we now have a drawer of frozen diced peppers. I'm watching the markets for fresh berries, and will freeze some and process some into jars. I may experiment with drying them in the dehydrator, but I think it'd take forever and use up enough energy to negate any price savings. The only thing it WOULD do is let me reconstitute berries for use in cakes, etc., in times when no fresh berries were available. But it's probably not cost-effective.
Our freezer is tiny. There are times I REALLY miss having a good-sized American fridge freezer. The Fridge space I don't really need that much, it's the freezer I miss. I have always bought in bulk when things are on good sale, and then either canned, dried, or frozen them (as appropriate) for later use. Can't do much of that here, really. Well, not the last process, anyway. We have a bit of floor space available that I could put a small separate freezer into, but I don't think the electric circuits in this flat would handle it. (The breaker blows when I have the Christmas tree lit at the holidays and try to run the vacuum on the same circuit!)
The Daughter says that she can tell when there's been some announcment about Brexit on the days she works at the shop. There will suddenly be a "run" on items such as Kale or other produce. She says the Europeans she talks to seem to be more prudent, and buy long-lasting items such as dry pasta. And there was a Northern Irish guy who came in and bought a case of Irish oatmeal. (Which is smart, when you think of it. It lasts forever, and you can actually live on it. More or less.) She says that shes noticed the Eastern Europeans stocking up a bit more and the Scots and English don't seem to be doing much pre-buying. As much as she can tell. (It's not exactly a scientific study, but she's a good observer of people.)
Anyway, Daughter says that this weekend "The Herd was uneasy." People were more snappish than usual and many were looking a bit anxious. (She says she doubts they were aware they were being that way.) She is dreading the weekend before Brexit, and then the weekend after, at work.
