Food Stockpiling
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The Chief Honcho at Tesco did say that they are taking steps to try to have stocks come into different ports to avoid relying on southern ports like Felixstowe etc.
He also said they have been hoarding food themselves in anticipation of difficult times so that their supply is evenly spread. However I have noticed their shelves to be lacking in quite a few areas, especially foreign food stuffs but we haven't starved yet.
About time to resurrect the Fishmonger as we're going to have a greater supply of fish, unless we use them to barter with.
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It could help get over all the Christmas indulgences and I baulk at all the food journeys being shown on the news. Changes ahead for sure.
I also looked up where my porridge oats come from, Canada! That's one heck of a food journey.
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We use Flavahan’s Porridge Oats brue, usually get them at Aldi, but I think some of other supermarkets do them. Organic Irish.
If we were twenty years younger, and no one to care for, I think we would have emigrated. If Scotland gets Independence, Dumfries and Galloway looks mighty tempting.....
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One of the problems will be fresh produce. In the early part of the year we rely heavily on imported fresh food. There have already been reports of some fresh food exporters not sending food to UK because of existing port delays. Any disruption at the ports -- wrong paperwork etc will cause issues for fresh stuff with very limited scope for delay before it cant be delivered.
This could then cause knock on effects - e.g. more canned & frozen veg being bought, leading to shortages. If overseas cheese cant get in - pressure on UK produced cheese.
Most of our frozen potato products are made from EU potatoes! It depends on what stocks manufacturers have as to wether there will be shortages.
The man at my fruit & veg stall in the mrket told me he didnt expect his wholesaler to have much overseas produce come January!
As the man from Tescos said a few weeks ago - there will be gaps on the shelves, no one will starve, but people might not be able to buy what they usually do.
And food we import from non-EU countries could get caught up in port delays as well.
Overall, over the year, we import about 50% of our food - not just for supermarkets & markets, but for manufacturing other food products.
It may be that first week or two of January will have limited effects, but later there will be other shortages, as stockpiles, reserves etc are used up.
It seems to me that supply chains in supermarkets have not yet fully recovered from the first lockdown, so I am working on the basis that there will still be disruption for several months, to some degree.
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Ah well our £4, 25 kg, locally grown sack of potatoes should see us through. It's interesting what people buy in locally and what they buy from other countries.
We have an organic farm shop near us but they buy wholesale from the EU as well as growing their own products. It's out of season fruit and veg that might be affected.
I'm glad to hear that Tesco and others are making contingency plans. Maybe Covid has alerted them to what happens when they don't.
I would miss tea and coffee if these were in short supply.
Cheese (cheddar from Somerset) I'm happy to buy locally, others are just a treat.
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We'll always have our own meat in the freezer, and fresh milk every day. I try to keep a stock of frozen vegetables, and we still have our own apples, damsons and gooseberries somewhere deep down in the freezer. Plus a good supply of flour for the daily bread making, so we will cope.
We try to buy British, and as local as possible, but somethings Britain can’t grow. We would miss bananas and grapes.
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Never mind, look on the bright side....all this logistics mayhem may slow up chlorinated chickens and meat pumped full of stuff long since banned in the sensible world. The tourist shops in Cheddar could be selling cheese from Wisconsin by this time next year!
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PD wrote " I bet there are still folk using toilet rolls bought last March."
Do they have a 'best before' date then?
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Hi
I must admit to stockpiling. I have 108 cans of guinness in the garage. That should see me through to boxing day
JK
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I was reading this BBC article the other day LINK I quite agree about the "perfect storm" comments on here. I've now put some extra "stock" items on my shopping list.
At least the contents needed for the mince pies I'm about to make are already in my kitchen.
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We have used Mornflake before. I stand chastised ABM, I will actively seek their porridge out from now on👍😁
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Just had a thought.......prompted by AbM’s championing of local British (proper still made in Britain, not sold their soul to the multinational giants overseas) food and drinks products, how about a thread championing locally made foodstuffs? Sure to be some that we might not have heard about......🤷♀️
I will start another thread......
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Talking of Tesco and their green credentials the" local essex chicken" that is in our local Tesco store ,according to our grandaughter , is sent to Scotand for processing and packing then back as our local chicken?
In their "defence?" it is on the dailey Eddie Stobart Tesco container train with many other goods
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I could be very wrong but I understand food stockpiling to mean increasing the warehoused stocks of all sorts of food stuffs that can be stored to act as a buffer against intermittent supplies.
For years now many things have been supplied JIT (Just In Time) but for a host of reasons including CV19 and Brexit this ideal is not always possible and reliable.
It does not only apply to food stuffs. For example I have to take a drug made in the Netherlands. Supplies are no longer assured JIT as the pharma has on recent occasions found it difficult to source some of the raw materials and transport has not been reliable. The NHS now holds extra stocks centrally in the UK and for those that need it at local hospitals.
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You would be astonished at how many miles some “local” food travels.
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Not sure about the stocks of my meds, LLM, but I put a request in on line via a Patient Supply Point on Sunday evening ". Book Early For Christmas " is my surgeries normal comment. But by 'eck it woke the recipient up sharpish and I got a response " We have seen activity on your account ~~ if it was not you please reply urgently ". No need to reply 'cos it was me, so I waited and got the phone call from Pharmacy Central on Tuesday afternoon to say come & collect. Went in on Wednesday lunch time after the rain stopped & told the counter staff what happened and they asked me how I did it since they were regularly on the phone to them for two or more hours !!
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I now have my meds delatrivered from Echo pharmacy ,part of the Lloyds pharmacy and get an email each month adviseing to order my next 28day meds supply ,i just "check"the email and the next i know is another email to say order has been accepted and dispatched followed by an email from royal mail saying they have my 48hr del and date of arrival with no signaturs required and it is in letter box size packages ad come wth any other mail ,and if away it will be sent to where we are if wanted
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I think the one I like most is the claim of a particular celeb restaurant near us that all of their ingredients are sourced locally. True as it mostly comes from a nearby wholesaler. However, much of it travels thousands of miles to the wholesaler first. 😂
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