Food Stockpiling

This prompted me to check my organic tesco porridge. No country of origin clues!

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I think they're organic but possibly not all uk grown, here's one that is uk grown LINK (Pipers Farm in Devon) they sell Hodmedods Oats.

A suitable candidate for the British Food thread. 

Dammit, David  __  YOU have a computer or similar  __ ask them, tomorrow !!

Grrrrrrrrrr

 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

 

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.    

You would be astonished at how many miles some “local” food travels. 

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 !!

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

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. 😂