No-deal Brexit food crisis. Keep calm, drink tea and eat bread pudding!

The final countdown to Brexit has coincided with my wife having a new kitchen, complete with new gas cooker, installed.  The inaugural pudding she baked was a traditional Old English Bread Pudding – and delicious it was too!  

A traditional Old English Bread Pudding.

So, with the prospect of a no-deal Brexit crisis resulting in food shortages and empty supermarket shelves, according to the more hysterical media reports, what contingency plan could be better than to stock up with enough of the ingredients needed to maintain a plentiful supply of bread puddings, and of course tea, milk and sugar, until the food convoys from our friends in North America and Australasia battle through the EU economic blockade – or the traffic jams at the Port of Dover?  

A traditional Old English Bread Pudding - just about to be tasted!

We won’t count on food parcels from the Swiss Red Cross as no doubt they would be intercepted by Herr Juncker’s army of customs officers as they cross the French and German frontiers.

Just in case the crisis is prolonged and we might like to vary the menu a little my wife is checking the recipes for Taunton Toasts, Mendip Munchies and Priddy Oggies.      

Update March 5th.
I submitted this blogpost to the Western Daily Press as a letter and I am flattered to report that it was published today with the title " Stockpile now before 'Brexit Doomsday'".