Bay Formula milk shortage

[cryingfreeman]

Well, how's this for some spectacular failure from a so-called prepper, i.e., me.

The wife and I brought our two toddlers to Germany last year on the assumption that SMA formula - the ONLY formula they would drink - would be readily available. We were supposed to stay with friends in the north before driving down to the Bavarian Alps to view a chalet we were planning to live in for a while. Only thing is, no SMA on sale anywhere in Germany. We tried Google, we looked at all the supermarket websites... Disaster. All because I assumed that SMA would be on sale Europe-wide. The then agent guy in the Alps told us he couldn't meet us that week and asked if we could come the next week instead. Double disaster. In the end, we had to abort the trip and return home. When we got to Hull we found the nearest Tesco and cleaned them out of SMA.

Since then, we moved to a nice house in the countryside in Ireland and weaned the elder toddler off SMA entirely. But what a lesson in preparedness. One daft assumption = one weak link = the whole shebang falls down.