Nevine Mann, 36, and her husband Richard, 37, said they have been buying extra food and medicine each time they go shopping ahead of the March 2019 Brexit deadline.
The couple, who live in Illogan, Cornwall with three children Oliver, 18, Ethan, 13 and Paige, five, have also stockpiled tinned goods as well as dried milk, coffee and pasta.
Mum Nevine has insisted stockpiling is "a matter of survival" if Theresa May's Brexit deal doesn't make it past the parliament vote on December 11.
Since Brexit negotiations began, Nevine said they started buying more dried food and believe they have enough goods to survive a No Deal Brexit for at least four months.
She said: "The results of a No Deal Brexit would be catastrophic in terms of getting supplies in the country, certainly in the short term. We're waiting to see if the new deal goes through or not."
She continued: "If that doesn't go through, it will be No Deal because there won't be enough time to sort another one out.
"We started buying extra of things we would usually buy. When we are shopping we buy beans for now and beans for later, rice for now and rice for later. There are a few things we wouldn't usually buy, like sources of vegetarian protein and powdered milk."
Nevine, who home schools the couple's children, added: "We've got baked beans, chickpeas, couscous, pasta – we've got things like tea, coffee, Ovaltine… We also bought Marmite so we can have some flavour."
While the stockpiling measures may seem extreme to some, Nevine insists the family are "not going over the top", adding: "We've got enough to get us through the first couple of months if there is No Deal."
The Mann family's cupboards are already stocked with 52 tins of beans, 16 cans of tuna, large tubs of mayonnaise, eight cans of chopped tomatoes and four packets of passata.
Nevine added: "It's not about being able to live comfortably, it's about being able to survive."
The family's stockpiling comes after industry leaders revealed food warehouses are now fully stocked for the next six months after an unprecedented rush in the days following the publication of Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal.
The Food Storage and Distribution Federation warned that Britain isn’t set up for stockpiling food but storage space is now fully reserved from January to April – usually the quietest time of the year.
FSDF boss Shane Brennan told the Guardian: “It’s a problem, because food is manufactured or stored on a just-in-time basis, and the system isn’t built for stockpiling.
“But because of Brexit, every business that wants to guarantee its supply into UK shelves is looking for additional warehouse space right now.”
On December 11, MPs will vote on the withdrawal agreement that was approved by EU leaders on November 25, 2018.
Parliament has demanded that the Brexit treaty can only be ratified by the Government after it has been “approved by a resolution of the House of Commons on a motion moved by a minister of the crown”.
The vote will be a straight yes/no format in a bid to make a decisive and "unequivocal" decision on the PM's deal.
But the outlook for the vote isn't positive as Theresa May has already had two ministers resign over the deal and her own Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, also quit as the draft deal was presented to Parliament.
Labour and factions within her own party have declared their intention to vote against it.
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