How much of this extra bread and milk bought because it was forecast to snow will be binned

I bet most people have a turkey size space in the freezer right now. I freeze bread and milk but don't need to right now nor did I stock up. We eat what we buy, I don't go out in the snow. I don't rush for the shops when snow is predicted either. I have cartons of long life milk always and I have yet to see snow cut our area off for more than a week in my adult life. I'm lucky that we aren't buying day to day to live. I can live of what I have at any given time. Not everyone does.

The country doesn't shut down for the tiniest dusting of snow though, does it? Most people take sensible precautions if extreme weather hits, that's it really. And if you don't want to see overdramatic clickbait, I'd advise getting off Facebook - it's literally how it makes its money.

It depends where you live. There were literal feet of snow in Aberdeenshire.

I blame the Mumsnet "Preppers" board, and the bright spark in government in 2020 who decided "the only way to communicate with the public is to frighten the pants off them".

It really is pathetic the way this country shuts down for the tiniest dusting of snow, or ordinary summer sunshine, which then becomes "HELP!!! MURDER!!!" EXTREME HEAT!!!! CLIMATE CHANGE!!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!". My Facebook feed has been full of "extreme weather alerts" for the last few days.

Who are these people who binge buy bread and milk? I've never met one.

YANBU hopefully they’ll freeze it, but I doubt it.

I didn't buy anything additional to my normal amount, but we only had snow for 2 days here. I always have a few UHF milk in the cupboard and often some bake at home baguette things if needed.

This is like when Covid first hit and posters were complaining about the people stockpiling and how they would eat all the food. Then sainsburys put out the data and it equated to the average shopper spent an extra £20 a week at the height of food shortages - easily covered by the extra food needed from people who had school dinners /bought coffee shop sandwiches for their lunches near their offices now being at home all day. The biggest change was people who shopped daily or every other day suddenly buying enough for a whole week in one go. That change in shopping days not the overall quantity was what fucked up our supply chains. (Toilet roll was different- that was people being silly)

Ok OP you don’t have space to freeze bread and milk - which is unusual. Do you think everyone who bought bread and milk the day before the snow bought more than they could use up before it went off and don’t have freezer space?!

Most people stocking up aren’t buying beyond what they will use before that food goes off, they’ve just changed their shopping day.

And not everyone buys a ridiculous amount of bread and milk?

Some will be. Most will be eaten. People bought extra to cover the assumption they wouldn’t be able to get to the shops for 2-3 days, and possibly supermarkets - particularly smaller ones - would have disrupted supplies for a few days. When this happened last time, there was a peak of shopping for basics, then sales fell for a few days afterwards, essentially most shoppers had just shifted forward their purchases by a few days.

Few people actually bought extra over what they’ve consume in a week, they just bought earlier than they normally would.

We have lots of space in the garage freezer

Both can be frozen. 🤷‍♀️

We keep bread in the freezer anyway so it's not wasted. I bought extra milk but I bought the filtered milk as extra because it has a very long date

Agree. Where i am the empty shelves are because the deliveries are late due to the weather.

Also - bread and butter pudding.

You could even make ham sandwiches now and freeze them for another day.

I didn’t buy extra bread and milk, but if I had I don’t think there’d be an issue using them up. They last for days. Plus they freeze.

Is this just another thread bashing anyone who prepared for the bad weather? Because if so give it a rest. Some people live in areas where it’s wise to take precautions, or they have family circumstances that require it.

I bought precisely none , I didn’t even buy the bread I needed 🤣

People literally get over anxious about everything now . It’s like the world is ending . Even in the snow the supermarkets had deliveries 🤣 and you’re not dying if you can’t have a piece of toast or a sandwich .

Imagine if we had to go to war and ration food nowadays people wouldn’t survive without their 16 hours a day of grazing and a cup attached to their hand from the second they get up in the morning .

Got our chest freezer when I was pregnant with my eldest. Always have a spare loaf of bread, not usually milk though as I don't really like freezing that (although do if we have too much to use).

Just put it in the freezer

I'm just gonna live off ham sandwiches and milkshake for a week. I thought eggy fried bread would be nice too just to mix it up a bit.

Where is "here" because snow is still lying and causing issues "there" or do you just live in your bubble?