Stocking Your Kitchen

[Socksontheradiator]

After reading some threads regarding 'stockpiling' for Brexit, I have noticed that what some consider to be hoarding, is what another posters think is normal housekeeping.

As an example, one poster got furious at the thought of 'stockpiling', which some people considered as having an extra couple of weeks' worth of food. Yet same poster said that if there were a few days of low stocks in the supermarkets, she would be able to feed her family on what she already had in the larder/freezer.

So, what do most of you do? I have been in a situation where money was tight, and it was a toss up between buying petrol and putting food on the table. On that basis, I like to keep my larder and freezer full where I can. Our area also had a burst main water pipe last year and the water supply to was cut off for 2 days. The shops were very quickly empty of bottled water, so now I keep a few bottles of drinking water in, plus two 5 gallon drums of water from an outside tap.

Would you class this as stockpiling, or just common sense?

I think that it's just common sense to have a decent back up stock of things like pasta, tinned foods, etc.

I don't understand people who only have just enough in at all times if they have the means to provide a buffer.

I tend to stock up on things when they are on offer, because I'm too mean to pay full price. For example, most items such as cleaning products, pasta sauces, tins and frozen goods tend to go on offer in a fairly predictable cycle. Makes sense to buy at least enough of a particular product that you like whilst it's on offer, to last until the next time, rather than get just what you need for this week and pay full price next week.

I keeping off stocking to last me at least two weeks on average I don't consider it stockpiling I consider good Housekeeping
It's things like beans tomatos rice pasta tinned fish at least 3 or 4 meals worth of meat and a loaf in the frezzer lots of spices and herbs .
I do not keep ( or use ) bottled water .

God knows what happened to the first line of my post I keep enough stock to last

Thank you. I'm glad it's not just me!
So called 'panic buying' criticism gets me too. People complaining about others buying extra at Christmas for example. Of course people who are hosting say double their usual number are going to buy more!

My freezer and cupboards are always full. I've been really poor in the past so now I always like to have plenty in. Once you are stocked up then it's easy to maintain as you're only replacing the things you've used. Like a pp I tend to buy stuff on offer too so you do save money in the long run.

DH's family were pretty poor growing up so we keep staples stocked up. Probably enough for 7 days day/tinned food.

There is a cupboard in our house fondly referred to forever more as 'Brexit', it houses rice, pasta, tinned toms, ketchup etc.

It's judgmental nonsense.

I haven't prepared for Brexit, but I always have one or two spare packets of key things like rice, and I make my own jam, so at least a dozen of those. I do t consider it a moral issue 😄

I'd say we've got enough in our cupboards/fridge/freezer for 4-5 days of nice food then an additional 3-4 days of mismatched, cobbled together old shit but which would suffice as sustenance.

We cook everything from scratch though so as long as we've got stock cubes and passata we're basically fine for all manner of sauces.

I've got enough teabags for a few months

@DinosApple that made me grin as our larder has become known as the 'apocalyse stash'.
We also have a lot of tea bags dirtydennis and could probably cobble together several weeks of old shit when the good stuff runs out lol.

I have just dismantled my Brexit box until Halloween and put 19 tins of tuna in the cupboard

We tend to largely empty our fridge every week, but we have a stash of tins and dried goods. We have a pathetically small freezer though.