Who still has lockdown stockpiled stuff to use up? Own up!

[BaroldBalonz]

DD has just finished the huge box of glasses wipes which was bought on amazon near the start of lockdown. To be honest I accidentally bought a much bigger pack than I had intended to, but with all the crazy buying that was happening, who will admit to still having lockdown purchases that haven't been used yet, what are they, and when will you use them?

I was ahead of the game and stocked up a brexit cupboard when I was spooked by the stories about shortages of fresh fruit and veg. Yes, yes I was bonkers.

So I had a cupboard of bizarre tinned goods already when lockdown started. I have just about finished up the last of the tinned artichokes. God only knows why I thought I'd need so many artichokes in the first place

I still have tins of beans and canned beef that was first the Brexit emergency stash, then the pandemic emergency stash, then the what if nuclear war breaks out emergency stash.

Noticed yesterday that they’ve all gone out of date 🙈🙈

I have the tinned artichokes too! When I bought mine it was the LAST tinned vegetable in that supermarket. If the pandemic had been more deadly and farming had suffered more (still think it’s amazing how little food production was affected) then we’d have needed our artichokes…

I looked on in amazement when everyone was panic buying loo roll. Thats the one thing i didnt stock up on, cos if me and my family were hungry, the state of my arse would be the last of my worries.

At that time, I'd already made good headway into buying tons of canned and dried food etc.

I still have some canned chickpeas, cannellini beans and kidney beans left but maybe only 50 tins now so not too many.

@2Bornot just imagine, when society finally collapses and civilisation breaks down irrevocably, we will survive, happily outliving all other human life, thanks to our massive tinned artichoke stocks. Nobody will be laughing at us then!

I sanitise some of mine because they stink of a very heavy, cloying perfume which I assume is hand gel or maybe aftershave and it makes me feel queasy. It's not every item, and I spot it straightaway, clean off the pong and put it in the fridge.

Ditto the Royal Mail parcels, same thing, always from the same postie.

We did have tinned potatoes left. However we used them last week in the air fryer so nothing left now.

I mean I always have a stock so the only actual covid stock I have is covid tests I guess.

Oh yeah iv got hundreds of those too. Only because I'm not vaccinated and was worried they'd make you pay to get tested in order to go to work (if unvaccinated.)

The tinned artichokes remind me of the only article I did stockpile for Brexit originally and it was bottled red peppers. Was it 2018 or 2019?

Masks! Dh bought loads just before we stopped wearing them.

I never washed/quarantined groceries or post.

Hand gel.
Antibacterial wipes.
Masks - lots of masks 🙄

Probably some tinned fruit. I am not always very good at rotating my tins.

Tins don't go out of date, you can still eat them (within reason, maybe don't eat a WW2 spam tin).

Yes, as long as they're not swollen or damaged they can last a proper long time. If they've got dings then they're probably no good.

It'll be 3 years since I bought soap. We bought forwards a Costco trip in the Feb when rumblings were developing and people were talking about extra hand washing. We tweaked our Feb half term plans and I remember hand washing when we went in and out of the hotel. One pack of soap was 16 bars and I'm now in the second half. Lockdowns and restrictions meant we didn't actually use that much in the end because there was nowhere to go for vast chunks of 2020 and surface transmission was dismissed as a significant form of spread before there was anywhere to go anyway.

We also bought a pack of toilet rolls ahead of schedule (hence username).

My buying habits were relatively normal in March when shelves cleared. We were already stocked up for a potential 2-3 week quarantine before then.

Buying habits will have been different 23 March onwards because school no longer provided 2x5 lunches per week or DH buying lunch at the sandwich shop for the next 5.5 months+

A couple of big bottles of hand sanitizer (which we bought to decant into handbag sized ones) and several boxes of lateral flow tests (where I work a couple of times a week they were giving out boxes in the street and pressed boxes on me every time I passed).

I was a low level Brexit prepper so no Covid panic buying was ever required. A supermarket delivery driver actually comment to me in the early days that we were the only delivery he had that day that didn’t have any pasta, tinned tomatoes or loo roll on it. We didn’t need any.

I had no idea these existed!

I've got an 18 pack of loo roll in the loft & there it's staying just in case of emergencies.