Panic buyers

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Aibu to think that it's damn ridiculous the way people have been panic buying?
Personally I think that all the supermarkets should take a leaf out of our co ops book and allow one 6 pint per person! Yes it caused a few rows but surely that is the fair way when stocks are running low.
It's always milk and bread, some people are so selfish and buy ridiculous amounts of the stuff.
It drives me mad.

Seriously 32 pints?? I told my 19 year old son and 20 year old daughter to drink more juice or water so that everyone can have a cup of tea, I'm sorry but that is ridiculous!

It's my teenage son who gets through it all. Milk was the only thing I was worried about running out of this week. Why? He can drink water!

32 pints in 1.5 days off school is not good for him! There are quite a few studies that too much milk can cause all sorts of issues with vitamins and minerals being leeched from the body in order to carry away the excess calcium; actually decreasing bone mineral density; increased risk of prostate cancer! You really need to address this!

Cows milk was all gone, but soya and coconut milk etc were all still in stock, people don't realise it's just as good if not better.

It's really really not as good if not better. DS is allergic to cow's milk so I tried them all when I was breastfeeding him.

Soy milk is absolutely vile. Oat milk is ok in cereal, but I would rather have my tea black than have any of the milk substitutes in it.

It’s not just people living rurally, you aren’t protected from supply chain issues living in a city. The roads in to our city in the north of Scotland have been largely blocked since Wednesday, many places large and small, city and rural are out of pretty much everything fresh. My husband was fortunate to find somewhere that was pretty well stocked on Saturday. We hadn’t panic bought but we probably should have stocked up better. We wouldn’t starve but we have a one year old who is meant to have at least 500ml milk equivalent a day I believe (yoghurt and cheese also count but were also in short supply), we get through at least a pint a day, more on the weekend. Of course DH and I could cope without but I’d have been a bit worried about DS, he obviously wouldn’t come to any harm in 3 or 4 days without milk but he'd probably have been pretty distressed at bedtime. Will make sure I sort out freezer out and make space for a couple of pints. As long as we have power we can make bread, that’s much less of an issue although it’s a nice to have.

Selfish? It's not selfish to buy what you need for your own family. IT's not my job to leave milk behind so someone else can have it.
Last wednesday I bought 3 times as much milk as I normally would. And its a good job I did because were snowed in until sunday and the shop had no milk even when we could get to it.
I'm not going to run out of essentials because you think I should let other people have the milk I want to buy!

..and that's why the government introduced rationing during the war.

Our local shop had limited milk coming in on Friday and so said one jug per person. No one moaned thank goodness. (We saw the last litre leaving the shop with someone else..)

On Thursday my local supermarket had completely run out of Gin!
( I noticed when I was perusing the rum)
I never knew there were so many Mnetters in my area!

Preview of coming attractions, March 2019

Time to invest in a greenhouse maybe if the Spanish veg can't get through?!

I think buying what you need to get through 3/4 days is fine, but some people do take it way too far. I'm making a note to panic buy next time though. I've only just managed to get bread this morning after four days. My local Co-op looks like its been ransacked! No bread, no milk, no eggs, no flour, no yeast. Pretty much no frozen food, very little biscuits/crisps etc and hardly any booze! They're closing for half the day to refill the shop. It's crazy.

I remember Richard of Richard and Judy fame having his Millennium Bug storecupboard. Bet he'll get prepped for Brexit!

YANBU... I’ve never understood the panic buying of bread and milk.... there are other things to eat and drink in this day and age!

Try hemp milk, it’s lush, not as watery as other milk alternatives. Tasty and healthy wahey

I was watching the news and was just getting ready to have a good old rant at a man featured, who had just bought 10 loaves of bread. I had to cut my rant short as he then went back to his village and distributed the loaves to the elderly folk who hadn't been able /willing to risk the icy conditions.

I was trained up by my mum during 70s shortages and blackouts.

I had all the candles and torches out on the counter ready last week. Every year I start restocking my tin cupboard in October. I'm trying to point out to my kids why they should do this as a bare minimum.

According to DP there was panic buying in our local Waitrose at the weekend.

Plenty of bog standard sliced white loaves but they had completely run out of sourdough bread & pain aux chocolat

Never understood panic buying. Back in the 80s we used to live on the outskirts of Cardiff and on a big hill, so any snow meant that we were cut off. So was the local shop.
But we planned each November to be snowed in at some stage. We always had a stock of UHT or powdered milk and some dried yeast and strong bread flour.
Even in those days a freeze wouldn't last for more than 7 days.
Crazy how people behaved last weekend. And it was only a couple of days or so!

LizzyCorday. Wow! Wouldn't want to be your NDN. Bet you wouldn't share with them either!

But why buy 20 pints of milk? Milk lasts what 3 days ... so you’d be having your 20th pint by day 60

Surely you must be aware that some people use more than a pint of milk every 3 days

We use 2 pints a day so 20 pints = 10 days.

Not that I would buy 20 pints, but it's all relative.

I gave up on powdered milk as I ended up throwing it half used. Uht is nice enough in coffee but I don't really like it for anything else. Tbh now the kids are older and flexible fresh milk is only critical for my VERY IMPORTANT cups of tea!

no additional shopping undertaken. We ate off the left overs from a bookgroup meeting on the Thursday, all good.

I think even people who use lots of milk and bread in normal circumstances buying shedloads and leaving none for anyone else who might need some is pretty selfish as well. As for the teenage boy who drinks 32 pints of milk a week that’s ridiculous surely?! Tell him to drink water fgs. He’s not a baby who needs to drink milk! If I had a baby and couldn’t get some because someone’s hulking teenager was necking nearly 5 pints of it a day I’d be more than a tad hacked off.

I got a loaf yesterday but before that we were on the same bread and milk I had bought on Tuesday. We ate other things and I didn’t have my lattes.

That's why I drink oat and soya milk - never runs out and few people dash off to the supermarket in horrendous weather to make sure they don't run out of it .

I cycled to four Tescos trying to buy a loaf of bread on Friday and there was nothing.

Not the end of the world, I can do without bread but it just shows how much people had been buying.

YANBU... I’ve never understood the panic buying of bread and milk.... there are other things to eat and drink in this day and age!

Of course there are but bread and milk are still staples. We use a lot of both in my house, is there any reason I should suddenly stop using it because there's a shortage? No, I should buy what I need.