To wonder who did all the stockpiling?

[stayathomewannabee]

Now pictures are emerging of massive food waste...
Who are/were these people.
We have decent incomes as do many of our friends and none of us stockpiled...
We are full time workers with primary school age children.
So who bought all the stuff? And who the heck stockpiled soya milk?

Everyone has changed/adapted their normal shopping habits. I would normally do a big online shop for the bulky/heavy stuff then pop to a supermarket for odds and ends of fresh stuff twice a week. DH likes to go at the weekend for some nice odds and ends that he cooks for us.

That’s now all become one big weekly shop done in one place (if we’re lucky). We’ve probably bought a bag of pasta extra, a tin of something here or there when we needed. Shelves at home are normally pretty well stocked so we haven’t panicked, although I wish I’d grabbed a pack of loo roll when a delivery arrived as I was in the shop a couple of weeks back! DS is on the autism spectrum so I’m in the habit of keeping favourites stocked, just in case. I’m dreading any of those running out.

I do know one person who stockpiled after talking to a friend from China. Her normal shopping habit (no DCs) was to buy a few ready meals here and there, nothing in the freezer but vodka, lots of meals out and takeaways. Fully admitted to getting in as much tinned and dried food as possible and paracetemol etc, and packing her large freezer with as much as she could, going to several shops a day to do so. I don’t condone the behaviour in the slightest, in fact I’m disgusted, but for people without DCs who don’t normally meal-plan this has been a seismic change and they probably haven’t reacted appropriately in terms of the quantities and types of things they bought, because they didn’t know what they were doing, just thinking purely about their own survival.

I usually do a fortnightly big shop then a small top up for fresh fruit some veg the week in between, milk gets delivered. I didn't even do that this week

Still no answer on where the pictures are exactly.

Had a look on the Daily Mail and they had pictures of food in bins in Derby. I'm guessing that's why nobody is admitting where they saw them, because they're from the DM. That's a bit pathetic.

I saw those photos, the green bananas and fish cakes...
A bin man took them, on his route in Coventry.

The photographs were taken by a Libdem councillor in Derby.
The same councillor says he will reveal who bought much more than they needed in order to re-sell in small shops at a ridiculous profit.
Some people just have more money than sense.

Agree @pjmask it’s calmed down loads. But it’s created so many problems that we didn’t need, and I’m sorry but I have a lot of hate for people like @BubblyBarbara because of that, Babs love you are an idiot for doing any sort of stockpiling.

To all of you who didn't stockpile, thank you.I'm sorry to say that I did. Although let me explain why.

My dc is chronically ill and is high risk if she were to catch coronavirus, we cannot leave the house for the foreseeable future and have no family locally. Next week will be our fifth week of isolation. We have so far relied on the kindness of volunteers to collect prescriptions but would have had no way of getting a food shop. When our food supply runs out I have no idea what we'll do if we still can't manage to get an online delivery. We're waiting for the supermarkets to identify us as vulnerable which hasn't happened so far.

Was it still immoral of me to fill three freezers and a large fridge?

I've stockpiled due to CV. I have enough dried, long life, tinned and frozen foot that we could probably go for a month without leaving home.

No food waste at all though...and everything I've bought is stuff we usually eat, just more of it.

We're still buying regularly for fresh.

I mean there is an entire forum called “preppers” on mumsnet. They have been discussing stockpiling for months.

Personally I stockpiled essential goods with good shelf life back in January. I also bought toilet paper because I read people panic buy it. Saved me some time looking for it but practically everyone I know was able to get some.

We like sardines.I used to have a stash in the cupboard and when it was getting low then buy whole box. There was always plenty left on the shelf anyway.Now not only fuckers cleaned the shelves but if there are any available I can only buy 3. Price went up too.

I used to buy stuff in bulk when on the offer, now I can’t do it.I think tesco has abolished any sensible food offers (which might help in panic buying). I live an hour’s drive from the nearest supermarket. I can’t afford corner shop prices.

One child with ASD, likes particular stuff, one of them being fresh pasta in chilled section. Poof. Gone.Everything.

No flour anywhere.Aforementioned corner shop sold out their entire stock of flour half an hour after delivery.

We have 2 adults and 2 kids in the household. I need enough food for all of us to last a week.

I started cooking less food. Whatever’s left I eat. We can’t afford to waste food.

I’m angry that some selfish fuckers are so disrespectful towards food. Hope one day they will taste the true hunger.

To be honest, I’m now over the panic buyers/stockpilers, because hopefully they have enough to keep them away from the shops and not need an online delivery. If the supermarkets can get decent systems in place to accommodate the new shopping habits and people don’t or rather can’t, overbuy, maybe just maybe, the stockpilers will start sharing their wares within their local community rather than letting it go to waste...or is that wishful thinking?

The parents of DH's coworker. Bought 16 bottles of hand sanitiser just because they could. That was te first of many things she got pissed off with them for.

I haven't stockpiled anything.
I'm lucky though dh is an excellent cook and really can't create meals from anything. We also grow all our own herbs so things taste good.
If I lived alone id be far more reliant on ready meals.

Can not can't.

Why can't everyone that stockpiled, now give it to food banks.

@Timefor45 😂😂 as if, these people are so hideous they would rather stuff went to waste and chuck it out then share it with anyone. They’re a type aren’t they a definite type.

@squishedgrapes see below

Why can't everyone that stockpiled, now give it to food banks.

It's not the people who stockpiled, it's the people .who panic bought. I've stockpiled for a while, in the past week I've thrown out 2 slices of bread as stockpilers tend to buy long life products.

Prepping, stockpiling, panic buying, buying a few bits extra a week, it’s all pretty much the same thing and has led to less food in the shops and more in kitchen cupboards and freezers.
Fair enough if you are doing it to prevent you going out so often. Fair enough if you are buying for others. Fair enough if you suddenly have More meals to prepare due to everyone being at home.
I think most people fall in to one of those categories. No one will admit to panic buying for no reason apart from ignorance.

Why can't everyone that stockpiled, now give it to food banks

The reasons I stockpiled are still there. I want to be prepared for if we can't go out at all for several weeks. No one knows if the worst is still yet to come.

these people are so hideous they would rather stuff went to waste and chuck it out then share it with anyone. They’re a type aren’t they a definite type

As for this - yes, I am a 'type'. The type that wants to ensure her children are fed. If that makes me 'hideous' in your eyes then i'll accept that - it won't change my actions as my reasons are good enough for me.

There's no need for me to throw out anything as everything I've bought will be used. But from now on i'll use from the front and keep adding to the back and make sure I've always got at least a months stockpile - this has taught me not to be so reliant on always being able to nip out for half a weeks shop at a time like we'd got into the habit of doing recently.

As for this - yes, I am a 'type'. The type that wants to ensure her children are fed. If that makes me 'hideous' in your eyes then i'll accept that

I agree with this. We can’t easily access more food. I’m keeping my stockpile (which I’ve had since we thought we were hard brexiting, built up over several months a few bits at a time) in order to make sure I can feed us until we can get a delivery, which is at least three weeks away.

My sil proudly topped up her haul of bog roll with extras taken from my mum's bathroom. 52 in total. Makes me so so cross as I'm the one who's doing my mum's shopping now

We will work our way through our stockpile eventually even if nothing happens.

Please... prepping and panic buying are not the same thing , I have food put away in case of supply chain problems resulting from Brexit , from September 😊

As a day by day shopper with a fairly chaotic store cupboard, I am deeply impressed by the Preppers on MN after the last few weeks of supermarket madness. I went back and looked at thread one of Prepping for a Pandemic, that they started at the end of Jan. People came on and mocked them, but they just got with it. They weren't the ones causing the mayhem.

I bought extra because I needed extra. I usually have breakfast and main meal at work (it's heavily subsidised by work, and saves time shopping/cooking). So my usual shop is pretty minimal. I'm sure there are plenty of others like me - and people who travel a lot for work and eat out on expense accounts.
I also bought some pasta and a couple of jars of pesto to tide me over for a week if needed.