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?

@MintyMabel no one can easily access food because If idiots like you, flaming Nora, it’s because of you, you can’t get a delivery fir 3 weeks, if the people like you had not been so idiotic, there wouldn’t be issue. By preparing for a none existent problem you created the problem.

Coronavirus is a non-existent problem?

@EmmaBridgewater20

Nobody is going without food now because I added a few extra items to my shopping basket each week over a period of months since the middle of last year.

The problem isn't non existent, is it? I can't have any food delivered for at least three weeks, probably more. I'm going to need the food in my cupboard to feed my family.

I grew up in rural north Scotland where having an extra stash of food was sensible in winter. Having it and not needing it is better than the alternative.

One. One picture has emerged of food waste. All neatly stacked at the bins instead of in a bin bag. Come on people, don't give them the moral outrage ammunition they need to introduce stricter measures. Which, in this case, is rationing.

No. I'm not :) I watched the news and thought. Hmmm this doesn't look great.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Do better next pandemic yea?

Yes they are @MintyMabel that’s what you don’t understand, that little bit and little bit adds up, you and others like you are the problem, there’s over £1billion worth of extra supermarket goods in people’s homes than there were a month ago, can you not understand that’s why there’s a problem, but when people started buying that food there was no issue, supermarkets never thought there would be an issue (these are companies that spend millions on analysis and planning). Supply chains should have been robust enough to cope but then people like you added that extra tin of beans a week (yeah right) and suddenly it’s gone to absolute pot. You can’t get a shop fir 3 weeks because people like you have been going crazy and booking up the slots because other people like you have been clearing the shelves in the supermarket - do you understand the problem and how it spirals?

@wibblewobblejiggle oh you are, you are, you are definitely the type.

The type who now can keep her whole family isolated for at least a few weeks? Who won't need to risk her children at all?

Yea that's me. And it's brilliant.

No because the issue is outside.

I don't want to go outside.
So it wouldn't matter if there was loads of food.
I want the food in my house.

The only thing I'd really say I've stockpiled is oat milk.
But I do have a lot of cupboard food and freezer food that will last me weeks.

And honestly. Zero fucks given.
Absolutely zero.

My family and my kids are who I plan for.

@EmmaBridgewater20

Are you hard of thinking? Or can't you read and comprehend? Perhaps so blinded my misplaced rage the words aren't clear?

The stuff in my cupboards has been there for months. I haven't had a delivery since the 1st of March when I had the same recurring shopping order I get pretty much every week except I added some more lunch stuff because we were already working from home. Nobody is going hungry because I bought one extra loaf and two packets of ham. I cancelled the one for the following two weeks as I figured there was no point, so much was unavailable and I could start using what I had. We've only been to the corner shop for bread and milk since. So, actually, me doing what I did way before a month ago means more slots and food available for others.

I wonder what the equivalent amount is in money not spent in restaurants, cafes and sandwich shops across the nation in the last month. I'll wager it's higher than a billion. That's why there is more food in people's houses, because people are not eating out.

The only thing I'd really say I've stockpiled is oat milk.

And when I last looked online there was plenty of that in Tesco, nothing else milky left but gallons of oat milk.

Oooo haven't happened to see it on offer?
That's the reason I bulk buy mainly.
It's usually £1.40 but can be on offer for £1.

Using at least one a day gets expensive. So I can have over 60 in the big cupboard.

I never looked close enough. I used to do the same with soya milk when DD had it.

Is that why so much as the meat was brought up, did people buy it to sell on at a profit?

I stockpiled shampoo and conditioner on the off chance that the only place I can get them anymore would close (they did.) Also bought some tinned fruit and UHT milk. I've been hoarding tea for months, so I've got plenty of that, and I've got loads of chocolate.

One of my closest friends (a man in his fifties) will chuck out food the day it reaches it’s best before date so it could be him. . God knows why, He’s a bright spark and he grew up in a pit village in Wales where there was no budget for wasted food but for some reason all his common sense is suspended when he is faced with a date stamped on a packet of bread/meat etc.

OTOH I’ve always prided myself on my low waste levels but even I’ve been much more careful over the last ten days. I am particularly proud of yesterday’s brunch of left over mushroom risotto served with chopped bacon and rocket.

I prep routinely. I had a massive Brexit stash (tins and packets till 2022, toilet roll and san pro) and I always have at least a month worth of food in.

Why because I suffer with depression and ocd and have over the years been housebound. We also eat most meals at home as I home ed and I don't go out every day as my norm.

Now I'm also 100 miles away from any support network so i've been making doubly sure to have everything I could possibly need for me and 2dds, because they rely on me and me alone.

Most people haven't stockpiled. But they have had to buy extra due to eating inside the house, when normally they eat out or at work and kids eat at school. That's a lot of extra food having to come from supermarkets. Experts have estimated that's 40% extra.

Complete idiots. Who stockpiles fresh food then bins it?

It’s like the opposite of careful prepping.

@stayathomewannabee We all know who did all the stockpiling and panic buying... It was stupid people! You know the kind, they read the Daily Mail, get their news from Sky and have everything with chips!

Leftovers make great new meals or have a leftover picnic. We use ours for lunch but we don't have leftovers that often anyway.

Most of our fruit and veg is frozen so taken out in the amount needed, I love overripe bananas and anything that ripens too quick would get cut up and frozen.

I also batchcook so everything is broken up into portions and we feed the dog bits too.

Most fresh veg when it looks past its best can still be eaten, my mum curries things or adds them to stews.

I'm too frugal to waste food, I think some people have more money than sense hence food waste.

Panic buying- yes that's probably a better way to describe it. The shops were reasonably full then they weren't.