To think people should start to stockpile a bit of food?

[Sadless]

Do you think everybody should be sticking up on long life foods now before the prices rocket. I am wondering if to get a few each bits to put away now might save me abit of money later.

What do you think is it worth it or not?

Sal

Not sure what the point is? Unless you anticipate prices falling or you getting a decent payrise, it'll be a one-off saving, won't it?

I mean, literally do what you want. If you have the room and money, buy extra. Or don't. It's hard to care really either way.

Oh God, here we go again.

No, I bloody refuse to on the grounds that I’m just not being drawn into that level of blind panic ever again.

Not everyone can afford to
Not everyone has space to store extra food

Also if we all panic and rush to Tesco there will be nothing left and that will cause a food shortage
Just buy what you need.

It’s going to be ok

I'm fundamentally against food hoarding. Not least because it is a one-off saving since you'll have to eat it sometime and then buy more at whatever the going price is. Unless you do hold onto it ad infinitum of course and then you've just created a poisoned larder. There's nothing wrong in making sure you have sensible supplies but playing the futures market with the cost of food rarely seems to pay off.

No, let’s not start this old shite again. There was an article not too long ago featuring a women who stockpiled just before lockdown 1, that admitted she’d never eat the 100 packets of rice she bought

These kind of threads are exactly the same as the fuel threads all they do is cause panic when there is no need.

I popped in to Tesco this morning and was surprised to see they had loads of offers on when the last few weeks there haven’t been as many. All shelves were full also.

I don't think there's much point tbh.

What does surprise me is that there hasn't been another fuel stockpiling panic like we saw briefly last year. Maybe (hopefully) people are finally fed up of panicking.

I still have out of date tins from lockdown 1. No no no, not doing this again.

Are you trying to induce panic buying?

Why on earth would you think "everybody" should be doing this?

I think this is human nature, a fundamental human need to know our families will be fed, we just haven't had to do it for so long because of stable prices.

My mum, who was a young mother during the last period of high inflation, could feed a family for months on what she keeps under the spare bed. She stocks up when things are on special offer, as a protection against rising prices (and shortages)

If you want empty shelves like the start of covid...

I'm always ahead on a lot of things and bulk buy. Big family though so get through stuff quickly if I can't get to the shops, usually when kids are ill or weather so bad I cba.

I live rurally so always have a stockpile. I only buy stuff we eat though. Penne, baked beans, pesto, tinned pears, a couple of weeks of uht milk. Keep the freezers topped up with discount meals/ meat and frozen veg.

I personally think you should have a couple of weeks food/ toilet paper etc. That way if Tesco fails to deliver something there's no issues; it's ten quid in Petrol for me to go to the big supermarket so would add up if I had to do it alot. However when I lived in town within easy reach of multiple convenince shops I lived day to day.

We're not preppers but always have a stocked freezer , long life milk, flour,yeast and the basics like tins,loo roll etc. We don't panic buy,just buy a few bits every week and then rotate.

What's the point? Prices won't go back down any time soon so unless you're planning to buy enough and then eat long-life foods for a few years then save yourself the effort. Better to have a think about ways to cut your food costs in the long-term - making food go further, reducing wastage, trying some cheaper meals to see if it's worth adding them to the rotation etc.

I, too, am really surprised by the lack of stockpiling and fuel mania at the moment. Perhaps people are finally deciding to be sensible/rational. The stocking up of food that people know they're never going to eat that happened during Covid was pretty despicable. Others genuinely struggling to feed themselves and some dickheads are sitting on 100 bags of rice and 4000 tins of beans that they'll no doubt eventually throw away.

Personally when the first lockdown hit and everyone was fighting over loo roll and pasta I was very glad of the extras I'd slowly bought in over the course of many months ahead of Brexit in case of disruption to the supply chain. We lived off them for about six weeks and shared our extra loo roll with the neighbours. We were pleased to avoid the shops.

So from now on we'll always have a decent backup in. Although I'd say it is only really worth it if either it is stuff you will eat anyway and you rotate your stock, or if you donate the whole lot to your local food bank before it goes out of date. The latter doesn't really help with controlling costs of course.

Threads like this should be banned on the grounds of public health.

No

@ZenNudist

I still have out of date tins from lockdown 1. No no no, not doing this again.

Tins last years

Do what you want 🤷‍♀️

I’m so sick of people like the OP and their panic-mongering. We’ve had enough of it to last a lifetime, surely?

Nope.

"Stockpiling" food in the UK is a first-world wank fantasy and nothing more.

For people actually risking or experiencing serious food poverty, they don't have the income to make a large one-off purchases, or a stable, predictable housing situation to have somewhere to put tins and bags away for months.

A lot of less disadvantaged people really are feeling the pressure of rising prices right now, for sure. But when I see middle-class people using alarmist language like "stockpiling" and "keeping my family fed", it's just embarrassing.

"Prepping" is the reserve of the privileged. For most, it's an imagination game. Go and fill your basement with beans and pasta that'll never get eaten, if you want. Hell, go buy gas masks and barbed wire if it fits your aesthetic. Just don't try to scare other people into joining your role-play.

I’ve been doing this anyway since Brexit.

@InPraiseOfBacchus

Nope.

"Stockpiling" food in the UK is a first-world wank fantasy and nothing more.

For people actually risking or experiencing serious food poverty, they don't have the income to make a large one-off purchases, or a stable, predictable housing situation to have somewhere to put tins and bags away for months.

A lot of less disadvantaged people really are feeling the pressure of rising prices right now, for sure. But when I see middle-class people using alarmist language like "stockpiling" and "keeping my family fed", it's just embarrassing.

"Prepping" is the reserve of the privileged. For most, it's an imagination game. Go and fill your basement with beans and pasta that'll never get eaten, if you want. Hell, go buy gas masks and barbed wire if it fits your aesthetic. Just don't try to scare other people into joining your role-play.

Yes it may well be a privilege but why shouldn’t people do that?