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

I've always had a couple of extra weeks worth of food in the house. I'll continue in that same vain, just keep rotating it. But this from getting snowed in once and not actually being able to get up my road for 10days due to snow drifts,long before covid etc. Just a practically for us. We also have livestock and run a 2 week buffer for them too, same reasons.

The risk assessment of the U.K. is measured in the purchase of toilet rolls.

Or maybe paraceatamol and pasta🤷🏼‍♀️

@FayCarew

Go to your nearest supermarket with help and fill your trolleys with bog rolls, bleach and pasta, OP.

Was it bleach last time where you were? I couldn't get any bread for life or money where I live beginning 2020. It seems a bit regional what people are panic buying.

Oh christ not this again.....................

DM stockpiled laundry powder some years ago. The only place she had for it was under her bed. She then complained that her room smelt of Fairy Bio and there were particles of it everywhere. Did make me chuckle.

I personally sometimes buy 3 months worth of store cupboard items, mainly as I then don't have to think about them for a while. But for a family you would need a lot of space.

I think it's better to start by stocking up on things like tea lights and candles. Then if we start having power cuts at least you'll have some light. My dad, made a list of things he was going to stock up on before lockdown. That includes keeping petrol topped up.
And he seems to be pretty on the ball with that sort of thing. But I personally think stock piling food means waste. Like at Christmas when people selfishly overfill their trolleys.

OP the problem is much bigger than anything you could mitigate with stockpiling..Maybe turn your garden into a vegetable patch instead? That will be a longer term solution (at least until the nuclear winter hits).

I'm with others regarding buying extra when there's an offer on otherwise I'll take my chances.

Nope!

I haven't space or the inclination to work my way through huge bags of pasta / tins of beans etc!!

@gymgymgo

OP the problem is much bigger than anything you could mitigate with stockpiling..Maybe turn your garden into a vegetable patch instead? That will be a longer term solution (at least until the nuclear winter hits).

You don't have to solve the entire problem to make it worth doing.

Having a week's work of food instead of none will make a difference if it's needed

I think you're more likely to see people shopping in Lidl / Aldi more often or instead of the big multiples, switching from branded to own brand, and eating cheaper meals like jacket potato and beans.

Tigofigo

I think you're more likely to see people shopping in Lidl / Aldi more often or instead of the big multiples, switching from branded to own brand, and eating cheaper meals like jacket potato and beans.“

Oh no, I shop at Lidl/Aldi (on a rich day) and eat potatoes and beans already.

Oh well, bins out the back, I suppose 😱

@ZenNudist

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

Use them. They’ll almost certainly be fine.

If people start stockpiling now, increased demand will push prices up - it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I find it weird that people don't have reserves as part of the natural course of things. My mum always did and so do I - so lots of loo roll (bought on offer), a big bag of really good aged Basmati rice from a south Asian mart, about a dozen cans of really good San Marzano tomatoes in different forms, pasta, and many, many cans of different beans all live in various places in my house. All get used and I always have bought this way and will continue to...

By the sound of it, it's different for different people. If you have enough money to cover the extra cost when it goes up or not. My energy bill I am being told is going to go up £100 a month from next month. Food prices are already going up and I am having to reduce my food shop. So if I have a few tins of beans in a cupboard for the weeks I can't go shopping, can't afford to it will help get pass that a little while. I never mentioned panic buy just small stock pile of emergency stuff really.
It's just being a bit prepared for the wrost

Sal

No, I think this will just encourage panic buying when there’s no need. I eat what I can afford, if prices go up I will chose cheaper alternatives.

cheaper meals like jacket potato and beans

YUUUUUUMMMM!

@AlwaysLatte

There are dozens of things I've always bought several of when they're on offer, or that we use a lot so we have a larder just for those, eg my husbands favourite whisky which I buy half a dozen bottles of when they're on offer (from £35 to £20) and lots of Method products when they're a third off - basically anything I know will have an offer on at some point. We save a lot a year that way. But I don't think I'd stock up on everything.

That's how I always shop. Buy at the lowest price

This is how panic buying and shortages actually start.
YABVU

Oh yes great idea, because we all know how well that turns out. What an idiotic, irresponsible post op

@Heatherjayne1972

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

Exactly this!

Oh christ not this again.....................

Came to say exactly this.
Yes, let's go and stockpile extra food and do our bit to increase demand and push prices up further.

I wouldn't bother personally. If it reaches the point where this is necessary then there will probably be no power to cook it with any way.