How much of this extra bread and milk bought because it was forecast to snow will be binned

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Do people chain eat when it’s snowing?

I ate roughly the same amount of calories yesterday as I normally do.

I bet a lot of the extra milk and bread will be chucked. As don’t have the space to freeze

99.5% snow here gone just a few bits where people cleared snow from cars.

You should join the other threads about bread and milk, people have gone "feral" about bread apparently !

Both can be frozen though.

How would you know if people have the space to freeze it or not? Also how do you know how much extra bread and milk people brought? If you are basing it on empty shelves then it's more likely that deliveries didn't arrive rather than people over buying.

Where is "here" because snow is still lying and causing issues "there" or do you just live in your bubble?

I'm just gonna live off ham sandwiches and milkshake for a week. I thought eggy fried bread would be nice too just to mix it up a bit.

Just put it in the freezer

Got our chest freezer when I was pregnant with my eldest. Always have a spare loaf of bread, not usually milk though as I don't really like freezing that (although do if we have too much to use).

I bought precisely none , I didn’t even buy the bread I needed 🤣

People literally get over anxious about everything now . It’s like the world is ending . Even in the snow the supermarkets had deliveries 🤣 and you’re not dying if you can’t have a piece of toast or a sandwich .

Imagine if we had to go to war and ration food nowadays people wouldn’t survive without their 16 hours a day of grazing and a cup attached to their hand from the second they get up in the morning .

I didn’t buy extra bread and milk, but if I had I don’t think there’d be an issue using them up. They last for days. Plus they freeze.

Is this just another thread bashing anyone who prepared for the bad weather? Because if so give it a rest. Some people live in areas where it’s wise to take precautions, or they have family circumstances that require it.

You could even make ham sandwiches now and freeze them for another day.

Also - bread and butter pudding.

Agree. Where i am the empty shelves are because the deliveries are late due to the weather.

We keep bread in the freezer anyway so it's not wasted. I bought extra milk but I bought the filtered milk as extra because it has a very long date

Both can be frozen. 🤷‍♀️

We have lots of space in the garage freezer

Some will be. Most will be eaten. People bought extra to cover the assumption they wouldn’t be able to get to the shops for 2-3 days, and possibly supermarkets - particularly smaller ones - would have disrupted supplies for a few days. When this happened last time, there was a peak of shopping for basics, then sales fell for a few days afterwards, essentially most shoppers had just shifted forward their purchases by a few days.

Few people actually bought extra over what they’ve consume in a week, they just bought earlier than they normally would.

I have only a freezer as part of a fridge freezer. Never I have room for bread and milk. It’s full of meat, vegetarian stuff. I don’t have frozen veg as I’m not keen on the texture of cooked frozen veg. Got tinned carrots, sweetcorn, peas etc

Not everyone has sheds, garages, outbuildings etc with a freezer

And not everyone buys a ridiculous amount of bread and milk?

Ok OP you don’t have space to freeze bread and milk - which is unusual. Do you think everyone who bought bread and milk the day before the snow bought more than they could use up before it went off and don’t have freezer space?!

Most people stocking up aren’t buying beyond what they will use before that food goes off, they’ve just changed their shopping day.

This is like when Covid first hit and posters were complaining about the people stockpiling and how they would eat all the food. Then sainsburys put out the data and it equated to the average shopper spent an extra £20 a week at the height of food shortages - easily covered by the extra food needed from people who had school dinners /bought coffee shop sandwiches for their lunches near their offices now being at home all day. The biggest change was people who shopped daily or every other day suddenly buying enough for a whole week in one go. That change in shopping days not the overall quantity was what fucked up our supply chains. (Toilet roll was different- that was people being silly)

I didn't buy anything additional to my normal amount, but we only had snow for 2 days here. I always have a few UHF milk in the cupboard and often some bake at home baguette things if needed.

YANBU hopefully they’ll freeze it, but I doubt it.

Who are these people who binge buy bread and milk? I've never met one.

I blame the Mumsnet "Preppers" board, and the bright spark in government in 2020 who decided "the only way to communicate with the public is to frighten the pants off them".

It really is pathetic the way this country shuts down for the tiniest dusting of snow, or ordinary summer sunshine, which then becomes "HELP!!! MURDER!!!" EXTREME HEAT!!!! CLIMATE CHANGE!!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!". My Facebook feed has been full of "extreme weather alerts" for the last few days.

It depends where you live. There were literal feet of snow in Aberdeenshire.