Aibu to wonder what they're going to do with all that pasta?

[RosieLancs]

I was wandering around the supermarket doing my weekly shop earlier and noticed all the pasta was gone but the shelves of pasta sauce / passatta/ pesto etc are still full, what the heck are people planning to do with their big stockpiles of plain pasta?

I apologise in advance because I realise this type of post has been done to dealth already

But this could be my golden chance to clear the cupboard of 15 different pasta shapes (at last count) when I normally only use spaghetti/fettucine/penne.

It's not just me, than!

@TheCoolerQueen It makes sense that the vast majority of people answering OP’s question would be those who don’t use jars, given the nature of the question.

Tesco delivery.....woohoo I have loo rolls....but no pasta.

I do not have enough in the house for 1 meal.....arrrghhhh….its just so easy!!!!

Where I live only the cheap pasta is sold out. The expensive stuff (as far as pasta can be expensive) is still very available.

Same goes for loo roll. The cheapest stuff is gone, more pricier ones still on the shelf. Maybe the poor people are stocking up so they don't have to pay extra if it does run out?

what the heck are people planning to do with their big stockpiles of plain pasta?

Over the next few weeks, they'll eat what they've bought rather than buy it every week. What do you think they'd do with it?? People have bought a few more items than usual and they'll use them as time passes.

It only takes every customer to buy 2 of something instead of 1, and the shelves will be empty within a day or two as their stock ordering/delivery system won't be able to replenish stocks quickly enough. In a few days, the supermarket shelves will be full again as the supplies filter through from the suppliers through to distrubution units and into the stores.

What @Kazzyhoward said.
If 10 shoppers buy two packets instead of one - which hardly counts as panic buying ffs - the shelves get low.
Supermarkets ran out of pre-made ice cubes in last year's hot spell and there were people on here whining about it.

@Ninkanink Yes, I agree with you on that, it was just that the thread is all about what people are going to do with the several hundredweight of pasta that they have secreted about their dwelling, and everyone wondering whether pasta is all they are going to be eating for the foreseeable...

Weirdly, the only empty shelf was sugar yesterday in Morrisons. Very odd.

No stockpile or any pasta in this house, I hate the stuff.

Just come back from town (not saying where in case the vultures descend!!) and went, out of interest, to Tesco, Aldi, Sainsburys, Co-op, Iceland and a couple of pound shops. Not one person was 'panic buying' and apart from no hand sanitiser the shelves were stocked normally.

We've just finished the massive bag of rice we got from Lidl a year ago. Now we want another one....

Fuck the pasta.

What genuinely baffles me is the elephant in the room: THE TOILET PAPER. I mean.. What's with this? Is it purely British/Australian thing? Just WHY????

Back in my home country, people also panicked after the first confirmed case. They panic-bought food, the usual stuff: pasta, rice, tins, jars, things for freezer, etc. Food. Yep, loo roll too, but a normal/regular amount. Ok, I'm not a worrier, but at least I can see logic in that. Let's say, we have a typical family of four: mummy, daddy, 2 kids - 4 people. Let's take a standard diet of 3xmeals/day+some snacks+drinks (tea/coffee/whatever). What is the self-isolation, 2 weeks? Well, 4 people eating 3xday+snacks for 2 weeks - that would be a considerable amount of food. Plus people probably bought a bit more, just in case.

Now the bog roll. I don't have a family of 4, so don't know how much loo roll they'd use per week. 7 rolls? Ok, let's be generous and say 9. So two 9 roll packages per 2 weeks. Let's add 2 more just in case - so, 4 packages.

So what the fuck is going on with people dragging huge trolleys with the mountains of stuff? I went to a big tesco on Saturday and saw this with my own eyes. Empty loo roll shelves and people dragging seriously ridiculous amount of the stuff. I saw a couple, both with trolleys with mountained loo roll.

I don't actually really care and not concerned that they buy it. They can spend their money on whatever they want, imo. But I just don't understand - WHY???? What will they do with it, eat it? Where do they store it, given the fact that very many of British houses are absolutely tiny? So so odd.

@ShadowOnTheSun while British housing is small plenty of it has more storage than you think. It tends to be new properties that have a lack of storage meaning people have no place to store their vaccum cleaner.

Anyone saying "our shelves were cleared of furniture polish/ mushrooms/hot sauce" all confused... sometimes items are out of stock. It doesnt mean someone has panic bought the furniture polish, they just sold out of the stuff as usual.

This week we’re having spaghetti bolognese tomorrow night (I made a batch of sauce a few weeks ago so it’s in the freezer waiting), and a chicken and broccoli pasta bake with a creamy sauce which I’ll make on Sunday. I bought an extra pack of pasta in last week’s shop, but it will get used soon enough.

It doesnt mean someone has panic bought the furniture polish, they just sold out of the stuff as usual.

Is it usual for every brand of furniture polish to be out of stock?

Furniture polish is out of stock because if your stuck at home with an illness you might as well clean it

I don’t understand people not understanding why people are stocking up on loo roll? If I couldn’t go out/no shops open etc we couldn’t do without. My husband has a bowel disorder. We use a lot of loo roll!

Our Sainsbury was also nearly out of tinned tomatoes and passata.

My local large Tesco is always low on stock on a Monday, a large number of people in my area do their food shop on the weekend and clear it out, also the offers change over on a Tuesday so I think they deliberately don't restock the offer items until the offer has ended and it's gone back to normal price.

They must have had a toilet roll delivery today though as that isle was fully stocked and I didn't see anyone with more than one pack in their trolley.

The supermarket was full of old people with trolleys stacked up to their noses though so it seems some are worried and stocking up.

Davincitoad I guess it’s because, if you have a shower, loo roll actually is something people can do without. Many countries use bidets rather than loo roll.

Errr, I make my own pasta sauce? Or use pesto if I’m feeling very lazy. And I always buy the big bags because it’s better value for money.

Loads of pasta in my local supermarket. But absolutely no squash/dilute. Odd. Its quite a large section as well.

I'd have cleared the gin aisle personally.

We eat pasta regularly. At least a few meals a week- never use any jarred sauce? Not bragging - many of the meals are very basic but do you always use jarred?