Has anyone here stocked up on extra food just incase?

[scarymary33]

I haven't gone crazy and just bought things we might need (a lady is in intensive care only a few mins away from our house)
3 packets of pasta
Pasta sauces
Beans /spaghetti
Tinned tuna
Noodles
Mug shots (desperate times )
Rice
Rice pudding
Soup
Long life milk
Anything else I could get ?
What have you bought ?

No. Factories are still producing as are farms, why would I stock up?

The average supermarket holds about 2-3 weeks worth of stock and are still getting deliveries every day and also ordering a little more at the moment to cover stupid stock piling people

Serious get a grip

So you are confident you won't ever need to self isolate and that shop deliveries will be fully operational do you?

Thanks to the Preppers board (which I first encountered for Brexit) I have collected enough. I have a family of four so it's not just a case of an extra tin of beans and a longlife milk, like my single colleague seems to think.

My staple food has always been tinned tomatoes - I already get through a few tins a week, but Tesco limiting them.

Don't forget your pets either.

Totally agree middle.

A few weeks ago I got painkillers, pet food, san pro and hygiene products too. A few tins wont really help if you have to go out for toothpaste!

I'm glad I stocked up as no toilet roll to be found here and I am rural so next shop involves a 30min drive each way which I dont have time for atm.

Some of the comments here are ridiculous, there is a huge difference between filling your trolley with all the pasta in the shop (somewhat exaggerated I suspect ) and buying extra to have in reserve when you need it. IMO it’s socially irresponsible for those who can afford to have a “cushion” not to do so!

Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that they could be asked to self isolate today/tomorrow. It’s entirely possible that down the line a massive number of people will be required to do this in which case the poor, sick or disabled will likely require provisions from the authorities. It would be disgraceful if people like DH and I, who can provide for ourselves, had to seek support at that time, potentially taking limited resources from people most in need.

No. There’s absolutely no need. Plus I can’t afford it.

I have been getting extra bits in occasionally since I first encountered the Brexit prepping posts. But I've been mostly making changes to my approach to food waste. Like freezing eggs we won't use up in time so we've got some if we want to do some baking or making soup out of left over vegetables and freezing that. It's really made me look at how much we waste as a family and how much we sometimes buy but don't use. I have also started restocking some things sooner than we might have done, but not to excess, and haven't been out panic buying now. We have been laid back in the past and down to the last of important things like wetwipes or nappies and I am trying to avoid that and make a more sensible lifestyle change in general.

redandwhite1 Factories are still producing as are farms, why would I stock up?

If you are told to self-isolate, you cannot go shopping. If lots of people are told to self-isolate, there will be few delivery slots available for you to order your food because other people will have taken them. If the delivery drivers catch coronavirus from any of the hundreds of people they deliver to each week, there will be no slots at all. That's why you stock up.

I am now as of this am in self imposed isolation as once removed contact of newly confirmed case. Suspect the direct contact may succumb. I didn’t panic buy but I have over the last few weeks ensured i had food and meds toiletries in in case this happened.
Also have some coffee and loo roll to first contact friend earlier. Bloody hell though I’m going to do a list of things I should have thought about as I can already feel I don’t have sufficient ‘treats’ - it’s all a bit ‘worthy’. Feel strongly the advice is not clear - I’m being cautious but suspect others in my once removed situation wouldn’t be ????

I hope things work out OK for you Heron
Things can change so fast, and any one of us could find we have to self isolate at any time.
My stocks are a bit worthy too. The treats don't stay in the stash, hard as I've tried!

I have 🙈.
2 main reason have 2 children with autism and one with afrid (eating disorder). They would literally starve if we had to self isolate. Also they will only drink juice and would literally dehydrate than drink water (even schools have given up with them as they won’t drink!).
Also we buy fresh every week so had nothing in my freezer, I now do.
I don’t get the toilet roll thing 😂😂.
We are also rural and life really far from all my friends and wouldn’t expect them to get us food. Also I have no family that could help out, no siblings and I’m not going to ask my 80year old nan to get me things 😂.
Literally my freezer was empty (other than chicken nuggets and French fries 🙄).
If I lived nearer shops I may not of got so much. The fact that my autistic son is impossible to take around the shops too.
We have no where to walk to either to get to shops.

funky me too I seem to have eaten the crisps I had.
kaz sounds sensible ! Good luck and hope you don’t need (sure your nan will be relieved she’s off possible heavy delivery duty too - or Anyway she can continue is blissful ignorance that she was potentially on that rota !)

Yes, I've been buying extra in the last two or three days in case we need to isolate ourselves for two weeks. I haven't bought twenty packs of pasta! I've just really done two or three weeks worth of shopping at the same time.

No I haven't because I'm not a fucking selfish idiot.

rebecca

I'm sure you are, in your own way.

Its not selfish. It's common sense.

It must be lovely to be so smug and judgemental of others, having nothing to worry about yourself.
We have enough food for a month, mainly due to the fact that my dh is immune suppressed and I have diabetes, and weak lungs from a past case of pneumonia.
As a 53 year old in a similar position has died, I'm not going anywhere.
I'm sorry if people don't like that, many who are prepared aren't the ones who have panic bought, we already had full cupboards.

It’s selfish to not order online now from anywhere you want, as the ones who don’t will be expecting everyone to share with them.

Like I said you have had 2 months if you read the news to prepare for this.

I'm struggling to understand what's selfish here?
What's wrong with people buying extra for their family?
I live 40 mins from the supermarket.
20 mins to local shop.
If I have to self isolate what do I do?
What if the weather was also bad so I couldn't get a delivery?
There's a big difference between people clearing the shelf of 50 packs of toilet rolls and the majority of people adding a couple of extra tins to shopping.
Why are people so judgemental and nasty.

It's not irresponsible or selfish....the exact opposite.

It's being prepared. The selfish, irresponsible ones will be the ones popping to the local shop even though they're in self isolation cos it will be OK just to get a few bits.....

No I haven't because I'm not a fucking selfish idiot.

So if you were told tomorrow to self-isolate, you'd nobly starve yourself and your family for two weeks? Nah, you'd probably go shopping against medical advice and endanger everyone you came across. Not sure that your assessment of who the "fucking selfish idiots" are is entirely accurate.

Not everyone has friends and family who can go shopping and leave the goods by the front gate. Not everyone has a front gate: someone under isolation living in a tower block shouldn't go into the corridors and stairwells so how are they meant to go to the main entrance to collect the dropped off shopping? These people need to stock up now and not try to rely on friends or supermarket deliveries.

Those of us who spent months slowly stockpiling ahead of the risk of a no-deal Brexit are not the ones currently emptying supermarket shelves. My last shop was a normal shop.

It's interesting that people are saying about getting online deliveries if they are self isolating. Personally if I was ill, and needed to feed my kids, I would want to be able to stagger to the the kitchen and grab something easy for them, and not have to organise a delivery.
Among all the other reasons why relying on someone else is not the brightest idea.

No, until I'm at imminent risk of quarantine then there's no point. Shops till have food in

maa have you seen how they are running things in Italy? Ten people at a time in supermarket, so long line of people standing metres apart from each other, waiting their turn.
Good luck with that!