So now: no meat, no veg, no fruit, no bread....

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Live in London- must be 7 supermarkets within a 10 minute drive of me, I went to 3 today- no meat, no veg, no fruit, no bread- on top of no cleaning products.
What exactly are we supposed to do? I haven’t seen a restocked supermarket in weeks.
FYI I consider all preppers scum!

If your supermarket has stock, Where are you? What time are you turning up to shop?

Anyone still panic buying - you are a bunch of selfish pricks who deserve nothing in life

Well for people who haven't prepped and have to hole up for a few weeks, what are they supposed to do. 🤷‍♀️

The one thing my big local stores have loads of is fresh fruit and veg.
We have numerous local butchers we use and they are well stocked.
Local Simply Food M&S was there half an hour ago and got salad, sausage rolls for kids tomorrow, loads of fruit, some bread rolls etc.
The only thing they seemed to not have was dried pasta.

Op, if you saw me on the street, you'd probably think I'm not particularly fashionable, my shoes are a bit bashed up and you might even think I'm a frump. Because I spent my spare money on making sure I had a full pantry. Ages ago.

Another full cupboard person here. Still need to go out for fresh stuff, but if needs must we can live on what we've got for a fortnight. That's not just a 'now' thing, that's pretty much always. I think this will change shopping habits for a lots of people - it doesn't take a lot to disrupt supplies.

@MauriceandAlec you might think that but as we live rurally we have a thing (technological term) that means you can run electrical things like the freezer if there is a power cut, from the car battery using an inverter. We also have power
banks.

We have one because DH really wants a generator but I won't let him have one. I am a meanie.

I need a stunt pineapple. I get those boxes of stuff about to go off from Lidl and find ways to use them, preserve, dehydrate, etc. I also save peel from oranges and one time the box had a load of lemons and lime so I candied the peel and just got DD, who regularly mocked my prepping and called me a hamster and sighed, tucking into a jar of it.

As for fresh, some places in the country still have root cellars or if it's a bit old it may have an old smokehouse you can use to create a root cellar to keep root veg over the Winter without a fridge or freezer (we're in the North so it's reasonably cold).

We've not shopped for days.
We have dog food, loo roll, milk and food. It's wrong to keep topping up or panic buying. If you need something, buy it - if you don't, leave it for someone who does.
We'll start worrying when we're down to what's in the back of our cupboards.

I'm running low on pasta, flour and Other staples because they have been run out for 2 weeks

This thread is crazy. Prepping and panic buying are the opposite of each other. Preppers have helped this situation by buying weeks, months or years ago. Most preppers would only have bought a few fresh bits this week.

It's not the fault of preppers if you can't get something. Did you not see the news coming out of China in January?

And I honestly think that the shelves are not getting filled like they used to be. That isn't the fault of preppers either.

I can’t get any fresh food. No bread, no eggs, no milk, no meat, no veg, there’s a bit of fruit and I got a bag of salad.

I’m really stressed.

I too live in London but we haven't run out of fresh food yet in my locale.

@ifIwerenotanandroid a stunt pineapple is from the "naice things" thread in Classics. Basically a bit of fruit that is only on display to make you look posh.

Not that many people are panic buying. It's just that supermarkets and supply chains are used to certain levels of demand - so as soon as everyone starts buying 2 weeks in advance instead of 1 week in advance, the shelves are empty. They'll restock.

I needed a few bits: fruit, bread, washing up liquid, chicken and chopped tomatoes.
I did end up at a corner shop for washing up liquid and the bread. Some strawberries at a Lidl quite far away....may have also bought some chocolate fingers in an Aldi out of sheer frustration.

I have loads of washing up liquid, tins of chopped tomatoes, tinned/frozen fruit, part baked bread and I have a loaf in the freezer.

I bought most of it last year BECAUSE I PREPPED.

Of course it's still awful that shelves are empty and that people can't buy what they need.

I get fresh stuff as needed but no shortages up north for that. for the last twenty odd years I've always kept 2-3 months of rice, pasta, dried milk, loo roll, shampoo, beans etc. Just a couple of extra things on a weekly shop over months turns into a supply. Humans have always stocked up for winter or war. Those that don't prep are a modern thing that don't realise how delicate the supply chain is. P.s. that's not me having a pop at anyone or being smug I realise I was an odd one in a modern world until recently. And I imagine the this is one thing that will change in the future... We will all be more prepared like our predecessors for times like this. Hope every gets what they need and helps those who are struggling.

bellinisurge you don't need to justify yourself to others by what you're wearing. Many of us on this forum know you're a genuinely decent person whose always happy to offer advice, generally support. That goes a lot further than many other things.

I agree, similar here in South Yorkshire. I refused to panic buy and now I have no toilet roll, bread, milk, marg. luckily I have some tinned goods and pasta left.
However I work with cancer patients who are on benefits and I know they won’t have any food at all, so I’m taking my canned food to work tomorrow to see if any of the patients need it. Not sure what my manager will say. But I have the energy to trawl round 6 different supermarkets, they don’t.
It’s these people that are impacted most....can we not just stop and think please people.

Boud, bless your heart!

@KeepOnKeepingOnAgainandAgain I'd love to quiz you about your inverter but I'm guessing this isn't the thread for that

I prepped months ago too - for Brexit and zombie apocalypse when there were no shortages. That's helped, surely? One less person scrambling for the loo rolls now.

I've been doing small shops in local places, and a Tesco delivery when I can get it since this thing started. Stocks were very depleted yesterday, but got bread, milk fish, veg, wine, chocolate. I'm in Kent.

Thank you for saying that @ifonly4

I get a bit annoyed with this constant aggression towards panic buyers actually.

Yes there are definitely people out there who have taken the piss and yes the shops should have had sensible maximum order restrictions in place at the beginning to prevent this but I do think the majority of ‘panic buyers’ are just buying enough to see them through a few weeks of isolation/lockdown.

There are huge volumes of people in this country who live week to week who come Monday have zero food in their house.
The government is telling people they need to self isolate for two weeks so all those people would need to buy double their weekly shop just to be able to self isolate as advised.

If even a relatively small percentage of the population starts suddenly buying double that will obviously have an impact.

I have three children plus pets, if I did one shop in one go that was sufficient to see us all through comfortably through a two week down lockdown you’d be looking at a shockingly large amount of food and I wouldn’t take kindly to be viewed as ‘scum’ simply for buying enough shopping to enable me to self isolate at some point as the government is asking me too.

Tesco in nw LONDON Kentish Town had a big delivery today. X