How much food do you have at home?

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Enough for 14 day isolation?

Are people starting to panic buy again? 3 people on the school run today said shelves were looking depleted in our area.

Omg I think we'd last about a week... I can't even think of anything we can have for dinner tomorrow night at the moment!

Being serious, I suppose we could hypothetically live off the tins of beans, soup, sweetcorn, rice etc. I seem to always have in the cupboard. There's a few bag of chips and some chicken thighs, steak and mince in the freezer.

But we'd be "getting by" rather than eating as normal.

Think I need to up my game!

I have enough food to isolate for 14 days. I have always been a "just in case" shopper. The meal choices would get a bit odd but we would manage.

I have just ordered tesco deliveries for the next 4 weeks. The final one had a litre of vodka in it 😬 as by then things could be a bit scary.

I'm starting to stock up. Get a few extra things each week so I have the essentials incase of shortages or lock down/quarantine. Mainly a mental thing really. I'm sure we'd be able to get food but having something incase just makes me feel more prepared.

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Our spare room is like a warehouse with DH sat in the middle of it WFH

I love this

I think we could survive two weeks.
I have toilet tissues, bread flour, plain flour, yeast, rice, pasta and lots of porridge oats and lentils. Some Meat, veg and fish fingers in the freezer.

Around 2 months worth of Brexit stockpile, plus we have milk, bread and eggs delivers, get Hello Fresh and priority Ocado options.

The fun food and fresh fruit wouldn't last a fortnight, but we could definitely survive for 2-3 weeks, and relatively healthily too as I have a reasonable amount of frozen/tinned veg and root veg that lasts a while. Cat food I'd struggle for though, this has prompted me to get extra tomorrow! I suppose I could order from amazon though. I think I'll stick a milk and a loaf of bread in the freezer too, just in case. I usually have one of each in there (rural and live on a hill, so is useful to have in for winter anyway) but I used both a few weeks ago when I couldn't be bothered to go to the shop 😆

I find Amazon is definitely the easiest for bulk cleaning stuff, toilet rolls are packs of 45 or 72, and other stuff like tissues in packs of 12 or 20, it get delivered separately from the Tesco shopping then and is easier to manage. It would fill the Tesco van if everyone bought loads from there

No definitely not - maybe a week 😐 However friends would drop us shopping and take away delivery would get us through .

Myself, my hubby and our dog here...I have a tall fridge and tall 6 drawer freezer here both completely full and also a storage shelf in the garage full, my cupboards in the kitchen are also full.....I have enough here for at least a month...noticed supermarket becoming busy this past fortnight...always keep plenty of food and essentials here for us

I'm in the new not-quite-lockdown area and Sainsburys were fully stocked, this morning.

I'm stocking up for Brexit so we have basics in.
(DH works in freight and he has advised we stock up now....)

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Surely if you had to self isolate you could get a shopping delivery or ask a friend/relative to drop some food round.

We couldn't get a delivery slot last time and have nobody to drop food round, we just had to go out and get it ourselves.

The shops do seem ok at the moment but you have to think that there will probably be the inevitable queueing again in the cold and wet and it’s a lot easier if you only have a few bits to get and can maybe use a smaller shop

We would probably be fine for over 2 weeks. I started prepping late last year for Brexit, and have just kept my stock up. It proved to be so valuable in lockdown, no need to "nip" to the shops several times a week. I have just made sure I'm well stocked today actually ready for whatever winter throws at us!

We could manage 2 months but not eating what we fancy when we fancy. Would have to put a bit of thought into it and rely partly on storage stuff. Of course the fresh fruit and veg would be gone long before then but I have frozen veg and tinned fruit. I think only a month when it comes to laundry and cleaning products. I don't think the panic buying will be as bad as early in the pandemic as people have not been letting their stores run down the way they did the first time.

It was hard to get yeast where I live. Flour also disappeared quickly. Loo paper where my Daughter lives was non-existent.

To answer the question, I always keep a lot of food in the pantry and freezers. Firstly, I'm a bargain shopper, so if there is a decent sale on something we use, I will buy up on it.

Secondly, many years ago and self-employed, we went through a period of no income for nearly 2 months and when I did have grocery money, it was about the sum of 3 bottles of wine, so I was very careful with what I bought. However I had a decent pantry supply then, which got us through.

These days as our stomachs are getting older, we rarely go out for dinner. Sadly. So having a good supply of needs fits our life. I'm also into preserving. :)

Keeping freezer and cupboards fully stocked and a few bags of spares upstairs. I wouldn’t rely on supermarket deliveries if we were isolating for two weeks as you can’t guarantee you’d get one, especially if cases rose and lots of people were isolating. It would be one thing asking a friend to get a few bits but not a weeks worth of food. No family nearby. I’ve tried to keep a good supply of frozen veg and fruit in case run short on fresh and we have a milkman.

Lots - been very conscious of food ever since we had to self-isolate for 14 days in March v unexpectedly (pre-lockdown). We managed but it was stressful and it's really hard when there special dietary requirements to cater for. The idea of someone shopping for you is extremely difficult because you feel you can't ask them to go to a particular supermarket or give them too much to buy on top of their own stuff.

We managed to get one supermarket slot on day 14 - so relieved to see the crates of food turn up

Im a prepper so have ALOT of:

Antibacterial hand soap
Antibacterial Washing up liquid
Dettol wipes
Dettol spray
Dettol washing disinfectant
70% Alcohol hand gel
Alcohol wipes
Bleach
..........
Food wise,
We would be ok for 2 weeks,
We have frozen bread and lots of frozen veg. We also have long life milk and loads of cereal

To those of you who say just get a delivery slot if you have to isolate, I think you could easily do that now. I find it quite easy to get a delivery now, but Mar-May, it was a different story. It's not just that though. My daughter doesn't usually keep a lot of food in and she found that whether she had a delivery or queued up, there were empty shelves, rationing and substitutions.

If you can, I think it makes sense to have a bit extra in the cupboards. Hopefully, we won't have panic buying, queueing in wet and windy carparks and only being allowed to buy two of anything at a time. But you can bet that if we do, delivery slots will be in short supply.

Why? Food isn't going to run out get a grip