To ask if you have prepped for the second wave

[Oldbagface]

Have you been buying a few extras with each shop in anticipation?

I notice many items are already out of stock online.

What sort of things have you been putting away.

We have bought the odd extras with each shop e.g. tinned tomatoes, pasta, loo roll and baking powder.

We have loads of flour anyway as buy in bulk for our bread maker.

Oh, and chocolates for Christmas.

I'm going to stun the family with the Pharoah Rocher joke later.

@Bercows

I keep my Christmas chocolate and sweets stash in the drawer in the base of my bed. Extra toiletries are in there too along with the bathroom cabinets. Everything else on the shelves in the pantry. I bought one of these to give me lots of storage space. It fits perfectly and is accessible. Before then it was in lidded boxes under the sideboard and under dd1's bed.

What sort of iron willpower do you have that you can keep a stash of chocolate and sweets by your bed and not eat them? I’d have scoffed the entire Christmas supply for the family within a week xD

I've learned that I just can't forward plan when it comes to chocolate.

I think the posters getting angry are confusing prepping with panic buying. People prepare so as to avoid panic buying. The scenes in supermarkets early on in lock down were carnage. People did strip the shelves and the shortages were due to this.

Also, you have to appreciate that during a pandemic a lot of people don't want to do a weekly supermarket shop. They want to minimise the risk of transmission as far as possible. Please remember that people posting on here may have had family members seriously ill with Covid.

Not sure why it makes people so angry to be honest. It's a personal choice that doesn't affect others.

I have an old cabinet in my garage for tins, bottles & household stuff plus two 80l storage boxes for dried food and packets.

Loo roll and toiletries in the airing cupboard or spare room.

No becausewhat was shown from the first time round was there weren't actually any shortages just people stockpiling and even then I could eat perfectly well. I understand prepping and stockpiling are different but I don't see a need for either as last time it was absolutely fine.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch

I bet squirrels bang on about their nuts to the other animals as well.

Oh hell yes! They always look so smug - they are always polishing their nuts and being proud of them - comparing their stashes with others and boasting... insufferable little demons.

Should also add that's because I live near plenty of family and friends who will be able to help if we get ill as I will them. We even have a neighbours Facebook group. But if people are in more vulnerable circumstances like op then go for it. But I actually don't think for the general population there's a need.

Mind you, the squirrels who didn't get ready for winter can be troublesome...

Yeah. They think they're so clever digging their holes.

Triggering the pigeons.

I'm stopping now, promise.

@Whatwouldscullydo

Never mind squirrels uts the leaf cutter ants u meed to worry about. Lifting several times their own body weight and able to strip a tree in 24 hours and there being frickin millions of them at it...i mean how much fungus do they need to grow. Seriously.. ultimate in hoarding abilities

Those too! Yes they are unbelievably selfish - get quite antsy just thinking about it 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🍃🍃🍃🍃

And hamster comes from the German word hamstern meaning to hoard.

Even their names greedy, the smug twats with their cheek pouches.

#boycotthamsters

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch you made me lol.

I’m thrilled I’ve stockpiled, as apparently if there is any kind of lockdown the supermarkets will be populated with snarling arseholes who hate preppers, so win win all round for me.
And by stockpile, I mean I have 8 tins of chopped tomatoes in and 3 boxes of cereal. Luckily lay these were purchased the other week so the supermarket “just in time” system will be stocking loads more of these things around about now - you’re welcome!

No because what was shown from the first time round was there weren't actually any shortages
gvt know that if essential things like power & food supply go down the country will be in chaos very quickly and it will be very difficult to restore order...they would always prioritize these things

My Dads partner of 30 years died of Covid during the lockdown and he was alone and had no one helping him out as her family were doing it before and the were busy with their own grief. He lives 300 miles away from me and is 84. I couldn't get him any supermarket slot whatsoever as he was not on the shielding list.

I couldn't get any supermarket delivery slot for us and I had to queue up in our different, tiny, crappy supermarkets to get what I wanted for our weekly shop. I didn't mind as I didn't want to take a slot from the vulnerable. I've been verbally abused in queues for sticking up for other people, mainly some bully picking on someone vulnerable or old.

I AM NOT DOING THAT AGAIN...and I won't let my 84 year old dad go without. I've had him stocking up his shelves for 2 weeks.

Supermarkets 'running out of delivery slots' as second lockdown looms www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/sainsburys-tesco-warn-running-out-18963686

Tesco were useless for me during the last one and limited my shop for two families to 80 items the one time I could get a shop. Waitrose quickly put me on their priority list so all was good from then on. Took a few weeks though. I can book 4 weeks in advance with them so I make sure I have my slots booked. No idea about Sainsbury's as I've never used them for delivery.

I think the media are scaremongering. Plenty of food in morrisons today, no sign of panic buying looking at trolleys. Plenty of delivery slots.

Yes @Bercows. I just received the notification from MEN. I immediately booked two future slots.
Now Don your hard hat, they.will be here soon to pelt is with vitriol

*us

Waitrose are fine until the 14th October. Tesco is probably the most popular choice though? I've never used Morrisons online. Or Asda for that matter. Tesco were always great until lockdown. I miss going to Tesco I don't drive so cant get there as it's miles away. Ah well, thank goodness for the internet.

I have a delivery saver with Morrisons. Used them for years. Very reliable.

@JacobReesMogadishu

I think the media are scaremongering. Plenty of food in morrisons today, no sign of panic buying looking at trolleys. Plenty of delivery slots.

They are. Daily Mail has a picture of an elderly lady in a supermarket grabbing the last pack of loo rolls off an empty shelf - from the last lockdown. Very naughty.

I posted earlier that Switzerland has in its Federal guidance that every household keeps an emergency stock of supplies and the Federal government keeps stocks too. This is why we did not run out of PPE unlike the 'just in time' economies. What is wrong with being prepared and planned? If it reduces the anxiety of people then why not let people choose how they exist? For a supposed democracy there is a lot of opinionating on how people should behave. Thete are shades of everything. nothibg is black and white. let the people who plan feel good and tjose able to relax feel goid too.

@Abricot1993

I posted earlier that Switzerland has in its Federal guidance that every household keeps an emergency stock of supplies and the Federal government keeps stocks too. This is why we did not run out of PPE unlike the 'just in time' economies. What is wrong with being prepared and planned? If it reduces the anxiety of people then why not let people choose how they exist? For a supposed democracy there is a lot of opinionating on how people should behave. Thete are shades of everything. nothibg is black and white. let the people who plan feel good and tjose able to relax feel goid too.

Yes, I agree.

I think - I think - there may be a teensy bit of projection going on.

Blimey I had a terrible experience with Morrisons but I guess to certain extent it just depends on your local store.