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To ask if you have prepped for the second wave

652 replies

Oldbagface · 18/09/2020 20:40

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.

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Medievalist · 21/09/2020 08:00

But what will you do Oliversmumsarmy if you and your family have to isolate? You won't be able to keep popping to the shops.

onedayinthefuture · 21/09/2020 08:06

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!

Hyperfish101 · 21/09/2020 08:10

I just tried to book my usual Ocado Shop. No slots for the next 3 weeks. It’s not a disaster for me as I can get around but FFS...... the food shops will not close!!!!!!!

Whatwouldscullydo · 21/09/2020 08:15

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!

As is anyone who goes out whilst sick infecting people because they didn't get enough food in when they were able to...

Whats wrong with ensuring you dont have to do that?

OpenlyGayExOlympicFencer · 21/09/2020 08:17

@Whatwouldscullydo

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!

As is anyone who goes out whilst sick infecting people because they didn't get enough food in when they were able to...

Whats wrong with ensuring you dont have to do that?

If I were a betting woman, I'd say any answer you get will be based on a failure to understand what prepping actually is.
CrunchyCarrot · 21/09/2020 08:17

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!

Charming, but water off a duck's back here, as I will be prepared for many unexpected circumstances and you will not.

MRex · 21/09/2020 08:18

Ocado still has loads of slots in my area.

megletthesecond · 21/09/2020 08:20

Anyone who can't be bothered* to prep for 14 days isolation is an absolute arsehole. Unless they have magic pixies to bring them food or something 🤷‍♀️.

  • ie; can afford it and has the space.
gamerchick · 21/09/2020 08:28

Don't feed the trolls Grin

MRex · 21/09/2020 08:30

@gamerchick - we'll have to if they need to isolate though, they won't keep food in the house.

yeOldeTrout · 21/09/2020 08:30

I don't think I know anyone who has been contacted by T&T or had to quarantine after overseas hols or who mentioned they were stuck at home with a mystery illness that might be covid. It all feels very remote.

Whatwouldscullydo · 21/09/2020 08:33

@gamerchick - we'll have to if they need to isolate though, they won't keep food in the house

GrinGrin

Its ok there are plenty of videos on you tube showing you how to steal.tissuw paper from petrol stations and the like.

Maybe they will channel their inner bear grylls and dig up grubs and drink their own piss

gamerchick · 21/09/2020 08:39

[quote MRex]@gamerchick - we'll have to if they need to isolate though, they won't keep food in the house.[/quote]
Grin good point.

MilesJuppIsMyBitch · 21/09/2020 08:41

So, just to clarify, some of you think that because you don't have the space/money/inclination to prep during a time when supplies are still at a good level, a 'mostly bed bound' woman with disabled children is stupid and selfish for doing so?

Just checking I've understood.

gamerchick · 21/09/2020 08:48

People always get a bit spitty and snarly when the system they're so accustomed to is under threat at all. It's a sort of burying heads in sand and pretend it isnt happening, even when it has already.

Fwiw I'm not expecting the same levels as march, but not taking it for granted either.

MilesJuppIsMyBitch · 21/09/2020 08:53

@gamerchick that is very wise.

I'm feeling a bit spitty and snarly myself, I think. I thought we'd sorted this out last night!

OP seems very balanced and rational, but she also sounds like she has a challenging life, and it makes my anger flash seeing the shitty responses from non-thread-readers.

I think I may be over-invested!

OpenlyGayExOlympicFencer · 21/09/2020 09:05

@gamerchick

People always get a bit spitty and snarly when the system they're so accustomed to is under threat at all. It's a sort of burying heads in sand and pretend it isnt happening, even when it has already.

Fwiw I'm not expecting the same levels as march, but not taking it for granted either.

Oh definitely. It was the same with Brexit prepping threads too, and of course we potentially still have that joy ahead of us.
gamerchick · 21/09/2020 09:13

Brexit prepping is going to be a pain in the arse if restrictions are put in place in the run up to Christmas. People tend to spend more on food anyway for Christmas. As it stands currently any prepping for brexit is frozen so there's enough left on the shelves for others during this potential blip. Need another plan.

I think maybe Christmas shop now for those things that won't be in demand right now might be in order. As long as willpower is there not to eat it early Grin

But yeah brexit prepping is going to be the challenge I think.

gamerchick · 21/09/2020 09:17

[quote MilesJuppIsMyBitch]@gamerchick that is very wise.

I'm feeling a bit spitty and snarly myself, I think. I thought we'd sorted this out last night!

OP seems very balanced and rational, but she also sounds like she has a challenging life, and it makes my anger flash seeing the shitty responses from non-thread-readers.

I think I may be over-invested![/quote]
There's a few coordinated trolls on here atm. They're just best ignored.

JamieLeeCurtains · 21/09/2020 09:33

I've noticed quite a lot of very odd, confrontational posters on almost every thread I'm on at the moment. A couple of them I thought were previously banned posters (PBPs), so I reported them.

But I agree with ignoring them.

Anyway, back to prepping ... The convergence of the Xmas season, coronavirus, and Brexit is going to be extremely difficult for people with illnesses and disabilities, so it absolutely makes sense for people to make sure they have a reasonably high level of provisions and medical supplies.

netsybetsy · 21/09/2020 09:37

@onedayinthefuture

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!
At least my arsehole will be clean as I have enough toilet paper 😂
Bbq1 · 21/09/2020 10:36

@PattyPan

Pesto pasta is one of my go-to weeknight meals. Pesto from a jar and I usually Chuck in some spinach, broccoli, peas and maybe mushrooms. I also have pasta salad for lunch sometimes, or put pasta in soup (like minestrone). Sausage pasta, pasta arrabiata, chilli and parsley linguine with salmon for DP (I am vegan so usually add meat/cheese for him to a vegan base), pasta amatriciana are also in my rotation. Spaghetti aglio olio e Peperoncino is a store cupboard meal which is also a legit Italian dish. The other day I quickly threw together spaghetti with sundried tomatoes, spinach, pine nuts and olives in about 15 minutes when I’d finished work late - mostly store cupboard stuff too. Or pasta puttanesca for which I would leave out the anchovies personally but you could add them if you like them.
@Pattypan Some great ideas there!
Oliversmumsarmy · 21/09/2020 10:50

People always get a bit spitty and snarly when the system they're so accustomed to is under threat at all. It's a sort of burying heads in sand and pretend it isnt happening, even when it has already

The only people who are getting “spitty and snarly” appear to be the ones who are prepping.

I certainly am not worried about their being no food on the shelves.
When in March everyone was going on about the toilet roll shortage and how the shelves were bare in Tesco and Sainsbury’s
I was strolling round a different supermarket that had all the toilet roll and food and cleaning materials I needed and more.
I just went at a different time of day than everyone else.
It was very pleasant.

I didn’t think then the system was under threat and I don’t think it is now.

I refuse to prep, I refuse to give supermarkets £100s extra each year just in case the world collapses. I don’t have anywhere to put all this extra food. I have a big fridge freezer and it has 5 draws. If it doesn’t fit in those 5 drawers then then it doesn’t get bought and I am not cluttering up the house with packets and tins piled up in the corner of the room just because something might happen. It would annoy me too much and the cats would probably “helpfully” open any packet that’s left within their reach. (The spirulina incident is brought to mind. When they had fun overnight opening and rolling in a packet of Spirulina which was left out on the side and turning themselves green. It really does get everywhere. and it is soo green)

I have watched programmes about prepping and it just leaves me bemused.

Maybe I am burying my head in the sand but in 60 years of my life the only time I have gone hungry was because we couldn’t afford food. Not because there was nothing in the shops or that we weren’t allowed to leave the house.

Even if the scenario that made it impossible for people to leave the house happened. Then if you are ill with Covid and it was anything like what our family had at the end of last year then no one is eating anything anyway

gamerchick · 21/09/2020 10:55

The only people who are getting “spitty and snarly” appear to be the ones who are prepping

Might want to look again at who's doing the name calling.

Then if you are ill with Covid and it was anything like what our family had at the end of last year then no one is eating anything anyway

That's the spirit. GrinGrinGrin ah man that properly me laugh. Cheers man.

LetsBeSensible · 21/09/2020 11:01

@Oldbagface can you ask for the title to be edited to include “I have, as I’m disabled”