To ask if you have prepped for the second wave

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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.

Oliversmum the freezer plus your normal stuff already on your shelf would probably see you through a good week though? Possibly longer. Or am I missing something?

I know an older relative in February/ March who I asked if they were getting extras in laughed and said no way. But they have a big freezer plus a utility room where they put their quarterly stash from Costco so essentially they are ready for hurricane season!

The ones I have a bit more worry for is the 20 odd year olds in our family who really are used to being able to pick up food 24/7. They spend too much of their income on takeaway and expensive corner shops/ garages but that's another story!

@Oliversmumsarmy you do realise though that not everyone is you? While you don't have the space or inclination to prep, other people do. While you have cats ripping open stored packets, other people don't. While you found it pleasant walking around supermarkets, other people didn't want to at the height of a pandemic. Isn't that a funny old thing, how people are different?!

Thanks. I don't think the title needs changing. Everyone is entitled to be sensible imo. Prepping is not panic buying.

I’m not in the UK, but with online food shopping I recently discovered that customers are charged extra on some products to cover the cost of picking and packing. So it does turn out more expensive, and besides during Spring there were no delivery slots for 3 wks anyway. I have plenty of space, and will continue to prep as I have done for years.

Oliversmumsarmy you do realise though that not everyone is you

That’s a good thing otherwise the supermarket I use would have been awfully crowded

@netsybetsy Thanks for the laugh.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch thanks for the support. Now remember, snarling arseholes

Didn't even prep for the 1st wave

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

Yeah but you ars assuming you get it. If you are contacted to say you have been in contact with someone who tested positive you could effectively have your entire healthy family at home fir at least 2 weeks eating everything. Longer if one of them then comes down with it.

Yes I mildly prep, as I did last time. With a young toddler it's important to know we will manage if we get sick, if she gets sick, if we isolate etc. We don't have family nearby so would otherwise rely on friends and neighbours for help - though our neighbours are mostly 75+ and we help them.

Basic things for her - nappies, wipes, calpol, certain dry foods.

Basic things for us - easy foods to make and freeze or make when your poorly. Soup, pasta, tinned fruit, squash, biscuits. Medication.

It's about one large shopping bags worth in the garage that I keep using and replacing. We've had to isolate for different periods 3 times so far and not dashing to the supermarket before you do is helpful...

*but FFS...... the food shops will not close!!!!!

It’s not the shops closing ... it’s the food factories (x2 meat factories closed due to covid) The loo roll manufacturers, the tinned goods, boats not operating, all these things add up to problems in the supply chain.

If nobody can make them or pick them, then the shops can’t sell them.

No I'll just use a rag on a stick for loo paper.

How very Roman of you

I've heard rags are going to be hard to come by.
Better start gathering moss

@derxa I’ve got a loo roll you can have

Bloody hell, Waitrose sent me lots of substitutions today. No organic Duchy dental floss! I mean wtf?! Who do they think they are expecting me to use Oral bloody b?!

I'm kidding there were a fair few subs though today. Nothing drastic and all the essentials arrived plus mum's loo roll.

*but FFS...... the food shops will not close!!!!!

I want to be in a position where I just nip in and out for some milk in my local corner shop or tiny Supermarket that no one knows about except the people on that estate.

I am still queueing at my local big supermarket, whilst it is virtually empty inside, and I am not prepared to do that in the cold or for a big shop. They have performance security and they piss me off and everyone in the queue is arsey.

I've heard rags are going to be hard to come by. Better start gathering moss I've got plenty of grass

My DH is obsessed with acorns at the moment. We have an oak tree and there are acorns everywhere, more than usual. He thinks we can make acorn coffee and acorn brittle if we get really stuck. Yeah right.

Ersatz coffee? That is a bold move, I have to say.

My grandmother used to have bottles of Camp Coffee, which has chicory in it. She said she got a taste for it during the war. I tried to like it, but failed.

@WokesFromHome exactly. Supermarkets were open throughout but you had to queue for ages. Anyone fancy that in the rain/ sleet/ snow?! Also, some of them did get busy once lockdown was relaxed a little and whilst many observed social distancing, not everyone did. People could be asymptomatic and inadvertently spreading the virus in crowded places.

Much easier to add the odd item to shopping for a period of several weeks before the predicted second wave and as you say, shopping is then conveniently just about popping to the local shop for milk, bread and veg.

It took DH 2 hours round trip for our lockdown 'big shop'. And he went off peak while I was both working and home schooling. Sod that. 10 minutes there and back to the small local well stocked shop for weekly / fortnightly top-ups is the way to go. For us anyway.

@JamieLeeCurtains

Ersatz coffee? That is a bold move, I have to say.

My grandmother used to have bottles of Camp Coffee, which has chicory in it. She said she got a taste for it during the war. I tried to like it, but failed.

Camp coffee is perfect for frappes or coffee milkshakes. (Ex cafe worker here).

@onedayinthefuture

Anyone 'prepping' or stockpiling is an absolute arsehole!

Str you offering to go & do my food shopping for me if I get sick or have to isolate?

Nope? Then STOP being such a twat.

Prepping is not panic buying, nor is it 'stockpiling'. Me buying extras, over a few months, doesn't impact anyone else.

That just reminded me the time my coffee ran out. It wasn't actually in lockdown, it was when I had swine flu (yes, that long ago!) and the bastard coffee couldn't be found. So I panic-added an extra 5 jars to Saturday's delivery. Sorry if someone else has to drink tea as a result, but in my defence I get woken up at night a lot and I have to be able to work.

@MRex
Coffee AND cheese. I like you

Had to add something to my ASDA slot that's due to be delivered tomorrow. 8 things were removed from my basket due to being unavailable. I was able to add 2 things back - the other 6 there's no alternatives in stock at all.
It's okay though, 3 of them were cleaning stuff & I don't mind not cleaning.

@MJMG2015 🙌🏻