Due to close contact with a confirmed case early in in this process, my family have been in isolation/lockdown for 3 weeks now. None of us have been poorly, just following guidelines as they are at that time.
The first week was a surprise isolation and we weren't allowed to leave the house, so we did eat into the prep store. I was amazed how much we all ate when we were all at home.
Since then we've been socially distancing for 1 week (I took the kids out of school a week early due to my son' asthma) and then the last week lockdown with the whole country. In both those weeks we've been able to go to the shop and managed 1 online delivery which had been booked while we were in isolation but before the whole country started to panic. So the last 2 weeks we've been unable to get certain things and had to dip into my reserves, but could find something to eat, even if it wasn't what we really wanted. Things like tinned tomatoes and pasta have pretty much been used up from my store. Not sure we'll be able to stock them up again now.
The last week or so existing businesses have tried to adapt to the new circumstances and I'm trying to get my head round these. I live in the countryside, very close to farmland, so some of the farmers have set up ways of selling direct to the public. I can get fresh veg, milk and eggs this way. There's restaurants and pubs in the town that obviously have their own supply chains that are still getting food in and operating limited take away services, so we've used them a few of times too.
For the time being I'm looking at the next few months ahead. I don't think we can rely on the supermarkets getting back to normal. At some point people will run out of money to stockpile and will eat what they've got, so demand must fall, but surely supply chains will be affected by the global slowdown. Probably wise to think about changing how/what I'm cooking, trying to preserve my preps.