Panic buying

A bit of both with the bread I would think

Gave some supplies to DD this afternoon, the local shop was out of certain things.The supermarkets will have plenty though I guess, as the roads here are all fine now.
We always have plenty in ( the just in case factor!) with bread in the freezer and long life milk and plenty of tins.

I asked the checout girl who said it was due to panic buying. They were rationing bread today. I just bought 4 bread rolls which will last me till monday as i live alone. There are 4 asdas near me and i saw people piled up with bread yeasterday. The temperature is now 3 degrees and raining so will be gone soon.

Absolutely ridiculous Tegan ! How did they expect people to get to work ? Hospital appointments ? Emergencies ? Etc. They were saying they would have to queue and be taken through in convoys once an hour or so ???? Oh that’s fine then . All to save money !

Some people are daft - and greedy.

Well in Asda near to me they said they hadn’t had a bread delivery since Wednesday etheltbags I managed to get my dad a small whole meal loaf which was all that was left on Thursday morning. Nothing since then .

Let them eat cake?

The thing is Elegran many young people are not financially able to stock pile or they don’t have any space . My DD lives in a tiny little starter ( box ) home barely room to breath and no cupboards or garage .

My nephew is a farmer and he posted on F/B a photo of thousands of litres of milk from his cows being poured down the drain. Apparently the tankers couldn’t get through! And we live in an area that wasn’t one of the worst affected by the snow !

I’m in the south east and there has been hardly any bread or milk for days in all our major supermarkets....it’s quire shocking. The shelves are actually bare. Strangely too, they e been completely out of digestive biscuits too!

The only thing we bought in larger quantities was a supply of vegetables to make soup.
We have not noticed people filling trolleys with bread and milk, we are a stoic lot up here in the north.

We had plenty of notice and I took heed. I had milk including a few long life and bread including half-baked. I had tins of soup and all sorts of things in the freezer. I could have fed hubby and me for a month if necessary without wasting anything. I live down a lane and have learned to do this over the years. I also took the opportunity to defrost my freezer leaving the food in bin liners in the garden under snow whilst I did.

I'm in the SE, just inside the M25. There was bread and potatoes when I went to Sainsburys on Thursday and we got a delivery fom Morrisons late Wednesday night with milk and everything else we needed. But just after Xmas, I think between Xmas and NYE, the local Asda ran out of bread. It is often very low first thing early in the morning. They are open 24/7. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Well said Elogran, that's what we had to do when our children were small , stock up , 3 children under 4years old, no car , I always had tins of food in and a well stocked freezer in case I couldn't get out , I would never had wanted to drag DC out in bad weather,

I shopped on Saturday morning at Tesco and didn't see many empty shelves - although we got horrible snow it's generally much kinder to us here in the East Midlands.
I always dread having to go out in it but really, it was only ankle deep which is nothing compared to other regions.
I had to make a special journey during the week to get more cat food and litter as I was getting short. I don't mind getting a bit short of things for me but not for puss.

Advised my daughter to always keep some bread and milk in the freezer for emergencies. Now she does and was pleased she didn’t have to go to the shops in the snow as she had everything else in the cupboards.

We were watching an irish chat show on Friday night. As a joke a bakery had donated 200 loaves. One for each member of the audience. However, due to the extreme weather there were only 30 people there. The presenter said they would donate the bread to a charity. The conclusion is that there had been panic buying in Ireland.

It is a sorry situation when farmers have to waste their milk due to vehicles not getting through.
Is this country ever going to learn that it needs to be ready.? 2018 arctic conditions bring the UK to a standstill. Thousands stranded at airports ,Trains not running, roads blocked. The south west line at Dawlish having had thousands spent on repairs from the disasters of winter 2013- 2014 was cut off once again? Well don't have a line a few meters away from the Atlantic
Our leaders{hmm}need to get their act together. What we must be thank full for is that this bunch were not around in 1939.

Hasn't it dawned on anyone we don't have to eat bread and drink milk?? Yes of course they're nice to have but I'm sure that a lot of people, like us, have overfull freezers and cupboards buckling under the weight of canned foods. We usually get snowed in due to our extremely rural location & I've seen it as an opportunity to eat up some of the overstocks. Let's face it, a few days without bread and milk won't do any harm - we're not talking about the siege of Leningrad are we?!

If the supermarkets don’t constantly restock their shelves during the day, there would never be any bread left at 5.30pm.
All stores get a constant stream of trucks delivering to them, not a lot of stock is kept in any store these days, let alone supermarkets.

We went to Tesco on Friday to do our weekly shop and very little bread there, either. No duck breasts, Holstens or brandy, either. Just shows what are important in Rochdale! The cashier told us that things were generally not that bad even in the Christmas gannet run.

Our Asda had no Cornetto’s left yesterday either Eldest DGD will be most disappointed tomorrow .

I wish we had panic bought peanuts and fat balls for the birds. DH bought some suet- agora but it's palm oil so I'm not sure about giving it to the birds- does anyone know? DH hates a full larder or fridge and turned off the freezer after Christmas. So we will have to manage. ?

Stansgran .Has DH always been a scrooge?

Our tesco was fully stocked yesterday no problems at all. I agree with you gilly I know my ds buys week to week can't afford to do anymore .