Panic buying

Here at the bottom of a steep hill in the Forest of Dean, only people with 4WDs or tractors can get out. The nearest supermarkets (two or three miles away) have not been restocked for several days according to the social media community group.
The main roads are now clear so I imagine things will get back to normal fairly soon.
We were lucky enough to have enough milk and bread in before it snowed. We are used to preparing for being snowed in here. Just hope the electricity doesn’t go off.
The only thing we’ve run out of is birdseed!

People have been panic buying. Thee Asda near me, and Tesco's near where I work were absolutely rammed. Some of the delivery trucks have probably had trouble getting through though. Let's hope we soon get back to normal....whatever normal is

Thanks!
Now I have to go and make soup instead of wasting time on GN.

Jalima They will be fine unless at some time in the past you re-allocated them as baking beans to weigh down pastry in an empty pastry case. I once inadvertently made soup from an unlabelled jamjar of yellow split peas. They never softened, not even after simmering for hours. I now label my baking beans clearly.

Here here golden girl it's a thankless task at this time of year elegran my ds plans meals and when I asked about it being more expensive buying week to week they have tried both ways and don't find week to week anymore expensive .

My dad is having bread withdrawal symptoms . His little loaf from Wednesday is gone and I don’t think he believes me that there’s no bread on the shelves of the supermarkets. He keeps telling me he has plenty of Lurpak but nowt to spread it on.

Jalima of course they are go ahead. I've just found some fruit tea at the back of the cupboard which is 2 years out of date and it is lovely.

DH is in charge of the kitchen so every now and again when he is out I have a root around and see what needs using up and leave it out for him. Some of it ends up back in the cupboards but I never give up!

My local M&S food store here in NE Scotland had no bread this morning, and a lot of empty shelf space generally. I Couldn't understand at first why there were boxed birthday cakes spread out on shelves, where they're not usually to be found, then I realised that these were the bread shelves.

Do you think that lentils and dried split peas are OK when they're past their sell-by date? Two years past in one case
We could have some very nourishing soups if only I was brave enough to use them.

Buying a lot week to week is expensive, but one by one adding an extra tin of beans or evaporated milk, or a bag of bread flour, only adds a pound or two, and once the store-cupboard is stocked up you don't have to spend any more than normal - if you are eating something from the cupboard or freezer, that is one meal that you are not buying fresh so you can replace the stored thing. Storage space could be a box under the bed (along with everything else!)

I got out my AW-T bread maker only to find it would mix but no longer bake.
As for milk, I’m using less because I’m trying all those interesting teas I had as Christmas presents!

I think that the damage to the sea wall/railway line at Dawlish was fairly minor as they did a good job of repairs after it collapsed in 2014:

www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/no-structural-damage-dawlish-sea-1287992

Living on the SW north coast with its frequent adverse weather conditions I always stock up my two freezers beginning December and make sure cupboards have plenty tinned food and cartons of long life milk as a standby should milk I have frozen been used


.

For those shops that have remained stocks I think we should thank the lorry drivers for their efforts. We shouldn't knock the drivers who couldn't make the deliveries either [not that anyone has on here]. It illustrates how much we rely on lorry drivers - but their working conditions are appalling eg lack of safe and secure parking; lack of access to toilet facilities; and yes, there is a driver shortage surprise surprise

No idea about our supemarkets. We saw the weather forecast and made sure we had enough of everything to last until Monday when it is expected to clear.

Just cleared the drive enough for DH to get a car out as he really 'needs' his Sunday paper! I will go out in the morning for the first time since it started.

Decades ago there was a sugar shortage and a then neighbour of my mum stockpiled tons of sugar (well, about 40 bags...we helped carry it in)
What was weird was the fact that none of the family used sugar in anything.
When mum asked the neighbour why so much sugar, she replied 'Well, you never know'.
We never did know what happened to it.
Some people stock up as a comfort thing when it's not necessary to do so.

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 .

Stansgran .Has DH always been a scrooge?

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. ?

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

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.

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.

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?!

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.

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.