Panic buying

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Just nipped to aldi for cereal loads of bread but no baked beans and we needed cereals and beans!

Waitrose was out of sliced bread yesterday; Aldi had a few left today. What has got into people? I blame the media for hyping the 'beast from the East'.

Whilst my daughter was in her local supermarket on Thursday.
A man with an empry trolley swept all the bags salt in to his trolley.
The checkout staff allowed his purchase.
I just hope they had plenty salt to replenish the shelf.

I always have red lentils, a brilliant staple, in my store cupboard Jalima.I keep them in a sealed glass jar. They seem to keep forever.
I used some the other day to make a lovely thick soup with bacon and tomatoes, and they were absolutely fine. However, I tried to buy some more today, and the shop had none. I think that perhaps everyone has been buying them as they are so versatile. As for dried beans though, I do not know if they have a 'sell by date' as such.

Happy to say we never buy sliced bread . I do not eat any bread at all if I can help it because I am diabetic. The only things we ran out of , because we were snowed in, were milk and red wine .DH could live without the first one not the second .

Only thing I need on Friday was a pint of milk as my lovely milkman couldn't get through. My nice neighbour (young & fit) needed milk as well so he walked to another local shop & into Town for supplies & a pint for me. My little local shop quickly sold out Friday morning (stock was all from previous day) & had no deliveries. Saturday morning they had both milk & bread (from local bakery) plus lots of fresh fruit & veg.

I went into Newton Abbot today to collect DGS's Birthday present from ASDA, car park & store were manic, no milk or bread (I didn't need either), some shelves were empty but I suspect they haven't had deliveries due to A38 etc being closed. I couldn't believe how much some people were putting in their trollies

I don't have a lot of storage space & only a fridge/freezer but I could manage for at least a week. I was brought up in Yorkshire, small village, DM didn't drive so she always had a well stocked pantry & store cupboard. That has stayed with me. I shopped Thursday morning for essentials before we got snowed in.

Dawlish rail line, sea wall repairs held but high Spring tides washed over & dislodged railings etc, no damage to the line, had a few openings & closings of the line as some of the trains can't cope. High tide & winds mean waves often come over track & train. All should be back to normal for most of us, rain & warmer temperatures = thaw Life goes on

My faithful milkman delivered a double supply of milk at 6.30 this evening.

That’s a coincidence granny23 my son’s milkman did the same this afternoon. He left double on Wednesday with a little note saying that he anticipated not being able to get out and do his rounds in the next few days and was concerned that having 3 children they may run short. He also added that if they did not need it there would be no charge. How kind and thoughtful.

Have always kept a well stocked freezer and a store cupboard so can survive for ages in bad winters etc. Am currently using up a few items from the store cupboard which are a lot older than just 2 years past their Best before date, Jalima1108 !!!

Greengage me too! We haven't bought anything in for at least 10 days and we could last much longer if necessary. My DS was telling me last night just how old fashioned I am as nowadays he thinks everyone in the food chain operates according to the 'just in time' system but why ever would you take the risk of running out if you don't have to?

I do rotate the stores in my cupboards and make sure I don't have anything for so long that it isn't nice to eat but dried stuff lasts ages so I don't worry about dates on things. I use my senses of taste and smell and common sense of course.

Chatting to my neighbour who is in her 90s and she was telling me how her mum kept stuff to bake a cake for her dad coming home and he was a prisoner of war for nearly 4 years. Her Maltese friend, same vintage, said that her mum wouldn't tell them what they were eating - but they all survived! They were both bemused by the panic buying that seems to have been going on. Different times eh!

I always keep a packet of bread mix in the cupboard (I've been caught out before) but pay attention to the use by date & make sure you use it up - then replace it with a new one!

Went to the local co-op yesterday to pick up a few things for DD Lots of customers all wandering aimlessly. No bread, milk or eggs. Vegetables and fruit aisle absolutely empty. . The girl on the till said they didn't know when their next delivery was going to be.

As a child I remember the days before we had a fridge when meat and other perishables went into a 'meat safe' outside the back door. Shopping had to be done daily, on foot as we had no car, apart from Sundays when the shops didn't open. My mum always had a full store cupboard but I don't remember how we got through being snowed in! It certainly used to happen back then up in the North West. I can't imagine being without a fridge-freezer these days. I recently had a sort out of my cupboards and threw out a few very out of date items but most out of date stuff is still fine. Unfortunately I found a sticky black substance on the back of a shelf. Turned out an old tin of pineapple at the back of the cupboard had 'blown' and the contents had leaked out and sort of caramelised on the shelf. The tin itself felt completely empty! Took ages to clean up! Note to self - keep better control of store cupboard. That's what comes of have a large walk in larder that I don't walk into often enough - just reach for the stuff at the front of shelves and all sorts remain hidden at the back!

On the worst days our milkman left 3 pints instead of our usual single one and I thought how sensible as he delivers between 2am and 5am around us from Paradise Farm way out. Next night we got 3 more pints and then another 2 by Saturday morning. Made a lovely warming rice pudding.