It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

Caterina - sorry for making you feel guilty lol!

D&DD - thanks for the pics, I've just been told that it looks like my kitchen! Glad to see that I'm not the only one with lock n locks, ketchup, gales lemon curd and huge box of Daz!

Oh and thanks for the rehydrating tips. For sundried toms, I mix the dehydrated toms and some garlic and herbs with oil and keep in the fridge, then they get eaten over the next week. I tried putting them in jars, the toms were fine, but the garlic went mouldy. I shall try freezing them as well. I keep thin banana and apple slices fairly successfully in kilner jars, but then they prob aren't kept for more than a month tops before they get eaten.

Pennies, thanks for the info, I'd never thought of the supermarkets making emergency plans, but I can remember the chaos that the petrol shortages caused a few years ago, people were fighting over bread, yeast and flour!

Nanna - your trip sounds lovely, made me smile reading about it!

Hope I dont cause a rush on the supermarkets because of my earlier post It was more a comment on the prudent way a lot of posters are stockpiling 'just in case'. We might be ahead of the game.
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I started stockpiling and living from my stores in June this year, have saved a fortune with ll the price hikes in food stuffs lately and still have stacks of stuff in my stores. Just been today to do some topping up

This is my main storecupboard but I lso have three kitchen cupboards and some stacker boxes for flours too:D














One of biggest advantages of stockpiling and living from stores is the extra time you gain in your life from not having to go shopping.

countingthepennies wrote: »

Missed reading this thread for a few days and its taken me ages to catch up. So many posts!! Big congratulations to the mums to be, and big hugs to everyone who needs them.

D&DD- your store cupboard is amazing. I am very jealous.

I saw this comment on an article in todays Observer newspaper

"Britain's supermarket giants have drawn up emergency plans for how they would cope if scores of suppliers go bust next year. Asda is working on a "worst-case" scenario. An executive at the supermarket said: "Suppliers are under a lot of pressure and there will be casualties." (Observer)" (from thefirstpost.co.uk)

I am really pleased that I found the Old Stylers and have been stashing groceries away. I have an order coming from Mr T's on tuesday. I think I might add a few more tinned stuff to the list.
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I found this https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/14/retail-supermarkets-suppliers-credit-crunch

Evening everyone!

Been playing catch-up all weekend, so getting very behind reading the posts.

BUT the stock cupboards, I have seen in this thread are AMAZING! They really put mine to shame. We don't seem to have enough room to store much at all -but I thing we might have made a HUGE mistake a couple of years ago when we knocked out an old pantry. We could get loads in it. Replaced the pantry with nice but tiny cuboards and a few drawers. A few tins and bags of flour and they're full .

mummysaver -I get the same problem with itching skin as well whenever I touch any kind of Conifer or the dreaded Holly. I managed to finish the Holly wreaths yesterday, but spent the rest of the day with itching hands and I was wearing gardening gloves -obviously not good enough though, as I ended up plastering on antihistamine cream. Good luck with the swags though , hope they are going well.