Thank goodness for a full stockcupboard

wendall

My mum used to always have a full store cupboard when i was growing up, she always said to me "you never knew what was round the corner and at least if you had a full cupboard you would not starve" This has always served me well as on many occassions i have to use the store cupboard for example my husband used to work in the building trade and could possibly be out of work for several weeks so we lived on the food out of the cupboard. Where i live (in the middle of nowhere) i have managed to get my car up the lane approx 3 times since the 18th Dec my last time was yesterday to the supermarket before the snow hit again, i did not panic buy i just replenished my cupboard got some longlife milk and extra bread oh and some veg for soups already made potatoe and leek for dinner tomorrow.

sillyinthepast

Tescos was extremley busy today people were really stocking. We have had 4 inches in the last 40 minutes so I can see why. I have a freezer full and the cupboards are bursting so we will be fine.

I agree with the comment of it's not the end of the world but I have 3 small children and I will not be going out in it and I'm sure alot of people feel the same.

greenbee

pipkin71 wrote: »

One thing I try not to do is waste food, because, as you say, someone else would really appreciate having it to waste. It wasn't always the case, but you learn as you go on.

Interestingly, I was talking about this with someone recently, and they said that years ago, school food waste would be sent to pig farms, for the pigs, but they aren't allowed to do that now. No idea why However, the amount wasted is shocking.

One of the things I try to teach DDs is that food is to be eaten not thrown away, and I hope they carry that on with them when they are adults.

You might find this interesting. The book explains why food waste isn't used for swill anymore, and talks about where the waste is in the food chain and what we can do about it.

mollythewestie

DH popped into Tesco on his way home to get some bread (I had ordered some with my online shop yesterday, but none of the bread arrived :rolleyes:) But Tesco had no bread left, people are going crazy and piling food in trolleys!

I have a loaf in the freezer and some bread flour, so will make my own this week instead.

I have full to bursting cupboards and freezer, so we won't starve. We live in the surburbs, but in icy/snowy weather our lane becomes impassible, so we can't drive anywhere. But we have a high street 10 minutes walk away, so I can send DH up there if needs be .

maryb

I got caught in one of those awful gridlocks when it snowed the Monday before Christmas, took 3 1/2 hours to drive a couple of miles and was skating all over the road. Terrifying! Plus we live on a 1 in 8 hill and even if the road is gritted (and it isn't always) the pavements certainly aren't. So I really don't want to go out if I don't have to. My normal stores are pretty good but DD has chosen now to start guzzling milk like it's going out of fashion and there was less left than I would like. So I popped up to Mr S's at 7 o'clock this morning and got plenty of milk and a couple of loaves.

It's quite helpful in some ways to be able to say firmly to DH 'You've got to eat what I've got in the house'. I think Christmas has given him delusions of grandeur and he expects fancy cooking/expensive cuts of meat every day. At least he'll blame the weather and not me when he is brought back down to earth!

taplady

I have enough for a couple of weeks if necessary but nothing too excessive as I havent got much storage space for it. It gives me a warm feeling having full cupboards:)
we live in a small country town with no major supermarkets and our local shops soon get emptied if it snows of all milk and bread - doesn't worry me as DH is a milkman so we always have access to milk :Dand I have a bread machine I can use if I need to but I always have a spare loaf in the freezer.
I feel sorry for old people who can get about in this weather and people in town centres really dont understand how bad it can get in the countryside.

In case of fuel shortages we have an open fire as well as central heating and a small camping stove that we can use for hot drinks or toast.
We are well insulated too.

Reverbe - I agree with you about the amount of shopping people do at Christmas and new year just because the shops are shut for 1 day!:rolleyes:

valk_scot

Full cupboards and freezers here. Plus flour, yeast, dried milk...I'd be a bit short of fresh milk and eggs but we'd be fine for what...three weeks? Easy....and my pal down the road has chooks, come to think of it.

Anyhow, I literally live over our corner shop. I'd just need to cut a hole in the back bedroom floor and let one of the kids down on a rope to do some shopping, lol. But realistically it's not occurred to me to do much by way of stocking up. I always carry a good reserve of foodstuffs. Plus I've got several camping stoves and gas, plenty of extra blankets and sleeping bags, candles (bought for the Millenium power cut that never happened) and such. I may be a townie now but I used to live in a small village and we were always getting snowed in, so we always had reserves to last us through.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I reckon we could live at least a month from our storecupboard/freezer/outside store.
I've always had a good store cupboard but I guess that's what being brought up by your grandma does for you.

gizmo111

I had alreeady decided after xmas and new year that we were going ot live out of the freezer and cupboards until we go on holiday in 6 weeks time, only buying veg fruit eggs and milk. Got some veg in freezer including partroasted pots, mash, dauphinose, cauliflower cheese, mashed swed, carrotts, sprouts, parsnips (all left overs or extra cooked), bit short on fruit, have plenty of dried milk which I use normally for bread making but down to last egg, which I am saving to make some yorkshire puds with, theres enough food including HM frozen meals to make around 150 meals - 3 of us to feed, so we should be OK for quite some time.

wendyphant

Well I am normallly well stocked but believe it or not went to make pea and ham soup tonight and for the first time ever NO SPLIT PEAS !!!! thought this is rediculous turned around and laughed - a lovely collage from my son with a mass of split peas on it and three noise shakers filled with split peas!!! must remind self not to do as much craft things with the mini monster lol

I did however make ham and potato soup with a very small gammon joint reduced in sainsbury's will do me and DS til friday when hopefully OH returns home.

Hooray for xmas part baked bread which i got ready for xmas but didn't use so am pulling them out a roll at a time and cooked them for fresh bread.