Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

Confuzzled

flippin36 wrote: »

We are lucky enough to have a utility room thats quite a big space. We left all the old kitchen cupboards (it used to be a kitchen) which are pretty much empty. I'm also thinking of buying an extra freezer for in there. I have already a years worth of oil and tin toms to start me off. I want to get a years worth of tinned and frozen goods, rice and pasta. I have a credit card which is 0% purchases for 9 months which I was going to use to stooze. I'm thinking of using that for my stockpile and spread the cost until March. Is this madness? Am I panicking or being sensible? :eek:

actually that seems very reasonable to me, it's a good investment and as long as you know that you will use these things then why not. i would advise not buying everything all at once, keep your eyes open and look for rock bottom prices on stuff, check my supermarket.com i notice they now have a graph on all the items showing pricing history that could be useful as a guide.

check approved foods and other sites like it, check local discount stores etc too. get to know your food prices and you can stock up when prices are really good. just be diligent about paying off the card and stock rotation (i call it shopping in MY store )

don't panic though, panic makes people do rash things and being prepared is about calm, astute observation of current and likely future goings on

prepareathome

sonastin wrote: »

What a load of twaddle!!

Not saying the story isn't true - can't access it - but if it is it represents a humongous failure of common sense. Milk production won't stop just because farmers want to go on strike. Cows won't just cross their udders and hold on till the olympics have finished. And farmers will have to pay for the disposal of milk if they aren't selling it. What struggling business man would prefer to pay someone else to take away his product than receive some degree of payment for it, however small.

And if Joe public reacts by stockpiling and freezing ahead of time then the strike will have no effect anyway.

The farmers have said the milk will not leave the farmers, they will pour it down their drains, not pay anyone to take it away, anyway all we can do is wait and see and does do anyone any harm to have a few extra pints in the freezer.

Butterfly_Brain

Popperwell wrote: »

I wasn't impressed with the employment consultant to be honest...If ever you saw the League of Gentlemen and their parody of work programmes and people like this it's too close for comfortand I suspect someone on the cast had probably attended such a course...

She got right up my snoz as well popperwell, she wouldn't get away with talking to me like that, power crazed insignificant little muppet and she admitted that there were no jobs:mad: as for the Hedge Fund manager :mad::mad::mad: arrogant sob

sonastin

prepareathome wrote: »

The farmers have said the milk will not leave the farmers, they will pour it down their drains, not pay anyone to take it away, anyway all we can do is wait and see and does do anyone any harm to have a few extra pints in the freezer.

Unless they operate their own septic tanks, pouring it down the drains won't be free. That sort of quantity of milk (thinking of your reasonable size dairy farm here, not your smallholding with a few cows) will wreak all sorts of havoc on your local neighbourhood sewage works. It will be classed as an unconsented trade discharge. If they have their own septic tanks, its likely to cause the trouble on their own farm. You can bet that the local water company and/or the environment agency will come looking for the culprit if it causes an environmental incident. Things don't magically disappear once they go down the drain.

Popperwell

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

She got right up my snoz as well popperwell, she wouldn't get away with talking to me like that, power crazed insignificant little muppet and she admitted that there were no jobs:mad: as for the Hedge Fund manager :mad::mad::mad: arrogant sob

The young girl they talked to even walks to her appointments at the Job Centre because the busses cost too much or are not available. How committed is that?

I have been on courses with people like her. I could do her job.:rotfl:

I really don't want to spend more but whilst I can I better get a little bit more of the tinned vegetables, cornflour, potatoes...I think that will do for now.

lolacocacola

sonastin wrote: »

Unless they operate their own septic tanks, pouring it down the drains won't be free. That sort of quantity of milk (thinking of your reasonable size dairy farm here, not your smallholding with a few cows) will wreak all sorts of havoc on your local neighbourhood sewage works. It will be classed as an unconsented trade discharge. If they have their own septic tanks, its likely to cause the trouble on their own farm. You can bet that the local water company and/or the environment agency will come looking for the culprit if it causes an environmental incident. Things don't magically disappear once they go down the drain.

I was going to say... that's going to cause problems surely! Aren't there loads of hormones in milk?

Popperwell

Well I cannot see it doing any good...if its done locally on their own farms, if it causes any problems I wonder if they'll have to pay in some way?

Butterfly_Brain

sonastin wrote: »

Unless they operate their own septic tanks, pouring it down the drains won't be free. That sort of quantity of milk (thinking of your reasonable size dairy farm here, not your smallholding with a few cows) will wreak all sorts of havoc on your local neighbourhood sewage works. It will be classed as an unconsented trade discharge. If they have their own septic tanks, its likely to cause the trouble on their own farm. You can bet that the local water company and/or the environment agency will come looking for the culprit if it causes an environmental incident. Things don't magically disappear once they go down the drain.

Most farms DO have their own septic tanks.

lolacocacola

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Most farms DO have their own septic tanks.

But you have to pay to have them emptied (I used to have one). With the quantity of milk they'll be chucking down the drain, it will fill up and require pumping pretty quickly I'd imagine, which negates the financial advantage of 'not paying someone to take it away'. I think that's the point the PP was trying to make.

Dragoncry

Just popping in to say my OH works for the Highways Agency and if they have a milk tanker in an accident they have to get specialists to clean away the milk because if it gets into the waterways, down drains etc it suffocates the wildlife especially the fish.
I wouldn't like to be the farmer caught tipping it down the drain :eek:

DC xx