Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

Popperwell

It's started already, the tinned potatoes had sold out and most of the tinned vegetables.

I just purchased some salad stuff, milk, cooked ham, bread buns and the cornfour etc...

Still seem too spend too much:mad:

Butterfly_Brain

I noticed that bread has gone up to £1.75 a loaf of hovis in the co-op tonight :eek:. Needless to say I didn't buy it I got 2 packs of whoopsied rolls 13p for 6 instead . So I really must get some more bread flour in. I will get some more pasta from farmfoods tomorrow on offer £2.50 for a 3kg bag.

Fruball

This will make sense to some but not for others...

Whenever I see a man on a bike with a big rucksack on his shoulders I wonder if he is on a practise run to his BOL with his BOB!

Tickles me everytime I see one - I doubt they really are, but it makes me chuckle none-the-less!!!

Didn't make it to MrT but am mortified to find that PW found that they supermarket had run out of various tinned stuff.

A lesson to us all that it is worth stocking up whilst it is there and not wait until paranoia hits the rest of the population...

Having a good store is good for your mental health as paranoia about these things are avoided.

Now.... Where did I hide those valium?

(wondering how useful that super bargain loo roll is gonna be if I can't eat _pale_ )

Popperwell

Frugal,
And the trouble is there are two neighbouring towns(three actually)that have all the supermarkets in them but using a bus or taxi defeats the savings made...on my town until Aldi is built we have a Heron Freezer shop and Tesco's.

There is a small Sainsbury's in a new part of town but it's just a convenience type of shop and I don't think it has much choice...

I have popped in if I have been at the CAB as it's close by but have been disappointed.

Even the two poundshops that are local are again in neighbouring towns...

flippin36

Morris's had loads of tinned potatoes but they were 23p. Aldi was 18p on saturday - so I'm off there to stock up. Mr m's had loads in stock though. Good news - savers Mushy Peas 8p!!! OH told me to put them in the doomsday cupboard because thats what he'll be eating come armagedon ....just before the dog :eek:.(think he was joking)

quintwins

That would be my hubby's (and mine I hate mushy peas) views aswell.

Don't get me wrong I'm all for a good stock cupboard and have one, but will all this panic buying not make higher prices more likely, we all kno how greedy supermarkets are. Saying that I'm in a position I can say that as we are in a position to save if I was living hand to mouth I'd e stocking up aswell.


My biggest tip for a sock cupboard is save anything left from your budget and try do the odd shop online, every few months I do a Tesco shop online when they send me a £10 off £50 code, I rarely spend more than £30 a week in Tesco now but I get the cheapest slot so I get £7 of free shopping, and bulk it out with porridge, rice pudding, beans and uht milk....my freezer is also my best friend.

Whoever said bread had went up lidl bread is nice at 65-69p a loaf I usually buy a lot of reduced bread but if I'm running low I buy this.

Butterfly_Brain

quintwins we don't have a lidl locally but we do have an Aldi. Farmfoods have a good deal on bread at the moment so I will get some tomorrow.

la_farfallina

Frugal wrote: »

This will make sense to some but not for others...

Whenever I see a man on a bike with a big rucksack on his shoulders I wonder if he is on a practise run to his BOL with his BOB!

Tickles me everytime I see one - I doubt they really are, but it makes me chuckle none-the-less!!!

Didn't make it to MrT but am mortified to find that PW found that they supermarket had run out of various tinned stuff.

A lesson to us all that it is worth stocking up whilst it is there and not wait until paranoia hits the rest of the population...

Having a good store is good for your mental health as paranoia about these things are avoided.

Now.... Where did I hide those valium?

(wondering how useful that super bargain loo roll is gonna be if I can't eat _pale_ )

I will start a thread asking for cheap bog roll recipes.

Farf x

Fruball

la_farfallina wrote: »

I will start a thread asking for cheap bog roll recipes.

Farf x

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Very helpful - thanks

la_farfallina

Spaghetti bogrollaise.