Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

Popperwell

I see the Dairy Farmers are marching in London today...

fuddle

pops why are the diary farmers marching? Is it to do with the talk about flushing milk down the drains? Sorry, not been watching the news lately.

Possession

fuddle wrote: »

pops why are the diary farmers marching? Is it to do with the talk about flushing milk down the drains? Sorry, not been watching the news lately.

The price they are being paid per litre is being cut and it's costing them more to produce than they are paid. I suspect they are only surviving on subsidies in that crazy EU way.

Popperwell

Thanks for explaining Possession...

Here and there we have memories of the 1970's...so far nothing like, could it happen again, I do wonder, so many are hurting...many just quietly get on with things. Especially those fortunate to have family.

quintwins

I have no idea if people are panic buying I'm on holiday so not much shopping for me I was really just going by this thread.

Popperwell

I think some goods are in short supply Quintwins...

It may be that people are stocking up or a supermarket gets less of something, so as Grey Queen suggests if someone buys more of a product it soon disappears off the shelf but I do know tinned vegetables seem not as readily available in my local Tesco's(and that includes potatoes)and the one's that are selling fastest are those that cost 19p a can. So price is playing it's part. Is this because it is a bargain or because people are hard up?

If you want to pay 39p or more, some of those are still on the shelf. Not many...

Popperwell

Another little bargain "Mixed Herbs" in Tesco's their own are 75p and other brands £1.50 approx

In the Tesco Everday Range "Mixed Herbs" are 19p(and there is more in the container than the more expensive version)also the herbs are the same.

GreyQueen

Saw a woman in Lidl first thing this morning buying 10 x litre cartons of UHT milk. Since we're strangers, I don't know whether that's her regular habit or something for a suspected crisis.

A pal of mine with a debilitating but fluctuating health condition always has lots of small cartons of UHT in her cupboard. She never knows whether she'd be well enough to make it out of bed never mind to the shop, so it's a help to her.

A pal with the ambulance trust tells me that the old folks falling on icy pavements always happens about 3 days into a freeze. People sit tight until they run out of bread or milk, then they venture out and some of them will have broken limbs as a result. Not good at any age but particularly bad for the older generation.

Two of my neighbours (one in their twenties, one in their fifties) fell and broke limbs coming into the flats in winter 2010-11. Just think, having a stock-cupboard might mean the difference between being snug and safe at home and being down on a frozen pavement with a broken limb.........

Disdisbiff

What would be the best items to stock up on i'm thinking pasta oats tinned peas and carrots and UHT milk should i include anything else.
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sonastin

Popperwell wrote: »

It may be that people are stocking up or a supermarket gets less of something, so as Grey Queen suggests if someone buys more of a product it soon disappears off the shelf

My OH gets through soya milk at a rapid rate. His current preference is Te$co own brand sweetened. Don't usually shop there but he doesn't like a$da and ald! have only just started doing an (inferior) sweetened soya milk. So rather than keep making special trips, I usually by a case at a time. Given that there is only room for 2 cases at most, my visits tend to wipe them out of sweetened soya milk. But it isn't a sign of panic buying, honest!



For those living in fear of armageddon, surely you'd be better off learning how to be self-sufficient than creating a stockpile. An education in how to grow your own, treat water, forage for edible wild foods, etc will surely keep you going far longer than a cupboard full of tins and bottles that you don't have the means to replace, and you'll be in a better position to share with the other armageddon survivors