Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

~Chameleon~

Is there any specific reason that tinned/frozen veg is selling it out or is all due to people panic buying because of threads like this on the internet?

It does drive me insane when there's absolutely no need for it and it then causes inconvenience to every one else!! Take the recent petrol fiasco for example, queues a mile long, petrol running out, smaller garages putting prices up sky high and why??.. because selfish people decided to needlessly panic buy!!! :mad:

Evie74_2

Chameleon - I don't think anyone on this thread is advocating mass panic-buying. IMHO having a storecupboard is a sensible precaution against future difficulties - be that illness, bad weather, financial hardship, or - yes - even problems with the food supply chain.

Panic-buying seems to me more likely to happen whenever there is widespread media coverage of possible shortages - such as happened with the petrol, or actual problems in the here-and-now, such as heavy snowfall or flooding.

I think this thread actually has the opposite effect - people here are discussing and advocating making sensible preparations, so that if and when a problem arises, they won't be the ones sharpening their elbows against the crowds fighting over the last loaf in the supermarket.

Just my opinion...

Evie xx

Popperwell

quintwins wrote: »

Pop do you not have any friends you could go to? i would hate to be alone on xmas, i can remeber not seeing anyone til after lunch one xmas and i left awful lonely and depressed (i also had no heat or pressies so it was a very depressing morning).

Sadly unless someone surprises me I will be alone Quintwins...no pressies and unless I cook a Christmas meal it will be like any other day. I wonder if I have the strength to play the Christmas music Mum and myself enjoyed or I'll get upset...

Then again Last Night At The Proms will probably have that affect too especially when they break into Land Of Hope And Glory and Jerusalem which Mum sung so strongly.

Popperwell

mcjordi wrote: »

been to asda.. got a few little bits of meat reduced and loads of tins/pasta etc. spent nearly £60 but still my cupboard is full and freezer almost full.. mind you i did spend £13 on treats for myself.. magners cider/sweets

If you can/whilst you are abe...why not:)

prepareathome

I to feel anyone who actually posts reads all the posts and posts here are unlikely to be the ones dashing out buying up every pack of frozen veg they can see because they know its not the best way to build up a store cupboard. I mean what is the point of filling a freezer with frozen veg and not having enough room for meat, milk, fish, chicken, lamb etc you might find reduced.

So I don't think this list can be blamed - yes we all might buy an extra pack of three if we can afford it ( I have a totally full freezer and struggled tonight to find room for about a kilo of potatoes I picked today then boiled so I will not be causing a shortage anywhere).

People here on the news crops are failing, prices going up so they dash out, if anyone is to blame its the news services, but even they cannot be blamed, its just people panicking and going mad - like at Christmas when shops close for 1 day yet Christmas eve you see rows of trolleys packed to the brim and higher filled with perishable goods and most of them will end up in the bin, then people moan about the cost of Christmas, its not the presents they buy its the food they waste that drives it up.

So for next few days till supermarkets get more supplies there will be people panicing and buying whatever they can find - I wonder how many have bought veg they never eat just because they are panicking, I had a friend once ( oh about 20 years ago) who did that, cannot remember what it was but it was reported this crop had suffered due to something or other and so would be in short supply so she went out and bought tons of it and filled up her freezer and came and asked me if she could store some in mine. When I asked why she had bought it as she hated it, she looked at me blankly then said but its going to be in short supply, so I said so why should it worry you as you 'HATE' it, then she got it she realised what she had done, panicked and bought this. So I and many other friends benefited from her panicking as we did like whatever it was.

How many others out there are doing the same - bet if milk goes in short supply people who never drink it or use it will buy in a couple of pints 'just in case'

Doesn't need this list or even internet to make people clear shops, been going on long before both existed

prepareathome

mcjordi wrote: »

been to asda.. got a few little bits of meat reduced and loads of tins/pasta etc. spent nearly £60 but still my cupboard is full and freezer almost full.. mind you i did spend £13 on treats for myself.. magners cider/sweets

Don't blame you what kind of life would it be if you didn't have some treats to keep you sane

quintwins

Popperwell wrote: »

Sadly unless someone surprises me I will be alone Quintwins...no pressies and unless I cook a Christmas meal it will be like any other day. I wonder if I have the strength to play the Christmas music Mum and myself enjoyed or I'll get upset...

Then again Last Night At The Proms will probably have that affect too especially when they break into Land Of Hope And Glory and Jerusalem which Mum sung so strongly.

Do you think someone will surprise you? you might be surprised, i'd let it slip into convo you'll be on your own and you may find some people will offer, i know i would for anyone i know.

I have to say i did post about panic buying awhile back, now i have restocked my stock cupboard to bursting point but not because of this thread or the news but because MR'T gave me a £10 off code....shouldn't turn your nose up at free food;)

GreyQueen

I suppose my view is that if there were to be a crisis which sent a substantial amount of the population rushing to the stores in a panic, I would hope that my preparations vis-a-vis having a storecupboard, would mean that I wouldn't have to be among them. Many people who are frail or who have to have young children with them would be in danger in a scrum of panicked people.

My storecupboard would save me trouble and free up the goods on shelf to be bought by others.

Trouble is, a lot of people now live in ways which would have been unimaginable to our great-grandparents' generation, in terms of having nothing by them.

I often think of the couple who I refer to as Grandma and Grandad although they were no blood relation. They took on my Mum as an 8 year old in temporary fosterage, when their own children were grown and flown and they were already in their fifties. She stayed with them for over 20 years, was the daughter they never had, nursed them to the end.

They lived very simply in tied cottages in hamlets too small to even be called villages. No bathroom, outside bucket lavvy whose contents was buried in the garden. Water pumped manually at the dairy at the foot of the garden. Coal fires. Grandma "sticking" in the hedges for kindling with an old pram to carry them home in. Washing done in a copper in the corner of the kitchen, water heated on a fire of old cardboard and scrap wood. Bantams in the backyard for the house eggs, 50 laying hens for the egg selling. A couple of electric lights but still the old oil lamps about, just in case. Big veggie garden.

They were pretty much independant from any kind of grid and bought-in essentials and could have flitted back to the Middle Ages and felt right at home. Grandad was a ploughman, one of the last to plough commerically with horses. Grandma was a ferocious housekeeper, baker, make-do-and-mender.

If the wider society had gone t*ts up, as long as marauding mobs from the cities hadn't come their way, they might not have even noticed for a while. They had the skills and attitude to get by on very little. A lot of modern generations have a fraction of their skills and I number myself among them, although I have more skills than some people I know, and less than others, but I'm working on that.

My take on the future is that it is going to look a lot more like the past than we might believe, or feel comfortable with. Some people will assume that it's business-as-usual and feel affronted when things don't pan out as they expected. Several thousand people were helped by foodbanks in my city in the past year.

I don't expect any of them imagined that they would be in such straits that they would have to be referred by agencies as in need of 3 days emergency food because they were hungry and penniless. I expect that when they get back on their feet (and I hope for all those people, it will be sooner rather than later) they will have a changed attitude to storecupboards and similar preparations.

However, it's a free thread, and all opinions are valid, whether we have a consensus or not.

Love and (tinned?) peas, GQ x

Popperwell

quintwins wrote: »

Do you think someone will surprise you? you might be surprised, i'd let it slip into convo you'll be on your own and you may find some people will offer, i know i would for anyone i know.

I have to say i did post about panic buying awhile back, now i have restocked my stock cupboard to bursting point but not because of this thread or the news but because MR'T gave me a £10 off code....shouldn't turn your nose up at free food;)

Perhaps I'll look into going away for a few days at Christmas but sometimes that just makes you feel worse when you return to an empty house...

There's only neighbours around here and they know I am alone. We'll just have to see...

Popperwell

There was a lady on the Today programme in Salisbury that is supposed to be quite affluent and she's had to go to a food bank for help and it was heartbreaking listening to her and for once the media did some good and did not try to demonise her as they usually do with anything to do with people on a low income or seeking help benefitwise.

This is more the true picture of those who are struggling thanthe kind the media and politicians wheel out. The kind of people we meet on MSE...

And you'll know more than anyone in the job you do who are having difficult times...besides you also though managing have to be frugal too...which also shows it isn't just those who are not working. Workers are struggling too.