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redofromstart

I have also been through the fridge and frozen odd bits of things, logically trying to avoid waste in a 'during the war' style.  We have very little F&V, so I have been through the seed stash.  Cress can be grown quickly, also radishes and salad leaves.  Greenbee I know is sprouting seeds, easy enough to do even with just a jam jar.  My work load is likely to increase, so no point in committing to major productive garden  but I can use the seeds we have to provide some variety.

Milk we have, and today I need to dilute and freeze some of the full fat (allowing room for expansion) so that if anyone gets ill, the Boy Who Doesn't Eat will still be able to get his calories. 

I am regretting running out of chopped tomatoes, and not replacing the last bag of flour in a fit of GF petulance!

Chrystal

I can't imagine why anyone would be upset because you think ahead, for whatever reason. (like hating shopping!)    
There is something to be learned from everything and I think that maybe when this is over there will be many people who start to keep a good old fashioned food stock.  Priorities may change, and that could be a good thing.  I'd love to have a house with a 'proper' pantry and not the  stupid cupboards that I've got at the moment.
Your job must be difficult, and extremely worrying, and I'd like to say Thank You for what you and you co workers do.  Stay safe. X

Sun_Addict

Another one here who keeps a decent stock of the basics anyway which is just as well as I seem to make a regular habit of breaking my leg 🤣 When things I use a lot are on offer I always double up.  I've always got plenty of passata in stock because from time to time it runs out in the shops for some reason. My freezer is always full of home made meals. For now I'm trying to replace as I use and have been lucky on the tinned tomatoes front. Having said that I haven't overbought in the current crisis just had to try and second guess what I'm going to run out of in the near future instead of replace when I run out. I rely on online shopping as I don't have a car so this might become a tad tricky as I can't get a slot beyond next week.  

Definitely a lesson to be learned from all this. 

EssexHebridean

I think my larder and storecupboard are pretty well known in these circles. We also began to get an inkling of what might be coming before the panic buying kicked in and bought an extra 4 pint bottle of each full fat & skimmed milk, which were divided into saved smaller bottles and frozen. Having not see sight of any skimmed milk for several weeks now my first pint from that came out of the freezer in the last few days so I'm glad about having that!  And yes - again right there with you on having to pay extra being annoying but not critical - things which we would usually buy in value type ranges I have "switched up" to be store own brand for the last few weeks where there was a choice to leave the more budget friendly items on the shelves for others who may need the ability to buy them more than we do. 

redofromstart

Will respond later, but in the meantime I was bulking out beef stew that I made at the same time as the gammon yesterday (stewing beef, sliced onions, beef stock cube stock to cover, casserole dish hour with the oven on, leave it in the oven for half an hour afterwards to use the free heat, fridge over night to cool, then back up to room temp, then on the hob adding carrots, potatoes, mushrooms etc.  Thicken with (GF) gravy mix or corn flour.   Dilute any leftovers for yet more soup) and a couple of points occurred to me:
1. Potatoes should be removed from their bag and stored in a dark place.  I use ancient pillow cases and the cold corner cupboard.  

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thanks for the potato tip Redo:).

greenbee

Sprouts are starting to sprout already! 
I have a reasonable amount in stock, but a certain amount is stuff I don't eat - e.g. the bread in the freezer for visitors, and odd bits of pasta, rice, cereal etc from before I switched to low carb.  And then there's the buckwheat... I do have tinned tomatoes, plenty of meat, fish and frozen home-made stuff but as I primarily live on fresh veg, life is getting interesting. I don't normally spent more than about 50% of my time at home (if that) and as this started to kick off I was off on a two week trip, due to be home for about 4 days, then off again, home for a day and off for another week. So I did a small shop when I got back (at the time I wasn't required to isolate, although it probably would have been sensible - and I wouldn't have gone out if I had fresh food in), and a couple of days later was told to isolate. That week the milkman and veg box came up trumps... but the panic-buying and signing up for these schemes means that they're limiting supplies. 

I've had one small shop done by a local volunteer, which means that I'll be OK for a bit, but I'm upping my game of the meal planning and rationing the greenery! Hopefully a friend will be able to get me some more bits over the next couple of days. TBH I don't really want to go out now I've been isolated for so long - but without delivery services I'll have to break out sometime in the next couple of weeks assuming my temperature goes down. Unless I can live on sprouted seeds  

redofromstart

2. Onions, same, put any sprouting ones for immediate use and the rest in an old pillow case in a cold dark cupboard.  
Check both every so often but they should be ok.  

HairyHandofDartmoor

I wonder if the cupboard under the stairs would be cold enough. I expect it would be colder than any of our kitchen cupboards.

redofromstart

Its more 'don't put in one next to the oven/fridge/boiler' than it must be freezing.  I used to have some expensive l8keland veg storage bags but the pillowcases do the same job nicely and are far easier to wash.