What will you be stocking up on 'Just in case ' ?

Pollycat

ZsaZsa said:

Frith said:

Nothing, It is very selfish and didn't work particularly well for most at the start of the pandemic.

Toilet roll, anyone?

I think there’s a vast difference between panic buying and causing shortages, and keeping up healthy stocks. Those of us to do keep well stocked have little need to enter shops when the hoards are emptying shelves.

I agree, there is a vast difference.
We have always kept good stocks.
My neighbour jokes that we have enough supplies in our garage to keep the whole street going for 6 months. 
A bit of an exaggeration but it did mean that while people were fighting over loo rolls, rice and pasta, we were ok.
Once supplies were back to normal, we just replenished to our usual level over time.

MattMattMattUK

Frith said:

Nothing, It is very selfish and didn't work particularly well for most at the start of the pandemic.

Toilet roll, anyone?

There is a huge difference between panic buying and keeping reasonable stocks at home. I normally keep a couple of packs of toilet roll at home, when the toilet roll panic buying hit in March 2022 I did not need to buy any until the supply had recovered when the idiots stopped panic buying, so having a decent stock actually relieved supply rather than putting pressure on it. 

MattMattMattUK

Pollycat said:

ZsaZsa said:

Frith said:

Nothing, It is very selfish and didn't work particularly well for most at the start of the pandemic.

Toilet roll, anyone?

I think there’s a vast difference between panic buying and causing shortages, and keeping up healthy stocks. Those of us to do keep well stocked have little need to enter shops when the hoards are emptying shelves.

I agree, there is a vast difference.
We have always kept good stocks.
My neighbour jokes that we have enough supplies in our garage to keep the whole street going for 6 months. 
A bit of an exaggeration but it did mean that while people were fighting over loo rolls, rice and pasta, we were ok.
Once supplies were back to normal, we just replenished to our usual level over time.

I couldn't do six months, but could probably get away with three if I didn't mind eating some weird meals and baking a lot of bread. When the nutters started panic buying I stayed away from the shops, baked my own bread, ate food I had in stock, used toilet roll I had in stock etc. The same as you once it had all calmed down after a couple of weeks I slowly brough stocks back to normal levels, the same happened when the yeast panic hit a bit later in the year, I had a decent supply so I just waited it out, whilst others decided that the the world was about to end because they could not indulge their new baking hobby. 

mumf

ZsaZsa said:

Frith said:

Nothing, It is very selfish and didn't work particularly well for most at the start of the pandemic.

Toilet roll, anyone?

I think there’s a vast difference between panic buying and causing shortages, and keeping up healthy stocks. Those of us to do keep well stocked have little need to enter shops when the hoards are emptying shelves.

Exactly that. Keeping a healthy stock in times of plenty - when nobody is vexed by stripped shelves- is not selfish.Frankly,I think it is a responsible thing to do. When things do go wrong,such as the first lockdown,those with stocks are not contributing to the panic. It’s funny that food storage can be seen as ‘hoarding’ but saving surplus money in the bank is not…

weenancyinAmerica

True - money should be out there helping others. That's why I never have any in the bank. I have noticed that those who use their money for others - and lots of it - go down in history as famous philanthropists, but those who hoard their riches and don't share are forgotten by the world - like Andrew Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford in America.

TheAble

weenancyinAmerica said:

True - money should be out there helping others. That's why I never have any in the bank. I have noticed that those who use their money for others - and lots of it - go down in history as famous philanthropists, but those who hoard their riches and don't share are forgotten by the world - like Andrew Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford in America.

Famous philanthropists still tend to keep plenty in the bank, for all that they donate a great deal.

-taff

Which just means there's no reason not to

carriebradshaw

I've always kept a good stock in like my mum and grannies did before me. Because of living in a remote village, many things are always hard to get and ridiculously expensive here(meat and fish for starters) but also in case of illness etc as there are few shops here and only one supermarket delivers. Shopping slots were always like gold dust before covid, but once everything became restricted, to begin with we could only buy 80 items each time. That would be fine if you could get a regular weekly or fortnightly slot but as it was only once in a blue moon that we could bag one, it just wasn't enough as slots have been rarer than hens teeth since the start of the pandemic restrictions. We would have been stuffed if we hadn't had a good pantry and freezer stock already as we weren't allowed to travel more than 5 miles for a long time.  As it is we've been able to ride out the panic buying empty shelves and had to stick to shopping locally (which we already did much as much as we could afford to anyway) But again once the panic buyers with pots of money had swept in & emptied the shelves of said local shops, there wasn't much left for anyone else.

 It's stupid panic buyers that are selfish and greedy wastrels, not those of us who have stocked up all our lives little by little!

sammy_kaye18

I have always known my family to have a stock cupboard or supplies in their house. 

During WW2 my grandmother was the eldest of 7 and her father left to fight in the war and she would of tell me of helping her mum in the garden and baking. 
My grandmother has always had a small cupboard under the stairs with a few spare items of things she uses - tins, packets, cereal and household items etc.
I know my mother did the same when we were in the military as well and she always kept a pantry that always had flour, pasta, rice in it.

Since the pandemic I made a point of creating my own pantry in a spare kitchen cupboard. 
I have made sure to have pasta, rice, oats, tinned beans, tinned tomatoes, herbs, stock cubes, oil, flour, bread flour, yeast and oil. 
I do have things as well like rice pudding, custard, jelly etc and again during the pandemic i had tea, coffee, powdered milk and UHT milk. These are the things I generally keep a back up of in my food cupboard. I will slowly get it back up and running again and restocked but I am not going to panic buy by any means. I buy one or two things extra on a food shop. 

LameWolf

I have always kept at least a month's stock of anything and everything I generally use that is shelf stable. Nothing to do with the pandemic, but having very poor health, being unable to go shopping without my husband's assistance, when we first got together in 2002 I started to build a wee stock to use if I was too poorly to shop. Then in 2018 my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, so that's both of us with illnesses that could see us unable to shop for a protracted period. So having a month or two's stock, and keeping the freezer full, is common sense for us.

Despite numerous attempts, I have never been able to secure a home delivery slot, so online grocery shopping isn't possible, we have to go in person. DH can go on his own if I'm feeling too poorly, as long as I write a comprehensive list for him, but I cannot go alone if he's feeling rough, as I need him to push my wheelchair.

Also, I've recently been put on Methotrexate by my consultant, so our standard stock of loo rolls has been increased (Methotrexate has some decidedly unpleasant side-effects).