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Will you be stocking up on anything 'just in case', this winter?
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I had a stockpile during Lockdown, but used it up. I buy a tray or two of Italian organic canned tomatoes from Costco online and 1.5 litres of organic olive oil but other than that just a can of this and that. Soup, if gluten-free either freezeable or canned. Decaffeinated teabags and coffee bags, loo rolls on offer, canned fish.4
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Living in the countryside as I do with no shops or bus service makes keeping and rotating a good store cupboard a sensible idea as running out of anything essential means a 20 mile round trip into town.
I don't stockpile or bulk buy (no space or spare money) but just aim to have enough to cover for about a month so can manage without shopping for a few weeks
Newly retired and looking forward to
a fulfilling, positive & happy future.4 -
Like everyone else here,we have always kept a stock of food and other consumables. It’s hardly modern is it? My mum and grandmothers did the same. In our home we always kept stock as I was on erratic employment and income. A year ago when I fell ill and couldn’t work,it sure worked big time! Now we are stocking and stashing mainly to cover mainly my wife’s tastes in the future. Shopping meal to meal is something we cannot understand.5
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