Panic buying

I store nothing, ever,

Nothing Bluebelle, not even the odd tin of tuna or tomatoes, a packet of pasta, an egg?

What do you eat?

Well put Lemongrove.
Couldn`t have put it better myself.

Greeneyedgirl
Yes, I have just seen more pictures of the border incidents on FB

Has everyone used up their Brexit stashes then?

Just been to our local garden centre and stocked up on potting compost so that we can keep busy if self isolating!

This is real first world angst isn't it?

I've just seen on the news the refugees on the border of Turkey and Greece, with little children, freezing cold and with no food and nowhere to go.

We in the UK are much safer in comparison, so am trying to keep a sense of proportion over the Covid virus.

We’ve stocked up on a few things a week or two earlier than we otherwise might have, ie rice, chickpeas, diced tomatoes. I do need to go to a different store for flour for my bread machine. My next coffee order is set to arrive on the 17th, and as always loads of alcohol already in house.

Otherwise, we are just trying to live as normal. Perhaps washing hands a little more often.

Our cupboard was fairly bare so I went to Sainsbury's this morning. There were no shortages as far as I could see, except perhaps for customers.

While I was waiting at the check-out, I heard a gentleman of mature years reflect: 'If your number's on a bomb, you'll cop it anyway.' The younger lady at the till admitted that she was unaware of the expression.

I store nothing, ever, that’s my answer what I can’t get I ll do without or find an alternative I grew up using newspaper in the loo
Unless you ve got a lot of money and a huge space at best it would last a few weeks if I can’t get potatoes I ll use swede if I can’t get bread I ll use biscuits if I can’t get biscuits I ll cook done flatbread with flour and water there’s always something

What sort of things count as essentials? I'm interested to know what people store.

I bulk buy pet food, vinegar and loo roll anyway, tend to store tins of chickpeas, beans and lentils, have a good supply of bread, biscuit and cake making stuff, olive oil, passata, pasta, oatley milk, nooch, tea and coffee. There's a sack of potatoes, many carrots and onions in the garage, greens in the garden - what else could I possibly 'need' for a couple of weeks?

nannylovesshopping I love a woman who gets her priorities right ?

I have, as always, plentiful supplies of coffee, gin, wine and the spaniels biscuits, sorted?

panic buying is ridiculous scare-mongering, on the other hand having a good two weeks supply of food and essentials is just old fashioned good housekeeping. I think the panic buyers are those who do not practise good housekeeping. Many of us have enough flour etc we can make our own bread. Maybe just a few extra toilet rolls and a bit extra soap, just in case but nothing else

I’m intrigued Notanan what do you want bottled water for? We haven’t bought any at all for a long time.

We have needed it in the past we had pipe issues on a road we lived on before

I believe we have more to fear from selfish people stockpiling food than we do from the virus itself.

As an additional thought I can’t help wondering how many people in this country and worldwide are currently suffering from flu?

It’s probably a few hundred thousand in this country alone yet we all get on with our lives well aware that the person behind us in the supermarket queue, or someone at the next table in a cafe could well be incubating flu.

Despite that fact I am sure there could be widespread panic if the Coronavirus infects just a thousand here.

I do understand that those who are in a high risk group would be worried, but they are equally at risk from flu, yet probably are still out and about in winter when flu is all around us.

Looking back at the weather last month, I don’t somehow think we’re going to have problems with the water supply ......

I understood that antibacterial gel is useless against corona because, as the name suggests, it is a Virus, not a Bacteria!

The other day someone had left a massively long receipt in my supermarket trolley, so I picked it up and had a nose.
£297! Just over.
Didn’t occur to me then that it could be a case of stockpiling, but now...
(It was Waitrose, but even so...).

I’m intrigued Notanan what do you want bottled water for? We haven’t bought any at all for a long time.

Absolutely agree with gillybob..low income families cannot afford to stock up....I also think it's a ploy by the media to get people spending more....

I was reading in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph that Bryony Gordon, one of their most popular columnists, had taken delivery of nearly 100 toilet rolls from Ocado, (three people living in their home, two adults, one child). Later, she stopped off at supermarket to buy more loo rolls.
The article was written in a humorous vein, but not really the best message to be putting out at the moment.
Certainly think the supermarkets are at fault if they don’t put some sort of limit on this type of blatant stockpiling.

I always have done. Not for any dramatic reasons its just sensible to me to have a supply of bottled water and non perishables.

Every few months I get out the ones nearing best by dates and put them in the normal cupboard and replace the emergency cupboard stuff

I don't believe in greedily stockpiling lots of things but I think anyone living alone needs to have a reasonable supply of food in the freezer or tins of food. After all, you could be ill with anything at any time.

I haven't bought excessive amounts but I can understand why some people may want to buy just a few extra tins and, if they don't go crazily buying, they will not cause a shortage.

Call me stupid but I don't believe people are generally selfish. OK one or two maybe but on the whole I trust that people do usually pull together in a crisis. Look at JuliaM's post. People are basically kind, and I do not agree with her sentiment to leave the "professionals" whoever they are, to deal with it. There can be no risk dropping food off for people. Well done I say!

Good luck with the community pulling together, Greeneyedgirl, people are generally just selfish.

Those who stocked up because of swine flu, bird flu and Brexit will be stocking up all over again - best ignore them.

Ah, ok - got it ;)