Throwing away hoarded food.

Pikachu, they don't freeze it because - they are idiots!

I melted some marmite in water the other day and stuck my very dry end of bread loaf in it ?

Hetty I think you are being a little unfair,

I think the reason many people are not freezing food is because they only have fridge freezers and the relatively small freezer part is full and therefore they cannot freeze everything and have no alternative to ditching food, although some could be cooked when it is a day or two after sell by date and then kept for a few days longer as cooked food in the fridge, but I suspect some people's fridges are choc-a-bloc as well.

I have a big chest freezer - and a small spare one, currently not in use, so I can always find freezer space, where others cannot.

It's amazing how many older men seem incapable of cooking anything. How have they reached 70 or 80 without some ability. My ex keeps an empty fridge as he eats out and now the family have to get him ready meals.

I am making macaroni cheese today. I hate to show off but gave been cleaning kitchen cupboards this week and found a packet of macaroni in the back of the cupboard needing to be used. I shall add any bits of leftover veg and top with tomatoes and plenty of cheese.

Older men who can’t cook. It’s because they were brought up to think it was womens work, and somehow not at all manly to be able to prepare even a simple meal.
My FIL was a prime example. Just sat down and expect a good meal to appear as if by magic.

Reminds me of something I heard years ago.
A man said “ How many women sit at the steering wheel and have no idea what goes on under the bonnet?”
His wife replied “How many men sit down to a meal and have no idea how it got there?”.

So maybe it works both ways?

It will no doubt keep the rat population happy..lots of food for them that the overflowing bins will now provide, people just throwing food where ever, our recycling has now stopped, they are only collecting the none recyclable bins now, also our local tip is now closed...so where are these morons goingt p throw their rancid fresh stuff!!

Plus some of these people will spent all their funds to early and no doubt and left themselves with nothing for the coming weeks.

On our local community Facebook page, a few postings last night asking about which, if any, takeaways open, (we are just a small market town).

When the replies came saying which were open, it was “Oh thank goodness, life saver!’ and similar stuff.

Obviously some folk couldn’t contemplate doing without their Saturday takeaway, instead of cooking their own.

We have made an inventory of our fridge, freezer and cupboards ( there were a couple of items dated 2017!) and worked out a menu to use them. We have a week of excellent meals. DH was concerned about lunch but we will have fish fingers in pitta and sausage wraps! I am glad his Mum taught him to cook.

Notanan, I saw an article and photos in the Daily Mail.

Now there's a surprise. The issue I have with these reports is not that they aren't true but that they make a minority look like a majority. They actually ramp up the anxiety and cause many more people to over-buy.

If they had printed and broadcast a comparison with an area where the supermarkets took control straight away we would have had far less to contend with.

It wasn't just the DM *GGMK3, it was the i, the Guardian, the Newsletter of one of the trade organisations for those operating anaroebic digesters and innumerable other sources I was unfamiliar with.

Is there an area where the supermarkets took control right away? Given it is the same small list of supermarkets country wide, what one branch does, all branches do and they were all quite slow to react.

Whether you like it or not, the speed that food was disappearing off the shelves and the prolonged period this was happening, anyone could work out at the time that an awful lot of this food was going to end up in landfill. Not always immediately but over the next year.

The shelves were empty of flour and yeast. How many of those who took it will actually make the bread and cakes they said they would try until some months down the road when the country is returning to normal, they will look at the use by date on the flour and thow it away.

DGD is currently experimenting with soda bread because she cannot get any yeast. In her case, she has been making bread every other day since the family went into self seclusion (they are out now) - and still she cooks.

No Monica, it wasn't just the DM but the fact that most of the media rushed to cover this with no balance doesn't make the role of the media any more acceptable.

It really isn't anything to do with whether I "like it or not". It's rather more national than personal.

When one of the trade newsletters for those in the anaroebic digestion business discusses this issue, I assume they know of what the speak, but I bow to your more profound knowledge.

I have always got fresh yeast from the bakery at my local Tesco.
I have never been charged, I did a bread making course some years ago and we were told supermarkets with a bakery were not allowed to charge for yeast.

Thank you Missfoodlove I will pass that information on.

I think the binmen are photographing the overflowing household bins. I have noticed a few bins here with labels on saying they will not be emptied because they have breached regulations for recycling. I suspect they are dumping food in other bins lined up awaiting the operatives.

I Agree. But the supermarkets should have put restrictions on how much people could buy much earlier on, There are many out there who are 'in it' just for themselves and their own pure greed.

Selfish stupid idiots.

Disgusted to hear, but no Suprise as the way they were buying it, just pure greed

I live near a University and a lot of bins like that were because a lot of the International students were sent home suddenly because of the virus.
Not really sure how we could have saved the food.

This is distressing to read. We are without so many essentials and no way to get more having had to isolate with a sick child and no chance to shop at the time the greedy ones were taking all the flour, yeast and pasta. I can’t believe that bread flour and yeast are people’s usual purchases and the thought they are being ditched is maddening.

I am not vindictive by nature, and setting aside the heartbreaking waste of food that could have fed many NHS workers who were struggling to find fresh produce after a 12 hour shift (the weeping nurse who touched many hearts) I fear I can only say - serves them right. We did reflect that the greedy and selfish would probably sit at home watching the hoarded food going out of date and the fresh vegetables drying out. I hope they think twice before doing it again, but our delivery man bringing our order this week said that the same faces are in the supermarket every day, buying up to the limit.

Bin men also saying there's currently a lot of food waste, some still in wrappers

I have run out of bread and do not want to go out looking for any so I am sure that toasted fruit loaf will be a nice change! No waste.

It never ceases to amaze me that people that stupid actually survive - regardless of a virus. These selfish, thoughtless, idiots are exactly why we were seeing on the news distraught people who have finished long exhausting shiftwork unable to get supplies for their families