Throwing away hoarded food.

Next doors chickens like my green trimmings, everything else is eaten or frozen. I. Can't afford to throw food away. Shame on. Them

Planning well ahead and buying a little more each time leads to full cupboards and freezers and doesn't prevent anyone else from buying. You do have to use the oldest stuff first, of course.

The detail of my fresh vegetable buying was a 1 kilo bag of mis-shape carrots, a 1 kilo bag of onions, one sweetheart cabbage, and four baking potatoes. I also bought some braising steak and some chicken thighs. In my store-cupboard I already had red and green lentils, tins of haricot and other beans, a shrink-wrap pack of beetroot, a couple of tins of tomatoes, plus stock cubes. These are what I have turned into soup.

I also already had some supplies, bought gradually over previous months as part of my normal shopping bought over previous months,

I have no car, so if the weather is bad or I don't want to walk down the hill and back with a load of groceries, I need to have stores of dry goods and tins. Relying on deliveries from Tesco is all very well, but they have a minimum order level, or they add £4. When I do get an order, (not every month) I make sure it is over that £40 mark by adding long-term staples.

I think part of the problem is that so many people can't cook. They have never had to learn.(Apologies if it's already been said!)

Saw picture of bananas and they still had bits of green on them so not even got to the brown stage. I despair

I said right at the start of this selfishness that would happen - for instance, you can't keep a lettuce for weeks. Like others I can find no respectable words to express my disgust, especially as we in the vulnerable bracket are not able to get a delivery slot.

I would like to point out that "planning", i.e. stocking your cupboards and freezers, making soup etc. probably meant that other went without their normal shopping.
I was determined not to panic buy. I went to the supermarket at 10am on my usual shopping day, only to find the shelves empty. So I have had to live out of my normal freezer stock for a week. Please think of others, food is not in short supply.

Peoples electricity is getting cut off too re throwing out freezer food! School staff are spending their own money on people's ekectric meters.

People in temporary accomodation, homeless bnbs etc don't have kitchen space and need non perishables and convenience foods

I think many people don't know about basic housekeeping, what foods will keep and what will not, how to cook ahead and batch cook for the freezer. My husband said he saw a lot of people buying cookbooks. We love to watch the cookery programs and look at the glossy pages, but many don't actually do the cooking from scratch and know how to use ingredients wisely. They may also not know you need containers, freezer bags etc to store meals in. Perhaps they will learn now.

I think some of these comments are nasty and smug...‘virtue signalling’ gone mad.

Yes, there are stupid uneducated people around, and selfish people, but most families are trying hard to feed themselves and their children in very difficult circumstances.

How smug we are with our fully stocked chest freezers and compost heaps. Most people haven’t got room for large freezers and some don’t have a garden either.

Yes....of course throwing things away is wasteful, but I think people are panicking/don’t know how to cook and are just trying to survive day to day, in lockdown.

Yes...hopefully there will be lessons learnt, but meanwhile could we at least try to be charitable.

I think its absolutely disgusting that GNers family members are snatching from other peoples trollies.

You dont know what they do or dont need.
They may have severely autistic family members that refuse all but one food.
They may spend 23 hours a day in bed with depression or pain syndromes and cant send young children to others so need easily grabbed snacks.

Shame on your husband!

It beggers belief that food is thrown away in times like these.
Why not give it to a local nursing home/food banks the list could go on .
Selfish is putting it mildly.

We know that there's a general problem with people wasting food in this country, they're not going to suddenly stop because of the current situation!

MOnica
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I think a lot of people are sensible and think about others but sadly there are those who just think about themselves.
I think they should have rationed items much earlier to be fair to all.

Not everyone has the will or ability to cook for their children.

If children at home without school meals are being fed crisps 3 times a day then at least theyre being fed something . Some wont get fed

I dont need crisps I can and will cook. Some people DO NEED convrnience foods. Not everyone can or will cook. At least then kids can fend for themselves a bit.

Let her have her crisps. Nobody with a trolly full of crisps has the ABILITY to make balanced meals like I do

These photos were taken outside student accommodation for the foreign students who had literally hours to pack up and go.

My husband was in Morrisons yesterday & a woman was loading her trolley with ALL the large multi packs of crisps.
He politely asked why she needed so many & could he please have a packet & it would be a good idea if she left some for other people. She went mad & told him in no uncertain manner where to go. He told her she was a very rude & selfish person & he was going to alert a staff member- which he did. On his way back he saw her in another aisle & she was delving in a freezer so he grabbed a packet out of her trolley. Hopefully they stopped her at the check out.
I mean CRISPS- hardly a staple food.

Even if they bought so much, I can't understand why they did not freeze it. I saw one picture of breaded chicken. I knew what it was as my son buys the same product, that could easily have been frozen. I have bannd takeaways in my house as I don't want any people coming to door unnecessarily.

I just bought normally using village coop. No waste here...

Huh - So that's where the broccoli and eggs I couldn't find went.

Oh come on. Many people take real satisfaction in store-cupboard and meal planning. Just as many do not. Just as many dislike cooking. Many who normally eat out a good deal don't know how much food to buy. Others can't obtain fruit and vegetables in small enough quantities. Many supermarkets shoppers shopping for more than one householders. No one buys quantities of leeks and cabbage from greed, surely?

IMO it should not have been left to the supermarkets to monitor this in the first place. The Govt's initial ill thought-out message, delivered at zero notice, telling all over-70s to stay at home and have their food delivered caused this chaos. Entirely the wrong message. Supermarkets couldn't cope - not enough vans and drivers, food supplies in the wrong place.

Cant help thinking that this is why we are now seeing so many sick & dying. All the pushing & shoving to buy too much food (&TP) that they will eventually have to throw away could have done much to spread the virus.
Being old & disabled I had no choice but to use what I have got. When its gone its gone but at leasit will have been eaten. Most of my food waste is from my geriatric, about 90 year old tortoise who insists on walking on his food. Love him tho!

Oh well those panic buyers/horders can chomp away on their stash of toilet rolls now they are throwing away the food that has perished because they couldnt (didnt know how to) use it to make into soup to freeze and veggies that could have been frozen.
I think the supermarkets in general are getting to grips with the situation now and have put in place measures to prioritize the elderly and all front line staff. Theyve also set out queueing distances. Long may it continue. After this methinks all supermarkets and food shops etc will be revisiting and updating their Risk Assessments

I feel like I am suffering a bit now from not hoarding as the restrictions in my local shops are really strict. I have no proper fridge (have a tiny camping fridge) or freezer at the moment as my new kitchen has been postponed.
I wanted to get enough tinned or packet food to last us fo at least a week as I don’t want to go out. I had to put stuff back as I wasn’t allowed it. Example I couldn’t have sweetcorn as well as peas or mince beef as well as chicken.

Absolutely abhorrent. I predicted this as soon as I saw all the shelves being stripped bare of perishable food. One of the pictures even showed what looked like perfectly good bananas being chucked out, presumably bought in a panic but not actually liked by the buyer. Crazy!
Now they have ditched all the food they bought 2 weeks ago are they going to rush out and buy more again?!
A lot of us are sensible but I think for the sake of us all some sort of rationing does need to be brought in. I would be quite happy with it as I doubt it would restrict me at all with the quantities I buy and I would be reasonably assured of getting things I do need.