Throwing away hoarded food.

maybe they can take it to food banks .tins of stuff can last ages .fruit well that can be made into smoothies. can you put a notice up someplace saying this . i will be doing so... i have got my neighbours giving me their fruit.and veg....i will be putting a notice by the food bins...it is a waste ...

I ordered a mixed fruit and veg box from a local supplier on Friday evening. The delivery day was stated as 3 to 5 days but it arrived yesterday (Saturday) morning. Fabulous service and what wonderful fresh produce. There was a loaf, 4 pints of milk, butter, eggs, apples, kiwi fruit, potatoes etc. etc. The problem was I’d only just come back from shopping in Asda (I flashed my NHS ID badge and got in before everyone ?) so my fridge was already full. My son said “we’ll never eat all that mum!” So I phoned Hope Restored our local homeless charity and took most of it up to Brenda there. They were thrilled to bits! Now why couldn’t those greedy hoarders have done that?! If those pictures of waste food are true of course ?‍♀️

Dear artdecogran I totally agree with you absolutely disgusting. I dont waste anything. Freezer always full of leftovers, including mash potatoes, which will be used for fish cakes, patties and more. I try to work out what we will have for week based around my fortnightly veg box, fantastic seasonal veg.

I have a lot of mine still, didn’t overbuy veg etc as I knew the veg shop locally has it. I did freeze some things so I still have that. I recall people with so much broccoli etc and I remember thinking this will go off at the time.

These snippets of photos of bad things like this and the people going to beaches is just that snippets of bad behaviour. Where I live everyone is behaving responsibly and I do hope the government realise this.

Our police force were on the local news and he gave a huge positive response to people being responsible in our area and I thought brilliant someone being positive for once.

The irresponsible ones are going to make our one hour exercise become 0.5 miles from home for five minutes unbelievable,

Many people overbuy as a matter of course. They never plan ahead, just wander around the supermarket, throwing whatever catches their eye into the trolley. A lot of it, especially fruit and veg, ends up in the bin.
Sadly, many people have never learned to cook, or budget. They rely on ready meals or something frozen and chips. Perhaps being isolated at home, with time on their hands, might result in some of them trying to learn.
It was certainly a shock to see the shops almost completely cleaned out of food. Luckily I always have enough in to last a couple of weeks, apart from milk, otherwise I would have gone hungry. I wonder how many people did!

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Selfish stupid idiots.

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.

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.

Thank you Missfoodlove I will pass that information on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?