Stockpiling - post lock down

Dear kittylester I have always had a fear of having to use Izal toilet paper again so I have always for 40 years of marriage stockpiled toilet rolls. During this lockdown my anxiety has been through the roof as I have had to share with my children to ensure they have some. I have not restricted to ensure others have a chance, but am now down to my last 4 rolls and yes "toilet roll panic" is well and truly in place. Do I now restock or wait a bit? Am I being mad and unkind to restock to alleviate my over the top anxiety or do I just get hubby to buy a big pack every week for a while, yes i dont do shopping at moment. The worst thing is i also wont stick with any other brand than the doggy one. Our children have "enjoyed" watching me hand over my precious commodity to them, but they have also been grateful. Maybe I should start to stock up on kitchen roll, just incase too? Xxx

I have always had a good stock of food in cupboard and freezer,my husband never wanted to run out of anything.
When covid 19 started I went through the food and realised that I had the basics of 38 meals. With my neighbours doing my shopping and deliveries from Iceland every two or three weeks I still have the same.My husband always said we could live through a siege.
I do miss being able to look and choose for myself but consider I am managing quite well.

I’ve always kept a stock of staples in my food cupboard out of habit. I haven’t had to buy pasta since lockdown.
I’ve always bought items before I run out. Just wish I could get flour!!?

I have always had a cupboard of emergency things, it goes back to when my kids were little and money was tight. I alway bought something extra when I could as sometimes I didn't have enough for food and bills etc. Anyway I still do it the boys are now late thirtys.

MamaCaz - I've got round the banana problem by ordering 1 bag of small ripe bananas + 1 bag of ripen at home bananas = 2 items.
Otherwise, I'm still working through the Brexit stockpile but may need it yet, come December.

I have a stockpile of 3 jars of coffee left, because just after lockdown started my Douwe Egberts was on offer at £3.99 so I bought 6 jars. It sounds crazy but it’s usually £6.50 at our nearest supermarket.

I didn't rush out and stockpile prior to the lockdown, but did have an awful lot of beans, pasta, rice and non perishables anyway...……...just because! not actually sure why maybe apropos of being a Brownie once and never forgetting the motto "be prepared" how apt that has transpired to be. I also had some flour, Just as well because that's like gold dust now, but snapped up a kilogram of plain in Marks recently.

Thus far I have secured 3 Tesco delivery slots and yes fearing I might not get another tend to overbuy like a maniac particularly on household stuff and other essentials wine and milk of course, have been having Cravendale because it lasts so long. When I do a cursory top up shop at our local Marks I can concentrate of stocking up on meat and fish for the freezer plus bread, fruit and veg, without having to waste time on searching for washing powder and the like. If I pick my times there I get in quickly, usually short queues or straight in and it's fairly quiet. As we are now allowed to venture a bit further afield on our drives out I always scan the queues outside some of the larger supermarkets, Waitrose and Sainsburys nearby on Saturday were shocking, queues snaking round the car park, but to be expected I guess. I'm sad I haven't ventured back to either Waitrose or Sainsburys yet. Once upon a time I shopped every couple of days mainly between those two in a dribs and drabs fashion,

I did this at the beginning but now I find supermarkets are vying for my custom especially Sainsbury and Ocado who seem to have plenty of slots. I get at least one a week.

I bought a smart pass from Ocado in anticipation of them delivering M & S stuff in September!

I completely agree. I panic if I haven’t got a slot booked and feel hugely elated when I get a slot. I don’t know why as my partner and I have excellent neighbours who would get us anything we wanted and we also have a regular milk delivery and a fortnightly veg box delivery. Maybe it’s because I am still very scared to go shopping myself, but with a full freezer, fridge and larder I don’t think we’ll starve anyway.

I have always had a good store cupboard as we too can get snowed in during a bad winter. I have never stock piled and often think if it was not for the milk, bread and fresh fruit and veg I could shop every fortnight. So now we use our village shop more.

I thought I was doing well having been able to get fortnightly online deliveries until I tried ordering for a slot in mid June to discover I could only order about £19 worth of goods because the basics, butter, UHT milk, bio tablets, cat litter etc were out of stock. I will have to queue at a supermarket I think.

A Mormon friend told me they are encouraged to have enough basics for a month in their store cupboards. When we moved to the country, I tried to have a well stocked store and a spare of everything. This has served us very well. Flour has been the only difficulty but I have plenty at the moment. DiL got supplies online for us both.

I didn’t realise I was a stockpiler until this crisis. I still haven’t had to buy hand soap and hair spray or loo rolls and much other stuff that I had obviously hoarded way before this all kicked off. ?

I've always been a stock piler.
Anything on special offer, I buy and put away.

I resent paying full price for anything.

kitty,we are exactly the same as you.Every week I am convinced I won’t get another slot so once I have ordered the fresh stuff which is really all we need,I order just in case stock?We struggled to get deliveries at the start of lockdown too.

I've always bought in bulk, I keep my cupboards and freezers well stocked at all times and haven't yet run out of anything.

I think calling it stockpiling makes it sound like a negative thing to do. I have always, in the 40 years I have been married, ensured that I have had plenty of what used to be called 'store cupboard ingredients' in my cupboards. I was taught that this was good housekeeping, not stockpiling.

Before the virus I shopped weekly via a supermarket delivery, supplemented by a Costco run every 4-6 weeks (more often when the dog was alive, as we got his food from there), and my husband got perishables like bread and milk as and when we needed them. Now we make do with just the weekly delivery, and if we run out of something before the next one is due we manage without.

I think we will probably drift back to doing things the way we used to. I prefer to buy milk in smaller quantities, so I am not having to either find ways of using it up or cutting back on things that need it, and I do like to have stocks of things like tinned tomatoes and loo rolls.

We haven't needed to buy any loo rolls since lockdown started, as by coincidence we had done a Costco run the week before. I gave a couple of packs to the foodbank, and we still have lots left. That is the way I am used to shopping and living - I see nothing wrong with it.

It meant that I didn't contribute to any panic buying when the time came, and in normal circumstances we could manage for weeks without shopping, as we did in the first weeks of lockdown when it was difficult to get my usual supermarket delivery.

You never know when you might take ill, or when some sort of emergency will strike. People often said I had a siege mentality (and maybe I do - you should see my knitting yarn stash!), but I feel more comfortable when I know I have plenty of food in the house.

I've always had a store cupboard with pasta and rice and some tinned food because when we lived in the depths of Cornwall it was quite usual to be cut off in the winter. With a no deal Brexit looking likely I shall start restocking as soon as the lock down is lifted.

Not really but I go to Costco about every 6 weeks anyway so just get my usual loo rolls, teabags, butter, chicken, mince, chocolate spread! Now I'm doing a big weekly click and collect from Asda rather than going to Tesco several times a week, and getting milk and bread at local coop. Also visit Aldi every 2 weeks for nappies and baby stuff so get in-between things there. Weird things are out of stock everywhere like bay leaves and condensed milk.

It is so stressful - I'm convinced that next week will be my last Sajnbury's delivery so i buy anything i might need - just in case!!

Kitty, Im exactly the same, even ordering spares of spares!

Have to start again soon for brexit ☹️ It’s never ending.

Remember when life was so simple and we’d never heard of covid 19 and Brexit? Such halcyon days.

I have a small box of canned stuff, olive oil, loo rolls, LLmilk etc. in the garage which I am now using and a few bits in the freezer which is tiny. I have only just managed to get a Tesco delivery slot for next saturday after trying for 5 weeks so I’m going to stock up on all the naughty non essential items my SiL won’t get me on his weekly visit to Waitrose and the essentials which he mostly gets wrong ?. After 8 weeks I’ve just started to visit the village shop but they only have a limited stock. It’ll be sooo good to choose what I want and not what he thinks I want. Not that I’m ungrateful or anything

We have tins etc in our cupboards way before the lockdown, my husband shops once a week for us, we also have milkman that dels twice a week which is quite handy he sells lots of other bits and pieces besides milk.

We didn’t stockpile at all and are now quite in the rhythm of on line every fortnight.
The milkman brings milk, juice and yogurt twice a week.
Fortunately we have an Artisan butchers and bakery nearby.
I’m quite liking this way of shopping.