Hasty purchases pre-lockdown

Yes. A skipping rope to keep fit. The very last one in Sports Direct as they'd had a rush that weekend. I unwrapped it & not only is it too long but also the (relatively) hard plastic rope never unkinked after being folded, so it's useless!

Try warming it up Mary, and then put knots near the handles. We used to do skipping in our dancing class at school!

I have bread I’ll never eat in the freezer as our usual wasn’t available- Headed for bread and butter pudding I think!

Same here for cheap n scratchy loo paper.

Also giant bag of basmati rice bought in error, and as I’m low carb will have to add to my will!

Dried milk. I can use it in cooking I suppose.

I did the loo roll too.
So it`s in the downstairs loo for visitors.
But the best thing i did was freeze milk,cheese and bread.
So when the cueues were horendious i used the asaid three items up then replaced them when possible.

Now I know who bought all the toilet rolls!

I bought some dried yeast and strong flour in March as I supposed to be going to a workshop to learn to make different types of bread. The course was cancelled, I did not use the ingredients ( not a bread maker) so gave them to a friend at the height of the flour shortage. I was kind of hoping she would give me some of the bread she made as a thank you but nothing materialised!

Some turmeric. I managed to get an online delivery and added it as a last item.

It arrived in a 1kg bag?

Another one here who bought bread flour and yeast.........still hoping GrandpaGravy will get back into bread baking!!!

Turmeric is good for you

I bought long life milk.

At first we couldn't get a grocery slot but our neighbours brought us some milk so a couple of weeks ago DH took the LL milk and put it in the crate for the food bank.

A catering size tin of mushy peas! Was using a wholesale site and misread the size..

Long life milk makes lovely creamy custard and sauces. Also quiches. I use it a lot - from choice!

Shortlegs mantra: Buy cheap, buy twice.

A dozen tins of Corned beef, not the usual brand I buy, and arrived from a kind neighbour who believed she was doing us a favour. I have managed to use a few tins of it making pies and pasties, but its so fatty that l have to scrape so much away from around the edges before I can use it, but my Daughter's Dog doesnt mind this in the slightest, and watches every move I make until she gets her reward!

maybe a few extra toilet rolls .but nothing else..........you see that man that bought a factory load of toilet rolls .took them back to the store and asked for refund .they told him no.!!!!!must have a least 1.000 packs of at least 32 rolls....no one wants to buy them off him...

Food banks are still wanted lots of donations- not sure about the skipping rope though!

I bought some cheap toilet rolls from Groupon. Cannot wait to finish them and get some decent ones.

Not pre lockdown, but an example of how you learn by experience. Many years ago I decided to make (what was then) a quite elaborate cake for my grandmother’s 80th birthday. Her name was Rose and I wanted to decorate it with roses made out of icing sugar. To do this the recipe demanded gum tragacanth. Having exhausted local sources and being unable to find it (no internet then) my husband was going to Liverpool so I asked him to try there. He went into a chemist, and they had it, he didn’t know how much he wanted, but decided on a lb. The Chemist looked surprised and my husband told him what it was for. The man laughed and told him uthat a lb of tragacanth would “ice a bl.....y elephant”

I tried not to buy more toilet rolls than we needed so have no stockpile. I remember people stocking up on chick peas. Why????

Howcome - make summer pudding with the bread, yummy and simple

2 tins of corned beef. God knows why. I haven't eaten any for years and DH doesn't like it. Must have been prompted by a wartime mentality.

My problem has been the substitutes sent in my supermarket delivery. It’s now possible to return them but not possible when the lockdown began. Everything went to the food bank apart from the odd perishable item still taking up space in the freezer. We’ll use these when we get desperate!

I'd accidentally bought too many loo rolls before the shortage as they were on offer and when I got them home I found I already had a big unopened pack! I did let friends know in case they ran out but no-one needed any. Getting through them slowly but at least they are my usual soft brand.

I ran low on flour when it was in short supply and wanted plain but could only get a solitary bag of self raising from the very back of a low shelf - had to get an assistant to reach it which may be why it was still there! Before I opened it I found another solitary bag on a wrong shelf on my next shopping trip, this time the plain I wanted so I gave the SR to our vicar who had been baking little treats for us all during lockdown!

I suspect that when the end of the year comes and Brexit kicks in for real there may be shortages again so I'm keeping my cupboards well stocked with tinned stuff and my freezer full. Let's hope it isn't necessary but I'm not taking too many chances.