People who panic bought back in March, how did you get on?

bb1234567

completedit wrote: »

It's extremely hard to truly have a stockpile of food in an era where we eat and expect to eat so much and I include healthy people in that

Yeh it's crazy I am continually shocked by the amount of food that is brought into the house for my family of five each and ever yweek and we are all slim ,I also wouldn't consider any of us particularly greedy either

Better Than Christ

I bought so much white bread that I ended up having no use for the 12,000 rolls of toilet paper that I also bought.

CrankyHaus

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

The bum gun is brilliant. So clean and fresh it makes you look at toilet paper as smearing the sh1t around your arse to wipe it off.

I would wonder how many houses in Wuhan use toilet paper. Might have been a middle class thing in Wuhan, that spread around the world.

Like if a rush on global avocados started in Portlaiose.

Middle Class, Portlaoise; pick one,

the purple tin

amadangomor wrote: »

Was one of the ones who started stocking up gradually on non perishables about a month before we had all the panic buying. :cool: Just added a few to every shop I was doing.

Was sensible at the time as didnt know how bad it would be and a reasonable chance shopping could have been very limited for a while.

Probably have a couple of packs of pasta and a few tinned goods left. Will finish then in the next week or two.

In reality we should always have a decent stock of non-perishables, you never know what can happen and you aren't able to shop.
The big snow a couple of years ago was a good example.

Feisar

bb1234567 wrote: »

Yeh it's crazy I am continually shocked by the amount of food that is brought into the house for my family of five each and ever yweek and we are all slim ,I also wouldn't consider any of us particularly greedy either

Running at 2,000 cals a person a day that's 70,000 cals a week which is a fair pile of food.

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My daughter is a chef, she also does a lot of work from home (cakes, biscuits etc) and she'd been bugging me to buy a chest freezer for ages but I resisted, so when the sh*t hit the fan I asked her what she thought we needed to buy.

The smug little git said ''A chest freezer and I'll look after the rest'', she got her freezer and I got fat (happens when you're living with an out of work chef lol )

El_Duderino 09

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Middle Class, Portlaoise; pick one,

That, was the joke.

Grab All Association

He actually reposted it at the time lol

I stocked up on anti bac hand gel, baby wipes, flash with bleach. Made loads of nutritious dishes which I portioned and froze. Few extra boxes of cereal and extra prune juice, porridge and other stuff my parents eat on a daily basis.

This was before the mass panic buying as i had a feeling that would happen. I didn’t want to be anywhere near the shops when the hoardes landed and I didn’t have to as I was prepared. People freaking out that they couldn’t get hand sanitiser but I had enough for each of my family and every carer that comes into the house. The food was and is still shared around too.

I’m sure that the virus spread like wildfire with everyone I long into the shops.

Feisar

We bulk buy so there's wasn't any need to stockpile as we sort of are always stocked up.