Christmas Food Shopping ( Panic Stations )
occy
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As the big supermarkets shut up shop Christmas Eve until I don't know when Boxing Day Monday? Then will people need to buy 15 pints of milk, and 20 loafs of bread, because this country goes mad for two days. Average house hold wastes tonnes of food over the festive period. So I think people need to think and stop being greedy. 
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It riles me all this panic buying. Unless we go to war & have to go down into bunkers, I will not be 'panic' buying! Mostly because my freezer is tiny & I cant afford to buy loads of everything anyway!
Ridiculo isn't it. I guess I can understand people freezing som bread, but geez, everything else, get a grip!
That makes people panic buy too :eek:
I was actually thinking about the waste a few weeks back when we had the snow here. It was really short lived & I was chuckling about the people that spent extra when they didn't need to. Seeing the bread aisle empty at work made me sad to be British! lol
I buy a few extra chocs & mince pies for me at christmas. But my kids wont eat all that christmas junk food anway, & I wouldn't have a clue how long to boil a ham & am going out to xmas dinner, so I am lucky
I made bread last week and shoved it in the freezer with some milk, got the meat on order from the butcher last week so I just have to cycle over and collect it on Thursday morning (yummy ham which I'll slow cook and that'll keep cold for ages) and I'll wander to the Saturday market for veg which I'll put in the dark shed in the cold and that'll keep fine until New Year. And yes I work full time but I manage, if I don't have it, we won't eat it!
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We've become an on-demand society with a lazy attitude, people didn't die or starve before supermarkets.
Well, that's true enough, I friggin love the things!
It's to do with 24 hour opening I think.
Saying about the bread making, during the snow we sold loads more bread flour (lol @ me spelling it flower, before I noticed) in the online dept that week. It's a good idea...
A lot just buy everything in sight, whether they need it or not.
And there's always a bit of a fisticuffs over the last ham joint!
Only wanted some dates for my walnut & date cake, and had to go to 3 different shops.
Doesn't everyone have a Tesco Metro within 10 feet of their door? I know I do.
I'm supplying the veg for Xmas lunch this year, yet again! I do get p***ed off when I go to Tesco on Xmas eve, just to get carrots, parships, sprouts and cabbage, and have to queue for absolutely AGES for only 4 items! I've tried buying them in advance, but they don't keep as nice. I've tried shopping a couple of days earlier at silly o'clock, but they tend not to have stock in. I work full time so I can't go during the day.
Queuing up to pay, I spend a bit of time studying what other people have in their baskets/trollies. It is amazing how much could have been bought earlier (i.e. stuff like crisps peanuts and other nibbles), and the quantities of fresh stuff (bread and milk etc) people need for just 1 day when the shops are shut!
That may as well be 39 days the way some people go crazy in the supermarket. I can understand the mentality of do a very big shop for the festive period so you don't need to go again, but I do think a good percentage of food items bought for Christmas go to waste. I wonder if people will take into account the increased food costs and do the same this year.
Don't panic buy for any reason, but have today stocked up on basics - ****, wine, water and food for the animals. This is an essential annual thing for 'Winter, Up a Mountain, Middle of Nowhere'! Minimum requirement: two weeks supplies; six has been known...
Currently cannot subside rations from the vegetable garden. Cannot get the fork in the soil by 1cm! Rescued the Brussells though!
Shock, horror...how will the nation cope??!!:eek:
Ever heard of freezers? Milk lasts a week in a fridge these days. Buy part-baked bread, nothing like freshly baked bread. For god sake use some gump!:rolleyes: