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I have one more helping of porridge left -- two if I'm careful. Mind you, once I run out of milk that won't be a problem...
I bought some roast buckwheat last weekend as an (expensive) emergency measure, since I like it and it's nice with just butter and salt, but it doesn't go very far and I don't suppose I shall be able to get any more. Of course I can just have bread and marmalade for breakfast, or skip breakfast altogether -- I often do.
The annoying thing is that all the porridge is almost certainly sitting on the shelves of people who don't eat it, but think they ought to have some in order to make themselves feel better :-(
Edit: I went to the health food shop, and as I suspected they didn't have any buckwheat left. Or split peas, or any other grainy or beany things, despite the notice on the door saying NO MORE THAN TWO ITEMS PER CUSTOMER. What they did have was brown basmati rice at £4 the bag -- prominently displayed and probably newly arrived -- but I'm not that desperate :-p
I have lots of the not-particularly-nice white rice I happened to have bought in a large sack three weeks ago, and several helpings of carefully-husbanded brown rice, and I don't really need it. I did notice on the way home that the corner shop has lots of milk (at least, the fridge shelf looked full), but I didn't buy any, on the grounds that I'd better use up the opened bottle first, and that it would be better to get it fresh. Of course the odds are that if and when I do buy any from them it will simply be the same bottle that has been sitting in their fridge for that much longer!
Now that people are panic-buying fresh food I suspect the wastage levels -- already high-- will shoot through the roof. The bottle of milk I've got says 'consume within three days of opening', but it still smells all right and I know how to scald it to prolong its life by another day if it does start going off. But a lot of people treat best-before dates as 'poisonous after', and I can just see them saying 'well, we need to be extra careful now' and throwing away all the produce they frantically bought a few days earlier.
The two families I passed having a shouted conversation in the park were exchanging stories about how hard it was to find any kind of fresh food and how excited one mother had been by finding carrots -- and from her tone, it was probably the first time anyone in her family had been excited by carrots!
I bought some roast buckwheat last weekend as an (expensive) emergency measure, since I like it and it's nice with just butter and salt, but it doesn't go very far and I don't suppose I shall be able to get any more. Of course I can just have bread and marmalade for breakfast, or skip breakfast altogether -- I often do.
The annoying thing is that all the porridge is almost certainly sitting on the shelves of people who don't eat it, but think they ought to have some in order to make themselves feel better :-(
Edit: I went to the health food shop, and as I suspected they didn't have any buckwheat left. Or split peas, or any other grainy or beany things, despite the notice on the door saying NO MORE THAN TWO ITEMS PER CUSTOMER. What they did have was brown basmati rice at £4 the bag -- prominently displayed and probably newly arrived -- but I'm not that desperate :-p
I have lots of the not-particularly-nice white rice I happened to have bought in a large sack three weeks ago, and several helpings of carefully-husbanded brown rice, and I don't really need it. I did notice on the way home that the corner shop has lots of milk (at least, the fridge shelf looked full), but I didn't buy any, on the grounds that I'd better use up the opened bottle first, and that it would be better to get it fresh. Of course the odds are that if and when I do buy any from them it will simply be the same bottle that has been sitting in their fridge for that much longer!
Now that people are panic-buying fresh food I suspect the wastage levels -- already high-- will shoot through the roof. The bottle of milk I've got says 'consume within three days of opening', but it still smells all right and I know how to scald it to prolong its life by another day if it does start going off. But a lot of people treat best-before dates as 'poisonous after', and I can just see them saying 'well, we need to be extra careful now' and throwing away all the produce they frantically bought a few days earlier.
The two families I passed having a shouted conversation in the park were exchanging stories about how hard it was to find any kind of fresh food and how excited one mother had been by finding carrots -- and from her tone, it was probably the first time anyone in her family had been excited by carrots!
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I've seen vegans on the Net complaining about how the wicked carnivores are stealing all their special dietary supplies.
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Vegan is a choice, not a necessity. |I'm mostly vegan, but I'll drink cow's milk if other stuff runs out.
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