Panic buying in shops due to weather

[superbiatch]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

I was given a bread maker, its great making fresh bread, be it from a ready mix flour that you just add water, to following a receipe in the book.

A house smells of freshly made bread make you hungry.

Depending on what you make the bread is far cheaper than a bought loaf, plus it doesn't have any of the stuff you don't need.

Originally Posted by Hom3r

I forgot to add you can put all the ingredients in the night before and wake up to fresh hot bread.

You've got me thinking now, so I've decided I might spoil myself at the end of the month (just a cheap one mind) to get me started. I get through so much bread and if I can make my own (and its nice) then so be it.

Originally Posted by Pia

Ooh i'll go this week and have a look, we go through loads of milk cos my son eats cereal for snacks aswell as brekkie and supper, where most kids would want crisps or sweets lol. Thanks for the info

As for the panic buying, i stocked up on milk and freezer food (well, about a week or two's worth) online with Tesco, to save me driving or pushing the baby's pram in the snow (an impossible task might i add) and i looked a few days later and their delivery slots had gone up to £6 but they were fully booked for a whole week! There's usually loads of empty slots for £3.50 a time.

Delivery went up at Christmas, but did you not get an email for free or cheap delivery from them Pia? I think I got sent a code.

[LondonRoad]

Another thumbs up for the bread maker. I got one at the beginning of December and it's being well used. Just a cheap cookworks one from Argos but it does the job.
My kids will only eat the "full of crap" white bread so at least they're eating a little bit healthier. I had to buy an electric knife too though to get slices of a reasonable thickness. I like doorstops but the kids couldn't quite get their mouths wide enough.

All the supermarkets stock premixed flour/yeast so you only have to add water and a bit of marge or olive oil.

[Media Boy UK]

My local Tesco and Morrissons has got no Salt (As of Monday Afternoon).

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

I have a bread maker and in all honesty not very impressed with it. It's not even a cheap one, had some high reviews and was recommended by friends. The times I have used it I have not been too impressed with the final product, and its not been worth the wait.

I am going to start making bread properly (i.e. kneading flour yeast etc and using the oven). I think this will be much more fun and also more satisfying, especially for my daughter too.

[LondonRoad]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Nothing like fresh home made bread plus you know what went into it.


Doesn't take much time, about 20 minuites over a two hour period.

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Mmmmm I can almost smell it. Cut us all a slice and slap on a bit of butter.

For lunch today I've brought in a couple of slice of homemade bread with sunflower seeds to go with my homemade Scotch Broth.

Is it lunchtime yet?

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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

I have a bread maker and in all honesty not very impressed with it. It's not even a cheap one, had some high reviews and was recommended by friends. The times I have used it I have not been too impressed with the final product, and its not been worth the wait.

I am going to start making bread properly (i.e. kneading flour yeast etc and using the oven). I think this will be much more fun and also more satisfying, especially for my daughter too.

Sorry to hear that. I was considering buying a more expensive one but thought I'd see how I get on with the cheapie first. Making bread by hand is fun but it is time consuming compared to a bread maker. I can spend less than 5 mins in the morning at the weekend pouring in ingredients and water. Go about normal business and leave the machine to do it's thing. By lunchtime I've a freshly baked loaf... and the house smelling brilliantly.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

It has been said on the news, that there is a start of panic buying by the public due to the bad weather.

In my local store of Asda, there are members of the public, that are buying up bread, milk and sugar etc in large amounts, has anybody else noticed this.

Yes customers were like a plague of locusts in my local tescos with the milk almost gone if its one thing we do really well in the uk its panic buying,i remember in the 70s there was a sugar beet shortage and people panicked bought the sugar,a few years later there was a wheat shortage and people panicked over bread.

The supermarkets really ought to allow people when it comes to essentials a limit to make sure the greedy do not empty the shelves, leaving everyone else with nothing in 2010 its good to see the "i`m all right jack" attitude alive and well in uk PLC sadly.

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by superbiatch

You've got me thinking now, so I've decided I might spoil myself at the end of the month (just a cheap one mind) to get me started. I get through so much bread and if I can make my own (and its nice) then so be it.



Delivery went up at Christmas, but did you not get an email for free or cheap delivery from them Pia? I think I got sent a code.

Check the size of the baking tin first some are bigger than others.

[LondonRoad]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Check the size of the baking tin first some are bigger than others.

Yes, as in a lot of things, size is important.

Most of the premixes are for 2lb or 1.5lb loaf.