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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Dovefromabove I guess the WI could be active and key in rural parts.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good idea @Fire 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How many people stockpiling bread flour actually know what to do with it?I

    There's a Tesco local up the road which has plenty of local trade,. At Christmas, when shoppers are preparing for a siege and now ,it's pretty well stocked and no queuing.
    Down the road, there is a superstore which has traffic warden types at Christmas and a couple of normal SMs. Long may they drive past and queue.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @B3, it's a long time since I baked bread from scratch, so I bought bags of bread mix - hopefully I just mix it with water!!  
    Our little local shop also seems well stocked up at the moment but that won't help much if we're not allowed out.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I only buy it to make crumpets, they didn’t have any yeast though, but I have some in the cupboard.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited March 2020
    Lizzie27 said:

    Our little local shop also seems well stocked up at the moment but that won't help much if we're not allowed out.
    Ask for help @Lizzie27 (see earlier posts) - I am sure someone will be happy to shop for things you need and deliver them to your door.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I was just speaking to my mum-in-law about the fact that many people can’t (or never have) cook and bake from scratch. I have a couple of bread mixes and can make things likes scones, cakes and pastry - as can she. 
    no slots for Sainsbury’s delivery here either. Ruined my plans for the oldies currently but I’ll think of something. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I make my own bread always - mostly. It peeves me when I can't get hold of bread flour, knowing the stockpilers will leave it somewhere to rot in case they need it after they discover that there is no shortage of plastic bread.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    I make my own bread always - mostly. It peeves me when I can't get hold of bread flour, knowing the stockpilers will leave it somewhere to rot in case they need it after they discover that there is no shortage of plastic bread.
    We always make our own too ... we’ve got enough for a couple of weeks ... I may have to drive out to the local miller and buy some direct from him 
    again ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Not a lot of millers in sarf lunnon 😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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